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General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of land forces in Tunisia, denned the order carefully. "The main task I gave to the Second U.S. Corps," he said, "was 1) to capture and secure Gafsa as an administrative base for the Eighth Army; 2) to threaten Rommel's rear from Gafsa and Maknassy so as to draw off reserves from the Eighth Army." Both these jobs had been "most successfully done...
...Occupying myself with the welfare and interest of the Spanish State, I will endeavor to avoid all evil which may threaten...
...untilled; the North as chaotic, volcanic land, constantly changing, never settled. Yet our mapmakers deceive us with their shiny flat charts of common ideals, freedom for all, malice towards none. They make war on those who would alter this idealistic map and make speeches against those who might threaten their imaginative portraits. But in all their speeches and in all their wars, they have forgotten the real land. Evidently, they have never surveyed the nation...
...based on their estimate of the strength needed to carry out a carefully planned strategical program which must necessarily be secret. Cutting the strength even by one million men would throw the whole program out of kilter, would threaten military failure, might result in a military stalemate lasting a generation...
Faced with game surpluses that threaten mass starvation of birds & beasts, conservationists are nonetheless dead set against the abolition of a bag limit. They also say that "scientific slaughtering" of excess wildlife is economically unsound, citing the example of California, which in 1924-26 paid $500,000 to get 22,000 deer killed-around $23 a deer. Their point: Why pay people to hunt when hunters will pay for the privilege...