Word: archibald
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...joined by Joseph E. Johnston and later in the afternoon by Kirby Smith. Stonewall Jackson, looking over the field after the battle, was reputed to have said: "Give me 10,000 fresh troops and I will be in Washington tonight." It is a safe bet that General Sir Archibald Wavell is thoroughly familiar with Jackson's valley campaign in which he kept three Federal armies rolling, defeating each in turn and escaping safely with his much smaller force...
...Under the Marx-mouthed name of total-mass protracted resistance they developed guerrilla warfare into a new military tactic. And in what was left of Shanghai, labor-loving Rewi Alley, Snow and others, cooked up the grandiose pink dream of China's Industrial Co-operatives British Ambassador Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr did the liaison work that began their reality...
...entry when the Australian troops should take the fort. These were the vanguard of 3,000,000 Moslems of the Senussi sect. Their leader, Seyyid Idris el Senussi, was all set to re-establish an independent Senussi State under British protection. But here, and also in northern Libya, Sir Archibald and the General Officer Commander in Chief in Egypt Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson were faced with an administrative problem as ticklish as that of Palestine. They had to decide whether to hand the land back to Arabs, or leave it in the hands of Italian settlers...
...thrice-a-week Back Where I Come From, a sustainer devoted to U. S. folk songs. Among the White House guests: the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury & wives, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commandants of Marine Corps and Coast Guard, Mr. Knudsenhillman & wives, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish-whose assistant-in-charge-of-folk-song-archives, Alan Lomax, was master of ceremonies...
...your writer's statements I must take exception. He says that I "befriended" the late Prof. Archibald Cary Coolidge at the Paris Peace Conference. Unfortunately, at that time I was not in a position to befriend anybody, and least of all Prof. Coolidge who was my senior in years and experience, a scholar of international reputation, and one of the chief American experts at the Peace Conference. Of course, it was the other way around. Michael Karpovich...