Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australians hoped, with a somewhat bitter hope, that it would be General Sir Thomas Blarney, or some other Australian...
...General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, Australian deputy commander of the Middle East Forces (see p. 30)-Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Grizzled, hearty General Sir Thomas fought like blazes in World War I, had just retired from a business career and was planning a honeymoon when the present war called him back to command...
...Pope thanked the British military in Palestine for showing 200 Italian prisoners the religious sights of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Their guard on the jaunt: an Australian corporal...
...last week Churchill's star was ready to drop below the Australian horizon. His strongest Australian supporter, Publisher Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch who would like to be the Commonwealth representative in the War Cabinet, thundered from London to his Melbourne Herald: "The Dominions cannot afford to be bound by decisions taken as at present. It is largely a matter of Mr. Churchill himself. ... Mr. Churchill ... would stoutly dissent from the view he is Atlantic-minded, but nobody can claim he has handled the Dominions well or shown breadth of sympathy...
...Still used at Hialeah is the Australian totalisator (the original tote), a mechanical-electrical device invented at the turn of the century by Australia's Sir George Julius...