Word: timbuktu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the Congo (see map). By cleaning out Dakar, Timbuktu and other small holdings, the United Nations would have this central belt within their grasp...
...American youth does not intend to lay down its life in shell holes around Shanghai or Timbuktu. The program of the American Student Union states that 'we will not support any war which the United States Government may undertake' for we recognize that such a war would be imperialist in character...
...TIME in Timbuktu...
Your account of Tuaregs joining Free French forces in their thrusts into southern Libya (TIME, Feb. 10) prompts me to send you the enclosed photograph. While doing anthropological research in Timbuktu, French West Africa, I snapped my native cook perusing TIME (see cut). Part of his ancestry, and the mat on which he sits, are Tuareg; the rest is Songhoi Negro. He awaited the arrival of two-month-old TIME with as much fervor as we and would insist on having all of the pictures explained...
...face of France may look like a juridical fiction, but no frontier in the world is tougher to cross. To refugees, reporters and mail it opens and closes with an exasperating unpredict ability: it is harder to get a letter from Vichy to Paris than from Vichy to Timbuktu. Last week the U. S. saw its first copy of a partial solution: a standardized postcard with blanks to be filled in. Even with blanks it suggested the sufferings of Frenchmen today: " 194 .... in good health tired, .... slightly, gravely, ill, wounded killed prisoner...