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...General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell flew from India to London. There he had frequent talks with Winston Churchill and with Chief of the Imperial General Staff General Sir John Dill. One day he went out into Dorsetshire to see if he could flush a few partridge. He bagged two brace. When someone asked what he would do with them, he answered: "Eat them myself, of course, in Teheran on Tuesday." This week, sure enough, Sir Archibald was in Iran, nearly 3,000 miles by air from the Dorset downs. He had stopped on the way for urgent discussion with General...
...refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, First Sea Lord...
...Halifax; 2) Conservative Anthony Eden; 3) Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair; 4) Conservative Sir Kingsley Wood; 5) Laborite Ernest Bevin; 6) Laborite Herbert Morrison; 7) Laborite Clement Attlee; 8) Laborite Albert Victor Alexander; 9) Conservative Lord Beaverbrook; 10) Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps; 11) Laborite Arthur Greenwood; 12) General Sir John Dill; 13) General Archibald Wavell; 14) King George...
George M. Dill Jr., of San Francisco, as teaching fellow in History; A.M. Harvard...
...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...