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That good, hard face, with its deep lines and its one eye blank, was back in people's minds again. General Sir Archibald Wavell, for better or for worse the most famous Allied commander in the whole war, was to take up a post difficult in more than one sense: Supreme Commander of all forces-sea, land and air-of all nations fighting the Japanese in the southwest Pacific area...
...armchair strategists might debate until their rockers broke about the subtle pros & cons of Sir Archibald's generalship in the Middle East last year: whether he was too cautious, or too slow, or too orthodox (TIME, Oct. 14, 1940). But to the men and women, both in Britain and the U.S., to whom the war was more a worry than an avocation, Archie Wavell was still the best damn general on our side. MacArthur (TIME, Dec. 29, and see p. 19) was right up there, but he had his hands full. Unquestionably Wavell was the best choice...
...vital lifelines (see p. 18), one of the world's greatest men, one of Britain's greatest generals and one of the U.S.'s greatest hopefuls met for three days last week. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek received Britain's Indian Commander, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, and the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Major General George H. Brett. They met to devise the ABCs of Allied land and air strategy...
This fact-marking as it did the first British mechanized victory over German forces in World War II-was buried deep under the avalanche of Far Eastern war news. It deserved a better fate. General Sir Archibald Wavell's victory over the Italians in Cyrenaica last year, which was hailed all over the Allied world, took 60 days. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's feat, which was virtually ignored all over the world, was accomplished...
Appointed to a policy board to advise him on "coordination and integration" are Vice President Wallace, the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury, Attorney General Biddle, Postmaster General Walker (chair man), OGR's Lowell Mellett and OFF's Archibald MacLeish - but how much active part they will take is still problematical...