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...Argentine procedure, will ask the Embassy if the accused agree to trial. If they refuse, their guilt is taken for granted, and they will be stripped of their immunity and subject to arrest. To escape this, they could take refuge in the extraterritorial safety of the Embassy, or flee...
That exultant message General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery* sent to his troops last week. Erwin Rommel, crippled if not yet destroyed, continued to flee. The victorious Eighth Army, spurred by its commander, pressed on his heels...
Rommel Remains. This was all very well, but the object of modern desert war is to destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...
...half miles, diving under patches of flaming oil, before he was picked up. >Sailors rowing away from a doomed ship saw a Swedish freighter loom up in the night, get caught in a cross-fire of shells from two subs and catch fire. As she tried to flee, the Swede almost ran the lifeboat down...
...that period Zapata, the wild-riding Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza were all carrying the agrarian revolt toward Mexico City. Padilla was "drafted" as a secretary to one of Villa's generals. In his incongruous stiff collar and city clothes, he joined the Villistas. Forced to flee in 1916, he went first to Cuba, then to Manhattan, which he reached penniless...