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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe

cided to take thein into my con- idence,

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mient

by

sometimes created American organisations that have been indoctrinated in the mass production methods of the Unfiled States. This Incident Involved the construction of the airfield the Httle Island of Gozo, lying

ко It was Just of Malta. favoured in the matter if ter

ain that British field engineers, who depended to a great extent upon hand tools and fight equip ment, had given up any hope

would come a man

velocity in terms of "Fores." In

and shy.

tashion on the neck told the engineer of this "Force 4 sir." or "Force 5'sir.”

|

atent

on the

S

I felt I had to stop speculation by war reporters as to the future intentions of the Allied Force, 1 knew the Germans were wart- ching us intently and it is as- tabbing how export a trained Intelligener

staff becoines piecing together odd scraps of seemingly unimportant informa 1 to construct

n picture of enemy plans. At the suoment

well as to soften his defences. I Northern Africa was a live of

told the press that we were can- preparation for the Sicilian in- The experiment was one which cheting this air offensive in such

way as to leati the enemy to producing a field there in time vasion. At every possible spul would not particularly like 10

revelation believe that we would attack for use in the Sleilian campaign. along the benches we were had repeat, because such

just at the critical the the western end of the island, Happily, ing exercises; poris were being does place a burden upon

we would mument Air Marshal Park, in ked with needed

applies, man whose Brst responsibility is informed them than and harbours and inlets were re- to conceal the secret. But by se airbone troops in the opera command of the air forces of the

had 05 a visitor eriving landing craft. It jasmed making I immediately place on un a much larger scales than Island.

engineer who specia- every reporter certain that if reporters weking | upon

in the had yet been attempted in war Anerican items of Interest for their papers | theatre feeling of the same fare. The attack was carried out. lised in the construction of air

m exuelly this 341

networks should con-responsibility that I anet my us- radio

9 sas com- night of July tinue to report upon activities soclates bore. Success

of of the existener.

alter For me this had to be translated Because theplete From that moment

particular problem Broughout

comminunications showing him the projected site into miles per hour, but I had no watching Curning- ifletty. toward, until after the attack was splendid naval soon be able enemy would

an extimate ke ruther accurate deductions launched: nothing speculative at Malta that place we clusen asked for

In realising that etham's face, as 2017 headquarters

the time It would take to construct

Force 3 was worse thom Force came out of the theatre and na ale the strength and ming of

of the operation, an operational strip. The answer the press at initial stages

"Ten days

However, falling velocities weng n nunchulant it Serang, a son, Richard attack, even if we should be suc- representative of

ressful in concealing; its location. tempted to send out anything Most of our air farinations were

al This airfields crowded into

struck Park-who k It be of

were predicted for sundown and that could possibly

nny

this cheered us, bernuse if that AD the Tunnista. After the North Eastern Tun

human dynamo himself-as During periods of combat in value to the enemy

conditions by tetency continued! that be thought| 100 preposterious

satisfactory! tivity reporters have a hust operation was complete many principal ale headquarters had to

of a joke, midnight should be their stories with correspondents told the of the remain in the vicinity of ancient himself the victim of Gilling up

Alexander Towever,

the Carthage. after sincr

felt they might fear they Speculation.

Admiral Cunningham, and i aflihoughtful me months of

experience in a guilty of even inadvertent revṛ-

went to Malta a day or so before

engineer Bewarm lation of the secret. During the theatre

uny

the attack was scheduled, br

to In period of preparation they even

problem, he asked: ta jake atay

የኪ requires considerable interpreting earning events, the became reluctant to discuss the in position 14

themselves, and that might prove necessary. u "As soon as my equipment can would be impossible to turn back increased that soon subject among

frost

Marshal uf Field

1oke ulting forces from their in- guests the

elaborals were

get here,

tended landings, A message came the enemy would have our plans | invented

Gurl.

