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UNITED STATES PRESIDENT
His inauguration takes place in Washing- ton today....What is his history) this man whose actions will mean much to people everywhere? What are the qualities or the accidents of fate which have brought him to his present circumstances? Here is a personal portrait drawn by the noted newspaper and radio correspondent
ALISTAIR COOKE
N uny gathering of beat the school bully, If such more often in private, his keen Americans where poll- anecdotes have a rather recon- disappointment after
eight
tice come
up, and in acted air, it is understandable years of tlesk work-at being enough, since not one Ameri- denied a field command. Now many where politics can in a hundred thousand had he WRA doomed or elevated never come up, there is one ever heard the name of Elsen- again to months of conferences. magie name these days that hower before the North Africa days and nights of maps and calculations, before being assign- Is tossed like a charm from
plan North Africa and lip to lip. It is the name of
ed to
lead the invasion of then Eisenhower.
Europe.
To American women every where he looks like the coat anviable man alive. And to hear the ladies talk he has the decisiveness of Churchill, the. charm of Bing Crosby, the direct nem of W Regers, and the potical adroitness of Roosevelt. He is the only American af tion I was said that if he wanted thr Presidency he could have .
invasion.
All the public knowledge of Elsenhower has come from the years of his mushroom fame, in spite of the present insistence old school teachers that they knew a genius when they caw
one.
Now this career and the kind of ability he was able to put Into It has led to one universal and rather unfair cliche about from He graduated
It is that he is a West Eisenhower. on 1915, and for the next GHQ man, a sort of military twenty-four years went through administrator, a cuperb politi- An unspectacular but grueling clan in uniform, not really a training as a staff officer.
or tactician at all. Ile strategist
can claim an early familiarity It is a low not held by anyone with mechanised warfare, for who has worked close with him, as long ago as 1018 he organised and General Bradley went out and commanded the first Ameri- of his way once to debunk" it. can camp for tark corps train-
No American has come farther from his origins than President Ebenhower. He was born ixty- one years ago in the middle of ing the wheat plains of Kansas, In the mall town of Abilene, avhich was the terminus.of the Chisholm Trail, Here in the 1800s and
703 three nakon head of Texas HE was at the General Stair cattle were driven to be fattened. School at Port Leavenworth, For a time he looked It was the toughest cow town in Kansas.
Uho American Battle West, Only Afteen years after the before Elsendiower was born, Monuments Conumission in there the celebrated Wald Bit Parls, In the early thirties he Hickocke spun a hat in the air drafted the first rough plans for and perforated the brim within industrial mobilisation. perfo chede of bullet holes.
This was a waming to cut throats and rustlers to stay away. Not enough of them did, how ever, for that year Hickock, as marshal of Abilene, brought the total of his killings to one hundrol.
name
General Bradley wrote t it was a "grossly unfair in- ference" that got round this idea that "Elsenhower func- floned in Europe primarily as A pollilcal commander, unfamiliar with everyday problems of our tactical wor...."
RADLEY notes that Eisen-
BRAD
hower's toelical talents had
Until January 1940 he was a been demonstrated brilliantly desk soldier of the highest rank; years before at Leavenworth, and then he was enliet back to where he finished at the head the United States and assigned of his class in 1920. It is at to un infantry post. On the
Leavenworth that the United Sunday evening of Pearl Har States Army's most promising bour, he had just come in from officers aro schooled in the
pi Fort Sam manoeuvres
tactics and logistics of senior Houston, Texas, Five
commands. General
days later. Marshall telephoned him from Washington to "hop a "At all-times,” says General He was brought back Bradley, "Eisenhower showed THE THE federal guide to Kansas plane."
of for the good, though possibly himself to be a rupert tactician honours the
reason that with a sensitive and Intimate Hickock, and Mayor McCoy and entirely accidental,
much feel of the front." several other famous sheriffs or be probably knew desperadoes. But you will find so
This popular fallney may be mention of Eisenhower, for when
unfair to Eisenhower as д this gride was published in 1980
soldier, but it points to some Elsenhower was in the technically
thing true in him as a man: his important but otherwise cecure
ability to trust his subordinates, job- of Assistant Mtaly
to allow them to take great Adviser to the Commonwealth of the Philippines; he was the can general line of action in the risies, to stand by the risk and Pacific War. He was back in the man, and make the overall unknown assistant to M very had well-known soldier who the time with a very bleak re decision that time and again
port and
-advice that the-
brought the
victory in the Inst war. been United States Chief of Staff port~* and had retired from the Army Phlippines must be held with In other words, ho has a really force, that the remarkable judgment of the carter General Iradequate two years
Asiatic peoples would excuse delicate interplay between a Douglas MacArthur,
failure but not abandonment, situation and the human beings and that Austraila must be pre- who are trying to resolve it pared at once as the main U.S. base in the Paclic.
