Word: auchinleck
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...Egypt is rocking dizzily on her heels and everybody is trying desperately to figure out what will happen next. Much depends on whether the generals can inspire new confidence among the men. The task falls mainly to strong, silent General Auchinleck who, though lacking the warm personality of Wavell, has worked wonders in the last year, getting rid of brass hats and teaching officers to take their kid gloves off. Only a few people think that Egypt is as good as lost; many more are pinning their faith on the Tommies' renowned ability to fight best with their backs...
...minded, so must air forces be ground-minded. In North Africa, as in every other theater of World War II, the Luftwaffe was ground-minded; the R.A.F. was rigidly air-minded. Rommel had absolute command of all German and Italian air units; Britain's Generals Ritchie and Auchinleck had none, except through their warming, thoroughly British and thoroughly inadequate personal contact with Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham...
...Briton-in-the-street was as mad as a blitzed Briton, and Winston Churchill was in for more trouble the moment he got back from the U.S. The British remembered General Sir Claude Auchinleck's order of the day issued in the battle's first week: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. . . . Give him no rest...
...week's end Rommel's battered columns were backing & filling short of Tobruk. General Sir Claude Auchinleck the British Middle East Commander in Chief, wired congratulations to Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's defending Eighth Army: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. Don't let him get away. Give him no rest. Good luck...
...standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines...