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...covers all electrotyped "8 up." Half of them will have to be melted down unused, of course. For example, last month you saw Lord Gort on TIME'S cover as Governor of Malta. Gort's portrait was first done many weeks ago when he was Governor of Gibraltar-and when he was transferred a thousand miles East we had to do an entirely new Gort painting with a Maltese background. And then we also had to get the new Commander into a Gibraltar background. The result was 64 new press plates-and this may give you some idea...
...must go by default to the Allies. The only alternative for him-and it may not be physically possible-will be to strip Europe of large numbers of Nazi troops, equipment and planes, both to reinforce Rommel and to form a new front in French Africa, perhaps to attack Gibraltar through Spain...
Algiers in the dawn of Nov. 8 was a white, triangular wound against the dun hills behind the harbor. Beyond its jetties, well out in the Mediterranean, a great naval concentration stood in from Gibraltar: the Royal Navy's battleships Nelson and Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, cruisers, destroyers and transports laden with U.S. troops...
Maison-Blanche fell without a fight; U.S. paratroops seized Blida airdrome. U.S troops marched quickly inland to cut the Algiers-Oran railway. U.S. and British fighters and light bombers flew in to the captured airdromes from carriers; other bombers arrived, probably from Gibraltar...
When that danger was past, Gort was sent to Gibraltar, where attack again appeared to be impending. It was from Gibraltar that he was moved to beleaguered Malta. A nonsmoker, an austere man, Gort is nevertheless a sherry connoisseur. Regretfully he left behind him at Gib a decorated sherry cask presented by his staff...