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...first native-born Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun would never appear...
...year-old Gerald Templer began his fighting career on the Western Front in 1916. Since then, he has generally been found in the thick of things wherever & whenever Britain had a war or her hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot ran into his jeep and dropped its biggest prize on the general's neck...
Southern California (Los Angeles), open house daily 1 to 6 p.m. to students and friends during Christmas vacation, at the Club House, 234 South Loma Drive, Los Angeles, Dunkirk...
...stranger to travel, Macrae was born in 1923 in East Prussia, where his father was a vice consul, spent his first eight years in Königsberg, Dunkirk and Porto Alegre, Brazil. After returning to England to go to boarding school, he spent his summers rejoining his parents in such places as Zagreb and Moscow. As an R.A.F. navigator during the war, he trained in Canada and England, then spent the rest of the war in the Far East, "dropping corned beef into the army in Burma and leaflets on the Japanese...
...help that came up from northern Italy was swiftly answered. Britain and the U.S. sent amphibious aircraft, helicopters, "weasels" and "ducks" from Germany, Malta and Trieste. These, together with a native fishing fleet, carried out a Dunkirk-like evacuation of the flooded areas. At week's end, 200,000 homeless Italians were queueing up for meals before Italian army field kitchens, and sleeping in jammed schools, churches and homes in such fabled cities as Verona, Padua, Vicinza and Cremona...