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Outside Massachusetts Hall a half-dozen girls paraded with signs: CONVOY HALIFAX BACK TO ENGLAND; HARVARD GIVES A DEGREE TO WAR. It was whispered that at the right moment Harvard radicals planned to release white doves from beneath their gowns and walk out of the commencement. Inside the yard it was plain that they would do nothing of the sort. Harvard's capped-&-gowned seniors lined up respectfully to let a host of guests march past. Looking pale and cool in his black gown was Harvard's most distinguished guest: Lord Halifax...
...Ordered the navy into convoy service...
...Germans were very visibly moving a force to the Egyptian border. The R.A.F. caught a huge convoy of trucks, mostly large "tankers," as it crept up from the Axis base at Bengasi, and claimed to have destroyed 30. Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...
When this "convoy" system has been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
This meant that the highly specialized German Air Force unit which had pounded Malta into unimportance, which had walloped the aircraft carrier Illustrious as it tried to run a convoy through the Sicilian channel, which above all had covered the transport of Axis troops and supplies to Libya, had gone on to greener pastures. The departure made the Sicilians very happy; no one now could say that Sicily was German-occupied territory...