Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur's great popularity and partly because the conservative opposition press launched a MacArthur-for-President campaign-without any encouragement from the General himself." The statement was buried in the 17th paragraph of a Pacific roundup story, but it made big reading by the time it reached the Australian headlines...
Arthur. In his private life, English-born Tedder kids his wife about her Australian ancestry, a long-standing ribbing which small, blonde Lady Tedder, after 26 years, bears resignedly. Tedder's one hobby is sketching. Sitting outside a tent in the Western Desert, flying from station to station, Tedder sketches...
...Australian-born, 70-year-old General Carpenter was a $1.25-a-week printer's devil before he joined the Army in 1892. "My sole program for the Army," he says, "is religion-always hot, as General William Booth used to say he liked his religion...
Disaster at Savo. Reporter Baldwin gave the blackest account yet printed of the naval disaster Aug. 9, in which three U.S. cruisers and one Australian cruiser were sunk (TIME, Oct. 19). "The Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra . . . were surprised like sitting ducks; none of them had a chance to get off more than a few ineffectual salvos . . . despite the fact that one of our planes [had reported] the approach of the Japanese cruisers the afternoon prior to the night action. . . . They [the U.S. cruisers] had assumed a defensive position, patrolling over a fixed course in narrow waters and awaiting...
Australia. Baldwin's only second-hand reports concerned Australia, which he did not visit. Wrote he: "Australia's internal problems have rendered MacArthur's position . . . difficult. . . . The importance of his coming and of the arrival of American troops to Australian politics is obvious. Prime Minister John Curtin's political position naturally was strengthened by these events. . . . The Australian War Cabinet naturally continued to reserve to itself a considerable share of authority. Military decisions in Australia and the adjacent area (i.e., New Guinea) have not always been General MacArthur...