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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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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

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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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