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...visit his wife, who is critically ill in a Black Forest hospital, officials of the British military prison at Werl signed a seven-day parole for ex-Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's 63-year-old Panzer specialist, who is serving a twelve-year war crime sentence. One condition of the leave: a pledge of honor not to talk to reporters...
Evacuation of the British army would be gradual until a joint force is ready to guard the Suez Canal. And Britain would like someone like Field Marshal Montgomery to head the combined show. On the Sudan, the other disputed point (Egypt covets it; the British have promised the Sudanese eventual independence), Britain still intends to let the Sudanese decide their own future. But if King Farouk insists on calling himself "King of Egypt and the Sudan" (as he signed himself with the lavish flowers he sent to George VI's funeral), Britain would probably agree-at least...
Italy's ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo ("The Lion of Neghelli") Graziani, 69, who served part of a prison term for World War II collaboration with the Nazis, suffered a still further fall from honor. A government decree in Rome stripped him of four military medals for valor awarded between...
Died. Air Marshal (ret.) Harold Edwards, 59, Royal Canadian Air Force overseas chief in World War II, who helped build the Britain-based R.C.A.F. from a handful of planes into a 40-squadron command; after long illness; at his winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz...
...First Marshal leads his class in the Commencement ceremonies and heads the Permanent Class Committee. This group is not the same as the Class Day Committee, which has charge of senior activities during Commencement Week. The balloting for that will be held later this spring...