TIME Correspondent Jack Belden, a veteran of campaigns in China, Burma, Egypt and Libya, last week cabled this on-the-spot analysis of the Axis collapse in Tunisia:
The enemy had neither the courage nor the skill for a Dunkirk. He couldn't take it. He wilted. He collapsed swiftly, miserably and ingloriously.
After the fall of Tunis, only the justly famous 90th Light Infantry Division and the 164th Panzer Grenadiers continued to fight in the manner we expected from an army. The 90th, which had been the backbone of the Afrika Korps, finally agreed to surrenderbut...
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