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...Times arrived. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the British commander in Persia and Iraq, sat down to the only indoor amusement which, at 61, he finds really worth while. The issues in the bundle from the Army post office were wrinkled and limp after the long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column...
This disaster would be the loss of Persia, Iraq and the whole Middle Eastern bridge between the main land masses of Europe, Africa and Asia (see map, pp. 34-35). Marshal Timoshenko. fighting for the Volga and the southern Caucasus (see p. 36), is also fighting to avert that catastrophe. So is General Alexander, at his gate to Egypt and Suez (see p. 34). If either fails, or both fail, "Jumbo" Wilson will find the enemy on his bridge. His task is to assume that both will fail, and to do all that can be done to retrieve their failures...
...Germans, pressing through Egypt and the Caucasus, had compelled Britain and the U.S. to begin, hurriedly and late, the building of a preventive army in Iraq and Persia under General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson (TIME, Aug. 31). The British already had some forces there, but the sudden appointment of General Wilson and the feverish reinforcement were evidence that, in effect, a new army was being created for a new front...
...whole Near East between Suez and the Caucasus; 2) the need for an immediate Allied move in the Near East to counteract the threat. The British, choosing big, 60-year-old General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo'') Wilson to command a new independent army in Iraq and Persia, were perhaps preparing such a move...
...coming he talked with General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, and with wise old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa. He had an audience with King Farouk (see p. 66), a chat with Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Premier, and the Shah of Persia. And the old (67) war horse could not be kept from the front. He flew west into the desert, changed into an armored car, got within four miles of the famous "Hill of Jesus," had to be argued out of going to the edge of no man's land. Through...