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...Briton who can explain muth to his countrymen about why this war started off so slowly (see p. 31), why the West ern Front was still so quiet last week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
...position as a mother country and considering her present political status, Ireland (especially Eire) would seem to be inadequately represented by the named governors of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Nor can a citizen of Eire, as exemplified by Cinemactor Errol Flynn, be reasonably designated a Briton when Cinemactor Raymond Massey is designated a Canadian. . . . Seemingly, Mr. Flynn and others like him would be subject to military call from Dublin, if anywhere. Eire yet adheres to her declaration of neutrality in World...
...prepared for "everything" he carried not only tin armor and a helmet, but also a sandwich box, a mousetrap, fire-irons, carrots, a beehive; and his horse was equipped with anti-sharkbite anklets. Great Britain was last week compared to the White Knight by more than one Briton, and the parallel was just...
...minefield. Across it into France, General Sir Edmund delivered some 100,000 British troops to the land forces operating under General Gamelin's supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive bastion, the Maginot Line...
Biggest factor in Mediterranean affairs is Italy's future policy. Nobody knows it better than astute Ali Maher Pasha (long an adviser of King Farouk), who became Egypt's Premier three weeks ago. Many an anxious Briton had urged that, if Italy is to be neutral, she be forced to give some token to insure neutrality...