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Colonel Roosevelt is the only one of his famed father's four sons now in U.S. service. Brother Kermit is a major in the British Army; Brother Archibald (disabled by wounds in 1918 as a captain in the 26th) is at his bond business in Wall Street; Brother Quentin (the family's only flying officer) in a hero's grave in France. Young T. R.'s son, 21-year-old Harvardman Quentin, goes into service in June as an Army lieutenant...
...first time Churchill revealed how small were the forces in Egypt from which General Sir Archibald Wavell had to spare troops for the Greek campaign. "In none of his successive victories could General Wavell . . . bring into action at one time more than two divisions, or about 30,000 men. . . .* We knew of course that the forces we could send to Greece would not by themselves alone be sufficient." But he had hoped, said Winston Churchill, that Turkey might be drawn in with Greece and Yugoslavia to help meet the German invasion. "How nearly that came off will be known some...
...were gratified to notice in the April 7 issue of TIME a review of General Sir Archibald Wavell's Allenby: A Study in Greatness, which we published last Thursday. . . . We were somewhat disturbed, however, to see that the book is attributed to Lippincott, and we wonder whether you couldn't find space in your next issue to correct this mis-attribution...
...against Germany until 1942. The aim meanwhile was to use Britain's in adequate forces in as many places as possible to delay, hamper, bother and hurt the Nazi machine as much as possible. In the colorful language of Colonel William Joseph Donovan, who talked with General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell not long ago, the British "had a toe hold and wanted to make it a foothold...
...would take at least several days, perhaps a fortnight, for General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell to organize a counteroffensive with the troops which passed through Alexandria from East Africa to the Egyptian Front. But meanwhile the news from scant forces holding the land front was encouraging. The British garrison at Tobruch was not merely besieged, it was fighting back. The Germans seemed to have forgotten that the British still supplied the garrison from...