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Once his men were in Africa, Rommel made them as comfortable as possible. Each man got his own green bivouac tent, with a floor, and a pack containing a camp stove, solid fuel, eye lotion, mouthwash, body powder, washing sets, flashlight, billfolds. Rations included beer, coffee, tinned and fresh meat, lemons, potatoes, onions. Hospitals were never short of anything. At the rest camps in the rear there were beer gardens, brass bands, playing grounds, movies...
When Brereton's men first assembled in New Delhi, turbaned maharajas in the convening Chamber of Princes, and members of India's Legislative Assembly, crowded the city's hotels. Miss Hotz, manager of the Cecil Hotel, offered Brereton & staff tent space on the garden lawn. "But, oh, Miss Hotz, you will spoil the hollyhocks," a woman guest protested. Miss Hotz risked the hollyhocks. Later, Brereton found working and living space at another hotel, where an air conditioner presented by General Motors officials in Bombay now cools his sleep and labors...
...three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth sloshed through the rain to his next appointment...
...newly created Lord Wedgwood, potteries scion and for 35 years a stanchly liberal M.P., went off on another tack. "This overemphasized question of slavery! One can go into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...Kazak's life is to go skimming over the plains on his steed, rounding up horses or collecting stray cattle. His tent is warm, his clothing ample, his belly full, and he lives a free and untrammeled existence with religion sitting lightly...