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...recounting the reunion of Queen Elizabeth and her husband in Portugal after his return from a four-month cruise through the Commonwealth. No less than 150 eager pressmen elbowed one another aside on the tarmac at Lisbon's Montijo Military Air Base as the Queen's gleaming Viscount transport headed...
...World War II diaries, converted into a book titled The Turn of the Tide and published this week in Britain, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, Britain's top wartime strategist, bluntly assesses many of his military contemporaries, including the three U.S. generals leading the conflict. Alanbrooke's impressions of Soldier Dwight Eisenhower: "He learned a lot during the war, but strategy, tactics and command were never his strong points." Ike was a great overall coordinator, but "perhaps his greatest asset was a greater share of luck than most of us receive in life." Of George Catlett Marshall...
Died. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George ("Algie") Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, 82, onetime governor-general of South Africa (1923-30) and Canada (1940-46), last surviving brother of the late Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless...
...Viscount Chandos (who used to be better known as Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton) wrote last week that although Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. must work together, there is a "need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A spoonful-and it should not be more than a spoonful-of isolationism should also be permitted to us." The new leader of the Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw...
...French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler "seems more concerned with placating Cairo than with carrying out U.N. wishes for speedy restoration of the canal...