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...seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight for Suez...
Later in the week a convoyed line of big troop transports reached Egypt after an uneventful trip from Britain all the way around Africa, up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. The exact number of troops was not revealed, but unofficial dispatches spoke of "several thousand"-infantrymen, Australian aviators, nurses from Scotland and England, R. A. F. and naval reinforcements. Meantime Britain awaited the real Italian campaigns: against Egypt from Libya, against the Sudan from Ethiopia...
...first time raided Port Said, north terminus of the Suez Canal (and said they cut the Egypt-Palestine rail-road where it crosses the Canal near Ismailia...
...mechanized invasion. To Italy went 344,700 new subjects in 68,000 square miles of new territory which, while far from rich or productive, rounded out her total hold on Africa's northeast shoulder, rid her of a rear threat to further operations against the British in Egypt, Suez, Palestine, the Sudan and Kenya. Also to Italy went the first tangible victory in her war with Britain and a chance for Fascists to crow over a "Little Dunkirk...
...position to pour in enough men for a real defense. The Italians viewed Berbera as one 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...