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...counted the couple's luggage, duly reported 31 pieces. For that, the Duchess gave interviewers a lecture, called it all "most extraordinary," pointed out that the 31 pieces were not just for herself and husband but also a maid, a valet and a secretary. Wrote Herald Columnist Bill Cunningham: "Possibly I'm stupid but it seems to me that this makes it all incredibly worse-five people and all this culch loading up a common carrier in times such as these just to call upon an ailing aunt...
...General Eisenhower interposed. Admiral Cunningham said: "The armistice provides we can do what we like with them...
...pennant, the designated symbol of surrender, flew from the highest mast of each ship when the Italia, Vittorio Veneto, five of the cruisers and four of the destroyers passed the British destroyer Hambledon off Malta. Aboard the Hambledon were two interested observers: General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, naval victor of the Mediterranean. A.P. Correspondent Clark Lee, who was also aboard the Hambledon, got the impression that Admiral Cunningham would have admired the Italians more if they had been at battle stations, fighting it out. But, said the Admiral...
...message to Italian merchant and naval seamen, Admiral Cunningham said: "Your ships are urgently needed to assist in the work of carrying supplies to Italy, and your warships to protect them from the Germans...
...Admiral Cunningham is tough and British. Said he, looking back to the years when the British all but lost the Mediterranean, and the route to Malta was a Royal Navy grave: "It wasn't so tough. Not tough...