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...officers drank bottoms-up vodka toasts to Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and "reunion in Berlin," radioed home an interesting ethnological note. After Abadan had been taken, the British commander received an offer of surrender from 500 Iranian troops that had crossed the river there and escaped. A veteran of the Libyan campaign and recalling Italian military mores, the British commander sent back word that if the 500 would appear at the ferry landing at 8 the next morning he would consent to make them prisoners. Next morning they did not appear, instead sent word they were a few miles...
...Afrika Korps were distributed on the Egyptian-Libyan border in crafty ambiguity. Colonial Commander Lieut. General Erwin Rommel had disposed them so that they were ready to attack and they were ready to defend...
This week General Marshall-Cornwall whanged away. The opening gambit was addressed somewhat south of Salûm, on the coast hard by the Libyan border. On the second day, British advance forces reached Gambut, 40 miles inside Libya, there claimed to have put to rout an Italian column, and to have destroyed a dozen more vehicles. Both German and Italian communiqués claimed that the attack was broken, and the Germans said their dive-bombers had crushed 60 British vehicles. But both the German and Italian communiques admitted on the second day that the battle was continuing...
...strategic loss was severe, and last week the British felt the full force of that loss. British war vessels, trying to cooperate in the Syrian adventure (see p. 28) as they had along the Libyan littoral, took a pasting from the air. So did Matrûh, the British base of operations in Egypt's Western Desert. So did Alexandria and To bruch and Haifa. The blow to home morale was heavy; the first airborne invasion of an island was not easy for islanders to for get. But the biggest shock was the expense of losing Crete...
...Libyan scene of action would be only 250 miles from an advance base of the Luftwaffe. Alexandria, the final big fleet base, would be only 340 miles away, the Suez Canal, 550 miles...