Word: tobruk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rommel rolled, smiled again and went back to their nightclubs. Those who had fled Alexandria talked of coming back "within a few days." Once more Cairo diffused through its screen of censorship a rosy mist of optimism-the same color as that which preceded the mist-shattering fall of Tobruk...
...Before Tobruk fell, no one gave even an outside chance to the Independent candidate in the by-election at Maldon, near London. Middle-class Maldon was considered a sure Conservative district. Independent Candidate Tom Driberg, 37, although England's most widely read columnist ("William Hickey" of the London Daily Express), was a breezy leftist, so unconventional that in 1939 he called Adolf Hitler at his Berlin telephone number (only to be told that he could not speak to the Führer). But when the Government candidate, Conservative Reuben Hunt, attributed Britain's Libyan reverses...
Before the votes were cast, Tobruk had fallen. Independent Driberg defeated his Governmental rival...
...happiest man in the world when Tobruk fell was Germany's clubfooted Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels. For six months he had had the painful job of constructing alibis for 80,000,000 restive Germans and 150,000,000 enslaved candidates for the New Order. But last week Field Marshal Erwin Rommel gave Dr. Goebbels soothing, splendiferous relief...
...Goebbels ordered the Boersen-Zeitung to print the suggestion that the hero of Tobruk, after the fashion of ancient Rome's great Scipio, be dubbed "Rommel Africanus." Since the eleventh edition of Rommel's Infantry Attacks had all but disappeared from German bookshops, Dr. Goebbels commanded that Germany's paper-saving regulations be relaxed to permit a twelfth edition. Goebbels' biggest scoop was a German soldier-correspondent's interview with Rommel six hours after he had entered Tobruk. As if to answer Italian newspapers, which had crowed that the victory belonged to "Italian and German...