Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Wavell once again had the misfortune of being placed in charge of an undermanned theatre which became a war zone when the Japanese declared war on the United Kingdom in December 1941. He was made Commander-in-Chief of ABDACOM (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command). [54] Wavell ( not a Lord when he put this collection together in 1943) said in his introduction that the poems were noted down as favourites by him and with the help of his family in reminding him of their favourites he would read and recite for them. Felicity Ann Wavell, b. 21 July 1921, married at the Cathedral Church of the Redemption, New Delhi, 20 February 1947 Capt. P. M. Longmore MC, son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. [80]

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History of St. Andrew's Garrison Church". St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011 . Retrieved 11 May 2013.Schofield, Victoria (2006). Wavell: Soldier and Statesman. London: John Murray. ISBN 978-0-71956-320-1. Jeremy Cooper, no FuN without U: the art of Factual Nonsense, London 2000, pp.10, 12, 30, 75-6, 78-9, 89-90, 114-21, 179-80, 184 and 221, reproduced (colour) p.119

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will want to tell you Y… Big Tobacco will want to tell you Z. But there’s something you can tell Big Tobacco…” Its conclusion can be given a sense of roundness and inevitability withadvancing your argument. Any sentence you write should be pulling one or more of those levers; the best will do all three. Even apparent decoration works to a purpose — if a phrase is beautiful, funny or Wavell was working at the War Office when Army officers refused to act against Ulster unionists in March 1914; the government was expecting Unionist paramilitary opposition to introduction of devolved government in Ireland. His letters to his father record his disgust at the government's behaviour in giving an ultimatum to officers – he had little doubt that the government had been planning to crush the Ulster Scots, whatever they later claimed. However, he was also concerned at the Army's effectively intervening in politics, not least as there would be an even greater appearance of bias when the Army was used against industrial unrest. [17] First World War [ edit ] Generals and Generalship: The Lees Knowles Lectures Delivered at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1939. 1941. OCLC 5176549. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

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I think he ( Benito Mussolini) must do something, if he cannot make a graceful dive he will at least have to jump in somehow; he can hardly put on his dressing-gown and walk down the stairs again." [98] If the classical orators have modern counterparts in the realm of the written word, pre-eminent among those counterparts are the authors of opinion pieces. Here is persuasion overt, persuasion front and center. TheJeremy Cooper, no FuN without U: the art of Factual Nonsense, London 2000, pp.89, 114-21 and 221, reproduced p.118