Word: methuens
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This stage of the kriegspiel was the tactical moment for the British southern units in Giálo to move northwestward to cut off the Axis retreat into Tripoli. This maneuver, if successful, would give Britain's new Lieut. General Neil Methuen...
...Office had apparently fumbled commanders again. In the fusty voice of an "official spokesman." London announced last week that Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, Commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...
Died. Edward Verrall Lucas, 70, old and mild English essayist (Wanderings and Diversions, The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb), Punch contributor, head of the publishing house of Methuen & Co.; after an operation; in London...
...London last week George V exercised a normal prerogative of the Crown, appointed his second son, the Duke of York, to be Colonel of the Scots Guards, succeeding the late Field Marshal Lord Methuen...
...Ducey, Jr. of Boston, Arthur F. Duffey. Jr. of Arlington, John G. Duffey of Arlington, Francis G. Dunlevy, West Roxbury, Walter W. Dwyer of Cambridge, Edgar I. Epstein of Brighton, Roberts Mck. Fish of Cambridge, Maurice Fishman of Cambridge, John F. FitzGerald of Newton, John B. Ford of Methuen, Clark W. Freeman of Cambridge, Ellis J. French of Danvers, Dominic R. Freni of Boston, Gerald F. Gilmore of Wayland, Milton J. Goldwasser of Cambridge, Richard S. Green of Somerville, William A. Greene, Jr. of Cambridge, William G. Hanson of Cambridge, John M. Hartwell, Jr. of Belmont, John B. Hawkins...