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...base for the Eighth Army, of which Mr. Churchill said: "I have never seen troops march with the style and air of this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory after toil...
...Harvard education. After receiving his degree from the University of New Zealand, he left his home with a pack on his back, the New Zealand equivalent of twenty dollars in his pocket, the blessings of his family and the jeers of his fellow students. Arriving at the port of Wellington, he was signed on by a U. S. troop transport on its way home from the Orient...
...Argentine yachtsman, Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...Waterloo, and although his horse had fallen on him and saved him from death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
...midnight his poetical feelings were aroused, and he absolutely got out of his bed and wrote four stanzas 'on the memory of the heart.' " Mrs. W. does not quote them. But by then she was completely exhausted, among other things "from rheumatism & exposure to the Duke of Wellington." She was glad to get back...