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BATTLE HONOURS NOW APPROVED
By GEORGE HOGAN
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1956.
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IRONY OF HISTORY GIVES A GENERAL
THE ABOUT TURN'
By Hugh Pond
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Since the war he Y a strange irony of fate the man who command of the three
com- important British Army
BAOR, handed over the Suez mands: base to Nasser Inst year to Land Forces, and the day lends the Anglo-French troops now back in the area.
THE BIG AMERICAN
'DOUBLE TAKE'.
General
Sir Charles Keight- ley. Conamander-in-Chief Mid- Forces since East Land 1053, 55, and a ruddy-Inced ex-valry man.
ale
This month he should have handed over his command Lieutenant-General
Sir Geol-
frey Bourne, the one-armed Durclor of Operations
Malaya. But
the War Office
has delayed the
change-over
For
East Middle
Above all he is a tank
to keep Sir Charles on the spot where he is mort norder.
close know- Eart. He hus In very
11e was in ledze of Exypt.
expert. in wartime commands Zone charge during the Catal
the famous 6th and included
1ith Armoured troubles before last year's hard-
Divisions, and Juter the 5th Army Corpa in and italy,
which captured Vienna after breaking
the mighty Gothlene and defeating nine cmek German divisions.
aver
commander. Egyp'inn thele incthod are well known to him.
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I have been several times "Chothie reminded of this fact in the tune, late. Einen, Senio P1. Rom Las Verlan past few days because Jew. Valla de Corunchio", ish drivers, on hearing my English tones, have instant-
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shown the frienikiness.
greatest columnist John O'Donnell writes in his wide circula- tion newspaper that Eisen- some barrack hower unexi
Eden square words about in the first excitement,
0
This culminated when driver stepped out from
and seat
shook me
his
warmly by the hand, re-
folks and mine is doing a marking as he did so: "Your wannerful job out dere in headlines of Egypt, ain't we, pal?"
"The attacks have been pre- ented by grave Egyptian pro- vocations which threatened the notional existence of Israel and imperiled the Suez lifeline of Britain and France."
"Western T
On the Drst day after we got going the Press had farity?
which
WILS a Inir alliance tolters" example.
And
which those editorials were not taking us roundly to task were tearfully wondering what could have made us be so
But apart from individual Jews here, who obviously have
Interest in Geep what is going on, the rear- tion of the American public naughty so suddenly.
is mild and in many cases different.
'... HOLDING
OUR COAT"
SOME of my American friends have told me that they hope fervently that now we and France have at last taken the plunge shall get the job over, more quickly and neatly.
we and
"Try not to prolong the agony," is the note generally struck. But nowhere among the general public, so
far
as I can see, is there any
feeling that our action has
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Keightley was commissioned when e was 21 into tho "Skins," the elite 5th Royni Innisdilling Dragoon Guard:.
It took him 17 years to reach the ranic of major, Three years Inter, at 40, hơ was a Major- General-tho youngest in the Army.
Educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst, be married the daughter of a general in 1932, And has two tons who have followed in their father's foot- sicps
to Marlborough.
He was Military Secretory at the War Ofco in 1940, when "Manny" Shinwell WAS War Secretary, and before that held the important post of Director
of Military Training.
In June Ins
last year ferrorista altacked his caside bungalow In Cyprus with hand grenades. One ganado exploded near the windows and another landed among the tents occupied by his personal guard.
Keightley is no "chairborne" cominander. Ho belloves in getting out nud about amany his troops and sexing for him-
elf.
And after Sucz?
tho Woll, War Office has not announced his next job. But he is only 60, and the second senior general to Sir Gerald Templer, who is the Chief of the Imperial General Siaft.
GRANTHAM: THE NAVY'S
SCHOOLMASTER
By TOM POCOCK
OMMANDING the Suez Task Force: Admiral
THE Alsop Brothers in their widely syndicated column reveal today that so great was
be "pique and resentment"
Washington Meidl
ut the Sir Guy ("Granny") Gran- British and French action that tham, Commander-in-Chief the "American policy-makers
Mediterranean Fleet & with were actually playing
jdca
man who has been tipped to of the astonishing ordering the American 6th Fleet the Anglo-French to oppose landings."
But they add significantly: "In Judging our allies' behaviour to us, it is well to remember our prior behaviour to thern."
All the radio and TV commen- Lators are noticeably swinging of round to the British paint view.
So to suggest that the Anglo- American alliance is in tatters right now is preposterous non- sense. About the only place where there any open anti- British feeling here in New York is in that pestiferous pieco of glass verticality they call the United Nations.
succeed Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten as First Sca Lord.
Grantham
succeeded Lord Mountbatten in the Mediter- zunean.
In Malta he achieved Immediate popularity in
If spite of his schoolmasterish manner.
His scholarly background is illustrated in an incident when he was commanding the cruiser
Phoebe
the fighting olk Crete.
He signalled to a des- troyer the Biblical reference.
