1 He had the map of Africa behind his eyelids.
2 As it happened, the Eurasian Higher Command had launched its offensive in South India and left North Africa alone.
3 All day, with little spurts of excitement, the thought of a smashing defeat in Africa had been in and out of his mind.
4 Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa.
5 If they could get control of the whole of Africa, if they had airfields and submarine bases at the Cape, it would cut Oceania in two.
6 It was not merely a question of losing Central Africa: for the first time in the whole war, the territory of Oceania itself was menaced.
7 He seemed actually to see the Eurasian army swarming across the never-broken frontier and pouring down into the tip of Africa like a column of ants.
8 Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.
9 For example, it appeared from 'The Times' of the seventeenth of March that Big Brother, in his speech of the previous day, had predicted that the South Indian front would remain quiet but that a Eurasian offensive would shortly be launched in North Africa.'
10 All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan--everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing.