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...Said Sir Archibald (to some newly arrived Anzacs): ". . . Don't be disappointed if you have to wait some time for action. Your arrival here has discouraged our enemies and made war less probable...
Meantime, some 800,000 soldiers stood to arms and got readier every day just south of Turkey, under French General Maxime Weygand and British Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell. These two commanders also keynoted last week...
...plays, "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets and "The Fall of the City" by Archibald MacLeish, have been chosen for production by the Student Union Dramatic Club, it was revealed yesterday by John Holabird, '42, Chairman of the Dramatic Club Committee...
...tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing three to six deep. The reviewing party was an hour...
...opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain's and Halifax's "failures" had embarrassed his committee colleagues.) Their...