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Bombing Missions. Chased out of Poland by the Nazis, De Luce was later chased from Greece. He was in Persia during the 1941 fighting, then went on to India, Burma. He rode on bombing missions against the Japs, sent grim stories about Allied inadequacies: "Boys with matchless courage are being slaughtered because they are in inadequate numbers, ill-trained, poorly equipped. . . . The last tired companies of what were proud battalions are -. . . in a galling retreat...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...more than 700,000 men in these forces, and General Eisenhower may have more than the five armies. Any recent reinforcements from the U.S. and Britain have been secret. Correspondents in the Middle East reported last week that practically all U.S. troops except airmen and technical personnel had left Persia, Syria, Palestine and Egypt...
...union of Middle Eastern states, such as Persia, Iraq and Afghanistan...
...That the British had requisitioned all private cars in Syria, as they had already done in Iraq and Persia...