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FOURTEENTH INSTALMENT;
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C.V.R. THOMPSON REPORTSTM THE AMERICAN SCENE
MUCH OUT OF LITTLE
NEW YORK. THERE are many Americans who still hate the. late President Franklin Roosevelt enough to revel in a chance to smear his memory.
All over America in the last few days of 1948 the most talked about story, was not Truman's remarkable speech, or the rescue of the Ice-cap airmen, but what happened to the Elliott Roosevelts.
Young Roosevelt and his Hollywood wife, Faye Emerson, spent Christmas in the dream house which F.D.R. built for his retirement:at Hyde Park, New York.
..
Early on Sunday morning, December 26, doctors were called to treat young Mrs Roosevelt for slight razor wounds on her left wrist.
Her story was that she woke up with a headache, wont looking for aspirins in the dark, and cut herself on some old razor blades kopt in the aspirin drawer.
Although the doctors agreed that this was what probably happened, a local alteri Insisted that there had been a family quarrel, that Mrs Roosavalt had deliberately slash- ed herself and that her husband had forcibly restrained her. And he ordered young Roosevelt to attend a hearing..
EISENHOWER WAS
0
WAS spending my off-duty hours during this time in. getting re-acquainted with the new London, which was stranger to the one I knew in. 1939 and the china-up, bloody London of the Blitz oven dif- ferent than the hesitant, be- wildered London of 1942. *
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MY BOSS
*
By KAY SUMMERSBY
orders, that he try to obtain first-] hand evidence on conditions in the field.
Result in one notoriously anti- Roosevelt newspaper-six columns.-
PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S chief eco- nomie adviser, Dr Edwin Nourse, has declared that moro controla might do America more harm than good. Ils reason: "They are in-
with the flexible compatible
and In all truth, I doubt if in military quick adjustments that business has annals there is anything to equal to make." In other words free en- Ike's record of a general's non-stop terprise works betler. attempt to visit all his troops before
in Impending operation of such A YOUNG Philadelphia Negro, magnitude.
A Devereux Tomlinson, was sup- posed to have been. called up the Despite pressing headquarters other day. But instead he sum-
inevitable, with the scores of Allied Beetle, the only person permitted settled into a never-ending routine Barmen,
entree without and immediate scattered in
came
moned the Call-Up Board to court, He asked the court to restrain it from calling him up while the U.S. Army was on what he called "A
Our offices la-Building C were Mrn Chambers, who sometimes gavo problems, he launched this ambitious Offejal historios miss this very,"
date. The up her faw chickens' production in campaign within a fortnight after humán point, that London was to the most spacious to
occupied one room; for the order to send the Supreme Com- reaching England. the second world war what Paris aides
had one to myself. mander a dozen precious fresh egga. was to the first: a gay wartime frst time,
Mine was the only one through Barring inspection trips or visits to With May growing old, London segregation baslo" (Whites and capital.
which special visitors such
drained of it leave troops. as other headquarters, the day. then was
Negroes separated). To serve in Part of this now
theatre owners, movie such an army, he alleged, would pre of phone calls and High Brass ushers, taxi drivers, and nightclub couse him "embarrassment, pain, headquarters
on the poor anguish, and loss of personal dig- around the capital. But most of it liminaries could go into the inner visitors. Lunch might be a sandwich doormen: commented
at the desk.. business. or hot plate, served
Staff officers due to nity." stemmed from the city's magic as a office. Even telephone conversations or
sometima
Ima travel in the Invasion fleet magnet for troops on leave; London were halted at that barrier, pending The real breather
I always verification;
NATION-WIDE survey reported answered, after four in the afternoon, when appeared one by one from their was the leave city.
"General Eisenhower's office, Miss the mess sent up tea service, and 1 offices, without explanation. Head-A that 43 percent of America's of this leave-world "Gen The centre
and then carried it into the General's office.
drinkers drink “only to be soclable.” quarters stalls were strained, Circus, dirty Summersby speaking." WGS
tho
polat Parded up, and blacked stepped in to ask the General if he "Bring yours in, too, Kay," he to damaged,
the caller.
ere] \X/HAT THE COLD WAR will cost This would say occasionally. "It makes American military personnel were WHA out, but still a sort of Times Square could talk to for soldiers and officers looking for method did away with the nuisance more of a break' to have someone restricted to quarters for a twenty- the American taxpayer in 1949,
four-hour of switching calls and spared him to talk to."
