World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Sir Henry at the Bridge

The 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...

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