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Just a list of the cities we have visited: Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Oran, Meknes, Oudjda, Algiers, Fez. We have spent a night in a Sultan's palace at Fez, we have visited the headquarters of the Foreign Legion in Sidi-bel Abbes . . . we have seen the Casbah in Algiers. . . . Three gals, two others and myself, drove all across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. From Bizerte we flew over to Sicily. Bizerte was an appalling sight. ... At night ... the moon shines down on empty shells of white buildings with black windows...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized...
Before week's end, the Bey got fired. General Henri Giraud, Civil and Military Chief of French North Africa, ruled that Sidi Mounsaf had compromised Tunisia's "external and internal security" by truckling with the Axis. To the beylical throne, in accordance with dynastic tradition, went Sidi Mounsaf's oldest living male relative, unpolitical Sidi Al Amin...
...Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field commander in Tunisia, to administer the protectorate until the permanent Resident General, impetuous, gallant General Charles Mast, recovers from injuries received in a recent automobile accident...
...Stukas shook U.S. soldiers, experiencing dive-bombing for the first time. Thirty German tanks poured out of Faïd Pass. Artillery, infantry and 50 German tanks moved out of a point north of the pass (see map). South around Maknassy the Germans rolled toward the road that connects Sidi bou Zid with Gafsa. Another column pounded toward Gafsa itself. Mark IVs and some of the new, giant Mark VIs overran the positions of green. U.S. artillerymen, who sometimes scarcely had time to fire one round...