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Thunderheads and high winds made for a bumpy trip south, and Mamie peered anxiously out of her window from time to time. The President, however, chatted quietly with his guest, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, and a group of golfing companions.* It was cloudy and cold when the Columbine III landed in Augusta, but Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and warm...
...couple of voices cried "shame," but Churchill insisted: "I am giving you the story quite straightly and bluntly." In Manhattan, reporters pounced on Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who looked astonished but admitted: "It's true, it's true." Laborites set up a howl of indignation. Bevanite Barbara Castle, though she had signed the presentation book, announced that she had canceled her contribution to Churchill's birth day fund, since "I do not desire to pay tribute to a man who now reveals he was prepared to ... create a pact with Nazi forces more infamous...
...postwar obscurity. "Why shouldn't I be running Greece?" he asked. He got a routine promotion to general, but could not earn a place in any of Greece's postwar anti-Communist Cabinets; he did so poorly in the 1947-50 anti-Communist war that Field Marshal Alexander Papagos relieved him of his command. General Katsotas brooded revenge...
...John C. Slessor, Marshal of Great Britain's Royal air Force, will deliver the second Gustav Pollak Lecture in Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday. Slessor will speak on "A British View of the World Strategic Situation...
...Marshal Slessor is the author of "Strategy for the West," published in 1954, the only full scale discussion of global strategy published by a senior military official of the Allies since World...