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Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow (Barbara Hutton) gave $25,000 to the Red Cross War Fund in New York City...
When the Sea Cloud was built at Kiel in 1931, at a cost variously estimated at $1,000,000 to $3,500,000, she was known as the Hussar; Mrs. Davies was then Mrs. Edward F. Hutton. When Mrs. Hutton changed her name to Davies, she changed Hussar to Sea Cloud, went off on her for a honeymoon in the Caribbean...
...most vital jobs in the Far Eastern Theater, the Allies got two new, relatively young commanders. Posted to command of Burma was Lieut. General Thomas Jacomb Hutton, a 51-year-old, crop-mustached professional who was wounded three times in World War I, has since got the reputation of being one of the finest strategists in the British Army...
...against time and distance Thomas Hutton and Donald Stevenson had to do the best they could with what was available, and look to the west and north for more. Down from China marched troops from Chiang Kai-shek's Army. The defenders of the Far East could only hope that many more reinforcements of men and planes were coming from the west...
...enough should arrive in time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...