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IN THE ALLIED HEADQUAN- TERS AT REIMS, Field Marshal Jou signed the instrument German surrender on May 24354❘ 1945. At midhight of the next 32912 day there ended, in Europe,
conflict that had been raging since September 1, 1930,
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
Volgo has been almost obliterate. | nation
Au of Europe west of the Rhine allowed itself to sink. had, with minor exceptions, lived
Thur summer the
'the' House of Representatives, the Congress passed the Selective Service Extension Act, permitir the movement of all Army com- ponents overseas and extanding the term of sarvier. The con- Eremional action can be attribut- ed largely to the personal inter- Vinition of General George C. Marshall, who had already altuln-
pital, on November 6, 1948, after years of seeming Invincibi- oppose them the Pales could mo- those and that American isolation engulfed the world
пол.
DEATH
tund. her cities in
third
LU-The funeral of late Mr. Lohausted herself economically But the Polish Army, easy victim Norway, the blitz that swept appropriations of the armed ser-
alarmed over
adequate defenses. When the na-
our pitifully inquest of western Europe.
the
of
to General
was
of the
rarely it
FL.K.$72.00 ed. Russian industry west of the position as close to zern us'a great į Asia. Comparatively few unload a public stature that que could conceivably have stol the direct relationship, be-weight to his urgent warning tween American prosperity and But even he could not entirel Germans physical safety on the one hand, overcome the conviction that ai for more thun four years under were massing against the Polish and the other the existence of all-out effort for delence wa BARRADAS-At St. Paul's the domination of an occupying frontiers 60 infuntry divisions, i free world beyond our shorca.
pital, on November. 6, 1940,
Free insaitutions and free mechanised and motorised divi Consequently, the only Ameri- vice, such as the release of me Unnecessary. Limitations on-ser to Anne (nee Da Rocha), speech had flisappeared. Econo-slons, 3 mountain divisions, more cars who thought about prepara- of the age of twenty-eight, ro- wife of M. S. Barruda, a son. mies were broken and industry than 4,000 planes, and thousands tion for war were a few profes-flected a continuing belief the CLARK-At
To sionals in the armed services and there was no immediate danger. prostrated. Queen Mary Hos-
In Germany itself, of tanks and urinoured cars.
fer-seeing statesmen who Thus for two years, as war of the war, and moro, especially to Joyee, wie of Insp. Dity, a carpet of destruction and bilize less than
that understood
outside the the history of the operations Clark, Hong Kong Police, ai desp
desolation Rad spread over the strength in all categories. Their from any major conftiel was now Americas and the Axis drove re- Torch and Overtor, in the Me
Her braiges were down, force was doomed to quick rise completely improbable.
lentlessly toward military do-
do-diterranean under
In the spring of 1940, with the mination of the globe, each la Europe, is the story of a unity ruins, and her great truction
the fury
and northwest Industrini capacity practically weight of the German nesault. German seizure of Denmark and crease in the size, efficiency, and produced on the basis of this paralysed. Great Britain had
voluntary co-operation. and though it Was to Hitler's war from the Rhine through France vices was the result of a corres-
Differ energ there . Sul Lam will take
and the place at financially to carry on her part muchine, far surpassed the United to the Bay of Biscay,
were, differenGES ponding decrease in the com- 12 p.m. sharp today at Hong of the war; the nation was almost States Army in numbers of men crippled retreat of the British placency of the American people.
among strong men representing Kong Funeral
strong and proud Home, 210 entirely mubilized, with every- and pieces of equipment,
Army from Dunkirk, America But their hesitation to abandon these paled into
peoples, but Wanchal Road.
borly of useful age, men'and, wu-
On July 1, 1939, the Army's began to grow uneasy. By the compromise
Insignificance for decisive action alongside the miracle of achieve- men alike. either in the armed enlisted strength in the States middle
June the Regular couti
not be wholly dispelled ment represented in the should forces or engaged in some type air. ground, and service was Army's authorised strength had WEST GERMANY
Harbour converted or-to-shoulder march until Pearl of production for war,
less than 130,000; of three or- been increased to 375,000, By. America had not been spared: ganised and six partially RELATIONSHIP
or the end of August, Congress had the issue into a struggle, for sur Allies to complete victory in the
vival.
