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General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...
First nation to re-establish headquarters on the Continent to fight the Axis, Yugoslavia last week transferred its army high command from Cairo back to the homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
More than 125 undergraduates signed up for confidential war work at the headquarters of the Boston Interceptor Command, during an organization meeting held last night in Emerson D, under the auspices of the War Service Committee...
Major Nevels MacDonald, of the Interceptor Command, addressed the volunteers, outlining the nature of the work, and explaining the application procedure which each man must go through before being accepted...
...kick an Englishman in the stomach today, in the teeth tomorrow and on his behind the day after, he will be unable to stand it. His command cannot adapt itself to such measures...