"General Sir John Dill is the oldest of these three Generals, being now in his 58th year. He carries his years lightly, however, and. shows little outward sign of the enormous responsibilities he bears as Chief of Staff.
"He is an Ulsterman and was educated at Cheltenham. In 1901 he joined the Leinsters and served for the first years of his military. life as a regimental officer.
"He, like General Gort, betaine an instructor at the Staff College shortly after the last war and later an instructors at the newly formed Imperial Defence College.
"He served in the War Office and more recently was sent to Palestine where he showed himself to be an unqualified success as a commander in the field.
"General Dill, in one word, is a soldier, He has had no advantages in his chosen career and he has de-
50 voted himself to it with single-hearted enthusiasm.
"In manner and speech he is very quiet, does not express hasty judgments, nor make snap' decisions Emergencies neither frighten nor flurry him. His chief characteristic, indeed, is his determination to take every factor into account, His soldiering is essentially scientific in the sense of exact knowledge followed by vigorous action based on that knowledge.
"General Sir Alan Brooke is a year or two younger than General Dill and as I have told you is a specialist in the use of mechanized. force.
"He is essentially a realist and it is characteristic of him that when he Neither Japan Nor U.S.
Want War—"Le Temps"
Vichy, Feb, 9.
The tenseness of Japanese-American relations do not- indicate the likelihood of a friendly settlement of differences, "Lo Temps" said editorially yesterday.
"The fact that Japan is linked with the Axis constitutes more of a menace to the U.S. than U.S. aid constitutes a grave danger to the Japanese Empire.
"Neither the American nor Japanese want war, but....it looks as if they dre racing to get bases for any fight in the Pacific or Southern Seas,"—United Press. addressed his corps staff before going overseas last year, he was emphatic in urging on them that though they were not to forget all that had been learned from the wars of the past, they were to remember at all times that they were entering a new war with new methods and must be prepared to adjust themselves rapidly to new conditions.
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