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...suspected that this might be the case, for it seems very logical that it should be so. (I am only surprised that the percentage [24%] should be as low as it is.) I do not base this opinion on the fact that the South is still more purely Anglo-Saxon than any other part of the country, and would therefore have the strongest emotional impulse to aid Britain...
Gabon is not the most conspicuous colony of what used to be France, but it is strategic. It lies, heavily forested, under Africa's western armpit, on the coast of French Equatorial Africa, which extends into the continent so far that it touches Libya and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. South of Gabon lies little Cabinda (part of Angola); then the seaward corridor of the Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold...
...Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest tribute: "Whether he comes back to us or not, he has earned the respect due to a great American ambassador who never for a moment mistook the country to which he was accredited for the country of his birth...
...miles north and almost 1,000 miles east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
Another Italian push, dormant at the moment, was already part way into Kenya. This drive had a double purpose-to keep the British from driving in at Ethiopia's rear, to back up an Italian drive at the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's rear. An attack on the Sudan, perhaps starting from Kassala, where Italian forces have long been massed, would probably aim at Khartoum, where the branches of the Nile converge...