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The British in the Middle East took all this Italian excitement calmly enough. At Ismailia their Commander in Chief, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, presented colors to a detachment from surrendered Syria?French soldiers dressed in British uniforms. He and they welcomed news that the Frenchmen of French Equatorial Africa...
Perched on a plateau 2,000 ft. above sea level is Canberra (pronounced Can'b'rra), the inconvenient "garden city" capital of Australia, whose statesmen stay away from it as much as they can. The ministries relating to defense are at Melbourne on the seacoast, and the easygoing...
Mass production of automobiles has produced "A typical American mass production of head injuries." Thus famed Chicago Surgeon Percival Bailey wrote in an introduction to Diagnosis and Treatment of Head Injuries, by Drs. Sidney William Gross & William Ehrlich (Hoe-ber; $5), published last week. Terse and clear, the handbook tells...
Meantime, some 800,000 soldiers stood to arms and got readier every day just south of Turkey, under French General Maxime Weygand and British Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell. These two commanders also keynoted last week.
Putting an end to guessing, in which the Germans had gone too low, the Russians too high, Paris admitted that France has 275,000 men under arms in the Near East. London admitted that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians...