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...liquidating agent for Britain's U. S. securities, proceeded to sell block after block of listed issues, one shrewd Wall Streeter watched with interest, figured it would soon be the turn of the unlisted items. How could they be turned into dollars? He had a plan. His name: Cyril J. C. Quinn. His address: Wall Street's $42,590,000 Tri-Continental Corp., an investment trust affiliated with the late Earle Bailie's banking house of J. & W. Seligman...
Most Britons thought that invasion would not be attempted until spring; but there was nothing to prove that intermittent glassy, fog-brushed calms of late autumn and winter would not make pretty invading weather. This week Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, onetime chief of the Imperial General Staff, warned that the invasion might come during the winter-that the Germans had a precedent in Moltke's winter attack on Denmark in 1864. Because a politico-military offensive was shaping up farther south did not mean that an offensive could not be simultaneously launched in the north...
...CYRIL HUME...
...Home Fleet, directly under Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, top man in all the Navy, was substituted Vice Admiral John C. Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells from the German ships...
Nevertheless, the appointment of Sir Charles Portal was important and interesting. The two most likely candidates to succeed Sir Cyril were Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding, head of the fighter command, man most responsible for the R. A. F.'s brilliant defenses against the Luftwaffe. That the R. A. F. chose the expert in offense rather than defense indicated that Britain's self-esteem had taken a great rise...