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...Despite continual bombing by British and U.S. planes, Tobruk and Bengasi were still open ports, through which a stream of men and supplies flowed from Greece and Crete. Motor-driven lighters, laden with supplies, hugged the coast in Rommel's immediate rear, supplementing the truck convoys on land. Bombings had impeded, but by no means broken up, this front-line supply system. Nor had Allied air attack smashed the Luftwaffe's airtransport line from Crete to the African battlefront...
...F.A.U. has other units at work in Libya (Tobruk), Syria and Ethiopia. Sixteen men were lost in Greece. Already two F.A.U. men in China have died of typhus and one was captured by Japanese in Hong Kong. The major operation in China involves transport of medical supplies to hospitals. . . . The program is largely financed with American funds from United China Relief...
...Duce had expected to celebrate his 59th birthday in Egypt. When Tobruk fell he rushed through the air to North Africa to lead the victorious march into Alexandria. On the way. R.A.F. pilots knocked down a convoying plane, killing his personal chef and personal barber. Loss of the barber was not so bad, since II Duce is as bald as a monkey's bottom, but loss of the cook was dismal. Then Rommel was stopped, and there could be no triumphal procession...
...Gallup popularity rating in Britain last week was 78%, a drop of eight points from just before Tobruk, now precisely the same as President Roosevelt's in the U.S. Only 41% of Britain's polled subjects approve the Government's conduct of the war, 42% disapprove. Sixty per cent want a second front in 1942; 12% think it should not be tried...
...first group of U.S. soldiers to see action against the German army returned to home base at Fort Knox last week. Bronzed, full of quiet, unique pride, behaving like veterans, they had fought for a month with the British in Libya, got out of Tobruk just two days before Field Marshal Erwin Rommel arrived...