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Alexander & Napoleon. Many Moslems have an unspeakable, uncontrollable hatred for Israel, but Nasser's emotion is a composite of worry, envy, chagrin and wounded pride that the little nation should have licked all the Arab states and come out of it with an army twice the size of Egypt's. "They'll take equipment anywhere they can get it," he claimed. "We are beginning to learn from them." It was his way of calling attention to the report that Russia has been offering to supply Egypt with arms, no strings attached, and perhaps even to finance...
Item: Thousands of Suda nese troops, Negroes from southern provinces, mutinied against their Arab officers from the north...
...Major General Edson L. M. Burns, respected as much for his toughness as for his patience, tried to get both sides together: the familiar rhythm in these flare-ups is violence met with violence and followed by quiet. But this time the rhythm was broken. Small groups of Arab raiders carried the fight deep into Israel. Known as Al Fedayeen (Self-Sacrificers), the sneaker-shod guerrillas are recruited from Palestinian Arab refu gees, and are thus adventurers without a country who know Israel's landscape because it was once their own. Most of them are followers of the former...
...politicians hoped that the French punitive expeditions had already broken the back of the Arab revolt; yet last week the killings went on. In Morocco, nationalist saboteurs burned French gasoline dumps; in Algeria, rebel bands fought a four-hour battle with the Foreign Legion, and 54 died. Even in relatively tranquil Tunisia, 23 rebels and eleven Frenchmen were killed in a sudden outbreak. Total casualties in North Africa since Aug. 20: close to 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...Britain's Eagle Squadrons as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot. After Pearl Harbor. Joe Klaas, like Hero Weis, was "sold" to the U.S. Army Air Force for $35,000.* Like Weis, he was shot down in Tunisia by Luftwaffe fighters, resold by an Arab to the Germans for $20, spent two years behind Nazi fences, and finally took part in the apocalyptic march he writes about...