Churchill nursed "an uncontrollable and unfortunate disapproval – indeed jealous dislike – of Wavell", [59] and had several spats with him in America. 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.

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Late at night on 10 February 1942, Wavell prepared to board a flying boat, to fly from Singapore to Java. Letterpress is a form of relief printing in which paper is pressed, by either a large flat plate or rollers, onto previously inked type.

Reading, reciting,singing, music and additional entertainment among friends was a pre-requisite for visiting or hosting friends and acquaintances.

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They had uneducated memories compared with Wavell, who wrote in his introduction that while, nearing 60, he couldn't claim he could repeat by heart all the 260 or so poems in the the anthology, he thought he could safely claim that he once could. He attempted to move the debate along, with the Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference, but received little support from Churchill (who was against Indian independence), nor from Clement Attlee, Churchill's successor as prime minister. He resided with Henry 'Chips' Channon MP in Belgrave Square and was reintroduced by him into London society. Not only was I greatly impressed by the solid foundations laid by my predecessor, but I was also able the better to appreciate the vastness of the problems with which he had been confronted and the greatness of his achievements, in a command in which some 40 different languages are spoken by the British and Allied Forces.One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident. of setting two terms in opposition, are ways of labeling what any prose stylist does by habit and instinct. So it all began as an idea for a family conver­sation but we gradually prevailed upon him to let the world join in, and the literary members of his Staff nurtured the con­spiracy with the publishers.