Weal by V-J Day in the Pacile, 322,- konised infantry divisions, not authorised mobilisation of the
Thereafter, in the space
On the day the war began, In The Military Governors of 188 of her youth had been lost in one approached its combat com- National Guard; six weeks later three and A balk years, the Unit 1930, I was in the Philippines,
battle or
or had died in the service plement; there were two cavalry Inter Selective Service was ined States produced the three Western zones of and approximately 700,000 more divisions at less than half strength: operation. By the summer of 1941
the fighting nearing completion of four years* Germany at their regular had been wounded. The nation but there was not one
machine that played an indispen- duty as senior military assistant armoured the Army of the United States, sable role in bealing Germany to meeting in Frankfurt last had poured forth resources in un- division, ind the total number composed of regulars, Guarda-
Douglas MacArthur, its knees, even while our coun- who katl been charged with week considered the drafty stinted measure not only to sup- of men in scattered tanks unita men, and citizen soldiers, num-try, almost single-handed, WILS
the entire bered 1,500,000. No larger peace-conducting an
building and training en, inde- of the occupation statute de-port her own armies and navies was less than 1,500;
effective air forces but also to give Air Force consisted of approx-time force had ever been mus against the Japanese Empire.
war pendent Fillipino military estab- fining the relationship beher Allies equipment and wea-imately
ilabment. 1,175 planes,
It was. designed tered by this country. tween the Allied authorities pons with which to
The revolutionary transforma- Local interest in the war was operate effector combat,, and 17,000 men to nevertheless, only a temporary
artion of America was not achiev-heightened by outbreaks in Manila and the constitutional Ger-tively against the common enemy. service, maintain, and fly them. compromise with International ed overnight; the fact that it was clubs of arguments and fist.
ever achieved at all was due to ights among members of foreign man government which is Each of the Allies had, according Overseas, to hold garrisons from fact. due to be set up in the West to its means, contributed to the the Arctic Circle to the Equator The million men who had come the existence of staunch allies consulates-Hitler was a deep.
toma to Corregidor, into common cause but America had and from Panoma ern zones in the new year.
Army through the and our own distance from the dyed villain to most but a horo Flood pre-emiment as the arsenal right thousand miles away, there, National Guard and Selective scene of combat. At the outset to a The three Military Gov- of democracy.
a small though vociferous ele- We were the nu were 45,300 sol
soldiers."
Service could not be required to none of us could foresee the end ment. Hirohito from ernors agreed on the desir- tion which, the
be- var's
Two increases, authorised dur-serve anywhere outside the West of the struggle; few of us saw eye ever mentioned: all attention ability of referring certain ginning to its end, had achieved ing the summer and fall of 13, ern Hemisphere or for more than to eye on what was demanded of centred on the next move of the
In the points of drafting to their the greatest transformation from raised the active Army at home twelve months at home. the us as individuals and as a nation; Nazi dicator.
nimost complete military weak- and overseas in 227,000. But there summer nf 1041, consequently. Governments before they
but each began, step by step, to The nows ness to
during
of the Invasion of to astounding strength and it
it retained
the eight with the Germans racing across learn and to perform his allotted Poland reached us and we heard take up the subject again effectiveness.
months that Germany, brutally Russia and their
Japanese ally task.
that the Prime Minister of Great later this month. This, does Europe had been at war for a triumphant over Poland, was rea-unmistakably preparing for the America's transformation, in Britain war to make a radio not, however, mean that any full year before we began to be dying her full might for the con- conquest. of the far Pacific, the three years, from a tuntion of address. With my friend. Colonel thing resembling a deadlock
Army could only feobly reinforcą
appalling danger to unparalleled Howard Smith, I listened to the The American people still bé- oversons garrisons.
might in battle was one of the declaration that Britain has arisen between the Milition began, in 1939,, first steps lieved that distance provided i
and The attack ut Pearl Harbour tary Governors.
