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After long, bitter weeks of misunderstanding, Chungking reported that the Chinese had at last reached an understanding with Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional troops into Burma. There they fight under their own commanders, who are in turn responsible to Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff, U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...Chief Archibald MacLeish, in Manhattan speeches to conventions of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Associated Press, asked loyal U.S. editors to purge their own ranks of "minority elements of the American press which are actively engaged in influencing American opinion in directions which lead not to victory . . . but to defeat...
...objected to Britain's demand that control of India's war effort remain in British hands. Sir Stafford compromised by suggesting that the Defense Minister be an Indian, while control of the strategic and operational spheres be left with the British Commander in Chief, General Sir Archibald Wavell...
When General Sir Archibald P. Wavell captured Bardia, Italian officers were found to have translations of the British plans for Egypt's defense. Among the few possessors of those plans had been Aly Maher Pasha. Last February Egyptian students celebrated the British retreats in Libya shouting "Long Live Rommel!" and "Long Live Aly Maher Pasha...
Engaged. The Right Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, the Anglican Church's "Flying Bishop" of the Arctic; and Elizabeth Nelson Lukens, associate headmistress of The Agnes Irwin School near Philadelphia; in Philadelphia. "Archibald the Arctic" (his signature) makes biennial flights to visit his scattered Eskimo flock...