Word: popham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Commander in Chief of the British forces in East Asia, arrived for military conference with boot-tough U.S. Admiral Thomas C. Hart, chief of the Asiatic Fleet; elegant General Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army; and High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre. On a Pacific Clipper, Manila-bound over the Midway-Wake-Guam steppingstone islands, flew Dr. E. N. van Kleffens, The Netherlands' Foreign Minister, to confer on the defense of the East Indies...
...politicians who had sold out to Adolf Hitler. Before he had arrived in Rome, the British, without losing a life, gave the Italian Navy its worst beating of the war. As he started for home he heard of ominous events in Manila. There Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Britain's Far Eastern Commander in Chief, had conferred with Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, and General Douglas MacArthur, U.S. military adviser to the Philippines-doubtless on the subject of Anglo-American defense against any move Japan may decide to make...
Strategically, it freed six or seven British cruisers from the Mediterranean theatre for convoy work on the high Atlantic, perhaps even for Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham's new commend in the Far East...