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Sirs: Your magazine and other papers are full of "explanations" why Stalin did not turn up at Casablanca and why he did not even bother to send a delegate. None of these explanations is convincing. Why not just assume that he is utterly dissatisfied with our performance in this talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1943 | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Land, Air, Sea. At Allied headquarters in North Africa, an imposing assemblage of military chiefs conferred.* Their presence underscored the problems which will have to be solved: problems of supply, manifold and coordinated operations on land, in the air, on the sea. For the moment, the air offered their major...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Bloodiest Stage | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

At week's end, as Allied planes pounded Sfax, Sousse, other Axis supply ports, Arnim exploded into a frenzy of activity, driving against French-held positions near Robaa and Kairouan below Tunis. His effort was to make room for Rommel to crawl in beside him and to divert Allied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Henry Lee Smith Jr.'s secretary can ask her way to the ladies' room in 26 languages. Her boss is one of the world's top linguists. Small, fast-talking, Baltimore-born Henry Lee Smith Jr., Ph.D. (Princeton), used to awe nationwide radio audiences by interviewing people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Let's Learn Algerian | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

So heavy bombers of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Ninth Air Force, based somewhere in Libya, flew to Sfax and Sousse. It was days before a momentarily confused enemy, with his alarm nets spread to the north and west, realized whence came these new onslaughts (see p. 26). Malta-based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: In the Muck | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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