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Every night when the wind was not kicking up a sand, Australian, New Zealand and Indian patrols crept out from the circle of the strong points which the Eyeties had built for their defense of Tobruk. They were armed with tommy guns, grenades and bayonets. Three or four miles out they came on Italian concentrations, inched within lobbing distance, then let fly. The Italians, clumsy at patrolling and clumsier at countering it, suffered mean casualties...
...Germans were very visibly moving a force to the Egyptian border. The R.A.F. caught a huge convoy of trucks, mostly large "tankers," as it crept up from the Axis base at Bengasi, and claimed to have destroyed 30. Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...
Last week the British had crept and climbed to positions all around him, making Amba Alagi uncomfortable for other reasons besides altitude. He decided that he had detained the British long enough, asked for peace terms. The British gladly delivered. Neither Cairo nor London divulged the terms in detail, but one of them was said to be certain: the Duke of Aosta would have to surrender not only his fancy uniforms but also his own fancy person. For the British the capitulation was timely, because they still needed every man they could muster...
Instantly the streets were silent. Traffic halted, pedestrians stood still, blankly staring. In the Avenida Juárez a beer sign clattered to the sidewalk. The twin towers of the cathedral swayed gently, and their bells tinkled as if. touched softly by the hand of God. Cracks crept across the pavements, windows rattled...
...Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...