Word: gallipoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...
...memoirs: "I was very insistent and rather a nuisance . . . and I think most of my offensive efforts remained pigeonholed in the War Staff offices." In April 1940, when Britain's Cabinet and military were still crammed with appeasement-minded men, he cited the "lessons of Gallipoli, where we failed for lack of bold policy . . . defeated . . . by the pusillanimous Government torn by conflicting advice and fearful of responsibility." A month later he revealed that the War Cabinet had refused his demand that he attempt the capture of Trondheim, and he said baldly that such a capture would have been possible...
folly . . . suicide." Labor critics were not silenced. "There are 100 places along the coast of Europe where British troops could make raids every night," said Colonel Wedgwood, veteran of World War I's Gallipoli. "Italy . . . opens up vital possibilities," suggested News Commentator Commander Stephen King-Hall. "Our people would be very happy if some part of these [British Near Eastern] forces could be sent to the support of the Russian armies of the Ukraine," observed ex-Pacifist Philip J. Noel Baker...
...Hours. To many Britons even such belated tributes seemed altogether inadequate and passive. They wanted to know, bluntly, why Britain did not get right into the ring where the Bear's hug was tying up Hitler. Some of them, remembering Winston Churchill's responsibility for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of World War I, wondered whether that memory could possibly be making their leader timid...
...miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became the youngest brigadier in the British Army at 27, and during the war performed several exploits almost as fantastically courageous as the Gallipoli swim. Between wars he stayed in the Army, and in 1939 was given command of the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In Greece he and his men piled up a composite record of courage in successive rear-guard actions...