Word: inspects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...poetry reader Was General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Commander in Chief of Britain's Middle East Forces, on his way to Crete to inspect new British establishments there. At Suda Bay he heard reports from the expeditionary officers and toured gun emplacements. One of the huge guns was fired, and Cretans who stood around cheered and clapped as if an Italian ship had been sunk before their eyes. They talked exultingly of Suda Bay as "an eastern Gibraltar." Sir Archibald heard with satisfaction of the raid on Taranto (see p. 20), of R. A. F. cooperation in Greece...
Harvard men and their friends who are attending the Yale game are invited to inspect the Catholic Chapel of Saint Thomas More at 268 Park Street, New Haven, either before or after the game...
With the Army and traveling salesmen arrived propagandists intent on stirring up native hatred of whites. Coming from China, where brutality was their code of conduct, Japanese soldiers assumed in Indo-China the role of liberators, fraternized with the natives and invited them to inspect and play with the guns of the hitherto forbidden French coast defense. Thousands of agents preached the New Order and distributed pamphlets explaining it. Lavishing tips on ricksha coolies and beggars, Japanese officers protested loudly their affection for the people...
...Tripped to the Army proving grounds at Aberdeen, Md. to inspect new ordnance and explosives; to the Glenn Martin plane plant in Baltimore; to Camp Meade, Md., being photographed everywhere with guns, tanks, planes...
...visitors will also be invited to inspect special exhibits in the University Library, showing various aspects of the First World War as it is related to the current War abroad. Included in the displays will be posters, personal papers, soldiers' letters, trench publications, mementoes of the German occupation of Belgium in the last war, photographs, administrative documents and papers, news communiques, and various types of propaganda materials. The exhibits were arranged from the large Harvard files of historical materials...