EGYPT: Under Control?

From Cairo and London last week came cautiously worded hints that Field Marshal Rommel's thrust into Egypt, if it went far enough, might meet an active fifth column of disgruntled natives. Singapore, Burma, India and Pearl Harbor have been revealing examples of what might happen. Censorship and a hope-for-the-best attitude cloud the picture in Egypt.

> Wrote one U.S. newsman from Cairo: "Probably not until the end of this war will Americans know how the people of Egypt's cities are deporting themselves now."

> Present fears and old sores caused increasingly bitter criticism...

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