In bomb-blasted Malta last week, beefy, pink-faced Lieut. Gen. Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, gave his farewell message to the people. The 63-year-old Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta, who had survived nearly 2,300 Axis air attacks, was going home to England for a rest.
To Malta's peoplethe first to be decorated en masse by a British king (TIME, April 27)Old Dob Dob had shown two qualities that made him a blood brother: imperturbability in the face of danger, and simple piety. During the hottest raids on Malta, air-raid...
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