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Supplies for the North. From primary bases in the United Kingdom and the U.S. it is 1,400-3,700 miles to west North African ports. It is from there that the central and northern Tunisian fronts are fed. Supplies are landed chiefly at Casablanca on the Atlantic and carried 1,100 miles overland, or at Algiers on the Mediterranean and hauled 450 miles overland...
...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
...move around. More important to them, they had removed any threat to their flank when they turned south to face their old enemy, Montgomery. It would be some time before Montgomery's Eighth, slowly advancing around the ends of the Mareth Line, and Eisenhower's central Tunisian forces could join hands...
Rommel's thrust may seriously upset all of Eisenhower's plans. The capture of Gafsa would mean the loss of the Allies' most important central Tunisian base. If Rommel (variously reported wounded and nearly captured) widens his assault, he will seriously disrupt Allied communication lines. The decision might be delayed even beyond the first weeks of summer, the time now apparently set for victory and a push toward southern Europe...
...Churchill once more pointed out that North Africa was Mr. Roosevelt's enterprise. With fine Churchillian sarcasm, he said: "It is indeed remarkable that the Germans should have shown themselves ready to run the risk and pay the price required of them by their struggle to hold the Tunisian tip. While I have always hesitated to say anything which might afterwards look like overconfidence, I cannot resist the remark that one seems to discern in this policy the touch of a master hand, the same master hand that planned the attack on Stalingrad...