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Nevertheless, the appointment of Sir Charles Portal was important and interesting. The two most likely candidates to succeed Sir Cyril were Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding, head of the fighter command, man most responsible for the R. A. F.'s brilliant defenses against the Luftwaffe. That the R. A. F. chose the expert in offense rather than defense indicated that Britain's self-esteem had taken a great rise...
...claimed this week that bombings of enemy territory, which continued at a crescendo, were according to a "master plan" drawn up by Air Chief Sir Charles Portal when he was with the bomber command. This program sent bombers out systematically after oil plants, armament factories, airports, docks, naval bases, railroad lines, freight yards, barge concentrations, shipping. It concentrated on bottlenecks. Though Germany is comparatively well supplied with aluminum, the R. A. F. went all-out for aluminum factories, to keep the Germans from using the metal as a substitute for copper, of which Germany has very little...
...basis, delighted Mussolini and infuriated Graziani. II Duce had reason to be pleased: Herr Hitler reportedly told him that Germany would send substantial forces into the Southern Theatre for the winter. Marshal Graziani's pique was due to the inference that the Italians, and specifically the Italian Command, were eunuchs in warfare, unable to do heavy jobs without some muscle to help them...
...bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion from that direction. It offers an actual advantage, for when troops reach the bluff at any point their artillery can command the far bank and protect their crossing...
...service last week was Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, U. S. Army Reserve Corps, general manager of the New York Times, publisher of the Chattanooga Times. Called at his own request, Colonel Adler forthwith gave himself a one-year leave of absence from both his papers. This week he took command of his post: the reception centre for draftees at Fort...