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Ready in the South. From Algeria last week TIME Correspondent Will Lang cabled: "Most of the men are resting, but there are others for whom there is no rest. There are secret maneuvers and rehearsals here, just as there are in England and other invasion springboards, and no soldier can forget that the biggest test is yet to come. There is a growing impatience among Americans to 'cross the gap' and get it over with and return home. British Tommies are happy to have avenged Dunkirk, but now they want to see German homes in ruins, as homes...
...strength of these defense lines will not be known until they are tested. But German military strength on the Continent is formidable. Correspondent Lang had a word to say about that...
Frank Felbel Goodman (Government), Edward Forbes Greene (Chemistry), James Bullock Hathaway (Government), William Lewis Hewes, Jr. (Economics), Robert Kagan (Area of Social Science), Frederick Franz Maximilian Kempner (Literature), Lewis Miles Krohn (Economics), Neunert Frederick Lang (History), Howard Legum (Economics), Joseph Feder Ronald McCrindle (English), Arthur Gordon Maling (Economics), Merton Roland Nachman, Jr., (Government), David Chester Noyes, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Howard Longyear Palmer (Area of Social Science...
...Will Lang's entry into Tunis was not quite so peaceful. The roads were strewn with wrecks of cars and tanks, clouds of dust and cordite hung in the air. Five Germans tried to give themselves up to Lang's party, and there was an Axis officer who had just seen his brother shot in the stomach for suggesting surrender. Later two cars flashed past 60 miles an hour, the second firing at the first and someone in the first car shouting his head...
...point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won. We bypassed the tanks and bumped onward over the roadside trolley line, passing villas licking flames into...