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BRADLEY'S BARRAGE
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VERY war is follow- ed, after a brief In- turval, by a battle between thu generals who won it.
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The European campaign if 1944-5 clearly w. be, no exceptions to this rule. General Bradley's memoirs
be regarded as the opening barrage in a paper battle which, it is safe to predict, will last for many
Can
years.
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Today chairman of the Amer- Itun jolr thiols of staff, General Bradley commanded the United States Army in the
of Normandy, Invasiow
-equently 13th Army Group till the end of the war. Next in Coned Elsenhower, he was the leading American soldier in Europe. He has written a most impostort and interesting book. It may luck the dignity of General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europs, but it is more lively and mare revealing. It is also much more controversial.
The controversy centres large- ly round the prison of Viscount Montgomery. Although General Hadlay accords high praise on nregions to his British colleague, it is clear that he deeply disliked some of the derisions and many at the characteristics of that eminent toller,
WHY did he dislike Montgomery?, WHY does ha blame him for Arnhem? Today Bradley's own. story lights up some bitter controversies of the war.
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prestige at American expense.
statement to
the Antwerp.
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frequent- Bradley otelbules British claims Press, which seemed to suggest Arnhem delayed this operation ly
Americans for nearly two months, during for control of important offen- that the defeated were being rescued by the Brian which the Allied armies had to gives. to a desire for national Army. Sinco in fact there were depend for supplies upon the at lost thirty Antericans for long overland route from Cher- every British saidle: engaged in bourg. Hence a virtual famine the "battle of the bulge" It in supplies during October, 2 not surprising that the statement famine which lost us our lost produced semi-apoplestie symp chance of launching a successful toms among the American com- offensive before winter set in. manders,
Understandably, he does not consider any other possible ex- planation. If candour is to be the order of the day, it should come from both sides. No one There may be an ower to this citiem, but it seems on the has yet given a candid account of the opinion held by respon-. sible British leaders of interesting
American capacity to fight.
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It would bo lenow what Lord Montgomery thought of General Bradley. For
At the time of the Normandy although the general is in no Invasion that opinion was.come- way anti-British, it is clear even what uncertain. Memories of the from his own narrative, that he Kasserine Pass and the Anzlo was extraordinarily sensitive to landing did not easily fade. the slightest encroachment upon the British frequently pressed swhat he regard for control over critical opera- ##.00*50*4500000050) red as American tions, it may have been at least claims and rights. in part because they did not en- Nor did he tray trust the Americans
himself always display the spirit carry out such operations with of allled operation whose This doubt may explain many absence he is so of the things which General quick to notice Bradley found most exasperating.
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BLAKE
caution of obtaining General in Paton's support, remained ob- durate. In the end no change was made.
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extended D General be Group
Bradley's southwards to include on Ameri- should be read by everyone who book can army. General Bradley at
is interested in the history of once gave orders to move the 9th, then his least efficient
'army,
the recent war. It is extremely the maps and diagrams from the Ardennes to the north clear,
are excellent, and the story fas- laborious operation with the
cinating. admitted object of ensuring that, it Lord Menigomery received any Amerkan reinforcement,
According to General Bradley the trouble began, when, in August 1944, Lord Montgomery ethel to be sole commander- under General Eisenhower of ail and forces in France. Genera) Braley, hitherto his subordinate,
GENERAL BRADLEY'S most now became as commander of
19th Army Group, his equil.
Intresting criticism of Lor:1 General Bradley
glaims that Mentgame.y--and by Implication "A demetion," same of Gener:1 Eisenhower, toohey would be the most raw and called it, was deeply maented in relates to the Arnhem campaign inexperienced, re tain British qua
quarters and that,
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from then onwards an insidious in September 1944,
whispering campaign began for It will be remembered that
a restoration of the old arrange General Eisenhower had vetoed ment-a campaign not discourage British
es by Lord Montgomery himself.
plan to push. 21st Army Group on a narrow front
British 'rescue straight to Berlin-But he agreed
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to a modified, though equally dating, proposal to seize a Rhine bringthed by the large scale use of alborne troops the plan. which entel in the herole but undoubted defeat di Arnhem..
reached ca:paign elax in December 1944, when for 'taelleal reasons during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes General Eizen- hower put Gen:: Bradley's 1st and 9th Armies under
Gearral Bradley opposed it t Montgomery's imporary cam the time, und erliizlaes' Itin retrospect and not merely ber cause it failed.
mand.
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At this moment the British commander gave 2 mox in-
"A Soldier's Story of the Allied Campaigns from Tunis to the Elbe
by Omar N. Bradley (Epra und Spottiswoode, 259.).
He argues that In September the most urgent task of Lord Montgomery's-army group should have been to clear the Scheldt estuary and open the port of
No doubt this was a natural reaction, but not necessarily wise one in the Allied interest.
YOU WERE WADING IN
VERY CLEAR WATER IN A TUNNEL- YOU
WALKED MILES BEFORE YOU SI CAME TO
A BEND
No doubt some grave people will deplore the element of con- troversy in the book. They will be wrong. Controversy is the breath of life. Without it, hit- torical truth will not emerge,
nor
will the lessons of past events be learned.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across.—1 Lethal, & Races, 8 Rene, 9 Forbid, 11 Femur, 12 Mengre, 14 Peer, 16 Essay, 18 Amity, 10 Sect, 20 Strips, 24 Piano, 25 Adepts, 26 Ripe, 27 Theme, 28 Sacred. Down-1 Lift, 2 Term, 3 Arin, 4 Ledger, 5 Referee, 8 Compost, 7 Surveys, 10 Beget, 13 Parapet, 14 Pin nace, 15 Eyesore, 17 Scope, 10 Scraps, 21 Idea, 22 Spar, 23 Used.
WHEN YOU DID YOU WERE HORRIPIED
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IN FRIGHT, BUT THEY DID NOT SEEM TO BOTHER
ABOUT YOU
THIS DREAM MEANS: water" fsubconscious "Wading in the mind) is daydreaming, Le, indulging in fan- tany of emotional thinidng. The Lunnel seems to be underground, La., its your qub (under conscious mind.
The hideous animals which induce you to To back, or the instincts which inhabit your abcomelous mind and whose mainitude and power alarm you somewhat when you come face to face with them. That they do not :bother about, you suggests, you feel they MAJI not constitute a threat to your happiness aftar alt
danis mid anxiety dream dramaties the besle problem and conflict of early adulthood. of Le. recognising the power and strength your emotions and the need för, disciplining. them and harnessing them to your way of Uving if they are not to destroy you
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