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However, I realised that a whole American unit had not · suddenly

to believe that the surry busines Jad been started by a few crocky had been gradually and others drawn into it alinost without con scious will and, once started, saw. no easy way of getting nut,"

betinue criminal. It was folent Gen.

IN EUROPE

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

of

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KING

We were

During that period their trade with other nations had ceased, thefe industries were perverted fö the use of the Naziɛ, and their daily lives were never, free from fear of imprisonment and worse. Even their news of the outside world was fliers to them through Nazi-controlled newspapers and rodios.

assistance weir

shoes and socks at least once daily 1 Vinced of the and I were cun- balties to Suish off the enemy in | koetti, tel at times

and massare the minutes.

for feet To make certain this was done effectively hormak practice The treatment in palest

rub the

enfen

WIN EU

Was

his partae five minutes by the clock, Nothing much; but as soon we knew the answer and ap- client it rigorously in all affected Areas we reduced the number of serious casualties by thousands per month,

DON

IDDON'S

DIARY

because

tu

own living.

DA

Communist penetrallon

in trade tutions and elsewhere hdd created slurp political division within the country which Was reflected in1 divided councils and some disunity, even, in the pro- of the war. seculion

For ex- ample,

Tener

Chapter 17 AUTUMN FIGHTING

ON GERMANY'S -

FRONTIER

I

1 instructed the law-enforce- iment staffs to push prosecution of

They cladestine basis So long as ly less than one half the ratio of full confidence,

did, of course, receive sonic the gusity-fortunniely these were.

*****rities a command in your information from

Lure! not so numerous as Brst reported World War I. For this there he holds -but that no sentence in the ease

wers many reasons. Among them theatre it is evidence to me of Amertem broadcasting

stalton sufu your satisfaction with kin would be fully approved until were penicillin and the

Th

sut such news could not be free- drugs,

1be" unrly | brought to my personal attention.

blood lives of Huny are at stake; I wility strculated to the whole populi- When this was later done 1 ex-plost, no an efficient system not have you operating under ang tion and those who listened were, of evacuation, a great deal of 41] misunderstanding is to your pu-

subject If discovered, plained my plan, This

stern whs to

by nie.

With respect to the holly, and your duty, to reject | punishment. With the coming of offer to each of the convicted men | S

to get the La restore himself Jots of the doctor

or whove any that fails to satisfy the Allien is chuincy

populne exuberange good standing by volunteering for an it again for combat as quick- you completely, General Mars sometimes was su emotional as tu front-line duty.

where the shall never violatest this rule, and embarrass our soldiers, but there Army to concentrate heavily on The sentences, ly as possible, and which were severe, haut already wound is permanently disabling, in frn, preserited tis

was no room left for doubt eonthe Northern flank of the Hue been published in the command, to get hini quickly, safety, and procedure for my senior sub-cerning the people's great joy into oppose any German advances so the forward troops know that vorfórably to a hospital in the filinates.

deliverance from the Nazi yoke!

through Belgiim. Militarily, Mey bath In guilty were not escoping homeitand.

Early in the Overlord operation The re-established Governmmits felt, their dimculties enme about punishunt. But now I was de- doctors, the marse corps, and their Pritte Minister Churchill and of Western Europe co-operated because of internal political IMMIGRATION

tend to give the offenders associates dh a remarkalile job. Field Marshall Brooke toolt eg

wholeheartedly with The Allied weaknesses. One French business- Most of them

wounded fach engerly Som

returned Apart from the attempt to chance

sion to inform me that they also high command. Labour and othe man said to me. "We defeated consolidate existing legislu-seized the opportunity, removed several times from the hospitals were prepared, at any moment us

mode available ourselves from withing we fried the stigma fran their names, and to the front in a single year of expressed dissatisfaction with any to us so far as the enparity of tion, and to the up.

to oppose a four-day work week a few earned hanourable

discharges. cumpaleping. 1 have seen other of my principal British subordți- each country would peruit. There

against Ux German's slx-or Joose ends, it is difficult to

This same opportunity was not, men unloaded at huse hospitals, ates, to repitner hun instantly.

were, of course, dissident

eleven-day week," understand the purpose the however, extended to the officers hundreds of inlies from the front, Allied co-operation had come u ments. Men who, with arms in The war, moreover, let int

within hours of receiving a per- | jong way since the first days of their hands, had long served ba Bill introduced in Legislative who participated in the affair.

purge Frames of its divisive in- Beeruse of the miserable condi-] manently disabling wound.

Torch!

the underground, who were uċ- Auences. Council yesterday which is

Apparently communis- tions along the front we begin tal The soldier's welfare is always We had splendid troops and sing customed by stealth and violente te ductrines bad flourished in intended to replace existing suffer a high percentage of nail the business of commanders of commanders, both on the ground to accomplish their purposes of great segments of the under- immigration laws. As far as

battle casualties. Trench fool was all grades. But in the full of 1944 and in the air. More were arriv- sabotage, did not easily adapt then- gro

*p* } ground moveinent and with the no change in one of the principal cruses, can be seen,

Cure it was of particular importance.ing unily From the United States selves again to the requirements coming of liberation the Com- is feult, sometimes almost im The Allled soiler faces at the All we needed, in artition to our of social order, some casts munists, as a minority but a very principle, operatively, is in-

possible, but the doctors discover- hardsleip and tended, and the assumption that prevention was relutive battle, while the elements marle the forward areas.

