Word: tunision
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Food & Guts. Nazi propaganda has long claimed that Germany's enlarged economic sphere can more than match that of the Allies. But defeat in Africa shook many a German's faith in the Axis economy. A traveler from Germany into Switzerland said that on the day the meat...
Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his...
Allied armies distributed the new French administration's posters and leaflets, smoothed the way for General Giraud's entry last week into Tunis, a predominantly de Gaullist populace generously cheered-and waved flags bearing General de Gaulle's Cross of Lorraine.
No one in Tunis was more tickled to see the British First Army than the Rev. Isaac Dunbar, British rector of St. George's Church.* The victory ended Mr. Dunbar's 167 days of hide-&-seek with the Nazis and Italians.
Shortly after the Axis occupation of Tunis, Mr. Dunbar got word that he was on their hostage list. He gathered some convert Jews and other trusted friends, held a last secret religious service. Then he went into hiding. The Italians and Nazis were hot after him, and eight times he...