Lieutenant-Colonel Elsen hower left Manila for home in December 1939. He was seen off at the airport by his chief, who lever saw him again until he
went to Tokyo after the war as
about the Philippines as anyone, at a time when the Philippines were suddenly a battlefeld.
Eisenhower appeared at Mar- shall's desk. Marshall gave hun toree hours to plan the Ameri-
planning
Cummi
A
KE
London Express Service
„IKE'S ELECTION VICTORY CARTOON BY CUMMINGS
ENOUGH OF THIS
SCREEN POISON
London.
will parenta
LEONARD MOSLEY
HEN
step out and halt the traffic in poison- films-the films which are turning many of their sons calls
Craiga and'
their to
to
It is this quality, this gift for hammomising variable and often It was from this interview. highly valeande personalities, for and Eisenhower's subsequent making thom lite his compromise, a five-star
genera) and the assignments in
the and stay loyal to him, that into Pacific United States Chief of Staff.
War, that General brought hún fame in the war. daughters towards the Marshall picked Ike as a man and has brought him the constrects? Nothing much has come out of who could live up to great re- mon admiration and the loyalty the boyhood days in Abilene sponsibility.
of Britons, Americans, French- except a few lusty anecdotes
mers and Dutchmen in his job of has mentioned organising
defence about a
bright, rugged little boy who
one day took on and several times in his book, and Western Europe.
Eisenhower
the
of
Milady's Perfume Means
More Dollars For Stalin
By John Wren
ADAME, that expen. about Kazanlik,
Meive,
fume
one hundred fragrance of roses as tho re
fineries are waist deep in exclusive per miles east of Sens.
aromatic
rose petals.
Text
To give the maximum oil,
attention
hands. That's
why we usC
liquid soap now--and the con tainers of these are regularly, broken."
Bogart doesn't seem to attract the same destructive, following since he gave up gangster paris. threat His place has been taken by people stars like Kirk Douglas and Alan Ladd, who specialise in roughs stuff.
a
young
These poison films specialisa of poison- in making the villain the man in
Mest of them specialise in Then talk to the men who
and lubri- watch bashings, brutality,
the effects ety. All but a few are care films at close quarter. Talk to toughest and bravent fully concealed from the critics
- because Hollywood knows the cinema managers. only 100 well what words of condemnation we would use to describo Uem.
The men
I know them well, and they tell me that they are ashamed ashamed of the way in which who make these these pictures deliberately ecg Alma plously proclaim that they rupt rusceptible minds. havo: a purpose, because the brutish villain always gets They eought or killed in the end,
the picture..
Mims
He is always the most colour- ful character too, with habita thot young people like to imitate such as the
way ho tosses a coin whild his victim suffers, his brutishness ~~: with women who still go on adoring are often afraid too. him, his cocky confidence-until Afraid of the violence they see the final few feet of the with their own eyes-a
direct But they know (and their
result of the Gims they are "The time when my customers customers know) that these forced to show.
rip up their bouts and chuse pay-the-penalty endings are 'u
trouble," вдув опа cinoma mockery, a shallow pretext to
One martager of a respectable manager, "is when the villain Justify and excuse the nastiness cinema tells me that whenever is caught at the end. Thu which has gone before,
he used to chow a film starring triumph of law and order.is. so Humphrey Bogart, he had to obviously contrived, so patenlly hire extra men and warn a sep, that they get mad and them to propare for trouble, take it out on us," That was the time when Bogart ·
gangster was playing the tough district attorney..
Pretexts
ROM the glorification of the gun, the whip, the beatings up of women, the kicking and gouging, the ox and the sin Allen producers make
sin
"In would come
my young
The answer.
