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...Middle East, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who claims descent from Mohammed but has blue eyes and a blond beard) to stern, Bible-quoting General Montgomery of the British Eighth Army (who can't stand having his soldiers cough when he speaks and has a picture of Rommel pinned over his bed). Jack Belden, TIME'S roving correspondent in the East, probably knows General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell better than any other correspondent alive (he was with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma into India)-and he can also tell you about...
...World War II, no single fact had held such enormous possibilities. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, Rommel's retreat from Egypt in 1942 involved the fate of continents; the Wehrmacht's retreat involves the fate of the world. When the full extent and meaning of the retreat are clear, the world will be better able to judge the winner of World War II, better able to gauge its length...
Soft Spot? The Allies had a preponderance of men in North Africa but they were not all in Tunisia; many of the U.S. troops in action were green, most of the French ill equipped. Against them were upward of 150,000 hardened, battlewise troops, including the remnants of Erwin Rommel's tough if battered army, and at least one crack Panzer division-the Tenth, which had fought in Poland, France, Russia. German equipment was excellent. On to the battlefields last week rumbled the new, mighty Mark VI tank, heavily armored and hard to stop. Hitler had poured an estimated...
General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, 51, reputed the "most aggressive soldier" in the British Army, the small, tough strategist who as British Middle East commander planned the westward rout of Rommel. As Eisenhower's chief deputy, Alexander would have direct command over all ground forces: the British Eighth Army (General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery), the British First Army (Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson), the U.S. Fifth Army (Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark), the French West African Army (General Henri Giraud...
...Rommel fled, Allied forces in central Tunisia jabbed at the Axis flanks, trying to slash through to the coast and intercept him. Along the edge of the Axis corridor, the fighting showed signs of developing into a major conflict. But at week's end determined German resistance still kept the corridor open for Rommel's escape. His junction with General Jurgin von Arnim, uniting some 130.000 Axis troops in a strong position, seemed certain...