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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1949.
THE FIFTY-THIRD INSTALMENT
CRUSADE IN
Complete
tion
task of
wartime co-ordina-
perfetta peralen Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
every purpose,
be equal
Own Story Of The War
to sense of available is the body of tend to
serlous,
In Europe
JOACH were
enormous.
EUROPE
chose to
to wage on the
ecoded, in spite of defcut and dis- order, in withdrawing significant numbers of their troops across the can never be nehloved betwees.
Seine, there stil remninert the the press and military authori-
hope of constructing another trap Men. For the commander secrecy
for them before they could re- is a defensive weapon to the
organise and present an effective press it is anathema. The task
defensive front. Portions of the to develop a procedure that takes into
German Firteenth Army still re- under- necount an
mained in the Calals area, where Landing uf bath viewpoints.
To cover the whole enemy
they would provide a stiffening The press is primarily and the press. properly concerned with provid- under an umbrella of imperson- Since our landings three of the core for the retreating troops of the First and Seventh Armies. It Information to the public at allty deprives the soldier of this enemy's marshals and one army 10p
been dismissed was considered possible
that home. Civilian effort produces satisfaction and is sooner or later commander hand the fighting formations and the reflected in open
complaint. from their posls or incapucftater some resistance would be attempt- equipment necessary to achieve Moreover, any enemy worthy of by wounds. Rommel was badly ed along one of the natural de Victury.
wounded by one of our strafing fences provided by the waterways Civilians ** entitled the name quickly learns through
A surprise Vertical Saturday to know
the front-line contacts the identity of planes on July 19. Some months of Belgium. everything about BANDYSIDE-On
opposing him. To later he committed suicide to es-envelopment by airborne troops war that need not remain secret all units evening at The Queen Mary Hospital, Miss Vera Handy through the overriding require-pursue the ostrichlike policy of cape trial for alleged complicity appeared to offer the best hope
enemy August 28 and this great port was contrary merely in the July 20 murder plot against of encirclement if the In-pretending the of the Education De-ment of military security,
no Hitler. One army
make commander, press and does
a stand.
being rehabilitated. cnrages the
three
and As quickly as the defeat of the Thoro
assured commanders,
developments partment, beloved daughter deed, the commander in the field
согра of Mr. & Mrs. W. L. liandy-must never forget that it is his good.
to co-operate with the Under the policy adopted by teen division commanders had Germans on the Normandy front eventual solution of our logistical
or captured. The became Funeral will pass the duty Ride.
certain, airborne forces problem, which meant that with- on 5 p.m.
beads of his government in the the American forces in Europi, been killed
tost Monument at
of
400,000 killed!, were directed to prepare plans for in sumable time we would maintaining a clvillas a
responsibility enemy had great deal Monday, January 10, 1949.
morale that will
te devolves
Recredited wounded, or captured, Half the drops in a number of successive be in position the Цреп press representatives. One of total were prisoners of war, and positions, the appropriate spot to German border a battle of a scale intensity that the спету To do this effectively. the these in to write fairly and with 133,000 of these had been taken be selected when the developing and
How- TWO THINGS.
principal aftency
Serne in the month subsequent to July situation should indicate the one could not hope to match. perspective.
promise. become advocales and 25.
of greatest the commander
The mere ever, there was much to be dang There are two things that
particular unit German materlel losses inclul paper planning of such operations before we could be in this for the Security Council of the press representatives in his thea supporters of a
tanks, 20,000 other was, while Inborious, A simple tunate position, and we had little ire. These represent every type or a particular commander. This ed 1,300 United Nations ought to do
assault allled vehicles, 500
guns, and matter. However, when actual remaining elasticity in our over- newspaper and periodical, becomes
lep strained supply lines. n planned drap
On the on the Dutch "police action" of
sudio chain, and
phic command, when the bias hus also 1,500 pieces of artillery. In addi- preparation for photographic
and Patch's It should no
Bradley's Unplen- tion the German air forces had was undertaken, delicately bal-Suth in Indonesia.
nationalistic tinge. both motion and still, 42 service,
More than anced
alternatives
to make a junction, arose, suffered extensively.
presented forces had the sant Incidents of course commanders resent longer be content to argue Some
1
lines
up the Rhone non- and the fault was sometimes de- 3,500 of his aircraft had been des themselves. Preparation for air- and railway this body of competence presence of
On about its own
borne attack required the with wohl have to be repaire.!. which sometimes but should get a definite rul-combatants,
drawal of transport planes from the North We were faced by even considerable size: ing from an international grown
a total
supply purposes, and it was dit-treater meulties. It should there was, at one time.
times. to determine
Antwerp
an inland port con- Europena
1s an legal authority.
