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I think this is pretty nearly the most hectic week we have had yet on our covers, but these days particularly we have to be prepared for just such kaleidoscopic changes in the news; and so one of the biggest continuing jobs our picture department has to meet is to...
RAF Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated...
But as Vichy looked across France's borders, rumors came that if the Allies move on Casablanca, Italy will move on Tunis, Spain on Tangier and Morocco. Such moves might be called friendly. But Vichy remembered Czecho-Slovakia's friendly neighbors.
> Temptingly before the British was the long African coast in Rommel's rear: Spanish Morocco, France's North Africa and Tunis, all of which would raise major diplomatic problems. Italy's Tripoli and Rommel's own Cyrenaica (Bengasi) could be the target of a sudden blow...
Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem.