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GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940.
| THE FORTY-NINTH INSTALMENT
CRUSADE IN EUROPE
The enveloping movement from the South therefore had as its first, objective: the destruction or capture of the German forces in the Mortain-Falaise region, while at the same line there re
the
for malneri
opportunity sweeping up. remaining portions of the German Fast and Seventh Arinics by directing an event
ent toward wider employment
the
of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
In
Did ON SEPE alitt et arde
was defined..
My
stand own
of the fighting forces there grew F45% optinkin, almost A light- heartedness, that failed to look squarely in the face, such fäctörs as the 'faguticism Kof Trent por- tions of the German Army and the
remaining arength of a ma- tion that was inspired to des- perate action, if by no other thin the Gestapo, and nicons a complete Malo, a mail port on the North 1 Storm Troopers, who were com- trends of the Seine River. Thai might have won us
battle of annihilation.
coast of the Brittany Peninsula. pletely loyal to their master, operation assumed this over-all Mix-ups on the front occurred. The garrison resisted fanatically Hitler, HK$18.00 picture: Montgomery's 'army) and (there was 'nb why to halt but Middleton war abla, with Our new situation brought up
group was httacking
generally them except by stopping troops co-operating nir and naval one of the longest-sustained HK$30.00 | Krowy
southward against Die old Nov in place, even at the cost of al- forces, to bring to bear enough arguments that I lund, with Prime
beachhead
Minister Churchill defences; towing some Germans to escape, power to reduce it by August
throughout mundy
forces, with thalt while Bradley's YOTCO
In
considerable 14, although remants of the gar. the the aggregato
period of this witr. This left anchored near
near the
numbers of Germans succeeded in rison held out for three more argument, beginning ainios! initial the
break-through;| getting away. Their escape, how days the eltadel of the town. coincidentally with the break, were carrying out the great en ever, meant an almost completo Middleton then pushed on to the through late July, lasted velopment intended to trap the abandonment of their heavy Westward and. renched the throughout the must ten days, of entire
German force sill be equipment and was accomplished vicinity of Brest. The comtman-August. One sessien laated sev tween his marching columns and only by terrifle sacrifices.
der of the German garrison there eral hours. The discusalons in- | generally as follows: was in Bradley's head was named Rameke, a formid- volved the wisdom of going It's exciting to be a minor- the front of the British Twenty-
ters when of a first Army Group,
Experience of the past proved menn- quarters
ahead with Anvil, by then re- Ity, to be the citizen
from arrive
comman- Middleton small nation.
vigorously prosecut- named Dragoon, the code hame that we were likely to be vastly Not always time the Allied air forces kept to
advanced the siege but the defences for the operation that was to disappointed in the usefulness of pleasant, often even danger-up an incessant battering against.ders of
possible crossings of the American columns, complain were stong and the Rarrison was bring in General Devers's forces the Brittany parts. Not only did
determined, ous and devastating, but sel-Seine so as to impede the escape ing that the limills placed upon
Any attempt to through the South of France. we expect them to be stubbornly dom dull. Think of the of.. any German forces that might them by their orders were al capture the place in a single an One of the early reasons for defended but we were certain they
Isault would be extremely costly
planning this attack was to would be effectively destroyed onco tears and miseries of the try to cross to the north of that lowing Germans to escape.
We dit trap, could be completely supported Bradley in to us. Fortunately our prospects achieve an additional port of we had captured them. Irish, and the sentimental, river before the
closed. Perfection of co-ording his decision that it was neces for securing better ports than entry through witch the rein-not expect this destruction
Marseille because songful world fame they on in
Breat fssary
began to obey the oxters, Pen brighter just after the middle of ed in America could pour rapidly such an operation
much forcing divisions already prepar- so marked at
we know that a large portion of have achieved by them; ameult to achieve.
zeribing the boundary between trust, and in any event we had into the European frivaalori. The the defending forces had already think of the spontaneous
never counted on the use of that Prime Minister held that we been drawn Northward to meet sympathy afforded to "poor
placo so much nz we had on were now assured of early use our attacks. Capture should be so little Belgium” in 1914:-
Quiberon Bay. In these circum- of the Brittany ports and that swift as to allow little time for think right back to the time-
stances Middleton was directed the troops then in the Mediter demolition. to avoid heavy losses in the ranean could be brought in via The distance from Brest to the less fame of the Spartans
Brest area but was also directed Brittany, or even might better be when they faced the Persian
to continue The pressure hosts at Thermopylae. No,
the garrison should surrender. we are not being unduly
I visited him during the con- cynical about minorities or
duct of the siege and surveyed the defences that we would have defenceless peoples: that
to overcome. He skillfully kept wouldn't
up a series of attacks, ench de-
even be fashion- able. But in the world of today one cannot afford to have one's vision clouded by metaphysical inhibitions: minorities can be powerful in influence, propaganda and finance, and-the-reputed-ag gressor in actual fact a sober and decent element all too keen to respect human rights and preserve peace.
The difficulty is that one always puts oneself in the wrong by standing up against the tirades of the vocal minority with a chip on its shoulder. It may even be dangerous for the well- balanced person to discuss a social problem honestly, for getting the prejudices liable to be set loose. It was, for
any
In the
CARLATAN
COUTANCES
GANVILLE
VIRE
ARMY
-FOUGÈRE
ANNES
ARMY
LAVAL
THE FALAISE ENCIRCLEMENT
LINĖ OF AUGUST 14 -
.
ALENÇONN
the
-AU HEWKE
LE MANK
begun messages
able fighter,
to
Brow
via the
To any such
head of
were mote
in
ba
until used in the prosecution of the Metz region was greater than the Italian campaign with the even distance from Marselle to Metz. til purpose of Invading the The railway lines connecting the Halkaris
the two former points were much more.
tortuous and Adriatic.
coxlly damaged than was the case with change I wae regard to the lines up the Rhone signed to minimise Our awn opposeil, and since the United River.. losses but constantly to crowd States Chiefs of Staff, following ! the enemy back into a more their usual practice, declined to Unless Marseille were captured; restricted aren, where he was interfere with the conclusions of we would be unable to speed up intermittently subjected to the commander in the field, I in- the arrival of American divisiens bombing by our abseraft,
stantly became the Individual from the homeland.
whom the Prime Minister The entry of a sizable force into Munistica situade. In the gorrison
-tingent of German-SS troops directed all his argument.
tastico and strategie support to our own oporation,
on
By the night of August 13, the he army groups, exactly na
Armoured US. 15th
Division written; otherwise a calamitous between under General Oliver, a veteran brittle
- friends could of the African campaign, was in have resulted. the outskirts of Argentan. The In the face of complete dir- French 2nd Armoured Division oster the enemy fought desper- under General Jacques LeClero ately to hold upon the mouth of was near by and the U.S.. 79th the closing pocket no as to save and 90th Divisions were in close as much as he could from the
were still deb
debacle. German commanders instance, highly unwise of J, Upport. The Just south of concentrated
fighting
particularly esperately Arthur Rank to produce the Chen, where by this time they saving armoured elements, and film "Oliver Twist" with the had established the strongest while a disappointing portion of get idea of coining American defences encountered throughout their Panzer divisions dit dollars, unconcerned that the the entire campaign. The Cana back across the Seine, they major villain was a Jew. It dlans threw in ferce and sustain so at the east of a great propor
Eight divisions
two Panzer divisions were captured atmost in their entirely.
The battlefield at Falaise was unquestionably one of the great.
is norime for Ben Hecht-August 15 that was not until ten of the equipment.
Falaise was final~| Infantry
that rorist by remote con ly captured. Caen, by then trol and his friends to spon-heap of rubble, had been cap-
an
did
sor full page advertisements |ured July the enemy was st "killing, grounds" of any of
By
bringing
rate
reinforcements
·DETÒR
with
in the Américan papers vilifying Britain-in-the most the Seine an rapidly as he could: the war-areas. Roads, highways, extreme terms, but it is en- Five divisions entered the battle and felda were so choked with
destroyed equipment and tirely another matter to re-area during the Week August verse the process.
5-12 but as before, they were dead men and animals that pas
sage through the area was ex-
the closing of the
gap i was in part, read: conducted through it on foot,
unable to affect the outcome.
font tremely dimeull. 48 hours after On August 18, 1 sent a personal trep message, to the Allled con
command
Because this opportunity may to encounter scenes that could
Was P con-
instead of using these in a single briot, he advanced the Southern France provided definite
First, it would protect and sup port the right flank as we can- tinued our advance toward the
body, General Ramcke distribut-points: ed them among all other Germon We no longer had any need of formations in the defences, In the port of, Marseille and the line this way he used the fanaticism of communication leading North of the SS troopers to keep the ward from it. Troops In America heart of the German resistance. entire garrison fighting desper- could. come in vin. Brittany,
sign. of ately, because at any
The attack through the South weakening on SS trooper would of, France was so far removed
BRITTANY SWEEP
AUG 1 -12, 1944
MU CORPS
ASTRANICHES
/RENHES
MONTAIN
NAZAIRE
MANTES
10 10 MILES 30
50
Secondly, by joining it to our own. right flank we would automatically cut off oil regions Westward of that point, capture the chemy troops remaining back of the point of junction, and free all of France to assist us both passively and actively.
Without the Dragoon attack we would have to protect our right Bank all the way from the base of the Brittany Peninsula to the most forward point of our attacking This
would havo
meant. immobilisation of large numbers of divisions, stationed along the right merely to insure our own safety against raids by small mobile forces. Thera de fonding divisions could scarcely in later aggrez- have participated siyo action.
As yet we had secured as a per- manent port only Cherbourg. Tho lines leading out of it were on- incapable of maintaining tirely our fighting forces along tho front, Our maintenance and administrative,
position would never be equit to the final con- quent of Germany until wo had recured Antwerp on the North and Marseille or equivalent pect faci
Once we had execute the offender on the spot. (geographically from the troops in lities on our right.
Brest fell on September 19. Northern France, that there was decomplished this, I was curtain, and its fuelties no tactical connection between we could marshal on the borders of Germany & aufficient strength,
ד: איי
In the same way, the en- circled Molotov, Vyshinsky and company can employ the most bitter gutter diatribes against the West, but If the be grasped only through: the ut described only by. Danic. It was The harbour
literally possible to walk for hnd been so completely wrecked theni. "capitalist Imperialists" re- most in zeal, determination and hundreds of, yards at a time, by our bombing and by German The troops to be used under both in troops and in supplies, to taliate, that only shows how speedy action, make my pre-stepping on noting but dead demolitions that we never made General Devers in the Southern launch final and decisivo offen low they can stoop. Anyone at appeal to you more urgent and decaying flesh.
can
000
to use it.
With
any attempt
invasion would have more effectives that would knock Germany than ever before. *-
directed In the wider sweep criticise England, or
When the Allied armies finally winning the war by driving foi completely out of the war. request... every 'olman Scotland, or France or make this direct responsibility against the crossings of the Seine completed their envelopinent of ward in Italy and into the Bal- aut auch facilities we would in- behind the German Anny, the the German forces West of the kans and "threatening deemany evitably outrun our maintenance enemy China; they are regarded as that the is blasted rapidly advancing
We would then find Americans Seine the eventual defeat of the from the South that they would capacity. fair game.
But attack, or ceasingly by day, and by night, were also forced to halt to avold German in Western Europe was by pursuing the originally planned quracives in a position such natio even expostulate with the fight or in fight.
and is denied safety either in overrunning their objectives und a certainty. The question of line of action,
British had no often experienced in minorities, and
Bring into friendly troops. is a request every callor to mako German again seized
The time alone remained. A donger, Our entry into the Balkans their advances Westward from mental pariah, and had often sure, that no part of the hostile portunity to
the op- however, that Immediately pre-would encourage that entire regios Egypt, an experience that was re- escape with sented-itself was that our own to flame into open revolt against peated by Rommel when he floally better beware of one's live forces can either escape, on Ea
greater portion of his strength populations and their govern- Hitler, and would permit ang to attained the El Alamein ile and lihood and social position.
on the Innd want for if the exact situation could have still to be accomplished, and so and equipment which would make advantage. ・・ ̈ ̈ nothing that Runs and ships and heen completely foreseen.
might slacken the home-front tha, effogta of these Ibrees), more criticism must be made. In ship companies
can bring. to
which While the bulk of Bradley's effort,
could have the effective. this case the subject is the them. No 40
forces Was engaged int these gravest consequences. I not new state of Israel, much,
and overrunning only brought, this danger; to the I request every soldier to go great battles, publicised home of the rem- forward to his assigned objective France toward Paris, General attention of my superiors, nants of Hitler's murderous with the determination that the Middleton's VIII Corps turned early as August 15 held' a press terror. Unofficial but well merry can survive only through back to the Westward to over conference, predicting that there surrender: Yet no foot of around run the Brittany Peninsula and was one more critical task, re- Informed sources in Britain
once gained be
be relinquished nor lo capture, the ports in that area. maining to the Allied forces-- have warned America that singie German escape through Wp were still of the belief that the destruction of the Germun the UK may be drawn into a line once catablished.
some use would have to be made armies along the general Une q war if Israeli "pensfration
With the zreat
bulk of all the of Quiberon Bay, and possibly the Siegfried and the Rhine. Allled forcos
Nevertheless on occasion by sea, and that our than would have been the cussments might underrate the task carry to the resistance, forces arms way then unable to exploit his
into Egypt and Trunsjordan
but as
continues: Britain hay, takit; | Limeter, lecking from, the of Brest, Middleton was direct- This word of caution was, swept
tory alliances with these
half-circle edy to capture these places as away. In the general rojolcing the quickly as possibiq. He made a over the great,victory, and evon.
should
countries, and may be obligalle amounts rapid, advance and invested St. among the, professional leaders
coming to tuncul
which each, eto implement them if the hall, In order nus, to become In- volved against Kriendly units energetic and Inexperienced
opposito direc now, state, insists on her ex- don. won, moves, bu
radioy's veristomed though it is to troops, march vituperation, and attack, the wheel, had much farther to go lo British public was enormous British and Canadian troops. On close the trap" thâns dias, the ly relleved when we gave the other hand, the latter wore up the mandate of Palestine.still faced up agalist prep It would be fantastic if we defences and their were how, drawn into arm-was limited to the advabo ed conflict in the Middle East ended areas, Munt
make, thrqu”h: kiô; bolling bot. There is also in: close touch with the danger of vast inter-but so ropld-was, 16, my nationalrépercusalons. Yes-of the American leroy's auxgestion that, the almost liposable US had told Israel that she hours by-hour-oo-o faced the loss of American bearing to deg
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