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People leaped to the conclusion that the upheaval spelled new anguish for the British. They thought Makram might join anti-Nahas groups. They thought of an Egyptian convulsion right at the moment Rommel was eating his way toward the Nile...
Through offshore waters where Phoenicians, Romans and other ancient Mediterranean conquerors sailed long before the Crusaders, ships of the British Navy slid silently last week, close to the island of Rhodes. They came north from the Nile, threaded through mine fields, swung into firing position four miles from their objective. Overhead British bombers, roaring on to blast two Axis airdromes, dropped flares over the city of Rhodes which lit it brilliantly. Their target clear, the guns of the fleet in 20 minutes flung 20 tons of shells at motor-torpedo-boat bases, docks and factories. Startled Italian defenders took...
...looked for a "great deal more" Far Eastern trouble, explained: "While facing Germany and Italy here and in the Nile Valley we have never had any power to provide effectively for the defense of the Far East. . . . Sixty thousand men were indeed concentrated at Singapore, but the priority . . . was accorded to the Nile Valley. For this decision, in its broad strategic aspects and also in its diplomatic policy toward Russia, I take the fullest possible responsibility...
William Bullitt will go to the Near East in the same eyes-&-ears role that Harry Hopkins, ill this week in the Naval Hospital, filled recently in Moscow. On this vast reportorial beat, in the Nile River Valley and along the Red Sea and Persian Gulf are the momentous answers to some of the newest and gravest questions of World...
...that of the Germans. To lose under these conditions would be a severe setback to the psychological cause of the Allies. But a defeat in Libya would be equally disastrous for strategic reasons. This is a key step in the Battle of the Mediterranean. With the army of the Nile defeated Egypt would soon be lost. Turkey would find the Germans knocking at her back door and, in the absence of the British, would have to kowtow to their proposals. The loss of Turkey would force the British to choose the more direct overland road to Russia in order...