ficult, nt of 943 White the no longer be content to de-
theatre.
whether greater results could not nected with the sea by the great The German by achieved by continuing. the Scheldt Estuary. When
fhist 1
General cide on what are too often
planes in supply activity.
covering there np. and Montgomery cx parte and tendentious Alexuntles
Unfortunately this withdrawal Propeltes were still intact and be- Afrlen they favoured the imb"sl-
fare statements but endeavour to
We cortile make use of the planes from other work had to ascertain the real facts of lion upon préss representatives.
precede an airborne operation by port we had the job of clearing and regulations, the situation. Its Commit-of strict rules
several days, to provide time for out those defences
The task on
the North refitting equipment and for brie- tee of Good Offices (in In- and their list of censorable items Was long. They were awore
fing and retaining of crews. In late prisest three parts. We had to donesia) might have helped that reporters were present
August. with our supply situation secure n line far enough to the here but that body has been the theatre of operations by the
Eastward to cover Antwerp and growing constantly more desper
railways leading too
all of us eagerly the roads and concerned with argu-authority of the government,
ate, and with to so great was their concern for
following
combat progres in the out of it toward the front. ments at the top level
search of another prospect of cut- bad to reduce come down to the wishes of that they appeared to
treat the
necessary press is a
ting off great numbers of the fences in the areas lying between a valuable those ordhary people who,evil rather than 05
enemy, the question of the Tran- that city and the son. Finally, 1 In the end, are the persons link with the homeland and as
sport Command employment camel hoped to thrust forward spear.. fart agency
that could be of great
up for daily discussion. On the bends as far as we could, to in- most deeply concerned.
assistance in the waging of a
clude a bridgehead average, allowing for all kinds
neross the of campaign,
weather, our plunes could deliver Rhine if possible, so as to threaten subse- thethe Ruhr and facilitate about 2,000 tons a dlay to front.
While this was only a quenit offenalves. small percentage of our iotal do-i
Montgomery's donk the immediate decision liveries, every ton was so valu-question for able that the decision was a seri- became th priority in which these tasks should be taken up
to
21
There was
met
soundt
Lrs
TROYES Pare
WILSS
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in
LOJABERHON
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reason.
What the Security Council requires is not argument on democracy and colonialism particularly at the beginning of but facts about the wishes the war, for the British to evi- of the people, It requiresdence more
reserve nod
ean-
to be clear as to whether or servatism in their treatment of the press than was reflected in not the Japanese-created Re- public has any popular basis the policies that American hend-
always favoured. quarters
to the
In
or whether if has maintain the early days of the war, par- when Britain stnud cularly ed itself by terror
rent material detriment of alone in 1940 and 1941, the Bri- tish had little with which to op- the country and to the dispose the German except decep- like and disadvantage of its tion. They resorted to every inhabitants. The assertion type of subterfuge, Including the establishment of dummy head- that the Dutch advance met quarters and the sending of take with next to no resistance
of and that it was, indeed, wel-messages in order to confuse the
German to the amount
45 comed by the majority military strength available and, important than this, its more
Out of this neces- disposition.
habit that was sity was boru later dificult to discard.
I believed that the proper at-
of
the population may require proof but there are sufficient Indications to show that it is at least more likely to be true than the counter-asser- itude of the commander toward tions of the Republic's self-representatives of the press was to regard them as quesi staff appointed champions.
What the Council should offers; to recognise their mis- seek and ensure is a returnsion in the war and to assist. In carrying it out. Моги to peace. production and molly only justinable ex- nrosperity. It had better becuse for censorship is the neces thoroughly satisfied which of the present at tagonists is the likelier to produce all three.
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It appeared to me that a fine As a first requisite our lines had to be advanced far enough to the chance for launching a profitable a
Eastward to cover Antwerp
airborne attack was developing in | ST
the Brussels area, and though curely, else the port and all its there was divided opinion on the facilities would be useless to us. had to be done without de- wisdom of withdrawing planes from supply work because of the lay; until it was accomplished the be not even uncertainty of the opportunity, other tasks could
Equally clear was the decided to take the chance. The started. Troop Carrier Command, on
fact that, until the approaches to tember 10, was withdrawn tem-
Sep- the
port were cleared, it was of porarily from supply missions to no value to us. Because the Ger- mans were firmly dug in on the begin intensive preparation for au
islunds of South Beveland and airborne drop in the Brussels area. Walcheren, this was going to be
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the
The sooner we could
abortive one. Except with rear] set about it the better. But the guards, the Germans made no at- question remaining was whether tempt to defend in that region at or not it was advantageous, be
Lore taking on the ardunus task of reducing the Antwerp ap- All along the front we pressed re forward in hot pursuit of the Bee-proaches, to continue our East- ing enemy. In four days the Bri- treating enemy with the idea of wned plunge against the still re- tish apearheads, paralleled by
recuring a possible bridgehead equally forceful American att- vances on their right, covered across the Rhine in proximity to
Ru the withhold valuable in- kity to
While we were examining the formation that the enemy could finitely with the press, Just as at, troyed and this in spite of the distance of 195 miles, one of the
factors of the question, not otherwise obtain,
violated others it was with the common- fact that the Luftwaffe had been our fans feats of marching by various I personally
Montgomery suddenly the war
presented But when there is consider-seriously depleted before the in-our formations in the great pur der.
