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Even the airy-fairy Cairo censor permitted this dispatch on the fire-power question: "Although the Germans' losses have been heavy, many of their surviving machines are the huge but highly mobile Mark III and Mark IV tanks. The British have tanks that will halt these giants, but it is not always possible to have them in the right place at the right time. Despite the fine showing of light American-built tanks against the German heavyweights, it is obvious that when huge machines face only light ones or infantry the advantage must lie with the heavy machines...
...news-agency dispatch from Berlin quoting "authorized quarters" to the effect that so far Russia had lost, in killed, wounded and captured, 10,000,000 soldiers...
According to a late radio dispatch, public opinion in Chile and Uraguay demands that their governments declare war, not only against Japan, but also against the Germans and Italians. Brazil and Argentine recognized the gravity of the situation, but have taken no action...
Though New York Times Correspondent G. H. Archambault did not know it when he wrote this understanding dispatch, General Weygand had already made his decision. For 14 months he had held for France a North Africa vital to Adolf Hitler's war plans and New Order in Europe. Time after time he had said he would fight anybody who tried to take French North Africa. Time after time Adolf Hitler had tried to have him removed. But on this point old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had been firm-until the pressure became too great. Now General Weygand...
...Mexico was not Sir Richard Clifford Tute, veteran of the Indian Civil Service, onetime Governor of the Bahamas, but his brother, Brigadier Clifford S. Tute, veteran of Britain's Army in India, now attached to the Indian Purchasing Commission. The names were confused in a press agency dispatch from Vera Cruz...