Conquering Allied troops heard that the Bey of Tunis, hawk-nosed, pouchy-eyed Sidi Mohammed Al Mounsaf, had fled to Europe with his Axis friends. But a British lieutenant found the sovereign in a bomb proof cave near his palace. Later, when a British major general called to pay his respects, the Bey had out his bodyguard, his band, and his 25 wives. The Bey himself, in grey suit and red tarboosh, complained that bombs broke the glass in his blue, bougainvillaea-covered palace near Tunis. The general apologized.
Before week's end, the Bey got fired....
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