period
50 M.P's could according to a Washington guess- fun....Poles Czechs, Canadian the nerve-jangling screams of tele-
root out AWOL's Hospitals dis- C5,250 million. Free French, Dutch, Belglans, New
all but the worst bed cases: Zealanders, Aussies, Scots, Indians, phone calls.
for received instructions to Yorkshiremen, Welsh, Norwegians, General Eisenhower's office was, IT seems no exaggeration to say make hospital linens a top priority. Irish, South Americans, colonials of as usual, plain and unpretentious, that General Eisenhower, with his Travellers found few trains; hun- every colour, language and
shocking visitors who expected uniform.
grandeur in the Supreme Allied Commander's inner sanctum. He laughed at the, American idea that executive's worth is measured by:
desit; he had but two.
Boisterous Piccadilly
more
with Bus became tem-
and Oghts.
L
Many Problems
of ugly
dreds of engines and coaches hou been shunted to military service.
historic role, faced problems of such, herole range that they required the Judgment of a Solomon, the military mind
ind of a a Napoleon, the diplomacy Everyone In the British Isles-and of a Prime Minister,
probably In the German General Invasion would One hour, for example, he might Staff-mew the be in the giddy heights of inter- pop any day. But only the necessary national polities, discussing with few men knew it was scheduled for Under-Secretary
of State Edward June 4. delicato Stettinius
problems
WITH darkness and the blackout, the number of telephones on his
Piccadilly became
bols terous, more alive. One felt rather
As the Prime Minister was one than saw the tidal waves of song.
Strango of the few Ogures who outraanked drink, love, and loneliness.
General Elsenhower attended the languages lashed out in the wake of my Boss, the telephone protocol was Settin
Big conference, amusing. A secretary pected to arice in liberated Europe. Dassers-by. The night was filled
staggering and amts dould call me. The next hour, he might be bawling decks Bofore, on May 16, at General curses, laughs, would tell General Ike
that Mr out a chastised General Patton for
Twenty-first Army Churchill was
calling. Downing making a chance public remark Montgomery's
in old St Flashlights porary love-nests.
Street would put The Prime's (highly resented by hard-pressed Group headquarters bounced around in the darkness like
Britain Paul's School, and private secretary on the wire, fire-flies. Buses, taxis,
and cars,
have to rule the postwar lorries jangled along the street un- noticed, winding in and out of the crowds spilling over the sidewalks. Sometimes o siren would scream, followed by the long Angers of searchlights grubbing at the sky; neither nek-ack nor bombs emptied Piccadilly, however-only the ugly light of morning did that.
There was another London, aside This from the Piccadilly London. was the world of theatre, of movies, Hyde Park soap-boxers, quiet pub crawling, serious sightseeing.
Fresh from Africa, I got a tremendous bang out of every part of this new, 1044 London,
I that America would put-The-General-on the-wired. The next, Ike might confer and, finally, the secretary would get Mr Churchill on the wire.
up to their jobs. Red Fingernails
ber of his staff.
Str
Invading Armies
THEN, all our Coast, now choked all our attention focused on
with Invading armies straining at the leash.
canvas
TELLING TALES
of the world
wo live in...
HE had plucked up courage to ask for
D rise to start the New Year with. The boss: was uncont- fortably frank.
'་ "But, sir," answered.' the sales- man, "with things the way they are -today-1-have to get twice what I'm worth."
why
then
the
General Eisenhower loved it, too. walked into his office to find one Air Ministry and hurried out to end. Parder it was a long Jump we are going to Australia tomorrow.
at away
WAN
wis
it
Or all the worldly honours the Allies of the stenographers filing her enjoy trails in Richmond Park, bestowed upon him, I think he fingernails, puffing
a which was most moved by the
woman in her because occasion cigarette like A
"factories" 7.20 & 9.20 p.m, when, after the war, London gave boudoir. The resultant storm
him the cherished Freedom of the such that never smoked in my bombers. City.
office from that day on. It was an order, if not a
direct order, and I CORNEL
never disobeyed Nor
IL
did while on duty in,
staff cor: the Likewise,
heard
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A MAN went up to the pan- tomime box office and said: "I'd General Eisenhower had far less
Ilke two tickets for tonight's per formance," Bald the ticket seller: THERE was a dark brown carpet; social life than the most lowly mem.
Hesitant to bother any of the "So sorry, we haven't any sculs left ordinary chairs and sofas' fringed
Normally, however, any leisure active headquarters with his pre- for tonight. In fact, we have only the wall. The room was devoid of any
slanding room for (wo."
