Meeting of Nations

> "In 'getting along,' the first important thing to remember is that the British are like the Americans in many ways--but not in all ways. . . . They are not given to backslapping. . . . The British are beer-drinkers--and can hold it. . . ."-- from A Short Guide to Great Britain, issued to U.S. forces likely to encounter the British.

> "Two Army sergeants, one a thin Dev onshire boy named William Brown and one a slight young man named Joseph Randall of State Center, Iowa, stopped on the Gafsa-Gabes highway at midafternoon to day, shook hands and slapped each other on the back. ... By the time the red sun sank splendidly behind western ranges British liaison officers were gradually filtering into Gafsa demanding: 'Have you Yanks got any beer?'"--from New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger's account of the first meeting of U.S. and British Eighth Army patrols, which took place between Gafsa and Gabes after the Axis had pulled out last week.

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