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...must give the Middle East army commander in chief all aid, "irrespective of other targets," when a battle was in progress. The army commander in chief, said Boss Churchill, would specify targets and tasks. A year later he announced hopefully that cooperation had ben realized-"is now renewed"-between Tedder and Alexander, Coningham and Montgomery. Large credit was due to Arthur Tedder...
Headquarters Bloke. For 26 of his 52 years shrewd Sir Arthur Tedder has been in aviation. Before he joined the infant Royal Flying Corps in 1916, he had just been an English gentleman, a graduate of Cambridge's Magdalene College (where he became an avid reader of Shakespeare), a rugby player, a colonial servant of the Empire stationed at Fiji, and a soldier in the Dorsetshire Regiment. But military aviation seized his intense mind and has occupied it ever since...
...from that job that he went to Egypt. To his superiors and his men, to whom he is known as "The Chief," Arthur Tedder presents the same half-amused, scrutinizing, birdlike face. When Churchill arrived, Tedder slouched in an easy chair, exasperated his boss at first with his frankness and biting...
...questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black tie he was wearing. Said Tedder: "Oh, I'm a headquarters bloke. You know how stuffy the Chief...
Arthur. In his private life, English-born Tedder kids his wife about her Australian ancestry, a long-standing ribbing which small, blonde Lady Tedder, after 26 years, bears resignedly. Tedder's one hobby is sketching. Sitting outside a tent in the Western Desert, flying from station to station, Tedder sketches...