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THE AMERICAN WAY

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940.

THE THIRTY-THIRD INSTALMENT

CRUSADE IN EUROPE

move.

were still

013

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

opinion. Actually

on

Dir

of Bur-

selecteil. The greatest disadvan~/.g was proceeding ac-

ILS

we had censed the Intensity of aurcing Into Italy was to follow along no Bay Iny at about the exiting/und that we were too hasty period, and in the power of the

close and con- support to the WLTO

These negotiations proceeding when, according to

#lili strong Italian fleet, the remnants of the Italian plan, Montgomery alipped two dl- vielons across the Strait of Men-

forces, and Italian ground forces. sina one night against no resin-

throughout the peninsula and in tance and the Allied invasion of

the Balkans. Above all they In- the continent of Europe was

volved the feasibility accomplished, fact. This was on

render while the Germans 40 September 3-a date 10 days

closely dominated the entire later than I had hoped it could be

country. Finally it was agreed dore. Preparation for amphibious

that the surrender

would be attack is time-consuming, but if

elfective on the evening of we could have saved a few days;

the bombing, force on a number of mountain- September and that Badoglio this Instance our Salerno prob delay was caused by the neces- ous positions where we would and I should simultaneously an fem would have been much easier sity of transferring air units and have been without opportunity nounce the capitulation, I chose to solve. Nevertheless the timing

the bringing up of supplies; we to deploy and utilise our that date because at midnight was sufflelently good to permit were altempting to make a virtue strength.

our Salerno attack would begin. us to use for the later main na-

out of a necessity. As quickly as An Invasion on a wider front All these long, and at times ex- sault some of the landing craft wing cur air force at maximum examination of every spot of the carried on for us by my chief we were again In position for was clearly Indiented, and after asperating. negotiations WOTE that Montgomery had employed to get across the strait,

He imine effectiveness, we resumed our beach from Rome to the toe of of staff. diately started an advance up their campaign. the of the boot with enemy forces

the boot, the bay of Salerno was In the actual determination of

to plan when, at noon on

undertaken beenuse of our faith. cautiously delaying him and fun-

thetical plans there prose a tage of this plan was that is September 0, I received a mes-

in the ability of the air forces, xiously watching for our major question which there was Jogic

was obvious to the enemy sage through clandestine chan-

concentrating their striking sharp difference of opinion. One ns well as to us. Most of our

Elve ale cover nels to the effect that Badoglio power, lo

and For a brief period following group held that our safest, even pursuit planes were x1}

handi-

had reversed his decision on the beachhead during the build-up assistance 10 the emergency Those of us who live in the upon the expulsion of Mussolini

if less decisive, means of advancapped by short range and Saler- Far East are just os liable to

and that the result would merely Novy to render We through the toe of the boot, after limit of their effective support mean complete

domination fall into error about a counbombing raids against Italy.

publicised us as an opportunity

Montgomery

of tinttous gunßre had made the for the landings. Besides, be italy by the Germans and the landing troops until they try like America es the

for the new government to avold

Initini beachhend, and to work tween the bay and the toe of the sanguinary punishment of people in Europe. It is not further destruction in the country

laboriously

the capable of taking care of them- boot there were no other parti- Individuals involved. The mutter selv up the nor a nation with one voice, and by accepting without delay, our row winding roads toward the cularly favourable landing beo-

haci proceeded too far for me the public announcements of render of their armed forces. This scheme

demands for unconditional RUP- heart of the country. This

clics, so we went into the opera to temporise further. i replied

The Inuding and succeeding was safe, but it could

tion with no usions of sur-

develop almost iden- peremptory even highly-placed officials evoked an

telegram that operations angry protest from offer no warth-while results, in- prising the opposition.

regardless of his action 1 was tically to G-2 predictions. There do not necessarily reflect the London-again reminding us that

going to announce the surrender was sharp but relatively short general attitude, or the a modern commander ki the fold

at six-thirty o'clock as

pre-fight in getting ashore and with course which Congress will is never more thun on hour away

vlously agreed upon and that if minor exceptions the details of from home capitals and public

the actual I did so without

landing proceeded eventually take. Occasional-

simultaneous ancous

as was his ly, however, an individual

action on his part Italy would well. The enemy,

custom. have no friend left in the war.

immediately

began to comes into the limelight

was then

counterattack and by the thir- my advanced whose declarations can be

headquarters

need teenth had gathered up sufficient Badoglio's message was first re- to throw us into the sea. Dur- Carthage strength to make a major effort taken at their face value, be-

ceived at main headquarters in ing this period German propa- cause of the power and con-

Aiglers and the staff, lidence vested in him. Such

completely off balance, radioed ten as a great mistake and pour- ath thrown ganda was ridiculing the opera- a one is Mr. Paul G. Hoff-

the Combined Chiefs of Staff for Ing out over the radios of tho man, former business magnate

instructions al the same time world predictions of # completo and now Economic Co-opera-

they forvarded the original defest for the Allied Invasion. tion Administrator.

