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Will Lang's entry into Tunis was not quite so peaceful. The roads were strewn with wrecks of cars and tanks, clouds of dust and cordite hung in the air. Five Germans tried to give themselves up to Lang's party, and there was an Axis officer who...
"At one point the road was clogged with one solid chain of British armor," Lang reports. "The tanks were halted because some bitter fighting was still going on near the intersection ahead, and we could ear the chilling chatter of machine guns, cautioning us that Tunis was not yet won...
"By the time we reached the disputed intersection, 400 surrendered Germans were being shepherded from the grounds of the Bey of Tunis' palace. There was rifle fire going on behind smoke clouds as some fanatical Germans still sniped at tanks.
"We hurried past and entered the Tunis native quarter where the Arabs stood sullenly and watched our car go by. In the Jewish quarter the civilians cheered 'Vive la France!' and stopped us several times with the wall of flesh their bodies formed. An old man unfurled a...
By a Senate vote of 49-to-30, the Ruml plan captured its Bizerte and Tunis. But the Administration was still fighting, and further resistance was due in the House this week. The President might still veto it, with a scorching philippic calculated to produce plenty of ammunition for 1944...