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...delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...
...many of their own national shrines to Nazi bombs. Also unimpressive to most Britons was the suggestion that Rome might be saved by a trade: in return for Rome's immunity, Mussolini might move himself and his unhappy Government to some other city. If such a move would disrupt Italian life and resistance sufficiently to make it even worth discussing, bombs on Rome would do immeasurably more...
Anderson's advance columns, fingering in toward the Axis strongholds of Tunis and Bizerte on the seacoast, were mauled and forced back. German tanks harried them. German paratroops leap-frogged behind their extended positions trying to disrupt their communication lines. The Luftwaffe dominated the grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...
Last week there were riots in Teheran, Persia. Ostensibly they occurred because of a bread shortage; actually bread was an incidental question. The riots were the work of Axis agents, attempting to disrupt the key city on the Allied lifeline between the Persian Gulf and Russia. The outburst died under the guns of soldiers and police...
Weather had delayed the Allies. Tunisia's brief rainy season had flooded roads, complicated supply problems. But worse than the rain in Africa's grey skies were Axis planes that pummeled Anderson's forward columns, pounded his bases at Bougie and Bone, trying to disrupt his communications. Only scraps of information came from General Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters, but it was apparent that the battle of Tunisia so far had been a struggle for control...