me. Determined to On the thirteenth the German procce:l on my own judgment.

nitack struck in all fury. and ontered the staff to cancel the flerce fighting ensued for # con- message to the Combined Chiefs alderable pertoxi. The greatest of Staff or if that could not be pressure of the Germon attack done to explain that I had cume in tire ceatre and pushed already handied the matter my forward to within two or three neit. I announced the surrender miles of the bench. The outlook of six-thirty that evening-and-became somewhat gloomy, parti-

our way

deed, once the enemy was sure that our major effort was to come frum that direction, he could custly have bottled up our

In the meantime negotiations for the Italian surrender had been dragging along. They were very intricate. They involved the

DON IDDON'S DIARY

America Begins To Ask Questions

Memoranduen

Passing through Hong Kong a few days ago, the director of millions of Ameri can aid would say little to the Press. After a day or so

to the Socialist that perhaps the New World has who approach our Vivien Leigh. in Shanghai, however, he |Government,

hit on the secret of living gaudily- Perhaps this sudden flood of Issued his remarkable

How long do you propose to go with almost everything, while the reports that an.

We are unable to on accepting nouncement that nid to the

capitalist dollara rest of the world struggles along offer worthwhile competition to med under America's free enn almost nothing. Chinese people

would con-

Hollywood is part of the well- terprise system? How long do The biggest boom is in motor- { known whispering campaign tinue in the event of a coali- vou propose using those dollars ears, and U.S. factories have Just technique. bon povernment being form-

10 destroy the free enterprise turned out their 100,000,000th it is astonishing how different, ed. There was, of course, the

system in Brituln?

automobile. Now 0510 out of the reaction of prominent Ameri- I know it is not for just a day. every four Americans has a car. proviso that such a govern- not for just a year-is it always?

can show people can be to Bri- More and more British cars are tain. I met Sophite Tucker this ment must grant fundamentali ask the questions beenuse Ame turning up here-small, compact. week for the Arst time, going freedoms to the people, but ricans are beginning to ask them. well-finished, dependable, but backstage at the Latin Quarter

Mr. Churchill's speech such statement

a few just about one-third too expen-with comedian Harry Green, wh can be dis-tays ago, in which he said you sive, in my opinions.

ԱՇ missed as surface diplomacy. were lving on the United States,

was presenting her with a small- Our goods are more popular bust of the tate President Roos Mr. Hoffman and hiss being widely quoted and widely thas some of our visitors. The vell, superiors who must have ap- discussed here,

amlable eccentric the Very Re-i proved his remarks-know and voters are taking me out to of Canterbury, is around, apuul- lotes

Election jubilation has subside verend Hewlett Johnson, Deun tense Anglophiles I ever met. She Sophie is one of the most in-

only too well that the even-

Ол Britain and British see what the British Governmen' { ing nőmiration

Russia and audiences, talks of England as tual aim

of an inevitably- has been doing since President criticism of the Unlied States, "home," and describes theatre- dominated. Communist coali-Truman's victory,

He seems excited, but no one else goers there as the most loyal fans tion In China will be the sup-tirely the competitive way of life

They rend that you reject on- is.

in the world. Used to cranks, headline hun- pression of all the freedoms which provides, the dollars which ters, phonies. and faddists, the of the Western world.

The Brush-Off make possible your Socialism. people are not getting red-faced about the Red cleric. They are

We had supper at Lindy's- more intense about the drive to hounds. Miss Tucker has been Sophie brushing off autograph clean up the city. Some council

41 years on the stage. York's streets are among the The original red-hot mamma,

she is still hotter

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phrases about support of free, when some of their leaders start Broadway and the garment centre inan a firecracker the box office, Badoglio. In fear and trembling.cularly when the "American- 30th

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Threat

ware al-

Kar-

blooded Wall Street repudia- tion of all the high sounding making too much of a fuss, but althiest in the world, and around the democratic regimes and op- saying loudly what Mr. Churchill in mid-town, it is true, garbage an audience effortlessly. She has half later that he had to follow expected direction and suffered an hour and a Division was struck from an un- and can hold finally decided nosition to dictatorship. It hns Just said quietly, there is

is piled high.

the indefinable magnetism of all sult. going to be trouble,

heavy losses before it could ex- 15 virtually certain that The dollar supply is not limit- However, there have been so great artists and will be a head- This action did not by any tricale and recover. Itself, At Madame Chiang's visit to

many less certainly not for

liner for years yet. clean-up-the-city those

cam-

means change our invasion plans. one time it. looked so probable Tallulah Bankhead is are sceptical

being For some Washington has been abor- whom Churchill calls "the hand-paigns that many

days we had known that the invasion forces might be about this one.

hailed as the heralds of Com-

theatre's greatest that the Italian garrison in the divided that General Clark made tive, not only because the maidens and

The other munism." The stream could dry being done

laundering Job is Womun personality following her Salerno Bay area was being re- tentative plans for re-embarking powers that be are unwilling up if you

on burlesque ini sensational comeback in the replaced by the best of the Ger- ble headquarters in order to con- to bolster the decading KMTU.S.S.R. and walking away from breaking out all over the town. Lives."

on apcing the

strip-tease shows, which

revival of Noel Coward's "Private man troops and our Intelligence trol both sectors and to continue regime, but because there is

the US.

sections predicted a hard battle the battle in whichever one The police are moving in.

