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...Lisbon, Ottawa, and Chicago, then joined our New York staff as one of our top writers in Foreign News. Early this August he took off for Cairo, and for the past two months he has been waiting in the Middle East to go into action with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Ninth and Tenth British Armies...
...said, with fierce insistence, that the situation in the Balkans was well in German hands. They said that the estimated 34 Italian divisions in the Balkans were being peaceably disarmed and replaced by German divisions. They said that the Italians, bidden by British Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to "turn out the Germans," were making trouble only in "minor instances...
...separate group assembled in Cairo: Britain's Middle Eastern War Cabinet member, Richard G. Casey; General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who directs operations in the eastern Mediterranean; Vice Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham, naval commander in the Levant, Lord Gort of Malta, and others...
...Times arrived. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the British commander in Persia and Iraq, sat down to the only indoor amusement which, at 61, he finds really worth while. The issues in the bundle from the Army post office were wrinkled and limp after the long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column...
...with rumors that Churchill was about to reorganize his command system. Was the up-&-down hero of Libya and Ethiopia, General Sir Archibald Wavell, to be Churchill's military right bower? No one knew. Churchill had never really warmed to Wavell-at least until recently. But Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was Wavell's favorite; the separation of Sir Henry's command from that of General Alexander in Egypt and Syria had long been General Wavell's idea. London expected to hear more of Wavell, and of his plans for close Anglo-American contact with the Russians...