Word: archibald
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...their part, the British had not been idle. Two months ago, after the successful British drive across Libya, it was rumored that General Sir Archibald Wavell had sent a large part of his troops to Palestine, to practice a hypothetical invasion of Syria. Last week a fair-sized British force was poised on the borders of Palestine and Trans-Jordan, perhaps intending to translate that hypothesis into proven matter...
...luxury of pleasant surprise. They chased the counter-raiders with an energetic counter-counter-raid, right through Hellfire Pass, out of Salûm, all the way to Fort Capuzzo, across the border in Libya. They took 500 German prisoners, but they knew they could not follow through. Sir Archibald was not quite ready. They in turn turned around. The Germans counter-counter-counter-attacked and retook Salûm and the pass which had earned its nickname...
...position in the eastern Mediterranean would be pretty nearly untenable. The British would then have no practicable advance naval bases, and German bombers would have almost a semicircle of air bases within easy striking distance of the Suez Canal and of Alexandria, the last intact fleet base. General Sir Archibald Wavell's lines of communication from Egypt down to the Red Sea and westward along the Mediterranean would be subject to merciless attack from only 500 miles away...
General Sir Archibald Wavell doubtless hoped for a repetition of the Italian mistake. He was apparently organizing his defenses well inside Egypt, at Matrûh, hoping to be able to break the Axis advance from behind them. But there is a difference between the Italians and the Germans. The Italians attacked along the sea, in range of the Royal Navy. The bulk of the Axis divisions (more than three, perhaps as many as eight) are expected to advance on a wide front, perhaps deep in the desert. The Italians are sensible men who have read military history and feel...
...Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...