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...tribesmen in the fastnesses of captive Ethiopia that the day of liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...
...Monday, the day on which: the Russo-German pact was announced; Italy entered the war; France laid down her arms; the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was completed...
...TIME with me into an air-raid shelter, to read during the raid. Have you enough imagination to know what I and my friends felt, upon reading your piece about "Britain's Vulnerable Midlands," and seeing the accompanying map? That, and your piece about the war in British Somaliland, should tell your German friends practically all they want to know about us, their enemy...
With its own private Drang Nach Osten (Drive to the East) already pushed from Ethiopia through British Somaliland, hammering at the island of Perim in the Red Sea and the port of Haifa on the Mediterranean, Italy took a running jump last week, landed at the far edge of the Middle East. Out across the sands of Arabia to the Persian Gulf it sent a squadron of heavy bombers, driving at the oil depots and refineries of the Bahrein Archipelago...
...gain this Armistice, France had to let Germany occupy: 1. Nothing but Alsace-Lorraine. 2. A strip of territory along the English Channel. 3. All French territory in Europe. 4. The entire northern half of the country. 5. Syria, French Somaliland, Morocco...