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Great Britain split her rapidly expanding Middle Eastern forces last week. G.H.Q. (Cairo) announced that henceforth the Army of the Nile would be divided into an Army of the Western Desert and an Army of Syria and Palestine...
Churchill: "We do not know how far Hitler will attempt to penetrate ... or whether he will decide to stand on the defensive. . . . Should he choose this last, we do not know whether he will turn a portion of his vast army southward toward the Valley of the Nile, or whether he will attempt to make his way through Spain into Northwest Africa, or whether he will attempt an invasion of the British Isles. It would certainly be in his power, while standing on the defensive in the East, to undertake all three of these hazardous enterprises on a great scale...
...back upon the course of events, I can only feel ... if we had again to tread that stony path, even with the knowledge we possess today, I for one would do the same thing again. . . ." He promised to defend "to the death" Malta, Crete, Tobruch, the Suez and the Nile Valley...
General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, who was knighted only last month for his brilliance as field commander of the Imperial Army of the Nile in its winter campaign against the Italians; and Lieut...
...Britain and Anthony Eden's "unflinching aid" to Greece, it was announced in London that Italian military equipment captured in Libya was being rushed to Greece, but the whereabouts of Britain's Army of the Nile was still unknown...