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That fleet might at any moment try to break out to the open sea and raid in force on Allied convoys. It might serve as a grand bait to lure the British Home Fleet (which now includes U.S. units) into a massed submarine trap. The German Navy's new commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, conferred last week with the Italian Naval Chief of Staff, Admiral Arturo Riccardi - a reminder that the fleet in Norway could also be used to draw Allied strength out of the Mediterranean, should worsening of the Axis position in Tunisia call for escape...
...Course starts off with an appetizer of hurdles. The second course on the menu is the high frame ladder for stretching all those weary muscles; and then from the heights down to the depths of a fire trap. Then just to keep themselves going, they practice the art of balancing on a forty-foot combination of zigzag rails. Next, as if they hadn't had enough they go back up into the air over a seven foot wall, clambering over it in a manner similar to the way Tarzan swings from tree to tree, with the aid of ropes...
...planes, too much of his manpower? At Britain? Not without running into the most highly organized defensive net in the Allied world. At Spain? Not unless he was willing to support a very poor cousin and gain doubtful ends (TIME, March 8). Out of the North African trap, at Morocco or Egypt? Rommel had tried and failed. In Russia? Not without beginning all over again where the campaign began last year...
...Marshal's colleague, Colonel General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light. They still held Beja...
...trapped Axis animal was still strong, it had already mauled its enemy and would maul him again. Nevertheless the trap was slowly closing. At the fronts, along the supply lines in the rear (see p. 21 ), the Allies pressed on, knowing full well that victory in Tunisia by summer may mean invasion of southern Europe by fall...