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Critical Commonwealth. When John Curtin became frank about relative Australian-British and Australian-U.S. relations a fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 5), it took a long personal cable from Winston Churchill to placate him. It will take more than a cable to placate already independent-minded Australians if anything goes...
To decide how to defend the Burma Road, one of Democracy's two vital lifelines (see p. 18), one of the world's greatest men, one of Britain's greatest generals and one of the U.S.'s greatest hopefuls met for three days last week. In...
The British Empire forces in Malaya under Major General Arthur Ernest Percival are thought to number about 125,000 Australians, Indians, New Zealanders, Scots, and Englishmen, all well equipped and rigorously trained in jungle warfare. They are not too strong in heavy equipment, except in the Singapore area, where there...
General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell said these words last week just as two great new battles-in Russia and in Libya -reached an ugly pitch. The world had its eyes on those battles, but cautious "Archie" Wavell, whose forte is general strategy, could see the battles in their true perspective...
Died. Percival Christopher Wren, 56, adventure-writer (Beau Geste, Beau Sa-breur); of heart disease; in Amberley, England. A soldier-adventurer, he drew on his own experiences for much of his literary material. He was at various times a sailor, explorer, schoolteacher, boxer, major in the Indian Army. He was...