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Because King George VI was there, it was the sword of the Sovereign of all the British Orders of Knighthood which touched the shoulders of British Air Marshal Francis John Linnell (see cut), Deputy Air Officer in command of Middle East Headquarters. From the North African sands, as King George completed the accolade, rose Sir Francis Linnell...
King George VI flew to North Africa last week to review victorious Allied troops and seamen. He did a thorough, workmanlike, pleasant job. He reviewed British troops, troops of the U.S. Fifth Army. He ate lunch with U.S. officers, joked, laughed, praised the food. He visited battlefields, British and American cemeteries, hospitals, warships, airfields. He attended church at a naval chapel, talked with sailors, admirals, merchant mariners, nurses, wounded veterans, privates and generals. Everyone seemed pleased with him. He seemed pleased with everyone...
King George VI's official birthday was an austere event last week.*Gone were most of the traditional trappings. But the custom of naming a Birthday Honors list was observed in a manner which provided a remarkable commentary on Britain's democratic wartime activities...
Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe." King George VI of England suggested that the day of defeat was past and gone. "The debt of Dunkirk is repaid," he said. Joseph Stalin, congratulating Roosevelt and Churchill, said: "I wish you further successes," and Pravda, in Moscow, talked as if those successes would be accomplished very soon: "The time is approaching when jointly with the armies of our allies we shall break the backbone of the Fascist beast...
...against infantry. . . . There were no good anti-tank weapons against them." The German tanks had only to be "fast enough to rumble through after the enemy's artillery had been blasted from its fixed positions, which were easy to hit." The highly touted 60-ton German Mark VI, said the General, is a flop...