Word: gallipoli
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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...
...There is an officer who was the first of our Army to land at Gallipoli. He was dropped overboard to light decoys on the shore, so as to deceive the Turks as to where the landing was to be. He pushed a raft containing these in front of him. It was a frosty night, and he was naked and painted black. Firing from the ships was going on all around. It was a two hours' swim in pitch darkness. He did it, crawled through the scrub to listen to the talk of the enemy, who were so near that...
This episode was chosen by the late Sir James Matthew Barrie as the last of a series of heroic examples for his essay, Courage. Last week the British Army in the Mediterranean Theater was engaged in matters far more crucial than the Gallipoli campaign. This sort of courage was the one weapon with which they were adequately stocked-and the man who courageously swam ashore that dark night 26 years ago was last week appointed Commander in Chief of the hottest British spot in the whole area: Crete...