suit across France. By Septent- rule by imposing ed
proposlilon that, if we would this general
opportunity vasion began. enormous
There was a denite drop in ber 5, Patton's Third Army reach- temporary political censorship in that existed for prejudiced re-
So far as prisoned Nancy and crossed the Moselle support his Twenty-first Army cnomy morale. North Africa and by withholding porting and for troublemaking
Jute | available, he could rush right on units, of advance notice of the eventual between
services, anders were concerned this was more River between that city and Metz. Group with all supply facilities
Army higher Flodges First The assassination
command arrangements in Ner-whole peoples, it must be con-noticeable
war. I am cerinin that Field Nokrashy Pasha, the Egyp mandy. Though my reasons, un cluded that the press in the gold oficers because they, with pro- against the Siegfried defences by into Berlin and, he said, end the Montgomery. .in. the to measured Minister, last both occasions, seemed valid Prime
up as well as any fessional training, could see the the 13th of the month and was Marshal
the the fundamental inevitability of final defeat. But shortly thereafter to
struggle for Aachen.
Pushed light of later events, would agree weck appears to have been me, I never failed to regret what other group to
requirements of allied co-opera- the Army as a whole had clearly back against the borders of the that this view was a mistaken for the later proved to be a mistake. an act of revenge
one. But at the moment his en- In World War II the
not yet reached the stage of mass great tion. suppression of the Moslem | body of the American and Bri-
From August on, the friendly collapse and there was no guns, showed definite signs of stiffen-thusiasm was fired by the rapid Brotherhood. The latter is sh
On September 4, Montgo- advances of the preceding week in itself a sympton of a deep-prised epresentatives com- relationship between the press tion that the German divisions, an intelligent, patriotic, and the military was strengthen-given decent conditions, were stili
and we were electrified to learn moralised, he vehemently declar
the enemy was completely de- group of indivi-ed by the presence of Brigadier capable of putting up fierce re-mery's anales entered Antwerp ant, slate he was convinced that er malaise in Egyptian life and energetic
They could, with fostered both by the chronte safety and mutual advan my public relations officer.
com-General Frank A. Allen, Jr., assistance.
With the capture of Paris we at the Germans had been so ed that all he needed was ade- He
the line rapidly hustled out of the place quate supply in order to go di- economic hardships of the
Lage
be taken Into the con had been a successful leader of
WETE substantially on mass of the population and adence of the commander. When an armoured combat command that had been predicted before that they had had no time to exe-
As the one we would cute extensive demolitions. Mar-rectly into Berlin.
been captured
To Be Continued by the two nagging issues in this was done the press body it-in North Africa and France but D-day
I believed that his ability
to attain three to four months after seilles had
Thus, in long-term HONG KONG foreign affairs-Palestine and relt became the best possible in-
strument for the disciplining of maintain military security and our landing. the Sudan-on neither of
an individual who violated any at the same time to assure the estimate, we were weeks, ahead AIRWAYS which did Nokrashy Pasha's confidence or code under which public the information it want of schedule, but in the important Government achieve any the Kroup Was operating ed and needed would prove most particular of supply capaelty we success. These failures in-Throughout the campaigns in the valuable to the war effort. By were batlly behind. Because al-
to headquarters most the entire area had been NO MORE "SHADOW" ON YOUR FACE tensified popular frustration Mediterranean and Europe, his assignment found that and Nokrashy, who held the habitually
correspondents duty, although I lost a proved captured in the swift movements I subsequent to August 1, the roads, to can-combat commander thereby,
lines,
гера portfolios of home and for-
depots, frankness, and under was relieved of many worrisome railway
shops, and base Installations, re- eign affairs as well as the standing.
problems.
of In the handling of the press, The liberation of Paris on the quired for the maintenance premiership, inevitably took
forward movement, most of the blame. He be- tho American practice was to twenty-fifth of August had a great continuous
were still for in rear of the front came the victim of the provide every facility that would impact on people everywhere.
an individual to permit
go Even the doubters began to see lines. nationalism which had car wherever he wanted, whenever the end of Hitler. By this time| When the German forces suc
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