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US Holocaust Memorial Archive 745023
June 10, 1943
Intelligence and political landscape report from Lt. Col. Harvey S. Gerry, Commanding Officer Tunisian Detachment, to Minister Robert D. Murphy on the subject of Tunisia. Murphy details the various grievances and political positions of Tunisia’s different peoples. He goes on to describe the difficulties the Americans face there, including the strong war-time black market that emerged, the use of ration cards and the faulty distribution system for civilian supplies at the time the Americans entered Tunisia