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...accented that menaced Dominion's status as an important and lonely zone. Even as the unified Command was dissolving, Australians complained that it had never been wholly unified or wholly effective. They took command of Australia for themselves, with their tough, hard-talking, fast-moving Lieut. General Sir Iven Mackay at the top. No sooner had they done so than the Jap appeared on the horizon...
April 9. In the nick of time Australian Major General Iven Gifford Mackay rushed an artillery and an anti-tank regiment and five Australian battalions-altogether less than one division-into the breach. The Germans appeared in vastly superior force, and although the defenders inflicted heavy casualties for two bloody days, it was obvious that the weight was too much to bear indefinitely...
That night the estimate of prisoners taken was boosted to 30,000 by the Australian commander, slim, soft-voiced Major General Iven Giffard Mackay, who earned the title "Iven the Terrible" in World War I, spent his time between wars as headmaster of a school in Sydney...