Kovernor of the several days, corte naines to refer to hems of Lord host a detail, I do not belleve

The upshot was that messages from General Marshall: "Is the or it?" My reaction attack on or vell-styled equipment and to details of the iskart. that speculatia

Muita then presented a pictine began to fly through the air, and military analysts in the home-projected operation.

far diferent from the one of a

thirteen days from the fling the was that. I wish I knew! Even- Mouths fell open as 1 began IL removed (roz theatre of operations, is of any the comference by telling the renew months earlier, when it was Best American action aning approached with predictions

Assault still the target for a hostile air

stepp on the island the first indicating some slight Improve- great benefit to the enemy. These porters that we would

ittle in July. Sielly

with the force that hart early in

effective fighter plane was taking off from ment. We decided to proceed as

und conclusions

1 so radioed Tong-distance

Wader

General opposition. Mulla had taken the strip.

Marshall. My feeling based upon the sketchiest of Seventh Army

To hers fearful beating but the spirit of

this perform Paston attacking the Southern

the forces on had em- was that, even benches and the Briksh Eighth the defenders had never been miracle the engineers

ar the Southern roust should find Army

Mont shutes. As Allied air and naval ployed nimost every type under General

it necessary

delay landing. attacking the Eastern support approached them through modern cneth-moving machinery

those on the East would surely as they edge closer 10 the truth namery south of Syracuse. There th

of North: Africu, of conquest

to be found on any large cons they rose magnificently to the truction job in the United States et ashore und we would bave less confusion and disadvantage, to substantiate ideas. But in an was almost painful silence as

1

Alex-occasion. By the time we found equipment that British engineers than would result from any at. General active theatre is an entirely explainest that

dreamed different matter, and because stander would be in command of need for Malta's facilities its air-envied but had never

such a tempt to stop the whole armada. 44123 and that we were fields were in excellent condition could be brought into hatred of

But the evening wore on unexplained both armies

theatre

tom the wind velocity increased censorship and, more than this, already conducting the prelim and its garrison was burning to remote puri at au active

war. This story was told to me of because of the confidence I halary air campaign to destroy the get into the fight.

A story in connection with this over and over the integrity of German air forces and to cut his

luse ad- we would do but pray, desperate- acquired ins

endly.... miration for the American

shorl at gineers was scarcely

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when he vigorously attacked Communista and gave warn ing that it will be resisted by at | freedom-loving peoples Jevery

where

it

War

danger was

Lands,

formation

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are

omusing rather than although they became

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all usunlly terrify to dungermi

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noting in which considering "When

start?" nction

24

which Should

Some of us went outside for a the short walk, but we watched the the wind indicators fearfully, almost

the

hous can prayerfully, because

was fast approaching when

sceving

10

and

my theatre, i de sen and lund communiqutions as preparation illustrates the amaze-officers on the Island by British alarmingly. There was nothing

DON IDDON'S DIARY

Dollar Demanders

on.

uwe, This tighter strip gove us an additimal base from which

to sustain our attack acainst Sleily,

The

SICILY

AND SALERNO

THE FIRST TROOPS SCHE- ship' convoys bringing the DULED TO REACH THE istund

troops to their allotted places;

contingents. were the airborne had to come from ports stret The route of some of thest .lay ched throughout the length of

Inst

many

point threatens to disturb the de- mocratic way of life, division of the world Communist and non-Com- munist areas is a fact in 1948 as the division of Europe into Catholic und Protestant spheres was fl recognised fact to the end of the Wars of Religion in 1648. Internal struggles will continue: there is a majority of non-Com- munists in Eastern Europe, many of them bitterly resent- ful of the dominance of Mos- euw and there are A large

the Mediterranean. The timing directly across Malta and a nur ml final manoeuvring

of us went out on the hill- | ber of the number of Communists in

various naval columns had to be tops to watch then pass, In the the Western sphere. In

exactly performed in the narrow. win and storm it was difficult Our for them to keep direction. China, there is a vast major-

mine-filled waters separating

air opera- ty for whom Cominunism

Sicily from the mainland and hud plotting board in the

Mons room showed

that has no meaning, whose only

There is more bustle and vigour moving: and British criticisms of to be done so as to keep planes and tows were blown far The American capital is asking: į

stute of confusion wish is that both sides in the

off course, but generally the What would the worki do if there about the place than there used Risenhower's book are lacerating enemy in a

the and indecision unli civil war would stop fighting were no United States?

to be, even if the tempo is slower feelings here.

