Washington this week was the center of the Allied world. In the map-paneled rooms of strategic war councils such men as Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British Commander in Chief in India, U.S. Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff General Sir Alan Francis Brooke and many others were working out details of Allied strategy for months ahead. In their hands lay the disposition of armies awaiting action all over the world.
Dominant in the Washington world was bullnecked, beaming Winston Churchill. He was...
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