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...threatened by the Japanese advances, demanded the return of three divisions sent to help Britain fight Germany. But the Australians said they would not insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya, suggested to Roosevelt that a general of MacArthur's eminence might prove valuable. In his sweltering cave on Corregidor, MacArthur received by radio on Feb. 23 a presidential order to get to Australia to "assume command of all United States troops...
North Africa was not originally Germany's theater of war. But the stunning defeat of 200,000 Italian soldiers in Libya by a force of 30,000 from the British empire forced Hitler to send reinforcements to the region in February 1941. The brilliant Erwin Rommel, who had helped lead German forces in the lightning conquest of France in 1940, quickly turned back the Allied advance in Libya and in April besieged an Australian division in the strategic seaside fortress of Tobruk as troops from Britain and New Zealand retreated to Egypt. Rommel called Tobruk's defenders nothing but rabble...
...addition, seven men including Erwin Heibert, emeritus professor of Science, William B. Anderson '39, a former University Marshall, and Williams S. Merwin, a poet who was present at the ceremony, became honorary members. And the Iota chapter elected Prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, President-elect of Radcliffe College Linda S. Wilson and educator Deborah Nord as recipients of honorary status...
Other experts believe short-term or roving deans diminish the job and shortchange the schools. "It makes the dean just an errand boy and caretaker," objects Erwin Griswold, 84, who ruled Harvard Law with an iron hand from 1946 to 1967. "For a dean to get a grasp of an institution and to know the players, it takes a few years," says the A.B.A.'s White. "I hope the trend will reverse itself...
...think the selection of the new dean may be the most important issue [for the faculty]," Visiting Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree said, calling the dean search "the most important time for Harvard Law School since the retirement of Dean [Erwin] Griswold...