Fashions get fancier and wo- moment. Admiral Cunningham columns kept on larget and when and leave them to till the

During the past few days the than in New York.

dollar demanders, aid Traffic is a mad mix-up, and men have taken to wearing flossy, Admiral Hewitt und, all their the one we were watching had fields and trade in peace. If queue of

headquarters to await reports. Most of us turned in to catch a numbers are becoming indoc-appealers, credit edgers, borro- the planners or Improvisers have feathered hats with barebacked subordinates performed the task passed overhead, we returned to

wers, panhandlers, and wallet made the labyrinth more involv- dresses, making them look barer. faultlessly.

New Yorkers say din lights

Was Everything

proceeding

of sleep. ed by erecting an amazing array trinated after their area hastappers has got out of han

perfection unliffew hours

The first

in the. messages seeming been overrun by the Reds. it Mme. Chiang Kai-sink, flying of neon-lit pedestrian signs which have the highest standal power, with

There's gloom in Hollywood, the actual day of the assault. morning were a a mixture-of-good- fighting her way command "Walk," "Don't Walke,"

Warner Brothers and Then the weather, which in that is largely because of the ill-in from China,

and bad. A number of the gilders of the Mediterrangan 18 repute which the Nationalists to the Treasury. Her husband "Obey Lights," "Move," "Hall." The big

green Eagle-Lion studios are shuttered. part says Ameriem Blinders at Yalta There are also red and

are running on normally serene in summer, bepuriivipating in the airborne at-

tack on the tack the British front had frequently leave behind, or make it obligatory for the United electric arrows winking and dart Other companies

half time. ing at most street intersections. has States to send help and also a

brave slate-K to deteriorate so badly as been ciest loose loo far from their because nothing else

Despite all the Walkers Too!

to threaten our ability to land. ments about the American Alm Since the wind direction Was targets and the higin wind hnd emerged in Chinese political-ranking goneral or two.

Turkey and Greece are request-

Pedestrians can be, and are industry being life to inspire either Com-

self-supportare generally from the West it was dropped some into the sea. Wa ing more money, Britain, France,

heavy loss of life and. fidence or support. Whether Belgium, the Netherlands, and given summonses for disregard-it is now pretty clear that with the Southern beaches for which are

later showed though statistics. for the the signs and crossing against out the British market film-mak- we were anxious. The Western

C that casualties were less than in the battle-line or political Luxemburg wont

the stream of motor traffic. ing is a hazardous financial bust-beaches would have the shelter we feared, it was still a tragle

I went to Secretary of State nesa. infiltration the Communists North Atlantic Alliance.

The Marshall Plan's funds for

Incident. I had a charming letter from

On both flanks the conference and have been doing an ever the first year run out in Apri Marshall's Press

landings from the sen zeemed to weary and Sir Charles Cochran the other

with only be pereceding well more skilful job than their and several more billion dollars thought he

have to be voted. Almost worn out. His hair, like Presl day. In it he wrote: "Tallulah miral. Cunningham in his office. opponents and there seems to will

very untry on earth has its white. He was turned almost Bankhead, of Alahamu, tipoed me to which meteorological specia- maderate oppositions,

was brusque, almost Truman as the winner and I won lists brought frequent hands outstretched and is mur-

curt, with questioners, very much a bet of 100 dollars. Tallulah and Coreeasts. Naval muring "Gimme."

that she, like most stars, have a habit of referring to wind? The hauls sometimes appear the soldier, and obviously cool tenid

knew how it felt to have a bad grasping and the chant becomes the latest requests from China.

Just how much There is more gossip in Waste-Press and that nobody ever had Marshall's future a worse one than the President, are Ington about ROON

than about anything else, The who certainly gave a fine display President wants him to stay on, of guls." A pity I didn't take but he is likely to retire to his Talhah's advice too. Virginia form within six months

People Like Them if the cold war gels na hotter.

an

monotonous.

*

Jooked

be nothing to prevent them from establishing

all- Communist state in China unless a miracle occurs in the handling of China's affairs by money, how many the liberal and conservative needed, and for how long? asks leaders, or the United States | Washington.

To me, u visitor to the city, the is prepared to go very much

question appears reasonable. Al- further by way of active in-ready the United States is carry-

Leo Genn, one of my favourite tervention than today appears ing most of the load of the Unit- Strike Unpopular actors, will co-star with Margaret to be probable. There is, of Nations-the Mushall Plan,

In New York the pulse moves Sullavan on Broadway In "People course, no immediate anxiety the Western Hemisphere Defence back to normal, as the dock Like Us," by Frank Vosper.

Pact, and the European and far strike, which cost shippers £8,- Charles Boyer's fans. are com- down here in the South. Bastern occupation areau.

000,000 a day, ends. This was plutuins, that he doesn't wear his The Reds have a long task

one of the most unpopular strikes) toupee in the play "Red Gloves," Worn Out nhead before they reach the

ever pulled, and the sympathy now showing out of town. The walkout in Southampton, for Frenchman retuses to capitulate. Yangtse and a longer one if

Washington is becoming slight from winning friends and initu- although he like Bing Crosby, they pursue

logical the course and consolidate before warn out with providing mills encing people here, was regard-Jack Benny, Jackie Coogan, wears

and money for all the globe. It ed дя mischievous interfer a toupee when making films,

Hollywood says the economy seeking other provinces to it could be sure that all the help ence.

Wall-street is still in the del-wave is so strict that a cowboy conquer. Movement South was being well used, sensibly will, it is believed, find thement, and promoting good will drums: the forgotten man, Thom-hero now hits the villain with the

for the US, it would feel better. as E. Dewey, may run again for first bullet.

But the borrowers 'show little | Governor of New York State In Footnote: Washington says only progressively less welcome to the local populations which gratitude and much impatience. 1950; national sympathy with the a steady hand will prevent broken means a more active resist-and the only voice moved to sav King in his illness is massive and China. ance in the field and prob- Thank you" frequently is Mr.

ably much troublesome non- co-operative activity in their rear. Nevertheless, that they may finally achieve the con-

Churchill's. It is hardly surpris- ing that the borrowers queue

isn't the best loved or most popu- DO YOU ar slaht in Washington. Ameri- cans would like to ser K keen in line, keep quiet, and rend its

quest of the entire country. menners.

is a consideration which no- I am very fond of this etty, one in authority in surround-though I've never lived here ex- to rept for a few weeks at a stretch

can afford

Ing areas

It has lost its sleepy. Southern Ignore. Sir Alexander ap-town atmosphere, and today has pears to have been making almost a war-time urgency.

it clear, long in advance of

any such contingency, that

KNOW YOUR HONG

KONG?

Can you

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this British Colony will not code that it is possible for brook any interference with capitalism and communism cognise where the peace of its existence to exist side by side in rea-this, picture was merely because we do not sonably friendly harmony. taken? The an agree with the political exchanging goods, as long a colouring of a neighbour. each keeps unto himself as Nins. This does not mean that far as politics are concerned. Hong Kong contemplates However, we shall be far cutting off all commerce with happler if onents keep the such a neighbour:, on the Communists well to the contrary it is the democratie North.

of the island Itself.

I spent some hours with Ad-

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