Word: dilling
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir John Greer Dill flew to Cairo last week. The two men carried with them a tremendous responsibility. Two weeks before, the British had captured Bengasi, and for two weeks the Imperial Army of the Nile had been consolidating its conquests. The messages these two men took from London to General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, the discussions all three would have, and the plans Sir Archibald and his aides would then draw up -these things would decide not only the future operations of the Army...
...before Anthony Eden and General Dill busied themselves with the future, they spent a pleasant time in review. For Anthony Eden, this was particularly satisfying. Sir Archibald Wavell has not been too popular in Downing Street, and last summer, when the Italians pushed into Egypt and he seemed to do nothing about it, there was a strong movement in London to recall him. Anthony Eden stood up for him. Twice Eden flew to the Middle East and talked with him. The second time, he may have warned General Wavell he was under a cloud. Shortly afterwards Sir Archibald attacked...
ANKARA--British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial Staff, arrived in Turkey late today for consultations on joint defense of the Dardanelles and perhaps Greek Salonika against Germany's threatened Balkan sweep...
British quarters believed a plan for dispatch of British expeditionary forces to both Turkey and Greece in event of a Nazi drive might result from the consultations inasmuch as Eden and Gen. Dill are expected to go to Athens after three days in Ankara...
Washington. Upsetting all pre-election odds, Seattle's Arthur Langlie, businessman and political amateur, beat out Democrat Clarence Dill, ex-Senator, by a meagre 8,885 votes as the last absentee ballot was tallied...