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whether or not we felt that Wavell had
been a great man, albeit the tour booklet
had marked our cards with this extract
from Fort’s biography: ‘The admiration,
and sometime adulation, that people felt
for Wavell contrasted with his modesty
and detachment. Many soldiers who came
to know him well …… seemed unable to
find fault in him, and painted portraits
that he would probably think gleamed
rather too bright. Yet people from many
other walks of life also described him as a
great man. TS Eliot did not know him
well, but wrote: ‘What I do know from
personal acquaintance with the man, is
that he wa ́