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...Archibald] MacLeish asserted that young people had read too many war-debunking novels by such men as Hemingway and Dos Passos. . . . Mr. MacLeish fell into the error of attaching too much importance to the role of literature. . . . Hemingway and Dos Passos did not create a mood, but merely summed...
...Archibald MacLeish (at University of Pennsylvania): "Those who tell you that the destroying guns, the ruinous bombs, the fire, the misery, the indiscriminate death of the Fascist military action are a new, creative, irresistible historic force which you cannot oppose but only ride with as the rubbish rides the surf are victims prophesying with the tongues of victims...
...British that fall was General Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, and he threw a three-pronged spear: one prong aimed at Beirut, two prongs at Damascus. In 38 days the three prongs joined in victory at Aleppo. Serving under Allenby was brilliant, 35-year-old Brigadier Archibald Percival Wavell, who went on to write his military master's life and follow in his footsteps as Commander in Chief of the British Imperial Forces in the Middle East. Now Wavell is General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's master...
Captain Jimmy's View. In Cairo Captain Roosevelt hobnobbed with Kings -Farouk of Egypt, George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia. He had a talk with General Sir Archibald Wavell. Then he gave out his personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...
...with the British, or peace from Hitler?-had already vanished into the back pages. The Nazis called the affair closed, though rumors of arrests in Germany persisted. If the British had found the answer, they kept it to themselves. Winston Churchill declined to make a statement. Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair simply denied that the boxing, flying Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess said he came seeking, had even corresponded with Rudolf Hess...