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THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH INSTALMENT
CRUSADE IN EUROPE
This problem, big as it was, did not by
the bulk of the work devolving Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
upon the American__~forces responsible coinmanders. With the end of hostilities the Wes- tern, Allles had to begin making arrangementa for breaking up the great combat force into ita national elements. The govemI-
Wes-
Own Story Of The War In Europe
upon
that by doing this qulclly no hospitality poured out one in the United States except those groups by the people of the pepole at West Point would know tho United States were over
Wo were back powering. For me, It was a far about it until
Britons Trapped
In Burmese Town
Radgoon, February 64
recommendations to the goverThirty Britoris are trapped inside Insein where Karon rébels have boon fighting Government troops since last Monday,
ments.
Beginning carly in 1944, tho Commission worked in London
and agreed on recommendations With them are 1,000 Indians, 50 Pakistanis and several Chinese, officials in Rangoon said to-
The
day.
Burmese Government services mission living at Minga called upon Karan rebels. at Indon have been moved temporari- Insein, ten miles North of Ran-ly Into Rongoon." goon, to surrender by noon on Monday.
Government Claims
for future surrender terms "for Germany and upon national zones of occupation, along with | machinery for joint control; The United States military adviser ments had rejected my repeated
Commission, Brigadier to the recommendation that the
Wickersham, tern Ailles occupy their portion
General Cornelius later became my deputy. In or of Germany on a unified" bnals.
canizing the United States group My plan was considered poli- tically inoxpedient, although I again in Frankfurt. I developed ery from the modest one-day of the Control Council. urged
Under the protocols developed thai, sinco, occupation
a high-pressure enthusiasm for reunion I had so hopefully plan- would be a residual task of the the project and suggested that ned for a June dag at West by the European Advisory Com-
Leaflets dropped over Inseln by The interlude was a hup mission each of the four Allies
The immediate retrenchment of war and would require armies each of my twenty classmates in Point.
for the planes told the rebels to give all non-Burman nationals in Gov- of the Western
for its Europe should send a secret py one; but a quick return to was to be responsible Allies
non-combatants
a safe passage ernment service is announced in accomplishment, there could be message to his wife asking her the grind of work was inescap-occupation of a portion of Gor
objection
for a one-day re-able.
out of the town if the surrender Rangoon. no reasonnblo
to the to meet him
During the months suc-many and the military govern- creding V-E Day I went to vari- ment of that country was to be is rejected.
Reason is the country's "des" Maintenancnmoins ailesianaruulon at West Point
Sean -püren kan tilpums-posklen, dccord-- many of the same Allled or White Was planning to carry bus sukortin Sapital bffler traded quadrip
out this idea we received word celebrations, among them Lon-cil, to be composed of the four They were warned that air, landing to a Burmese Government ganisation that had attained vie-
and sea operations will be in- announcement.. tory. The question wos,
Washington that, because don, Parla, Brussels, The Hague, military commanders, with a co- how-from
nasist clrcumstances prevented Ameri- and Prague; other Invitations Iordinating committee to
creased against those rebels flout- Government troops are centinu over, clearly a political one, and
Tho control authority accept. them, becan units in Europe from retum-found it impossible
ing the surrender order,
Ing to hit hard of the robols at our governmental leaders
was to include, also, groups of
Insein, lieved that my plan would be ing to the United States to ap- My later visits to Moscow subject to unfortunate misinter pear in the traditional parades Warsaw did not Involve "victory officers and civilians with speel- fle missions relating to the dis- General celebrations." pretation by the Soviet Union.
armament and demobilisation of the German armed forces, nolit ca) and economic affairs, legal, financial, and labour quer- tions, and other necessary де tivities in mlitary government of a conquered country.
Separation meant that we had to sort out all our complicated and highly integrated staffs, or- gardsations, and procedures, in order to meet the new require- ments of national administration and responsibility. Almost all French and some British depend-
American ed upon
stocks and frelillies. With the anticipated en of. Lean-Lease, detailed ac
systems counting
had 10 he Jestablished in order lo handle this work on a business Instead of a war basis.
