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...social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many Britons when he said, "We are faced today with a challenge in the Middle East potentially no less mortal than that in the Europe of 1938-though far more easily countered if we have the courage." The comparison on everybody's lips...
...London branch of the society is headed by Marshal Sir John Slessor, former Chief of the Air Staff...
...student team is appointed to prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they go over the topic with the guest speaker. Tape-recorded "testimony" is later transcribed, edited and distibuted for future study. Among the speakers thus far: R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor, Army Lieut. General (ret.) Albert C. Wedemeyer, Vice Admiral Matthias B. Gardner, U.S.N...
...John C. Slessor, Marshal of Great Britain's Royal air Force, will deliver the second Gustav Pollak Lecture in Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday. Slessor will speak on "A British View of the World Strategic Situation...
...Marshal Slessor is the author of "Strategy for the West," published in 1954, the only full scale discussion of global strategy published by a senior military official of the Allies since World...