Word: brit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Director Archibald MacLeish of OFF declared the Axis campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...importance of a unified command has been demonstrated positively by the Germans, negatively by the British. While the Nazis have moved their forces into battle under one-man control with a minimum of departmental confusion, the Brit ish have been hindered by all kinds of wasted motion, brought on by lack of unity among top-ranking admirals, generals and R.A.F. commanders. At Crete and during the first battle of Libya, there was singularly little coordination of command be tween air, army and naval forces. More recently, in the Far East, the British lack of unified command was demonstrated when...
...Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
Convoy Through. Having lost all of their heavy equipment in Greece and much in Libya, the Middle Eastern British were last week mechanically almost naked. Apparently it was decided in Brit ain to send out new tanks and guns, and that the matter was so urgent that the supplies should not go around Africa but should risk the Mediterranean. The last time the British tried that, the aircraft carrier Illustrious was knocked out and the light cruiser Southampton sunk...
...greatest battle of World War II may still be fought on English soil. If it is, one of many reasons that Hitler may be beaten will be the new and growing British People's Army opposing him: Brit ain's Home Guard. And one of the many obscure heroes responsible for Hitler's defeat will be the most urgent of Britain's advocates for a People's Army: Thomas H. Wintringham...