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Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...
Died. Field Marshal Lord William Riddell Birdwood, 85, commander of the Dardanelles Army in the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula, oldest active soldier in the British Army; in London...
...Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleclc, veteran of World War II's western desert campaign, former commander in chief of British Forces in India, announced that he was going into business near Karachi, Pakistan, had already found a likely spot for his rug-weaving factory...
Seniors in the Marine Platoon Leaders Corps program--including first Class Marshal David C. Skinner '51 have been granted a three day extension on their reporting time, it was announced last weekend. Washington headquarters of the Marines granted the extra time to allow the seniors to attend Commencement exercises on June...
...Died. Marshal Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, 81, Portugal's President since 1926; of uremia; in Lisbon. After 40 years in the army, he decided the Portuguese were incapable of governing themselves, had some evidence: 18 revolutions between 1910, when the last King gave up everything for an actress, and 192-6, when Carmona himself took over after a successful coup. He kept getting re-elected because Premier Salazar, Portugal's dictator, permitted no opposition...