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Great Britain replied obliquely last week to increasing pressure for a new expeditionary force. The reply: 36 pages of dispatches by General the Viscount Gort, sent while he was achieving the "Miracle of Dunkirk" in May 1940. There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses...
Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., lean, cadaverous Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, returned to Washington last week. He flew in after a hasty trip to London, where he had talked things over with Winston Churchill. What his future was to be had Washington puzzled...
Died. John Lawrence Baird, Viscount Stonehaven, 67, onetime (1925-30) Governor General of Australia; in Stonehaven, Scotland. Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1931 to 1936, he created a minor political sensation in 1939 when his fear that Chamberlain appeasement meant restoration of German colonies led him to refuse to be a candidate for the presidency of his local Conservative group...
Sharp-looking, energetic as a motor, he was the first British munitions buyer to reach the U.S. in 1914. became, at 34, president and managing director of Canadian Industries, Ltd. (explosives, fertilizers, paint, plastics, industrial chemicals -Canada's Du Pont). Now he had become, as Viscount Halifax said last week, ''the linchpin of the vast organization built up on this side to cooperate with the U.S. Administration in all vital matters of production and supply...
Widely criticized is the appointment of leading industrialists to Government control boards. A cause cèlèbre is the case of Viscount Wolmer, Government Director of Cement, who also draws a $20,000 salary from the cement makers' federation. Lord Wolmer's leading critic has been the Rt. Rev. Ernest Barnes, famed Bishop of Birmingham, who some months ago lost a ?1,600 libel suit over remarks he made about the "cement ring." Last week the unrepentant Bishop stood up in the House of Lords to ask, "Ought a Government officer, sitting in a Government building...