"Romans XVI, 1 and 2.*
The destroyer captain read in his Bible. "I commend you Phebe mur sister ye assist her.
unio that
He is lean and sunburned. has conventional English tastes, Wears in London - bowler hat. He is 30; married with Iwo daughters,
STOCKWELL:THE SOLDIER'S
BR
SOLDIER
By HUCH POND
routine job conecting promo- tions, medals, and retirements. But the whole of his career has been spent commanding troops in the field.
He set a wartime record of promotion: Major to major- general in five years. Fow have followed him.
"Hughle Stockwell, 63 years old, -liko the Suez Supremo, Sir Charles Keightley on oid Mariburian. He is a six-footer, has
blue
eyes
becky nose, clipped moustache, and greying
blond hair.
He is a belloves in "On parada en Barudd. On parade, fleld com- cff parade. It is quite usual
Sir
11
There the atmosphere in in. deed bad, with muttering groups at furious Asians in the corridors the of course,
and derisivo laughter when our pro- chief delegate is speaking. been taken as a blow against automatic reception of a
sperous, casy-going
DRITAÍN'S · And there ls Adlai Stevenson, which has been wrapped up in
all keeping after Eisenhower Deveral affairs for
mander on the spot is for him to give a junior officer Presi calls the
a rocket in his office--and then for wirai he So long në America 115
him at mess rugby Hugh and has mon tha
in the refused, dent's "alysmal, complete, and Lieut-General does not look like being
largely at Eisenhower's Bug catastrophie failure on foreign Stockwell. The flare-up evening. dragged into matters no- gestion, to believe that any-
policy."
gives him a reprieve from saw him continually amon body worries unduly. They thing could really be amira
He told a nation-wide TV the desk job which he has his trocus in the trouble spots of Fatesung in 1947, when ho are perfectly willing to hold abroad.
audience that Eisenhower has spent his military career commanded the "Red Devils"—** our coats while we are oc-
handed Russia two victorics:avoiding.
Cth: Air-borne Division. Ho cupied with the Egyptians but not to join in the punch- ing.
BU
HELP FOR
DIXON
(a) Allowed the Soviets into the Middle East for the first lime in history.
(b) Split and endangered Western alliance.
the
cases fro the condition which com
This attitude was exem- plified by the liftman in our DUT now it seems that the office building, who told me: Press is in many "It's good to see you fellows having second thoughts. showing a bit of spirit egain.'
-us" declared Slovchod, "is simple. Our Middle Eastern policy has reached an absoluto It has been like one of those dead end."
And he accused Eisenhower "double take" film scenes when
Things are quite pther- un acter suddenly realises that and Dulles not only of making wise, of course, in-
The American Gov- (a) ernment circles in Washing ton; and (b) the American Press.
The British and French action plunged the Press into a whirlpool of excite ment.
"CHEATING
all is not what he thought it "mistake after mistake in the Middle East," but also of con- was at first.
The New York Times comes spiring to hide the results of out with a very muted editorial, those mistakes from the Ameri-
It agrees completely with can people.. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon, tho, head of our UNO delegation, that except in the case of Koren UNO has never been able to enforce its decisions,
and
HOW THEY JUDGE
play
He was due to begin his very sald: "Keep your men busy first staff job as Military Seere working and playing and you tary at the War Omco--a have good troops
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PATCH: THE 'ARMS KING'
OF THE RAF By RONALD WALKER
(OMMANDER. IN
CCHIAN
-
RAF
In the Middle East: 51-year-
old Air Marshal Patch.
"
Hubert
He took over the command from Air Marshal Sir Claude Pelly last month.
This dark-haired swarthy man is not well known to the
"If the military sctions of Britain. France, and Isreal are BUT the most significant sum violations of the UNO charter, Dming up of the American then so are the prior actions of attitude is by Walter Lippmann, public; but he is one of the officers who the respected columnist in his postwar senior
"Second have risen rapidly to top rank piece today headed
and command. incushte in Washington squarely
Ho' in knoWN- in the RAF
his
of
over in
tho
Egypt IN EXAMS,
the judge has When moons
to enforce his judgment,
Anger the aggrieved party is tempted
He puts the matter with us an armaments king. He is command or two aghice stations THE Eisenhower Governs to take the law into his
own on
The Franco-British action will a specialist in gunnery and in Lincolnshire. ment behaved rather hands."
this Before talding be judged solely by its outcome bombing. Because like the head master of a de fact that these three in the first instance whether technical knowledge be became Middle East, Fatch was Com
the Times
A
school where the top pre nations, all bulwarks of free the military
objective are a rare character during the war fect, who has hitherto been dom and democracy and among achieved in a reasonable time serving both in Bomber ane
con Fighter Contmanida Opinion of an officer there: A model boy, is suddenly our chestiilies the what is it in a muistiolla A Bomber Command HQ A wonderfuls bloks to work caught cheating in exams. suddenly find themselves in
The behind the scenes" role of defendants indicates Americans respent success and there is pamething wrong with strongth (who doem't?), if we fury in Washington has, to, mia pleturo, and there burialdly's deliver the goods quickly “we're be heard to be believed and
st not foo great a cost.
he devised new bombing for. A relentless driver, with techniques and thon
S'operat
then returned an extraordina
with detail and in tremend undy taking over of humou
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