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Great events are brewing today in Western Europe. Perhaps Hitler himself is planning a surprise drive to the West (see p. 23. Perhaps Hitler fears an Anglo-American attempt to set up a second front in the West. News came last week that Germany's brilliant Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, hero of the Nazi drive into the Ukraine, had been shifted to the Western Front, whether for offense or defense, and placed in command of Germany's coastal forces from Norway's far North Cape to Hendaye on the Spanish border...
...Egypt when World War II began. Behind him was a vigorous record as a lawyer, administrator and nationalist politico. Aly Maher Pasha had also found time to indulge a passion for swimming and handsome daughters of Egypt. But when Italy entered the war, Britain found him unsympathetic to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty calling for Egyptian cooperation with the British Army, and King Farouk accepted Aly Maher Pasha's resignation...
When the Argentine Finance Ministry last week announced the March export figures, they were jarring. Last year's 555,000 tons was bad enough; this year's 387,000 tons was nightmarish. For weeks no ship under Anglo-U.S. control has left New York for Argentina...
...severe has been Lord Beaverbrook's asthma since he arrived in the U.S. last month that he has not been able to apply his genius to Anglo-American production. Instead, wearing only blue shorts and a black Homburg, he has been sunning himself at Miami Beach, Fla. Said he: "It is true that I suffer from both temperament and asthma but the asthma is a damn sight worse than the temperament...
...bounced back from the fusty chambers of the London Times, which said: "Both for Great Britain and for the U.S. . . . secure relations with Russia are of paramount importance. ... It should be a primary aim of British policy ... to promote that understanding and to associate the U.S. Government with an Anglo-Soviet agreement. . . . Russia is not exclusively a European power, and the same identity of interests which makes Russia and the U.S. allies in the struggle against Hitler unites them not less firmly across the Pacific Ocean. There is no reason to suppose that a clear and unequivocal British lead will...