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...Honorable Hugh Stanley, 24, brother of the Earl of Derby, informed Fox-Strangways that Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, rabid Socialist and ex-coal-miner, was being entertained at White's. Bevan's host was Sir John Slessor, Air Chief Marshal, who had invited the minister in for a drink after a meeting on R.A.F. manpower problems...
...club shortly after, followed them outside. Fox-Strangways' family motto is Faire sans dire-deeds without words. Silently, he landed a kick on Bevan's broad backside. The minister stumbled down the last half-dozen steps, was hurried into his car by Sir John. The Air Marshal declared later that Bevan behaved with "great restraint and dignity...
...abdominal operation; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Educated in czarist Russia, Mannerheim became a courtier and bodyguard to Nicholas II, a lieutenant general in his army. During the Red revolution, he fought for Finland's independence with help from Germany. When the Red army invaded Finland in 1939, the field marshal held his Mannerheim Line positions for three months. In 1941, Hitler's invasion of Russia gave him a chance to strike back at Finland's historic enemy. Thus he was logically, if not actually, an enemy of the Allies; but when World War II's outcome...
...World War II battle commanders to become a legendary figure while the fight was still on was the Germans' stocky, colorful tank expert, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. At home he was idolized. In the field his Afrika Korps fought for him with matchless enthusiasm. Even sweeter to a professional soldier, perhaps, was the respect that he inspired in his enemies. Winston Churchill praised him in the House of Commons while Rommel was in the act of driving the British helter-skelter across North Africa. In the midst of the great North African campaign, General (now Field Marshal) Auchinleck acknowledged...
Chivalry in war is a rapidly declining convention, but it dies hardest among what Ernest Bevin has called the "trade union of generals." Field Marshal Auchinleck, in a foreword to the book, salutes Rommel "as a soldier and a man" and deplores the passing of chivalry. Field Marshal Earl Wavell rates him "among the chosen few, among the very brave, the very true." And Biographer Young rather gratuitously remarks that he just can't help liking German generals. His Rommel is well-written, brisk, and touched with flashes of nice humor; in every other respect, it might have been...