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...British flyers won shoestring control of the air over Burma last week. It was not decisive, for the Japanese could, if necessary, double their air power in Burma overnight-something that General Sir Archibald Wavell and Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault each wished that he could...
...services will be conducted by Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, while music for the services will be provided by the University Choir and Glee Club. In addition, Archibald T. Davision '05, professor of music, organist and choirmaster during President Lowell's regime, will play before the service...
...American private in the Canadian Army who had sent him a rhymed tribute, one-eyed General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, commander of the British forces in India, sent back a rhymed reply, in the course of it confided...
Last week the British made the first move back into Burma. Announced General Sir Archibald Wavell's headquarters: "During the past few days some of our troops have advanced southward from the Arakan border into western Burma. . . . The enemy . . . withdrew without offering opposition...
...Privy Seal Viscount ("Bobbity") Cranborne, a liberal, conscientious Tory and a Cecil, was asked. He declined on "grounds of health." Then rumor had it that Australian Robert G. Casey, currently Resident Minister in Cairo for the British War Cabinet, was approached. Lately came news that Liberal Party Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair was the choice, that Churchill had taken him along on a northern tour to sell him the idea. But Sir Archibald, too, said...