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...international press corps, waited for news, soon discovered they would get none at all. Britain's redheaded Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, held a press conference to console them, described Roosevelt, Churchill and King as "the three oysters." Said he:-"News is scarcer than water in the Sahara...
When Loyalist Spain collapsed, the Russians, with scores of comrades in arms, escaped to France and were interned by the Blum Government. When France collapsed too, the Brigadists were shipped off to North Africa and a prison camp at Delfa, on the edge of the Sahara 150 miles south of Algiers. There, on a few crusts of bread a day, smuggled-in newspapers and secret political classes, the Brigadists kept body and ideology together. When they heard of the Allied landing on Nov. 8, they expected immediate release. Instead, an Inter-Allied Commission was set up to investigate political refugees...
Saint-Exupéry then proceeds to explain numerous other things to grownups. Grounded in the Sahara, he is awakened by a little prince-"a most extraordinary small person," with "an odd little voice." Pipes the prince: "If you please-draw me a sheep!" Saint-Exupéry instinctively complies (his naive little sketches are part of the book) and the little prince's autobiography unfolds...
This time he sent the veteran Eighth Army against the very face of the Matmatas. The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara. Through the thick of it roared his planes. The mountains thundered and echoed with his artillery barrage. His infantrymen, like the point of a crowbar, jabbed into Rommel's suddenly faltering defenses. Montgomery's armor poured through, levering the crack until it was a wide and shattered hole. The Mareth Line, southern bulwark of the whole Axis position in Tunisia, collapsed. This week Rommel retreated...
...tanks went in at dawn. While a bitter wind swirled the sands of the Sahara the infantry waited in slit trenches for their signal. Faces and clothes were grimed with the dust. They were in full battle kit. Their weapons glinted in the bright sun. These were Montgomery's shock troops. They had done the job before at El Alamein where the long trek had started. They were eager to do it again for the harsh, implacable man whom they adored...