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SLIM GETS
HIS LAST
BRIEFING
LONDON, Fri.-Field Mar
shal Sir William Slim, Go
vernor-General-designate of
Australia, received his last
briefing as Chief of the Im
perial General Staff at the War
Office today.
He was cheerful and bluff
when, seated at a massive table
in Whitehall, he said: "There
will be no need for me to come
back to this office again."
From tomorrow Sir William
will be fully occupied with ar
rangements for his trip to Aus
trala by sea in mid-February.
Ho said that Lady Slim was
happy about going to Australia.
"But there is one disappoint
ment," he added. "We will have
to leave our country home.
"My wife has moved house
about once a year since we
married. But she never
grumbles."-Reuters.
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