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Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...
...time we reached the disputed intersection, 400 surrendered Germans were being shepherded from the grounds of the Bey of Tunis' palace. There was rifle fire going on behind smoke clouds as some fanatical Germans still sniped at tanks...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
Before week's end, the Bey got fired. General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis. To the beylical throne, in accordance with dynastic tradition, went Sidi Mounsaf's oldest living male relative, unpolitical Sidi Al Amin...
...Safety. General Giraud was dealing with a delicate and potentially troublesome situation. Tunisia's 2,300,000 Moslem Arabs and Bedouins look with feudal reverence to the Bey as their spiritual and temporal lord. Of all French North African Moslems, the Tunisians are the most politically conscious, most resentful of their status as the political inferiors of Tunisia's 110,000 resident French, 95,000 Italians...