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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1948.
THE FIFTEENTH INSTALMENT
CRUSADE IN EUROPE
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
it was deemed equally important pured dently we had to be pre-
the
their
French American troops
great
In organising the venture ono
distributed in the landing tables of the most important factors
that in only a few instances were was the estimated political situa-
they in the actual assault waves. tion in North Africa. This was
Obviously the French African an extremely complicated ques-
forces and the population would tion, which had been under study
learn, soon after the initial land- by both the United States and
Ings, of British participation but British governmenta for a con-
It was believed that If entry siderable length of time.. Both
could be gained and our friendly Reporters & General Office 32312 governments were convinced that
nttitude promptly
clearly (four lines)
the expedition should be on ex- the years 1940-42 to indicate can facade to the attacking force proved, possible complications
WAS CRSY enough at Casablanca would be minimised. clusively American in complexion that this would decur; it was a
Specia All the as it was possible to make it, but hope rather than an expectation. and Oran.
attacking American Bags decorated almost forces at the former place were every man and vehicle. H.K.$18.00 to make the expedition so large which, in all, were estimated to States. The Oran assault involving, and rechecking finally evolved to Aght against forers to come directly from the United Out of study, revision, check- in numerlent strength that number 200.000. But our govern- the U.S. 1st Infantry Division the essentials of the attack, plan, H.K.$30.00 local French government and
merits could
were clear in logic-
in-and, parts of the U.S. 1st Arm- H.K$72.00 milltary commanders con
ally plead "overwhelming structions that we were to strive oured Division, both then station- and these, regardless of changing strength" to the Vichy govern- to create an ally in North Africa; in the United Kingdom. Sluce details, were adhered to roligi-
ously. We would attack Casab ment and its Nazt overlords, as we were not to set as if we were lack of shipping did not permalt lanes, Oran, and Algiers. United
sletling character and an excuse for the prompt aur-conquering a hostile territory un-us to bring more foress directly States forces would then protect gallantry in combat. Ryder was render and later co-operation we less this attitude should be forced from the United States, the only our rear in Morocco, and the
to lend the attack only until the that could be British forces, as rapidly as they city was continued hoped to obtain.
upon us by
Once our captured. Fundamentally the expedition resitance. Everything that might committed to the Algiers attack could Innd was eerived in the hope that induce
the situation Easter Tak Force was Analy the French forces in were part of the 34th Division, might permit, would rush for established, command was to be
Tunis. the French forces, officials, and Africa to Join us was incorporated then in Ireland, reinforced by
aken over by Lieutenant General population of North West Africa into our plans, Including careful regiment of the U.S. 9th Division I notilled General Marshall of Sir Kenneth A.‚N. Anderson, com-
This and and Ronger battalion.
my desire to have General Pallon manding the British First Army. woubt permit our entry without wording of pronouncements
enough for the command the Casablanca expedi- I was his mission to dash East- fighting and would Joy with us proclamations to be issued coin was not strong
and within a short true battle againstcidentally with the beginning of task in the event that any real tion commun
wurd as rapidly as the situation However,
resistance should there was the invasion.
met, but George'reported to me in London,
might permit, in an effort to nothing In the political history of To provide an entirely Ameri-Heltish supporting units were so where he was thoroughly briefed secure Tunis. General Anderson on his portion of the plan. Hard- Aliant Scot, devoted to ly had be returned to Washing | duty and absolutely sclẞess. ton before I received a message Honest and straightward, he was stating that he had become en-blunt, at times to the point of broed in such a di-tressing arguidenes, and this trait, eurlous- ment with the Navy Department by enough, seemed to bring him that serious thought was bring kita reflict with his British alven to his rellef from command confreres more than it did with Feeling certain that the difcuity, the Americans, His real dim- whatever its nature, was nothing culty was probably shyness. He more than the result of
a bit of was not a popular typo but I had George's flair for the dramatic, real respect for his fighting heart. protested at once, sugesting that Even his most severe critics must if his nersonality was causing any find it mcult to discount the meulty in conferences the Issue smashing victory he finally at- could be met by sending him out tained in Tunisin.
