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- W2429563165 abstract "'Dilly-dally' was Churchill's nickname for Dill. It resonated with his view of the War Office as 'hidebound, devoid of imagination, extravagant of manpower and slow'.2 Dill seemed to embody and perhaps inculcate these qualities. At the same time he was held responsible for their apparent expression in the melancholy series of events that coincided with his tenure as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) - beginning with Dunkirk. He and his commanders were pilloried in the War Cabinet and its Defence Committee. Dill was by no means inarticulate, as Wavell could be impenetrably inarticulate, but he did lack ready repartee. He told his Director of Military Operations (DMO) of a typical incident: The Prime Minister lost his temper with me. I could see the blood come up in his great neck and his eyes began to flash. He said: 'What you need out there [the Middle East] is a court martial and a firing squad.' I should have said, whom do you want to shoot exactly; but I did not think of it till afterwards." @default.
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- W2429563165 date "2016-01-01" @default.
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- W2429563165 title "'Dilly-Dolly', or Having the Last Word: Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Prime Minister" @default.
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