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...this is not enough. What Australia needs more than potentials is the ready-made stuff. She could do with the two Spitfire squadrons, with the Wellington and Hampden bomber squadrons, all Australian manned, that are squatting in England. She could do more with the fleets of bombers and fighters, the heavy equipment, the light and medium tanks, trucks, and millions of tons of fuel which America could supply...
Died. Arthur Charles Wellesley, 65, Fifth Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the "Iron Duke"; of pneumonia; in London. Among the special privileges he inherited from Waterloo's hero: the right to keep his hat on in the presence of the King of Spain...
Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...
...smoke of Waterloo was writing Napoleon's finish, a British officer, sighting the French leader, rushed up to Wellington, told him that Napoleon and his staff were standing yonder, asked that the artillery take a shot at him. Said the Duke of Wellington: "It is not the business of commanders to be firing upon each other...
...spite of the political fungus that was nurtured by such "statesmen" as Disraeli, Gladstone, Wellington and others who sinned against the light, it was finally cleansed from the British mind by the long and titanic efforts of John Bright, Richard Cobden and others of the Manchester school...