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...Rommel's forces were back at the point from which they had launched their assault more than a fortnight ago. Their batteries commanded the British minefields. They were a threat, and would continue to be until they were destroyed. But with rumors about their commander flying about, they seemed little inclined to renew the action...
...member of Wendell Willkie's party (who preferred not to be named) told the story in Ankara. He got it from British officers in Cairo. They got it from captured German troops. The story: dour, boot-tough Marshal Erwin Rommel was ill, had returned to Germany already, or was waiting to be relieved of his command. An Italian report put Rommel in the Stuttgart Tropical Disease Clinic, sick abed with malaria...
British officials in Cairo pooh-poohed the story as a German gag to explain the failure of Rommel's drive...
From Madagascar to the Libyan Desert a single battle is being fought: the battle to keep Africa open as the supply crossroads of the United Nations. Rommel's dusty warriors menaced the land bridge between Africa and the Middle East. Vichy intrigue and Japanese submarines at Madagascar menaced the waterway up the African coast toward Eritrea, Suez. Persia and Russia...
...keep Africa, the United Nations have more than Rommel and Madagascar to consider. Once the vast Sahara was considered a sufficient barrier to guard the heart of Africa from invasion by forces using Vichy-controlled Tunisia and Algeria as a jumping-off point. Mechanized warfare changed that concept. If the Germans conquer Egypt, they may turn south. French North Africa and Dakar, the continent's westernmost base, in the hands of Axis-enslaved Vichy can never be anything but a danger to the security of Africa as a great crossroads of the United Nations...