...The hint of a solemn conference fable. was spent at Telegraph Cottage, sence. General Elsenhower, set up
hesitated, and General Eisenhower's desk flanked where bridge was the major Indoor an Advance CP at Southwick, six or
seven miles north of Portsmouth. theatregoer unauspiciously in the rear by British sport. Once in a while General Ike and American flags as well as his would look up from his desk. His office was a traller; I had a tiny asked: "Are they together, Miss?"
THE family was emigrating under red four-star general's flag, was hounded by nerves, and suggest an desk in one corner. The whole Cl
hour's horseback riding. Upon such was set in a wood where sunshine the Government scheme and unimpressive and excessively neat.
Occasions we accepted the standing was exiled, where rain soaked our night before they left the little girl
Bin entire
headquarters days on In Algiers, the General once invitation of
Gregg at the Louis
giving everything a damu, up: "...And now goodbye, God.. Boying her prayers. She ended
closed to the public from London or Algiers. The Prime contained false-front Minister and Field Marshal Smuts as
were headquartered on a special decoys "for enemy
train parked at Southampton
Nerve-cnds wero 50 exposed, Supreme Allled Commander had to
A BOY and girl were playing in carry a pass. Everyone topside was
over our Other Enemy: the the
pretend nursery. "Let's PUT. as Supreme Commander In
was alive with
are married," said the girl. Sald "We must don's distractions. I noticed he spoke
It to me, but I adopted: mother and me in a party of
second-guessers--all studying. about plain distaste for
(about theas the Food Once first." more and more of his
clear. having a headquarters in a
major natural,
pollah thereafter. ten invited to Hays Lodge. Among figuring, worrying
IN CHICAGO, where problems of city, let alone London. He wanted. There was no resentment on my the other guests were Jimmy Gault weather, key to the whole invasion:
4-supposed to be D-Day- overcrowding are as serious as in SHAEF chucked out into the part in sticking to both these rather and his wife, people
some country, at least In the outskirts, unusual Ident. General Elsenhower Red Cross, and General Patton. The undoubtedly was the longest day of Britain, housewives were asked to where his staff could buckle down was a militant champion of women latter was in good form that night 1944. The Prime Minister come down write an essay on: "What I want in to hard work.
in war and I had no wish to let him on good verbal behaviour which for a comforting visit, leaving as my post-war home."
First prizo Beetle, agreed, emphasising that down by presenting the picture of a impressed my mother no less than downhearted as the most pessimistic London was becoming more and night-club wom
of his afflan at the very door mo. As yɛual, ha kidded Ike, about: man in the office. Another visitor more of a military target"
We
SHAEF moved. All › ̈ ́ot
The official day in our part of War some more medals. "You was General Charles de Gaulle, who who answered in one word: "Mc."
questions baven't done anything yet," General raised maddening political
A RUSSIAN soldier an eager displayed migrated to buildings formerly oc- Building C began, usually around 8 Ike chided, "Wait till you get on the at this late hour and
"collector" of Western appliances- Interest only in those phases of the asked a German peasant the time with General Ike poring over
Continent cupied by the Eighth Air Force, the AM, post known by the
might affect hia The peasant plunged his pitchfork which Seeing and talking with soldier: Invasion none-too-subtle the
the maroon, leather-covered logbook code name of widowing. The which ́ ́ contained' nil hush-hush in the field was more pleasure and Free French; he was not informed
Into the ground, measured the place itself was a_group_of_tem- cables and
shadow, and said: "It is 2.81 pre.. correspondence, in more relaxation for him than any of exact target details.
soclai planners There WAS. another weather clsely." porary buildings and tents in Bushy telligence digests, staff summaries, thing London's
'who evening. Ali Park, near Kingston and not far and, the like. Meanwhile, I started could devise. Also, he thought it session from Hampton Court, the lovely the previous day's load of "fan, mall," vital that the Supreme Commander attended we agreed D-Day could Thames-side palace retreat of Eng- often enchanted by the latest gift be seen, that he become a person not be delayed much longer. land's kings.
of one of ike's favourite admirers, a instead of a vaguo signature
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did have a WHEN the General the dinner party, it was informal that be dialiked red and intimate. I was especially pleased the frea razy 1044, he also knew Lon- Genom polish.. He never men- ono night when he included my weather experts, meteorologists, and the four-year-old boy:
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