Word: gallipoli
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...Partly with weapons we had sold to the Turks," cried Mr. Henderson, "a holocaust was inflicted upon the flower of the British Army at Gallipoli! That is a kind of paradox, my friends, against which the conscience of mankind is in revolt...
Meanwhile the British Empire had moved by flattery to retain the goodwill of Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha. The British Embassy at Ankara conveyed to President Kemal a presentation copy of the two-volume British official history of the Gallipoli campaign...
...Author. Alan Patrick Herbert, 40, was a Wykehamist (went to school at Winchester), so he naturally went on to New College, Oxford, where he "took a first'' in Jurisprudence. During the War he served with the Royal Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert...
...London requires visible reduction in expenditures and the abolition of battleships is the hope, if net savings are to be obtained. The rapid development of the airplane and the submarine during the 11 years since the war has made it unlikely that battleships will ever again repeat the Gallipoli adventure. The only other historic use of battleships is in fighting other battleships. If there are no other battleships to fight, what is a battleship to do? It can not catch a cruiser. It is afraid of submarines. It will begin to dodge clumsily about and try to hide itself...
...first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were amputated. "Two months," was the answer. "Amputate," said...