ND then be paused and abide.
male customers to see the tings A ed: "Or else they keep their
play on the screen, the beatings
and slappings and then they, derision and ruge until they got
you're wearing! Some five thousand bu "Attar of Roses" and, be- rose oil were then exported, love it or not, you're help. One half of the valley's output the roses should be picked af ing Russia's war economy.. went to France, one third to daybreak while the dew is still Today, the petals. America, while Britain was the fresh 'on It may be a far cry from largest buyer of the remainder workers in the rose gardens,
of the crop.
now Communist-nun operatives,
profits. do not, it appears, like getting guns to scent, but RussİLL
Today Russia takes all the up in the morning. Paymen And we pay dollars for them! would swagger out, to annoy out into the streets and then has a world monopoly of
valley's output-and pays Bul- for
petals Dollars to corrupt
our own the usherelles, light with the take it out on other people." attar of roses the rose garla a minimum price for it, delivered before 9 o'clock is the
DVIS. Dollars to poison their doormen, trip and elbow tha That of all fine Then the Russians resell the equivalent of sixpence. By minds Dollars to petal oil, basis
undermine customers they caught on the perfumes.
precious oll on the world market midday the price is down
the security, of our homes and stairs," he said.. their future. for hard currency, getting as fourpence! When the Balkans fell much as £16 an ounce,
beneath the Soviet yoke,
the fabulousa Valley of Roses" in the heart of Bul-
Now the Russians have order garia became an important ed the Bulgarian Communist dollar-earner for the Soviet government to increase the out- Union.
put of the rose gardens Extra rations and Berco consumer Attempts were made to pro- goods are offered to farmers in duce synthetic attar of roses creasing acreage-plus a fifty anti-cultivate the Bulgarian shilling bonus for every pero of rose in the Middle East: But rose bushes planted. the attempts were. D failure. Background shows why-
ono pound
af
to
Even sixpence for a pound of petala (some. 350; roses) would be considered poor pay by "explaited" workers in - a capitalistic country.
Destruction
effect of tho polson-films, n punishment, for which we pay out dollars by the million.
!!!!
"But," says Hollywood, "WO
How con we slop them?, are only slowing a recognised | sido of American life; and (ex-
The censorship works, whięly, STUTEX had already teft evidence but can only work on the posing what goes on."..
of the way they, felt while; material with which Hollywood Calculated, disingenuous non- actually watching. Bogart, on the supplies it. It can cut out actual A pound of petals will give | sensel Gangster films have no screen. Inside the theatre they beatings and girröltings and only ‚ £100. ' drops' (ok), mitur", thema ́or-purposa, They use fod slashed seats with immiver, sadistle shooting, but tho, bolnă Three hundred and seventy-five Isolated Incidents, never tell a wrenched ashtrays off stubbed of the film remains, evadezijans pounds of petals are required whole story, never have a pur cigarettes on the seats, id produce one ounce of oil!
The answer to the danger to pciso beyond corruption. They Insult their own country at our
In this cinema a Bogart film our children is that no more; In this valloy, between the expense,
used to mean seat-sloshing Ins' garigster 'films should be made, majestle Balkan peaks and the
cresised fivefold. “
› Hollywood, should"? be told: thaj, "Brodina" - ^ Gora mountaina, the
goveral times, sold the into our claemas,
they "must"! atop sending them, Before the war some two bushes aru, sheltered from both hundred thousand persons were the cold north blasts, and the Before the war some 600,000,- employed on the then carefully, hot southern winds, 000 rose, bushes were cultivated tended rose gardena. In harvest. in the Bathan · Valley's 20,000 time, May to June,, the, whole Horde në roPU jardens, ċentred · valley
beav
Do you doubt that a steady diet, of gangster nims can turn a nice lad into a coch boy? Do manager, "we discovered that has you think Craig-the murderer these young : toughes, pressed 74 If they refuse? Then atop who even talked in dialogus enzor blades into cakes of soup importing auch films, anti si VÒ3 -milady's | right out of a gangster alm-was in the washroom, nor that, the dollars at the same time ma} WG'
Just a flužbe?
turtomer would out his save our sons,”
Valley of Roses- with the perfume, and Russia's gaini