Word: archibald
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...German Jews, Czechs, Spaniards, Chinese. Studious and conscientious, I. S. S. was disturbed by the activities of the American Youth Congress, by an increasing tendency of grownups to get fed up with Youth. Thereupon I. S. S.'s advisers-among them: Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Congressional Librarian Archibald MacLeish, Smith's President-emeritus William A. Neilson, Williams' Professor Max Lerner-decided that the organization should have as its main function teaching youth "to think historically and to act with restraint." Said they: "Organized 'action groups' . . . have been able to secure much greater influence than...
...British in the Middle East took all this Italian excitement calmly enough. At Ismailia their Commander in Chief, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, presented colors to a detachment from surrendered Syria?French soldiers dressed in British uniforms. He and they welcomed news that the Frenchmen of French Equatorial Africa, France's big blob of territory south of Libya, had elected to fight on with Britain, that there were strong stirrings in French West Africa to join them (see p. 28). Australian anti-aircraftmen arrived and set up their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian...
...Greater Ordeals." Winston Churchill's confident words contained no promise of a cessation of German air raids on England. A more authoritative voice spoke on that subject, the voice of handsome, immaculate Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair. Sir Archibald is seldom heard in Parliament. One reason is that, on his feet, he stammers. Yet this 49-year-old Scottish baronet, who owns 100,000 acres in Caithness, lives in Thurso Castle and rose to the top in Parliament as a diligent, sincere, fighting Liberal, is a nailer for work, a respected soldier, and at a radio microphone none...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...
...Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister Bevin, senior career diplomatist Sir Robert Vansittart, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore you to have the magnanimity to acknowledge the error of your...