Word: dilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George M. Dill Jr., of San Francisco, as teaching fellow in History; A.M. Harvard...
Last week British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew from Egypt to Turkey, where he had been hailed by the press as "that brilliant man who read Persian poetry at the age of 17-something we Turks cannot even do." With him was General Sir John Greer Dill, Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and presently British Ambassador to Russia Sir Stafford Cripps arrived by plane from Moscow...
...Eden-Dill-Cripps visit to Ankara was apparently quite successful. Earlier in the week German Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had practiced the standard Hitlerian strategy of showing Turkish officials a cinema of Germany's western conquests. Anthony Eden countered by exhibiting films of Britain's Libyan victories. Final upshot was that the Anglo-Turkish alliance was strongly reaffirmed. Turkey rushed additional troops to the Bulgarian border, and closed the Dardanelles to all but ships with special permits and Turkish naval pilots. Turkey "nullified" her two-week old non-aggression pact with Bulgaria, and many observers thought...
Before reconstruction, Britain is likely to suffer a lot more destruction. But men like Churchill and Wavell, like Eden and Dill, see no reason for taking it lying down. By last week the military situation in Europe had put Britain on an especially tough spot: nothing ventured, everything lost. The question was what could be ventured with a chance of gain. There was no use just jumping into the billabong to save the swag...
...could say, last week just what the Army of the Nile was up to, just what Messrs. Eden, Dill and Wavell had up their sleeves. Unquestionably it was some rush job. Now, as never before, Britain was faced with the need for decision, boldness, speed...