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Battle for Time. General Sir Archibald Wavell, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwestern Pacific had a clear sense of the importance of Singapore's battle. Said he last week to the men on Singapore...
...global struggle of World War II, it is likely that the Navy will take over more unified commands than the Army. But in the Far East, where the widest application of the scheme has been set up, British General Sir Archibald Wavell is in supreme command of the United Nations, outranking U.S. Admiral Tommy Hart, head of all Allied naval activities...
When the ships tied up and the young Americans filed ashore, there was no row. A band from The Royal Ulster Rifles played The Star-Spangled Banner, and Britain's Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair spoke to the visitors: "Here perhaps you will join with us in withstanding assaults by our common enemy. . . . From here, assuredly, you will sally forth . . . into his territory...
Last week as the battle for the Indies was joined, the U.S. and Britain had tacitly acknowledged the importance of the struggle. In command of the defense was General Sir Archibald Wavell, with Hein ter Poorten working under his command. In command of the sea forces-the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, the N.E.I. Navy and British units-was Admiral Tommy Hart, assisted by Admiral Helfrich...
...Going to Moscow was tweedy, handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State...