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Then came the surprise. The extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...
...goat-bearded, argumentative agnostic was London University's Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchison Joad, who once asserted (on the dust-jacket of his Testament of Joad): "I can explain anything to anybody." For the last 18 months he has carried out this threat on a popular BBC radio program, "The Brains Trust." But of late radio fans have noticed a decreasing cockiness in Brain Truster Joad's answers. One shrewd lady listener wrote him that he seemed to be walking a tightrope between the mountain of faith and the abyss of doubt, and that she prayed every night...
...Archbishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, is known as "The Hiking Bishop," from his rooted custom of footsloggirig from parish to parish with staff and cap in hand. He too took a strong stand for social reform last week. Said he: "When peace comes and war weariness sets in we may slip back into the old ways. If that happens there would follow such widespread and angry discontent that revolution might follow. . . . Service for all...is rapidly being substituted for private interests and personal gain...
...Russia; of tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John C. Wilson...
...Most Reverend and Rt. Honorable Dr. William Temple, now Lord Archbishop of York, will become Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, in succession to Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang (TIME, Feb. 2). His place at York will be filled by another left-of-center prelate, Dr. Cyril Garbett, now Bishop of Winchester...