In the beachhead culminating in 'It's All True'

in offered the greatest chance for no likelihood of either repel result has gone to heads. It un- Perhaps the American election

strong counterattacks somewhere success. This tentative plan, re- ling the Reds or, in the for-doubtedly increases Labour's,

At the moment she is the most between the fourth and the sixth peated to headquarters In publicised performer in the busi- day following the initial landing hecause it seemed to seeable future, of regaining chances of being returned to The headlines in the entertain-ness. Her current earnings are

led form. caused consternation any interest on money spent. Westminister in 1950, but it was ment trade Press say: "British £1,500 a week, and under her divisions in the assault, in ad- that commanders

With the equivalent of four

Indirato a victory for a progressive Liberal | Film Balloon

on the A coalition government in Government, not for Socialism. It Pic

1pot Bursts,

"British contract she gets 15 per cent of dition to two which

were discouraged and preparing Flops. China would almost certain-showed up the Republicans, and stories announce that Hollywood's the net profits, and has the right the South Enstward, stiil in the This was actually not the case. And th the gross receipts, 23 per cent of ready ashore but situated for to to withdraw the whole Larce. I mean complete control of was a plain warning to British rocent fears that It would be to pass the vast land mass by the Conservatives, but it was in no compelled to battle it out with play's directors; players, company ing

On the choice

of the toe of the boot, we were invad- Richard L. McCreery, command- General Clark and General Communists-but only after way rejection of capitalism. the British for world screen do-manager, stage manager, Press were estimated

a country in which there President Truman and the De- minance have vanished. years. It Is generally believ-mocratic Party are as passionate

to be eighteen ing the British 10 Corps, never agent, and costumier, My boiling point is always low

German divisions. Although once faltered in their determi- ed in best informed circles believers in free enterprise as Mr. when Britain is so casually writ runs the show. When she meets

When she is in a show, the follow-up troops would double pation. that the Reds will take a de- Churchill and the Conservatives. ten off and brushed off. I think anyone for the first time, she some

the initial assault strength, in cade

that Hollywood is making

respects the operation or two to consolidate They also have some pride.

a always says: "I suppose you have looked foolhardy; but it Prealdent Truman is back on their gains and rehabilitate the job, bronzed, ebullient, and vinced that British films are not IT'S ALL TRUE"

whopping mistake if it is con-hearil plenty about me-well. the ruined country. In the full of bounce. Everyone says capable of giving it a run for its The influx of meantime, there is the ex- not too soon-even the Republi- money. The two best pleturer names gets greater. Here in New pectation of trade, of obtain- cats. Now the public expects ing new footholds in Shang- mati.

more wonders from the miracleg in all America today are York to see and be seen in New "Hamlet" and "Red Shoes"-both grid Bergman, Paul Muni, Marl- hai and elsewhere; among

British Alms. Mostly during the past few daya

lene Dietrich, Claude Rains, Ed- The world's greatest actor, ne- ward G. Robinson, Pauletto God- the world's greatest concen-

Government spokesmen have been cording to such a judge as Samuel dard, Joan Fontaine, Van John- tration of people aching forcing that the superboom is Goldwyn, is Britain's Sir Lau- son, and others. Most are mak-

here to stay. Perpetual pros rence Olivier. consumer goods. perlly is the word from Wushing-

noting radio appearances for as much With peace and the age-old ton. Certainly there is no sign many American women Alm stars as $6,000 for a single broadcost. Chinese adaptability, they of a levelling off, lot alone a nose- might form the world's great

food and

dive.

est market for an America Wage Increases

that is already dublous about

Move wage increases are inevit= | making a profit out of Europe, the Second, who warns also that able, according to Henry Ford But it is not necessarily a prices are bound to go higher, betrayal of principle; only a The country is knee-deep in dol- hard-headed acceptance of lars and prices scrape the skies, facts. America has not yet of 1920 x denounced as un-Ame- : Anyone who recalls the crash grown up, and is still sway-rican. The average cltizen thinks ed by emotional catch- phrases. But its big men in Washington and New, York may indeed be different, that are now going in for Inter- they may not too the Moscow. nationalism, perforce, as a line-in fact, that mingled paying proposition, while with the liberals they may be and mutual trade on as wide fluence. still faintly hoping that peace a permanent stabilising in- a scale as possible may yield Of course, it is unlikely to greater happiness all round, happen. But that is the line and dividends continuing at now being pursued, as per 1940 levels. There is in their sonified by that clever and mind always the possibility honest believer in laisse faire, that Chinese Communists Mr. Paul Hoffman.

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