}
Military government had quickly to be installed over the recently overran sections of Ger- many. Add to all this the never. ending volume of administrative detail incident to the control of the vast Allied Force in the West and it is ensy to under- stand the remark of an overwork- ed staff offleer who saki: "I n-
that whon ways thought
the Germans finally surrendered 1 would celebrale by going on 13 bly binge. Now I'm taking as pirin every day-without the fun of looking back the binge!" We were so preoccupied in the dally grind of work that we were largely unaware of the enthusi-
un asms sweeping our own tries.
failure to estimate popular reaction was typical of of many others, Shortly after the German surrender It occur red to mo that 1045 would mark the thirtieth anniversary of the graduation of my classmates and myself from West Point, and I planned brief and private celebration for those of us who were serving in Europe. I be lleved that we could fly to the United States, spend one day at West Point's graduation exer- cises, and be back on duty In Germany with a total absence of only three days,,
My own
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BALTIC SEA
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Marshall wanted me to pick re- presentative officers and enlisted men for return in groups of some fifty cach, for a short tour of our country. He felt that through celebrations those representative America would have a chance to pay tribute to her fighting men in Europe.
These orders knocked my per- sonal scheme out of the pleture. I think that all the men who were selected to go home to par- cipate in the series of celebra- tions during the month of June 1945 experienced a feeling of amazement and astonishment at the enthusiasm with which they were greeted.
For every man the experience was Inspirling and heartwarming.
cordiality, and
I thought The gunerosity,
EAST
to
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While SHAEF existed the Bri tish and' American efforts in milltary government were com- bined, The British had establish- Cil training school in England similar to, ours at Charlottesville, Virginia. The latter school had alrendy furnished the American contingent of the military gov ernment organisation in Sletly
and Italy.
a general statt division charged with co-ordination of the whole effort. It was headed by Lieute nant General A. E. Grasett, of the British Army, and Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, of the American Army.
'The wives and families of the Tonight's military communique British services mission were claims .the recapture of the ovacuated today from the military American missionary school at cantonment of Mingaladon, 12 Bassein, the river port 70 miles miles North of Rangoon,
West of Rangoon, where the Karens had established a strong- hold. Mopping up operations are Continuing.
An official statement by Major- General Temple, the mission's lend said: "Owing to the proxi- Government forces "smashed" mity of Mingaladon to military rebel bands near Pegu, 40 miles operations, and upon the advice of North of Rangoon, the communi- The Burmese authorities, the que added,➡Associated Press and wives and children of the British Reuter.
of Nazis for any governmental by the Allies for trial, to, begin werk. In much of our necessary restoration of productive activity public utility work it was only while carrying out his share of the local Nazis who had suff broad Alled policy as it was elent knowledge to be of asala- given to us from Washington in Final training of the officers tance The question ot once a document known as JCS/1007. needed for military government arose as to whether we should Ho was often forced, in the be In the American Zone in Gur- Usc them or non-Nazis
to who gining. net as a referee in many
was conducted in Eng-knew little or nothing about the personat feuds. As soon as the Innl We established in SHAEF particular facility. It was diffi-Germans learned of our de-
cult, but as quickly as possible | Nazification we got rid of party members and complaint
programme every by an Individual trained othera for necessary against another was on the basis. operation of public works, pubile of "He is a Noz!." In the chaos utilities,, sanitary service, posts, of postwar Germany errors wore telegraphs, and telephones. Inescapable, and this applled to
The life of a military, govern- features of general palley ment officer TYAN nover dull. well as to details of execution Usually he had been commis- by local funcionaries. But by sioned in the Army because of and large, the milltary govern- his administrative or teclinical mont group of Americans did a keeping of a whole town or city ed their sincerity and intelligence background. But with the house remarkable job one that reflect- on his shoulders, the officer had as well as the soundness of their to meet every conceivable kind special training. of problem in human relations, to keep local peace and white ferreting out these wanted order
Our first military government in Germany WRZ At the Moscow Conference at-, experience tended by Secretary Hull in 1943 gained at Aachen before the it had been agreed among the showed us the kind
crossing of the Rhine. This three principal Allies to establish that we were apt to meet later problem Immediately a European
Ad on when the occupation bad ex- visory Commission in London. tended deep into Germany. The This body was to begin the study situation was new and difficult, of postwar political problems of and became more acuto because Europe and to make appropriate of our policy of non-employment
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