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...British in Egypt have been reinforced. Whether they have received enough from Britain and the U.S. for an effective offensive, no one outside the high command knows. The R.A.F. had clear superiority in the air when the front was stabilized at El Alamein; it now has considerable help from the U.S. Army Air Forces: U.S. medium bombers last week joined the heavy bombers and fighters already in action in Egypt. Correspondents, summing up the total of U.S. aid, were allowed to say only that it was not yet a flood, but that it was more than the trickle...
...read: 1) a Nazi threat to Turkey and the whole Near East between Suez and the Caucasus; 2) the need for an immediate Allied move in the Near East to counteract the threat. The British, choosing big, 60-year-old General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo'') Wilson to command a new independent army in Iraq and Persia, were perhaps preparing such a move...
Alexander succeeds Auchinleck in the over-all command of the Middle East. Under him, in direct command of the Eighth Army in Egypt, he has Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, a 54-year-old Ulsterman who is also a veteran of the retreat from France. But, like Wavell and Auchinleck (who at the last held both the area and army commands), Alexander is responsible for victory or defeat...
...constituents suffering under price ceilings and for refusing OPA patronage jobs to their politician colleagues. If Henderson remains tied to the coattails of various conflicting and overlapping government agencies, wartime prices will soon work hand in hand with inflation. What is needed to avoid this is an economic high command with unrestricted power to direct all phases of wartime living...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...