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...faced British colonel shifted his weight, stoically posed for his photograph. The man taking his picture was that cameraphile, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. With some Indian troops in his command, the colonel had been seized during the confused fighting in the desert. His captors had hauled him in to exhibit him to the victorious Field Marshal of the Afrika Korps...
...from disturbing was the political situation which exploded in the midst of Rommel's advance. Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha and his old friend and Finance Minister, Makram Ebeid Pasha, broke up in a thunderous...
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...
...victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...
...German command in North Africa may not have cared whether or not Churchill made good his threat to retaliate against Rome. The raids-two of them within the space of three days-were prompted by military necessity. Objectives were airdromes from which Allied planes had been harrying Rommel's supply lines. Actually, though Cairo threw up a mighty and thunderous barrage, the raid was small, soon scattered, resulted in one fatality and "slight damage." Most of the bombs fell in the suburbs. London was inclined to let it pass...