Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
...most logical threats to the fortress, therefore, lay from the directions of Med-jez-el-Bab and Pont du Fahs - and last week Field Marshal Kesselring could see that his adversaries were aware of the logic. They seemed to be clearing the way, patiently and fiercely, for drives up Tunisia's center alleys. They spent the week clearing the outer walls of the alleys. French troops took Djebel Sefsouf on the one hand. British troops took Djebel el Ang on the other-a hill from which, on clear days, Tunis is visible 35 miles away. Kesselring, seeing the danger...
Killed in Action. Brigadier Frederick Hermann Kisch, 64, the British Eighth Army's chief engineer, who built Montgomery's El Alamein fortifications; by a mine explosion; near Sousse, Tunisia. Born in British India, he attended the Royal Military Academy in England, was thrice decorated for bravery in World War I, later served for nine years as chairman of Palestine's Zionist Executive Committee in the negotiations with Britain...
...biggest attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...
Representing a more recent influence, in a luxurious office in a new, spic-&-span downtown building sits the handsome editor of El Pampero, the biggest and best Nazi newspaper outside Europe. Everywhere on his editors' and writers' tables the swastika has been industriously whittled; between sips of yerba maté he corrupts all the news he can lay his hands on. There are also the Communist La Hora, the Japanese Momenta Argentina and the British Libre Palabra. Through the distribution by various governments of free features and news, some provincial newspapers have taken .on the appearance of propaganda...