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...round out its empire, Britain got Texas-sized Tanganyika as a League of Nations mandate from Germany, took over British Somaliland to the north, the Cameroons in the West, the tiny island of Zanzibar off the East African coast. When it was all over, Britain's African Empire stretched from Cape to Cairo, spanning a rich, fertile area as large...
...guerrilla fighting and hardened to mountain war, the Ethiopians, all volunteers, were equipped with British rifles and battle clothing. The Coptic Christian Church gave them permission to eat non-orthodox food (i.e., U.S. rations), and sent along a chaplain. From Addis Ababa they went to Djibouti in French Somaliland, boarded a U.S. ship there. It was reported last week that they may bypass Japan, go directly to Pusan...
Pipes & Pawkiness. The Black Watch has fought in every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
...case of Jerusalem, the result in the General Assembly was a grandiose deal. The Latin American bloc, favorable to Italy, voted to put Somaliland under Italian control for ten years, with independence promised at that time. To appease the Arabs, Libya was promised freedom by 1952, with a U.N. commission to supervise the establishment of an independent government. Eritrea will be polled by a five-nation committee next year to see if it wishes to join Ethiopia...
Many delegates to the General Assembly have expressed dissatisfaction with the "solution" of the Italian colonial problem. Britain wants a plebiscite in Libya to determine whether they want a unified or split nation. Moslems have demanded a voice in the running of Somaliland. The Italian Colonies are a typical trusteeship case: plenty of complications and vested interests...