Thanks Homer, as usual this is brilliant stuff.
Joseph Kennedy gets a spanking on page 5. Good to see.
Connor’s brilliantly executed flanking maneuver in the Desert war is the story for the week.
The article by Herbert Matthews on the resignation of Marshal Badoglio was ‘impressive’ for its utter servility to fascism. Some of the turns of phrase are straight out of press releases for the Mussolini regime, boasting of ‘revolutionary’ fascism and denouncing any independence of the military officer corps from fascist politics.
Just another instance of the NY Times sucking up to dictators from Stalin to Hitler to Mussolini, right on to the present day.