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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949.
INSTALMENT 16:
EISENHOWER WAS
N° August 7, "Ike's official
family moved right be.. hind him into Europe. "Shellburst" our new CP
women
MY BOSS
By KAY SUMMERSBY
date.
tr
Rave
high-altitudo colling,
· · ឤe shameless opportunity to hear 03 much as a whisper in his sanctum. Thus, the official side of my job was made easier, for I could tell immediately when the General was available for interruption. I could write down the day's business in the diary without asking him what
And, as a normal ¡ had transpired. female, thoroughly enjoyed the luxury of cavesdropping on conver- sations in the Throne Room,
ย
This time Generni Ike's British Military Assistant found him house lately occupied by enemy
General Omar Bradley, who commanded the U.S. First Army in Europa. "A peace- ful, charming, alert com- panion," is how Kay Sum- mersby describes him.
user
a Normandy apple orchard, was no different thon a hundred other command posts in France, Mickey, Hunt, Mourey and the rest of the household staff. having learned tricks of the . trade at our Southwick CP, Most of his interest centred on the the ship on to dry Innd. Pushing Boon had the entire tonted batle pleure. The Canadians, and pulung through the soggy sand,
with a fine-sense_of area running smoothly. General taken Dieppe,
Justice, had however, he twisted his knee, his Fighting in the so-called "good knee."
Brass. He and Jiminy Gault moved Eisenhower worked out of his Brest peningula was so heavy that Then, with the plane safe, the two into the large, comfortable
house trailer, as 'usual. We giris one reporlisted some four thot of them, dripping and muddy, which had belonged to none other
and camped in a nearby field re- bragged of entry lato Verdun courry to the rond.
casualties to
Patton staggered almost a mlie cross than General von Rundstedt, who
The served for
upon making only and very name of
first apparently insisted Verdun evoked
building still tho vehicle
more homeliko. guardeil as carefully, as am- nostalgia among
pass by was a Jeep, driven World War I
but by a Gi who stared incredulously at by the addition of a giant air raid munition. Actually, we found veterans in our Advance CP.
know, the Normandy a
sort of mistic. General Eisenhower had no leisure the sight of an air-force pilot and shelter, which, as far as
Imping four-star general. for sentiment.
The new four-star tenant never bothered all rear area commanders to "I'm going up and soldier rushed them down the road to loupect. Fifteen or twenty minutes shave down omce forces to an ab-
Alled civilians to the utmost, - to: pastoral retreat. And, free of give Pation Hell," he said, wine without asking a single Villa Mont- house offered comparative isolation other incasures were so inadequate
question. from the Trianon, Von Rundstedt's solute minimum. the buzz-bombs, we had our because the Third Army's spectacular
Even these and Ike was welcomed to first good nights of sleep in advance streched supply lines to
man risen from the and privacy. gomery like
that, by the time the Ardennes was the snapping point. weeks..
- dead. He got extra-super-service
The WAC giris and I lived in past. more drastic steps had to be The General flew up to Versailles that night from the household staff Versailles above a garage. Parts of taken. the next morning for a long talk with Bradloy. He said he
Ike's most violent gripe in this
the headquarters were set up in would period was over the way in which stables once used by French royal- be back in a couple of hours.
Perhaps that was the reason for Com- Paris had been invaded by
ty'. favourite horseflesh. Tex hils impatience with Army Back in Granville, we watched tnunications Zene ("Com Z") sup bedded down in a small apartment criminals. He was especially irate morning fade Into noon, then into ply headquarters.
over our office-annex. Butch was one day when, Irispecting a Nor- In our CP, he set
afternoon..
1er- The weather was
Hours after the Liberation, eve-In Paris trying to untangle press mandy hospital, he realised some about establishing
rrible. We had word the General had tions of this headquarters began a complications.
of the the
men were there for self- bridge which
games left Versailles, but tea-time came sudden movement
inflicted wounds. And he was stem, ከlny gave
to the capital, such re- and laxation.
went without any General Bradley teamed
further The emigration from Valognes, in Manpower Shortage as only a West Fointer and a. de- We called airfields only Normandy, was so complete
dicated war commander. can with Mattle against General Elsen- message, hower and me soon thereafter; from
to learn the great Allied army had virt
virtually every Com Z office wus
with the hundreds, of court-martial then on, the lines were drawn. The no trace of its own Supreme Com- already set up in Paris by the time
casca brought to his attention for Eisenhower-Summersby team won
mander,
General Ike heard about the un-
final review every week. that first night, starling new bank-
authorised move. Knowing that Ing difeulties in the conversion of
Calculated Risk
combat troops would burn with re- francs into pounds, still our mone-
sentment at Paris, Mecca of the war tary basis.
As I later learned Ike had insisted and Europe's ideal leave town, he
only leaving Versailles that ing occupied by rear area supply Then, as later. I found General afternoon despite an ugly storm really howled with anger Bradley a peaceful, charming, alert covering most of France. The pilot, over this violation of his hard-fast, companion. Speaking with a quiet halv one to argue with a four-star rule that
headauarters. nó BETHY tone which helled a fighter's heart, General, shrugged grimly and took should be located in a large city. he endeared himself to all of us in
off. the official family as much as he did
General Ike was particularly put to his own First Army Gla. Then ward. They had to land in isolated out at Com Z because his own head
quarters was avoiding Paris, mm- ing Into Versailles.
Cieneral Ike's spirits soared visibly at being on the Continent, able to visit commanders and troops on the spot once more.
as throughout the rest of the war I regarded him as the only other General in either the Bellish. American armles under would enjoy serving....
whom
.re-
Minor Headaches GENERAL Ike had his standard as
cortment of minor headaches. The British press atacked him for lieving Menty of overall ground command. The American press attacked him for permitting "British interference and domina lon des plie the majority of U. S. forces over British troops,
upon
The plane went sour shortly after-
Chartres.
that
WITHIN a fortnight, of course,
General
Ike was so worried about us "setting down" in Versailles that he announced another advance. We then trudged up to Gieux to the GI's) and
of
The Eisenhower, ire really began set up à new to grow intamed at the avalanche "Shellburst" where the Boss could of reports, from every type of live in his favourite super-trailer, a source, on the increasing Jack present from Tooey Spaatz, and e- discipline by Allied froops. Ameri- routine. We females took over rooms cipal offenders. Every week brought capo the monotony of headquarters cans, unfortunately, were the prin- upstairs in the Gleux country club, in more stories of rape, of murder, vren that in the, Normandy apple example. the General noted in our Lifo here was a pleasant cross be of calloused tooting. One day, for orchard and that in quiet Granvlite. office diary his reactions to that Whether in Versailles or Gioux, particular visit by the Judge. Ad- General Eisenhower's time, energy.
vacate General: and abilities were concentrated up-
Belts 10,30. on duties which fell into three.disciplinary
Reporis that dis- conditions are becoming lems, trips, and VIP's.
categories-command prob, bad. Many cases of rape, murder, und pillage are causing complaints Ing special inspectors to job at once. His reports substantiate those re- celved from other sources."
There, instead of stopping for re- pairs to the plane or proceeding by
In Vorsailles car, the General required that ho
finet The E took our Advance CP up there continue on by alr, at once. pilot therefore located one of the Win late September, joined by finy, one-passenger Cub linison the main statt from Widewing in Sometimes, he was faced by by French, Dutch, etc. Am assign-
bur
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problems unknown to military re- gulations. Venereal disease is issue known to all generals. But
the Belgians wanted him to General Eisenhower had to answer a political question: The French and close tact.
planes with which he was already
England. For the first time in famillar--and they look off in the months we had a complete head. rain.
quarters near the same spot where The little L-5 brought through to Granville in comparative Germany a little more than twenty- them the Allies had signed a treaty with y good shape, but they couldn't find five years before. None the airfield, Their petrol was forces moved into the place, how. nll brothels. With admitable running cut.
ever; even tho Germans, still.be
replied that it might be better The pllat took a calculated risk— rankling from 1918-19 Indignities, if the respective governments take he headed for the narrow beach hadn't violated Versollies Palace appropriate action; he would issue A
near Villa Montgomery. message from
the French the beach might be mined,
Akhough Supreme Headquarters occupied parallel orders within his own pro- offered definite evidence
they the famous Trianon Hotel. The vince, that is, to Allied troops un- spread looting by troops,
couldn't land in the water, or on the Commander's office was separate, in der his command. from liquor hauls by privates to a
ranging foggy airport.
an annex apparently used previous The manpower shortage he pre- silverware.theft by " brigadier
They made a perfect landing. ly for special entertairiment. The dieted long before D-Day emerged The next worry was the plano, office was so huge and cavern-like into stark reality. Replacements be- threatened by rising tides, General that he ordered a special partition, came a worrisome, then a pressing Still, General Ike never appeared Ike pitched in help the pilot move which, since it didn't reach the issue. General Elsenhower directed downcast, disheartened. disappointed in public, Occasionally
general.
.
or even
per-
he les down his guard around tho inner office and In tho evening bridge sessions. "You're ono son," he said to me one day in a low mood, "who ever sees me with my hair down. I don't have
to keep up. pretences-because you're not after rank, you don't blab to the press, and you don't gossip with staff members."
On August 26, I drove the General Chartres. on a long, tiring trip all the way to
The very next day a conference was held to discuss the tragic prob- fem. Ike was particularly disturbed at the news that his cocky 101st and 82nd Air-borne Division troops were on the rampage. Strong mea- sures will be taken immediately, be emphasised to his staff. And ha stig- gested strong medleine-a public hanging in the case of rape..
(COPYRIGHT. TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW)
LONDON IS UNFAIR TO WOMEN
I
GOT back to London recent- ly from a four weeks' visit to New York. I was met with the inevitable questions-about the shops, the restaurants, the cars, the cost of things, “It Arriving at General headquarters, we found the very air tioner remarked, "like living Bradley's sounds nowadays," my ques vibrating with one magie, romantic upon another planet." "It was word--Paris.
always that," I said. "
may encounter there, Bul the It is a refuge rather than a relaxa- Londoner who lives in Knights- tion. bridge cannot help wondering There is no "equivalent In New the telephone number of the fellow whether it is worth whic taking York for such London dining clubs guest who has a fiat in Bloomsbury.
as the Omar Khayyam and the Old Volumes.
Transport has become so dimcult the friends who live within walking that he terrds to concentrate upon
distance. A sert:s of separate communilies, olmust of villages, la being formed round the perimeter of Mayfair's no man's land,
More than one unmarried friend, commenting on the lack of n: central organised social London
life is built upon a swamp, London and on in New York is built upon a rock.
the dimeully of that is the Arst main difference. keeping in touch:
An Intelligence general, somewhat giddy, walked up and sighed, rolling That was, indeed, the core of its his eyes: "I've spent the night in appeal. Three basic differences, Paris.
It's wild, just plain wild, a | With the climate os a final factor, Mardi Gras and a battle! First time determined for New York and I've ever been shot at and kissed London a separate pattern, a dis-
at the same time!"
similar technique.
Narrowest Escape
wanted
Today London clubs are in a more flourishing condition than they have been for 60 years; their atmosphere is friendler, the company Ilveller, the talk more varied,
There is ΠΟ disloyalty in Londoner saying that- nlways war
In the third basle difference, how- ever, London has still a quality to throw in the scales that rets the balance level, London is, a capital and New York la not.