THE CHINA CRISIS Whether the much-trum- peted victories of Chiang's forces in the Hsuchow area are genuine successes and, as Nanking claims, have turned the tide, should appear in the next few days. But they are, in any event, unlikely to affect the North China situa- tion which is steadily de- teriorating with the Peiping- Tientsin corridor gradually narrowing. Had General Fu Tsn-yi, when he was first ap- pointed to cummand a year ato, been given the equip ment he asked for and a free hand, he would have had a reasonably good chance of holding the area, but the ac- tions of the National Govern. ment, both political and mili tary, have always been too late. Generál Fu Tso-vi was given a minimum of his re- quirements while the No- fionalist generals though nominally placed under his command, actually took their orders direct from Nanking until, with the loss of Man- churia, everything was con- ceded, with only the slight est prospect at this stage of Fu being able to turn it use- fully to account. This hesit- ant attitude has permeated the whole of the campaign. It has been due partly to the Generalissimo's over-cen- tralisation of his regime and partly to jealousy at the pos- sibility of the creation of a semi-independent North China, which will now be completely lost in quence. In the face of the abject failure of the Kuomin- tang leadership to themselves equal to its task. with the return of all the vices of Chinese Govern ment, its corruption, vacilla- tion, its reluctance to take any responsibility, and hence its failure to evoke any spirit of disinterested patriotism, it
conse-
in the
Germany.
DON IDDON'S
IDDON'S DIARY
be
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S VICTORY LESSON
Meinorandum to the Conserva- | tive Party.
Cinur Attention, please, Mr. chill, Mr. Eden, all party whips, organisers, members, supporters, candidates, and young hopefuls,
one
Week since the American Presklential election.
Has the lesson been learned? Is the message plain?
If the answer is "No," then the chances are slight of the Con- servative Party replacing the So-
cinlists in 1950.
to
the
who
kalfed him,
At the Pinnacle This modesty has the populace drooling into their heer and say ing: "What a guy, what a re-
one
of
dollurs
(£25,000,000) this is Just one
and
The British
de
De
with his troops and allowing some From the inception of the inva- governmenta staff member to represent him in slon project, our the completion of planning de- carefully considered the possi- The US. is a happy place to dozen worth more than 100-talls. In any event the matter blility of including General de live in just now. Everyone seems 000,000
Gaulle, then in London, in Torch was passed over. Jubilant. An extraordinary num- } aplece. And
I well know that Patton de-planning. Units under his com ber of people 1 never even sus-State,
lighted to startle his hearers with mand had taken part in the ill- thought pected announce they
It is also talking about Joc fantastic statements; many men fated Dakar expedition, where all along Truman would win. Louls, who is not only broke but who believed they knew him well the attacking forces had to retire No one apparently voted for the red and therefore deler- never penetrated past the shell in confusion in the face of local
14 to 1 on mined to fight again to recoup of showmanship in which he con- Dewey, The ouds of
French resistance. the Governor must have been a his fortune, if possible, but de- stantly and carefully clothed always believed that this fasco cooked-up
calumny. Truman
Anitely to
wipe out his deficit; himself. But he was essentially resulted from leaks in De Gaulle's diid never
look
Our in- like losing about the Horse Show the most a shrewd battle leader who in London headquarters. didn't he say so himself? colourful and formal event of the variably gained the devotion of structions from the two govern- All this is pardonable and scoton-star turn the riding of his subordinates. From early life menta, possibly coloured by this
early About the only the Royal
experience, Canadian Mounted his one ambiton was to be a suc-unfortunate very human. If you keep the old line, person
who isn't indulging in Police.
commander. cessful battlefield
to the effect that under no were playing
ing it safe, as the Republicans crowing or telling other people In fashions the Truman look Because of this be was an inve- circumstances was any informa- did. If you represent big busi- to eat crow is the President him- has arrived-neat, natty, nimble- į terate reader of military history tion concerning the proposed ex- ness, special interests, privilege, self. In his hour of triumph he looking costumes priced at less and his heroes were the great pedition to be communicated to
bas rejected all temptation to in than £5, and guaranteed to wear captains of past ages.
General de Gaulle. und the people with correct ac-
dulge in a litle self-glory or a well.
