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...Commander Bower criticized Chief of Naval Staff Sir Dudley Pound for the conduct of the Narvik evacuation. Not content with sticking to military matters, such as the liaison, or lack of it, between the Navy and the R.A.F., the Commander talked about the Admiralty's "Gestapo methods" and said: "We are not fighting against Hitler in order to set up the First Lord of the Admiralty (A. V. Alexander) as a little pinchbeck Hitler with a tin-pot staff...
...Council has done an enormous amount of liaison work between Faculty and students that most of the College never hears about. Whenever Faculty member wishes to obtain the opinion of a representative number of undergraduates, he is free to come to a Council meeting and discuss the problem with the members. Similarly, the Council often invites members of the dean's office or professors to discuss affairs of the moment...
Failure of the conference to announce any integrated scheme for North American air training meant that the present program of each nation controlling its own trainees-while leaving closer liaison work to respective high commands-would continue...
Home Is The Place. In the second year the Home Guard achieved tighter organization, closer liaison with the Army and cooperation with the War Office, which was impressed by the caliber of Commandomen graduated from the Home Guard. These things gave the Guard a new role that no one dreamed of two years ago. The use of the Home Guard on coastal anti-aircraft guns, in troop transport and in joint field maneuvers indicated what the Government had in mind: shifting the burden of the defense of Britain on to the Home Guard, so that an army...
Wayne Coy, now Smith's assistant, had served for a year as liaison man for the mysterious, jack-of-all-trades Office of Emergency Management. He was the man who untangled Lend-Lease to Russia when the knots were tight, who helped steer the property-requisitioning bill through Congress, helped bring C.I.O. and A.F. of L. together when John L. Lewis' "peace offer" threatened civil war in labor...