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Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there...
...Archibald Joseph Cronin seldom makes such mistakes either. His first novel, Hatter's Castle, sold 70,649 copies; and he has been writing best-sellers or near bestsellers ever since. His case proves again that a writer can succeed with any subject provided he writes excitingly enough...
General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell won two campaigns and world fame. Then he lost two campaigns and full vigor. Finally he squeaked through two campaigns and public censure. Last week he was traded to India...
...Middle East Command, Sir Archibald's old one, has for seven months been the Empire's most important. India, which has been the second most important, might be the first if the Germans took European Russia and began heading southeast. India's Commander, Lieut. General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck, traded positions with General Wavell...
...merit would not permit it. He was clearly kicked, but not very far, downstairs. There was important thinking to be done in India. If the Germans defeated the Russians, Germany would have a common frontier with India. This threat called for a Wavell, because it now appeared that Sir Archibald's special talent is what the British Army calls "Q," staff planning, rather than "O," operations...