Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...more base from which to harry Aden in their effort to close off the Red Sea. The British, who have destroyed or driven to cover all Italian warships (mostly submarines) east of Suez, fell back on the philosophical reflection that "ports do not control the sea, but command of the sea controls the ports." The Britons' greatest loss was in prestige, especially among Arabs...
Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road...
...transportation agreement, the Japanese began last week to cry that Indo-China was not doing its part, that military goods were still trickling into China. Japan's chief penetrator, Major General Issaku Nishihara, flew home to Tokyo to report to his superiors, and his impetuous second-in-command, an angry colonel named Kenryo Sato, was reported to have made new demands: 1 ) Japan should be allowed to move troops into China by the Indo-Chinese railway; 2) Japanese naval planes and vessels should get port facilities at Haiphong; 3) all work on the French defenses should cease at once...
...onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...
From the standpoint of actual invasion as opposed to air bombardment the area offers a somewhat different picture. The Irish seacoast is a long way round for any attack from the Continent by a power which does not have command of the sea. The eastern coast is far more vulnerable but still not easy to attack...