All the mannerisms and idio- There was confirmation of the cents, I'm afraid you are lost.
that assumption
General syncrasies he developed were of assu The Alibi Hunt Your best hope is to go out and mill "I told you so." do battle, as Harry Truman did.
"Не 15 shaking by the hand
his own deliberate adoption. One Gaulle's presence in the Initial Get to the people and talk their warmly men
Hollywood, still shaken by the of his poses,
for example, was assaulting forces would incite de- most hard-boiled termined opposition on the part language, announce the profit-beaming on Southern rebels, re-election results, is looking around that of the
for alibis, lke everyone else. Individual in the Army. Actually of the French garrisons. During sharing projects, woo the unions, marking kindly about Mutineer saying he Socialist Henry Wallace, and
the big studios had he was so softhearted, particular- the course
of our Most-of
planning in and out-perform Party with free enterprise,
takes no credit for anything-it prediented their plans on a Dewey ly where a personal friend was London a constant stream of in- Throw out the cautious and was all the people's doing.
concerned, that it was possibly formation came to us from con- victory.
Later in the Now all those plans have been his greatest fault, Bre the scientific cunning men, experts, purge the plutocrats, and
the film people are pointing outed that I discharge eighty of his Africa throughout the war. hurled through the window and war he once vehemently demand-suls an other officials whom our State Department maintained in Ail banish the Brahmins. prove
Win over
that Harry Truman, after all, is officers because, as he said, of of this information was to and you will! the working man
themselves-plans- inefficiency and timidity border-effect that in the regular amcer win the election.
was, A
corps of the French Army If there is any Conservativegular feller." Today Harry Tru- player, and quite obviously the ing on cowardice. He
that time,
const- Gaulle was, at (modernise that party title too) man is at the very pinnacle of greatest showman in the coun-exercised and so persistent that Gaulle
ngx cod, contingent upon popular favour, more passionately
his dered
His disloyal soldier. 3 who doubts me, a trip to the
The unhappiest man in Calirending me a report in writing, standing with the resistance ele post-election U.S. will convince loved than even the great Rouse-
velt (there was
by occasionally an forala is Governor Earl Warren. Apparently astonished aristocratic aloofness about who could not even
at that mo vastly different. But at tha It is now utterly plain that a
carry his acquiescence, he began postponing menis of the civil population was Right-Wing
own State with all of Hollywood's resistance elements, parti- party de Gaulle's
F.D.R.)
At the moment Mr. Truman
cuse of another, the submission of ariy help
in Atrica, were victory in France is hardly re-
could ask for
confessed. anything and li Many actors and actresses are his lot. Finally he
articulate is not, surprising that in mastlevani-cannot win a free election
and ineffective-and If it talks platitudes and general- this is typical of the man, he is pollsters have been discredited.
would be granted. Instead, and pleased that the public opinion rather sheepishly, that he had parts of the country the ad-
reconsidered and wanted to dig we had to win over the armed
services as a fire objective. ties, lectures the voters, scoffs vent of the Reds has failed
sitting
quietly at Key West, Films, theatres, and radlo are charge no one.
It is possible to understand The Centre Task Force, progressive legislation, packs it Florida, "resting up and thinking as contemptuous today of pro- to produce a spirit which is
platforms with representatives of not utterly apathetic. The the moneyed classes, and relles an about things."
fessional polls as President Tru-U. S. II Corps, to attack Oran, why De Gaulle was disliked with- was under command of Major in the ranks of the French Army. man, and much more bitter and
At the time of France's Burren- |attitude varies of course ac-
poiltakers and an arrogant Press.
excitement over the election vindictive.
