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...turned out to be so perfect in its infinite human implications that, when Mann finished, he had written the story of a story of a story of a story. Step by step, Joseph the Provider is hard going. But from time to time, on the book's Saharan horizons, loom rich oases of pure storytelling-some as long as a novel...
...picture itself is a good and interesting variation on a well-worn theme. An American tank loses its formation and, in subsequent wanderings across the Saharan wastes, picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...
Only West African reports pleasing to the Allies last week were Free French opinions that the Trans-Saharan Railway, now being built from North Africa to Dakar, would have little military use for years to come. It must cross 1,700 miles of shifting sands and jungle brush, is a building job as tremendous as the Panama Canal. Its chief current value to Vichy is as an unhealthy place to send political prisoners and refugees whom Vichy wants...
Jubilantly Colonel Diego Brosset, onetime officer in the French Mehariste Camel Corps, took to the radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before...
...shelter themselves in a trench under it. The storm over, they flew peacefully Timbuctoo's on to landing-field, Timbuctoo Khabara. (Traveler Seabrook winds up his book with bitter remarks about the present impossibility of landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture in the distant mountains, carry a thin stream of water some 30 ft. under the baking sand. These conduits, bored through the clay subsoil by no one knows whom, have...