In a sense that New York CAT never be, London is à centre. The Court is in London, Parliament is Clubs that were facing bankruptcy in London, so is the Judiciary, so In 1938 have now a waiting list. Is Broadcasting House,
by ALEC WAUGH
"London is a man's. New York a woman's city,” says Alec Waugh, wha recently
from returned
America. 'London no longer provides a back. ground against which feminine grace and ́chains can be displayed to the advantage
they deserve."*
Dining
have
-50 aro
clubs the Ministries. The Aim studles and resumed within easy reach. their meetings;
the formal din- Practically every Englishman of ner party. the consequence has roots of some kind finger-bowls and in London. Into Londen is concen- truted all that e'divided in America between Washington
and Baston, between New York and Hollywood, of interests and
place these vanished.
names, have
There are
London had to spread horizontally, with friends. h................................. coming-out bails
New York vertically.
remarked to me.
have ‘ʼn stendy', to go around with; someone you can be sure of seeing three or four times a week,"
Eccond
ESS than a week later General Eisenhower had one of the nar- rowest escape of his wartime career.
We almost lost our Boss; the Everything In New York Is that "Nowadays you have to Alles almost lost their Supreme handier. With us offleo closing Commander.
down at five, the New Yorker can His Inhuman, non-stop schedulo look in at his club, join his wife at was the cause.
n cocktail party, lako her
to on
In only one respect har London Just three days after the Liberu- a second party and still make his tlan parade in Paris, he had to drop
dinner date, while even before the today un organised social life-ind everything and inke off for London, war when taxis were plentiful and that is in its clubs; a respect which
exemplifies tho to petrol was available for private difference between New York and The Primo Minlater
basle smooth some wrinkles in the Medi-ears, the Londoner living in Chelsea London-that London is a man's, terrancan command,
who
to dine in Kensing New York a woman's, city. Invited was tou had to calculate in terms of distance before going to a St. John's. The New Yorker lunches in his Wood cocktail party first,
club. He looks in there for a drink Today with Mayfair a residential when his office closes, particularly no man's land of chops and offices, if his relations with his wite are Euch scographical Conalderations his have become all important. Eost-attoo congenial; indeed New York wives tend to regard that "dropping set above the Bay of Naples; war, conditions have accentuated here, he could look out on to the the Londoner a problem that was in at the club on the way home" picturesque old abbey of Mont-existent but not insistent in 1938. as the first danger sign. Saint-Michael, a travelogue Island at high tide,
But his club is not a focal part General Elsenhower didn't spend much time studying the view.
To save time, he ordered his staff in Normandy to move the Advance CP in his absence.
"Shellburst" was set up in tho Norman seaside resort of Granville
upon his return.
The view rivalled that
villa Bet
NANCY
of
Jar Jam
HOW MUCH HAVE YOU GOT SAVED IN THAT JAR,
NANCY 7
DON'T
BE SO NOSEY, ROSIE.
for..
The New Yorker can go to a party confident in, the knowledge that
it will be easy for him to develop of his existence. He dines there dny potential friendship that ho as a last resort. After half past six
OH, FORGET IT ROSIE --- LET'S PLAY, WITH MY
TOYS
CAN'T YOU GET THAT JAR OFF YOUR MIND?
for the very young. But the opposite sexes meet mainly for cocktails and in small informal groups of int!- mutes. I have worn while ther Daly four times since the war-ind cach time at a misn's dining club.
a concentration
turnt to London life that New York
ment can never have.
The New Yorker cannot,,be in touch
in the same way, as is the Londoner with the men who run his country. The Londoner in his London no longer provides a back-
casual routine can meet in the some ground against which feminine day a Member of Parliament, a grace and charm can be displayed Treasury amelal, a Glm star, an in the advantage they deserve. officer in the Brigade of Guards. There are many cousca: rationing
Ho can confirm or modify his own and controls and shortages, a lack
opinions by direct contact" with the of servants, a lack of material to do
people who effect events, Ho does over houses, but mainly it is a corollary difference between New York and
not need to rely solely on the news- to that second bazle
papers and on the radio for his information.
Ho
London
has a sense of being behind Postwar conditions have accen- the news, of knowing what is going tunted the first two baste differences
on. However, shabby its appearance, between the cities, and it is Idle to however, restricted and controlled pretend that as a result of that ne- its life, London is still in the last centuation life in New York is not analysts the place where the bly more varied, more dramatle, more things are settled, the final decisions. unexpected, more highly geared. mado,
By Ernie Bushmiller
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