General Lloyd R. Fredendall. income: cording to
those
President Truman's victory has
The clection also demonstrated had known him only slightly beder in 1940 the officers who re
málned in the Army had accept- made clear politically the direct post-mortem, but in the past day better-off regarding the Com-line of our times.
topics have crept The New Deal or two other
that big box-office names in the fore the beginning of the African Into table-talk.
business cannot operation but his reputation as a cd the position and orders of munist sweep with some dis-
entertainment Is not dead, though now they call
and organiser was their government and had given Interest in the forthcoming
up the fight. From their view aulet; while the poorer the "Trudeal,"
Roosevelt's heritage
of stars than excelled. has classes if not actually extend-
not royal birth is intense, particular lure voles. Governor Dewey had Ane trainer
bigger line-up
Cochran, and Shubert The Eastern Task Force, to point, if the course chosen by Do ing welcoming arms
withered away. Everyone but they among women. Perhaps you arc
do not realise how popular Bri-
under con- copture Algiers, had a somewhat Gaulle was correct, then every
organisation. To pre- French
officer who obeyed the ple and Harry Truman, who is
do? They curious Republic, which rejected a king. Hound one of them, weren't fooled.
Well, a
The pubile, tip-off is that the that actors
the assaulting force they were poltroon. If De Gulle was a loyal and actresses can
General Prenchman they had to regard under Major Charles W. Ryder, the command-themselves as cowards. "Natur- teism-simply do fervour, Indignation, faith, scep-
ing general of the U.S. 34th ally the officers did not choose to not go
for Division. He had established a think of themselves in this light; political rantings from mum- splendid record in the first World rather they considered themselves War, in which he wen battlefield as loyal Frenchmen carrying out The Transatlantle interchange promotions to the grade of lou-the orders of consituted civilian of talent gets buster, Sir Charles tenant colonel at a very early age authority, and it followed that Magazines and feature pages of Cochran, Vivian Ells, and Henry and had enjoyed a reputation as they officially and personally re newspapers are decorated with Sherek sailed back to England on a sound soldier throughout the garded De Gaulle as a deserter.
Herbert photographs of Princess Elizabeth Saturday, and
Wilcox, years Intervening between the and Philip, and there are long Anna Neagle,
Arthur and Sir
two wars.
• To Be Continued He was a man of articles about Court traditions Jarratt arrived. and rules. Suspense is consider- The success of Arthur Rank's "Hamlet" is now Bo great that Golden Gushers the Alm is to be released in
him.
at
New York is still bolling with
combina ever. had
my
the
I
in-
hopeful. believing that affairs people thought so. Only the peo-tain's Royal Family is in this tract, and what did they knowing serve the American character of orders of his government was a
· HONG KONG TO MANILA ....................20th November, Friday This feeling was intensified
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The business men were,
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cannot be worse mismanaged than by the Kuomintang.
by the currency "swindle" whereby law-abiding citizens were "robbed" of four-fifths of their savings by loyally exchanging hard currencies for the gold yuan. There is. too, a strongly held belief that a Communist conquest of the greater part of the Truman. country would be followed
They All Knew None of us has a worthwhile alibi, although I take some siight| pride from saying in print before the polls opened, that had I been American I would have voted for
by the severance of any im- [directed from some central
Hopped. crowds which welcomed the portray any emotion at will placed King and Queen to Washington a few months before the war were approximately the same in size as those which greeted President Truman when he returned to the capital lust Friday.
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Footnote: Whatever to err is- lenst a dozen men there wort their period of usefulness are in consultation about the over 50,000,000 dollars each, half it is certainly not Truman. hed terminated. It is more China situation as it has now than likely too that before developed. Despite all talk very long there would be of land and other reforms, it split between the new rulers, is impossible to visualise how with the customary purgings the Communists can put on and. more than likely, a re-its feet economically a coun- vival of something akin to try which they have sys- the warlordlism, which stematically ruined by their disfigured the early years of own efforts,, except in the the Chinese Republic. Nor extremely unlikely event of does the danger stop there. American recognition and China is not Russia's sole financial help. On the other target in the East any more hand, the United States may KONG? than Greece is her only tar-well look with despair at the et in the West. In Malaya prospects of yet one more at and Indonesia, In Burma and tempt to bolster a cracking Can Siam, there are organised Nanking regime. As a mini-cognise Communist campaigns direct- mum they would have to this picture was taken? Ths, an=" ed. to the overthrow of exist supply counsel and leader-swer in In Pegs ing governments whether ship as well as arms, for it | Bavende European or Aslatic. The would be worse than useless tactics employed are those of to supply arms to troops who terrorism and there seems have dovelőpéd" "a habit of reason to suppose that each throwing them down for the of theso campaigns are enemy to pick up.
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