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Napoleon lacked two months of being 46 at Waterloo. Wellington had then just passed his 46th birthday...
With the King and Queen she toured London's bomb-gutted East End. In lofty St. Paul's she bowed her head before the ornate sarcophogi of Nelson and Wellington; in a cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops...
...literary front, in a reflective piece for the newspapers, General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, British Commander in Chief in India, chose as the six greatest generals of all time: Marlborough, Belisarius, Wellington, Frederick, Lee, Napoleon, in order. He picked no "greatest" war, but made plain a little of his feeling about this one. "Possibly my reflections may give others a rest from the present grim business," he concluded, "by reminding them of older and better wars." High aim of U.S. Army maneuvers in Tennessee (see p. 67) is the development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee...
...Senator James E. Murray listed his record on foreign policy, contrasting it with the pacifist record of Republican Candidate Rankin. The ads did not show that the record was compiled by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (who is not running for re-election), while Murray's opponent is her brother, Wellington D. Rankin...
Belgian Rutabagas. Often has Belgium been in the path of conquest (Caesar, Wellington, Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler). Last week the Belgians were starving again. Gaunt young mothers carried babies doomed to die. Where there was one pre-war tuberculous patient, there were now four. The wide-moated farms of the polders produced food for Germany. For the Belgians there were rutabagas. Said the Swedish Committee for Relief of Belgian Children: "The mortality among children in Belgium is now . . . as bad, if not worse, than in Greece...