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...British First Army shifted its stance last week, getting ready to strike a blow toward Tunis and Bizerte at the proper moment. For some time Axis artillery had dominated the road from the sleepy, red-roofed little town of Béja to the important road junction of Medjez-el-Bab. Before the First Army could strike either east or north, that road had to be cleared...
...names at the Globe are much nicer, but the show isn't too much better than the Old Howard. A person called Noma-Ma-Ha-Ja, an Indian Nationalist we suspect, exposes herself judiciously along with the 30 Globettes...
...stars & stripes fluttered down from the stern of the PC-467; the U.S. crew marched briskly off. To their places stepped a new crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
...Norwegians tried to rescue them, got into a fight with German marines. Men threw stones and women nailed with umbrellas. Finally one of the hostages, Harold Roenneberg, appealed for order, ended his appeal with "Long Live the King!" The crowd then stood bareheaded and sang the national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet...