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Germans were driving eastward on two fronts, Russia and North Africa,
intending to link them up in the Near East, make the Mediterranean an
Axis lake, march on to India, and meet the Japanese in
*Gherardi stayed on untfl Italy's declaration of war upon the United
States closed the embassy. After the war, he coolly asked for his old job
back—and got it! He held it until the secret finally leaked out; then, after
several interrogations, he resigned, in August, 1949.
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Asia, thereby ruling the world and fulfilling Hitler's dream of out-
conquering Alexander the Great.
The American military ATTACHÉ in Cairo had much better
opportunities to observe military action than his colleague in Moscow,
owing to factors of distance, language, and politics, and he took full
advantage of these opportunities to do his job. He was Colonel Bonner
Frank Fellers, a West Pointer with a varied peacetime experience,