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...this, gentlemen, is a rare Australian Auk, an excellent illustration of the evolutionary development from the primitive lbis. It can be found in the offices of the CRIMSON where it was christened by Sally Rand, a'well-developed species of Home Sapiens, with the name of "UandL", a typographical term understood only by members of a select cult...
These actions did credit to The Auk's aggressive spirit, but they did not alter the basic situation: Rommel was defending his front with infantry and artillery; the bulk of his armored forces were withdrawn from action for rest and repair...
Substitutes In. Rommel's time out had permitted The Auk to rush up fresh reserves of men and matériel from Suez, Palestine, Syria and the rest of the Middle East. But the amount he could bring up was limited by what was available in those quarters. Any major reinforcements, ordered by General Auchinleck since the situation in Egypt became acute, will have to come from Britain or the U.S. and cannot be expected for two or three months...
Lieut. General Neil Ritchie, who lost the first round of the battle, was out, and command of the battered Eighth Army had been taken over by no less a person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
Bolstering his defense line with reinforcements as fast as careening trucks could take them forward, the Auk hoped for time to prepare for the blow. Some of the reinforcements were seasoned brown soldiers from the British Ninth and Tenth Armies in Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran. Others were pink-skinned newcomers to the desert-due for a bad beating from the sizzling sun, if from nothing else. At last it was officially disclosed that U.S. tank troops had been fighting with the British, under Major Henry Cabot Lodge of Boston...