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...Mussolini took personal command of his troops...
...Murzuch. They dressed in the flowing coverings of the desert, and scattered Italian patrols they passed on the way took them for relief troops, unsuspectingly waved them the Fascist salute. When they reached the fort the Italian garrison was even less wary. Coming smartly to attention at the command of a British officer, they were all set to parade in review when ordered to surrender...
Jubilantly Colonel Diego Brosset, onetime officer in the French Mehariste Camel Corps, took to the radio in London, in soldierly language exhorted the Free French to push on, urged the troops in Weygand's command to pitch in with them. "It is Brosset, a Saharan of Algiers, of Morocco, of Mauritania and the Sudan, who is asking you if you remember that ardor and devotion whose tradition once existed in the oases, in rocks, in mountains and in the desert. . . . Are you still worthy . . . Meharistes, who were my own young men? . . . Remember that Lawrence was at Damascus before...
...make each unit distrust every other unit. Next he surrounds each with an iron circle of this hostility and suspicion. Then he gives each unit to understand that, in the final reckoning, it and it alone will be awarded the fruits of victory-provided it obeys his every command. Later still he tantalizes each with alternating spasms of worry because the others seem temporarily to be in favor, and then of delight because the others are being worried. Finally he moves in for the kill-and spares no single unit...
...Staff, had already laid his plans. Last week he completed a thoroughgoing overhaul of his press section, gave it a rank and standing it had never had before. As its new head he appointed one of his crack officers: natty, cosmopolitan Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson. Taken from command of the First Cavalry Division, West Pointer Richardson was sorry to leave his beloved horses, but he knew that the new job was more important. And with a Major General at the head desk, newsmen could soundly hope that from now on there will be less fumbling in the Army information...