Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mediterranean as running north & south, not east & west. Then it becomes a vast No Man's Land between two fronts: the European Front, which is Germany's (with a British salient in Greece), and the African Front, which is Britain's (with a German salient in Tripoli). So long as the British can keep patrolling this No Man's Land with their Navy, and can keep the salient in Greece, defensively Germany is not safe. She must drop her guard to cover her solar plexus (the Balkans), cannot risk a major blow at Africa for fear...
Would the Army of the Nile transform itself into the Army of Salonika? Was an invasion of Sicily the plan? Would General Wavell push on to Tripoli? Answers to these questions were firmly shut away in the brief cases and the minds of these three men. In Ankara it was rumored that Anthony Eden would soon fly to Turkey, to brace the wavering demi-ally. At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer...
...revealed that not only were comparatively defenseless Junkers Stukas and Heinkel bombers being used by the Germans over Libya, but also some up-to-the-minute Messerschmitt fighters to cover them. In unconquered Libya there were still three important air bases-Homs, Misurata, Castel Benito (near Tripoli). But for the most part the Germans were operating out of Sicily...
...same time Vichy released reports that another raiding party, continuing on from Murzuch, had moved northward along the Algerian frontier, captured the fort of Gadames. If this were true, it would put them astride a well-built north-south motor road, 300 miles southwest of Tripoli, just across the border from General Weygand's garrison at Fort Saint in the Tunisia-Algeria-Libya corner...
...Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before the regular troops; Tripoli is waiting for you. Saddle up your camels and ride like the devil on these Italians who were such marvelous soldiers in the films, but who in reality are very poor fighters. We are waiting for you at Tripoli for the Grand Parade...