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General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...
...membership 9,000) has 65% of its strength still in service, thus still operates on a committee basis. Its greatest visible assets are its founder-chairman, cool, mustachioed Charles G. Bolte (rhymes with "whole day"), 25, who enlisted in the British army and lost a leg at El Alamein, its cautious approach to organization and its penchant for political action (the Senate has adopted two A.V.C. proposals for liberalizing the terms of farm loans to veterans...
Distinguished Cadavers. This electoral El Alamein, which brought British socialists to power for the first time in 14 years, strewed Britain with distinguished political corpses. Among the Conservative cadavers were: First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken; Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery; Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War; Harold Macmillan, Secretary for Air; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary; Ernest Brown, Minister of Aircraft Production; Richard K. Law, Minister of Education; Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works; Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill...
...front page of the London Times last week appeared three brief obituaries that were like an epitome of Britain's war effort: "Dudman - killed at El Alamein, Nov. 2, 1942, Richard Anthony Dudman, Lieutenant, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...