Word: africans
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini's "pond." At no point did the British encounter any Italian resistance...
...outbreak because Parliament rejected his proposal to keep the Union neutral. Last month he resigned as leader of the Reunited Nationalist Party because the party rejected his program of independence for the Union. Last week, no longer a voice but only a squeak in South African politics, 74-year-old General Hertzog resigned his seat in Parliament, retired from politics to devote the rest of his life to "loyal service to the people...
...anything to keep colonists from succumbing to Axis pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress to the Sudan. But some of the raw materials which the French and British West African colonies produce are cocoa, vegetable oils, gold, manganese, timber...
...week, in connection with a big show of paintings by Brazil's Candido Portinari (TIME, Aug. 12), Manhattan's enterprising Museum of Modern Art did up Brazil's music in a package of six concerts. The Museum's elegant audiences and radio listeners gathered that African thumps and easygoing Portuguese tunes were Brazil's chief heritage. Wherever its music was going, Villa-Lobos was in the driver's seat: most of the pieces, including some that were bad-better, were...
Died. Dr. Fred Puleston, 78, who in his adventurous life was a prisoner of Jesse James, knew the Irish Patriot Sir Roger Casement, Explorer Henry M. Stanley and Missionary David Livingstone, saw his own brother eaten by a crocodile in the Congo and wrote a book about it all (African Drums, 1930); in Daytona Beach, Fla. His last request: that his death be noted in TIME...