To Britain's problem of redeployment, reconstruction, reconversion, war's end had added another: jobs for generals. Last week, Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. ("Tiny") Freyberg, V.C. (Crete, North Africa, Italy), was redeployed. His new job: Governor General of New Zealand.
Choice Empire plums had already gone to other Army bigwigs: Canada's new Governor General Field Marshal Sir Harold Rupert L. G. Alexander, India's Viceroy Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, and Palestine's High Commissioner Field Marshal Viscount Gort. South Africa's governor generalship may go to either Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder (Eisenhower's Deputy), R.A.F. Bomber Command's retiring Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Travers...
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