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...dispatch from Beirut, Syria reported that General Maxime Weygand had during the winter not only whipped into shape the Allied Army of the East, but also read and finished Gone With the Wind...
Said General Weygand: "I am a fireman, ready to put out the fire anywhere it breaks...
Meantime, some 800,000 soldiers stood to arms and got readier every day just south of Turkey, under French General Maxime Weygand and British Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell. These two commanders also keynoted last week...
...there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile and a half, with vehicles standing three to six deep. The reviewing party...
...General Weygand was fresh from checking over Turkey's armed forces, which number another 200,000 regulars, 700,000 reserves. If there was any doubt about what Turkey's Foreign Minister Saracoglu meant when, on his way to last fortnight's Balkan Entente meeting, he said: "Turkey is not neutral but only nonbelligerent for the moment," it was dispelled last week by a sudden Turkish gesture. Under the emergency powers voted to the Government by Parliament last month, Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting...