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Last week Britain's R. A. F. announced an important change. Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall was replaced as Chief of Air Staff by Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, formerly head of the bomber command. Sir Cyril was immediately branded by unofficial gossip as a defeatist, a Chamberlain appointee whom soft-hearted colleagues did not wish to bounce until Chamberlain was bounced, a hard worker but a man in whom the offensive spirit burned somewhat low. It was said that because he is a social butterfly and his wife an American climber, he should be a great success...
...Cyril's removal, now that "Tiny" Ironside and "Tiger" Gort were in limbo, cleaned out the three leaders who were roundly acclaimed three months ago for the victorious retreat from Flanders. Only unbeaten generals are bear cats...
...week Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street found in Melbourne that there was nothing for it but he must fly up to Canberra, taking Air Minister James V. Fairbairn, Vice President of the Executive Council Sir Henry Somer Gullett and Chief of the Australian General Staff Lieut. General Sir Cyril Brudenell Bingham White. The party was so large that the Air Minister could not take them in his favorite little Percival plane. Instead he ordered out a big Lockheed Hudson bomber of the Royal Australian Air Force...
Except for Prime Minister Churchill, Britain's defense forces have no supreme commander to coordinate the air, sea and land arms. There are air commanders for bombers, fighters, all under Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall. Chief of the home naval defense is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, under First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Under Sir Alan are six subordinate com mands: Southern, Aldershot, Northern, Eastern, Western, Scottish...
Last week, with totalitarianism in the ascendency throughout Europe and democracy fighting for its life, first stirrings of a counter-revolutionary movement to reassert democratic principles became apparent. Once a revolutionary idea of the first order, democracy, reasoned a small group of thoughtful Britons like Basil Kingsley Martin and Cyril Connolly, was a latent force which, if it could be revived in Germany, Italy, Poland and France, would offer the easiest way of crushing Naziism...