toward strengthening its military adequate. Insulation between us was less than four months away two miracles, that brought Jodl to Germany were again at war.it solemn moment, parti- confilet in The three Military Gov-establishment, I started from aand any
Europe of when, by a one-volt margin in our headquarters to surrender on was a
May 7, 1945. The other Was the cularly ko for me because was ernors, at their meeting with
development, over the ៩ព
came convinced that the United States perlock, of near * perfection in would soon and it impossible to allled conduct of war operations, retain a position of neutrality. History testifies to the ineptitude I was certain that the United of coalitions in waging war. Al- States would be drawi into the lied failures have been 50 whirlpool of the war, but I was numerous and their inexcusablo
blDmistaken ar to the mannet of our blunders so common that profes-entry. I assumed that "Tápan sional soldiers had long discount would make no move against us રે the possibility of effective until
after we were committed fo allied action, unless available re- the European 'war. Moreover, sources were so great an to assure I was wrong me to time, victory
inimdation. by
Even seemed to me that we would be bril- Napoleon's reputation ng a
to defend compelled
ourselves Liont military leader suffered
tered against the Axis within a year of when students in staff colleges the war's outbreak. came to realise that he always From -1091 onward.
a number of the Army The young man, Colonel Frank Love Field. Exhausted, mentally fought against coalitions. and of senior officers of the occupation, namely, mell's return to the United McCarthy, acknowledged as much and physically, we accepted the therefore against divided counsels had frequently expressed to me and diverse political, economie, their conviction that the world powers to conduct or direct States is told in Mrs. Stilwell's and Joe said: "Well, I'm not orders with as much grace as
and military interests,
was heading straight toward an- for the time being Germany's words in the following nar- leaving Washington until I talk possible and I was given a room
with General Marshall,"
Primarily the Allied task was othof global war. I shored these with the WASPS. The girls were foreign relations, to exercise rative.].
views... It seemed clear that d-colonel-Me- very understanding and hosto utilise the resources of two minimum control over Ger-
Marshall Carthy,
nations with the decisive- freat General ispitable.
and Stilwell
every action of the latatorships In Japan, Germany, arness of single authority.
and Italy and the crew of tonight leaving Washing man foreign trade, to exer-
of the plane were man forts in seater
won't be back for several days" tered in transient barracks, with
There was no precedent to
pointed to their determination to chart by which 10 seize whatever "I know," said Joe, "but
territories "they as reparations, the level of that my husband did not expect shan't leave until I see him. And sure that no one interviewed him, secr
an MP guard at the door, to make follow, no
Where nations previously might happen to want, and that industry, disarmament, de- to remain in China much longer, by the way," he added, "do you
had acted effectively in concert these ambitions would early force The next morning we had I realised that this news meant have militarisation and, certain as-
into condict. 口 cell ready for me that bis
at very late start, due to bad wea- against a common foe, one mem- democratic nations service in the China- Leavenworth?" pects of scientific research, Burma-India theatre
ber of the coalition had usually Many believed, however, that in ther, but eventually we neated was at an Colonel The Military Governors will end. Arrangements werd made got up, and excused himself.
McCarthy, reddened, Carmel. As we flew over the been so strong as to be the do- pushing England and France to Now it was war Hitler had at last, misca}- Salinas valley with its beautifulminating partner, also resume the exercise of for me to travel east in order to
produce effective culated. We sat talking for a moment fields and air of peace, General necessary to their full powers in an emer-meet General Stilwell on his ar- and, Joe made a few remarks Stilwell began to hum. He was unity out of concessions volun-
about fresh young men, which I nearing home. We circled Car tarily made. gency threatening security rivul in Washington.
reached, Washington on von't repeat, and we went back mel so that he could look down and, if necessary, to secure November first in General Bone- to our apartment. Shortly, Gen-on his home-the place he loved compliance with the German steel's plane and stayed at the ral Marshall, who lived around most in the world-and he lean- constitution or the occupation Omeers Club at Fort Myer. The the corner, arrived at the aparted back and sighed. Could he statute.
next day I was taken to the field ment and again I took a walk rest, I wondered, will his mind in grent secrecy, and at the ex- this time for over an hour. It and heart so full? pected hour--3:00 p.m.-"Uncle was the same story: "Not a word We landed at Del Monte Air Joe's Charlo!" arrived. Generalis is dynamite," Joe was al- Fleid оп Monday, November Sulwell jumped off at once and ready sick and tired of the entire sixth, at noon. It was a beauti- came over to me, hugged me, and proceedings and the atmosphere ful day for a homecoming. Our No one can doubt that the then we entered the car.
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