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...Army's capture of Rzhev last week freed the 160-mile railway between Velikie Luki and Moscow. Soviet engineers immediately began to broaden the gauge to the Russian size. For the Germans this "axle war" had involved moving the wheels of captured rolling stock slightly toward the center of the axle. The Russians are now having to return the wheels to the ends of the axle...
...TIME, March 8) moved another step forward last week. In an order repudiating two anti-Jewish decrees, the Genera declared: "A decree signed in Vichy is not valid in North Africa." According to French reports from Dakar this week, all jailed De Gaullist and pro-Allied sympathizers have been freed. In the wind were negotiations for a settlement with the Fighting French, further decrees abolishing all Vichy laws...
...work, which includes everything but actual combat duty. The purpose of the WAAC is to free men for overseas duty, and if the goal of 150,000 is reached, it will mean that an amount of men the size of the American Expeditionary Force in North Africa has been freed to fight...
...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
North Africa's jail doors creaked open last week for 1,300 political prisoners. Men of 28 different nationalities were freed-Czechs, Russians, Poles, De Gaullist Frenchmen and other allies of the United Nations. Still jailed were more than 5,000; their release was promised within two months...