Cunningham, Alan Gordon, Sir, 1887-1983

Cunningham, Alan Gordon, Sir, 1887-1983 

Cunningham, Alan Gordon, Sir, 1887-1983 

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General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham was a British Army officer, noted for victories over Italian forces in the East African Campaign during the Second World War. Later he was the seventh and last High Commissioner of Palestine in the years 1945-1948. In this position he at first reinforced the reduction of Jewish immigration into Palestine as a means, as he believed, of calming down the tension between Jews and Arabs, but later he supported the UN's partition plan for Palestine and tried to calm down conflicts by negotiations. On the other hand he introduced fist policy towards Jewish extremist organisations who tried to expel the British rule from Palestine by a series of assassinations of British officials and soldiers. Alan Cunningham was the younger brother of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope. -- Wikipedia Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope was a British admiral of the Second World War. After great military achievements in the First World War he led the British naval forces to victory in several critical Mediterranean naval battles in the Second World War. These included the attack on Taranto in 1940, the first completely all-aircraft naval attack in history and the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941. Cunningham controlled the defence of the Mediterranean supply lines through Alexandria, Gibraltar, and the key chokepoint of Malta. The admiral also directed naval support for the various major allied landings in the Western Mediterranean littoral. In 1943, Cunningham was promoted to First Sea Lord, a position he held until his retirement in 1946. -- Wikipedia Text in English and German. [2] newspaper clippings