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When Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal was made Chief of Air Staff last October, the choice was hailed as an indication that Britain was preparing to take the offensive against the Luftwaffe. For Sir Charles was previously head of the Bomber Command-an expert in carrying the fight to the enemy...
...battered Londoners this was satisfying news. German claims that hospitals had been the chief targets received little sympathy. But to British strategists the attack was just a phase of the "master plan" of Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
Last week Britain's R. A. F. announced an important change. Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall was replaced as Chief of Air Staff by Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, formerly head of the bomber command. Sir Cyril was immediately branded by unofficial gossip as a defeatist, a Chamberlain appointee whom soft-hearted colleagues did not wish to bounce until Chamberlain was bounced, a hard worker but a man in whom the offensive spirit burned somewhat low. It was said that because he is a social butterfly and his wife an American climber, he should be a great success...
...Percy, officer in the Grenadier Guards, had been killed in action. Head of the famous fighting Percy clan, which has battled in & out of England for over 800 years, the 27-year-old Duke died trying to stem the Nazi advance through Flanders. His brother and successor, Lord Hugh Algernon, is in active service with the Northumberland Hussars...
...Strangers are ordered to withdraw!" cried Mr. Speaker Capt. the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy and out trooped the press, the official stenographers who ordinarily record the minutes of all sessions, and everyone in the galleries except the peers, who included His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. On the floor of the grossly overcrowded House, which has seats for only 476 of its 615 members, scores of M.P.s squatted tailor-fashion. To eat during the secret session, which lasted more than seven hours, many had bought for sixpence each what were offered in the refreshment rooms as "Secret Sandwiches...