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...John Dill has the handsomest head in town," commented a matron the other day as she looked across a garden party at the tall, handsome British field marshal...
...eight climbers of the club, Mal Miller '43, Andy Kauffman '43, Bill Putnam, '45, Wilson Day '43, Dill Latadi, a Tech member of the club, George Wilbur '44, and Tom Furnas '43 are planning to leave this Sunday. Because of the summer session, the trip is scheduled to be over by June 21, but several of the party plan to go on west to take a try at Mt. Rainter...
General Marshall and his good friend in Washington, Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, had long since discussed these prospects. All the facts, all the prudent objections to any major continental attempt this year, were known to General Marshall. His hosts in London had little new to tell him. Perhaps he had something to tell them...
Brain of the C.P. is a vast octagonal room where the Chiefs of Staff and their top officers meet. Around a great table sit General Marshall, Field Marshal Sir John Dill. Admirals Ernest King and Sir Charles Little, Lieut. General "Hap" Arnold of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Air Marshal Arthur Travers Harris of the R.A.F., Chinese, Dutch and Australian representatives. There also sits pallid Harry Hopkins, all-powerful Chairman of the Munitions Assignment Board, who has an office in the building...
...positive, known result of the Churchill-Roosevelt conference was the creation of the Allied Supreme Command. And for weeks the top military and naval men of Britain and the U.S. had had their heads together. Field Marshal Sir John Dill remained behind to continue the discussions after the Prime Minister went home. He and Admiral Sir Dudley Pound (who returned to England) had had long discussions with the U.S. Army's General Marshall, the Navy's Admirals King & Stark, the Army Air Forces' Major General Arnold. Henceforth the fighting plans of the two nations would be made...