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...care for the wounded on the road. Two men also work at Libson, now the bottleneck for refugees, where thousands are stranded with no means of leaving, and another agent is being sent to Casablanca to do relief work among refugees there and among the workers on the new Sahara railroad...
...correspondents in Syria and Tangier were not surprised to learn that German engineers quietly arrived at the naval base in Tunisia's Bizerte, that work on the new Trans-Sahara railroad was redoubled, that the onetime international settlement of Tangier was now fortified by Spanish soldiers. They recognized Berlin's objective: to drive a wedge of Nazified northwest Africa between the U.S. and her allies in Libya and the Middle East...
Many observers took all this with more than a grain of salt. Heavy Nazi infiltrations have long been reported in French Morocco. Fortnight ago it was said that French North African troops had crossed the Sahara to a camp near the De Gaullist headquarters around Lake Chad...
...reported that a French North African column had marched south across the Sahara to N'Guigmi on the northwestern shores of great, marshy Lake Chad, base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...
...seeing eye for architectural pretense. He has paid his respects to the campuses of the large Eastern colleges in a little pamphlet called The Gothick Universitie; he has likened Washington's unfinished Jefferson Memorial to "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." Last week Dean Hudnut took a look at the National Gallery. Wrote he (in an article in the Magazine...