danger of ordinary growing strength, was supply in

they wanted to maintain and aggressive body, began to weaken magnify their power, to becoine i the national will to regnin that the Government propos- y simple matter. Effective pre-his daily life almost unendurable, certain that by the time we could the lominant and controlling is France's foriner position of power ed at last, to take measures vention was perely s matter oft was is struggle in housekeeping provide this we would have the

liberated ment in the thut no. scipline; making sure

country, and prosperity in Western Europe, for the controi of the im

as well as against the enemy. Yet |strength needed to begin the final | While these things enuseid zome que neglected the prescribed pro-

This partisan disunity in locall- into Chinese migration ut

any associates This was to reinuve the

worrisomie, ties behind us dil nat affect the redure.

necessity of maini- | the West. Hong Kong, is without basis

dillenity, they were overshadow-Allied military position: whatever As we pushed rapidly across ed vo taining the tempo of operations.

ed by the caperness of the popu- their

the political Blation, The Attorney-General drew

that

That job was to inaltain {

lation to earn again, under free liberated peoples were friendly to Western Europe the wildest un- particular attention to the

their the punishing pace against the enemy, thusiasm greeted the ostvancing institutions,

us. But there was threatening clause: which permits the

Because France had been divid to build up our strength In troops Afted rollfiers. In France, HM- Lake Governor-in-Council exclude

and supplies throughout the full glum, Holland, and Tarvinbourg ed into secupied and unoccupied physical weakness in our com- early and

and winter, and to be rouly in tur i the story was

the French const te the front, everywhere the segments by the aerobilee of 1940 nations zone, stretching from any person or class of per

BRING. The inhabitants were and because

the

underground in

future spring to sieliver the final killing shor

* that die entlanger, gur sons from the provisions of

blows.

undernourished and impoverish- that country was not only strong offensive operations. The life- the new Ordinance upon en-

Commanders in the Americane, but the regaining of their in- but very ongressive, more than wind of supply wan running actment, and in such direct

Army were all of my own choose dividunt liberty, of their right to normal difficulties were encoun-perilously thin throughout the fashion аз to leave little

Ever since the beginning of talk freely with their neighbours tered in the re-establishment forward extremities at the Army.

However, as always, room for doubt that no

the African campaign there had and to learn of the nutside world, stability. existed between General Marshall seemed to overshadow, nl least the French prusant was devolėn change from present-day

The medical service was - and me a fixed understanding on for the moment, their hunger and to the wolf and continued assidu- procedure I contemplated.

In the etent: the ratio of fatalities per the point. He said, "You do not their privation. The people lindously to attend his crops. The power to set up the ad-hundred wounded was, in the need to take or keep any com- lived in virtal empitivity for cities there was greater contusion ministrative machinery American Army of World War II,1 maruter in whom you do not have more than four years. handle immigrants generally. including Chinese nationals is there, but there are

IN SEPTEMBER OUR ARMIES plans for Implementation.

WERE CROWDING UP against At present, no restrictions

the borders of Germany. Enemy Bront Jortions of the are placed upon the move-

former underground, or, as they defences

naturally ment in or out of the Colony

Devers U.S. were called, Maquis, refused to artifically strong. of any Chinese arriving from

enter the Army except us sepur-Sev

Seventh and French First Armies were swinging In Enstward or proceeding to any place

ate units. They Inslated upon

the Vosges Mountains, in China Proper, a feature

forming their own reguments and against

traditional dos divisions under their own leaders, which formed a which as we have frequently

fensive barrier.

North In the insisted, in effect, makes

Sleuried

Line, backed up The U.S. Is giving without stint enough British good will to "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her it was feared. they might oven!

ou by the Rhine River, comprised a nonsense of any legislation

to her friends, and is prepared in ground, and perhaps that is mor Now" and "Kiss Me Kato" clutter maintains themselves in various designed to control immigra- on giving as long as they re important

pasta of the country as armed the hoardings.

med defensive system that only the nu- well-supplied and determined tion. In the new Bill uo-

Columnlet of the New York Deborah Kerr anst her hashund, Lands ready to challenge the au- well-m

force could hope to breath. thing is expressly stated ex-back the presents at a profit.

For the moment we were still Their cludin Chinese

plan could to Knickerbocker, says in nationals The country would he al

print: I gave them n little party the Government.

the dependent upon the ports know also that the presents are "It's high de Don Iddon sald other evening. They had not wett be wholly accepted by the

at from the necessity of meet-

bought not by millionaires but out something nice about us Ameri- other members of the British Pres: government because the

manifest Cherbourg

Arromanches, ing its requirements. The of the savings and taxes of or- cans.

before. Deborah and Spencer result would have been the estab. because of their limited capacity Attorney-General, however, dinary folk. clerks nickels) "Now, Don, where do you think Tracy are doing re-shot, for tha lishment of two French armies, and the shid enough in introducing and dirt halls offer the quar- aby dog without, ut today? Henk. fim verding of Edward, My Ron. One servfully under nised Rover de com lations out of them preserven

Renerally BBC the measure to that ters and half-dollars, the useably collecting butts instead of

recognised govern- cun hus rece

received a lot of publielts to itself.

ment, the ether responsible ohty was impossible. It was even.

limeult to the anomaly will be per-wives' cents and penny pieces are writing a fast-going column,"

Perhaps Knickerbocker cannoltre, says

maintain adequately However, the govern- of the to petuated on the assumption paying for the gifts.

We should be thankful,

rend. Better fust-going column | vision in British

&

ment developed a plan to accept the troops that were daily eng pubs would he

for (apparently) that undesir- Most Americans realise that tha

than column las

fast going.

resentvil

Collins paints out that the Muquis in units on larger thin aged, in constant fighting

position along the front. This ables can only come from British are.

And scores of people keep ring our television is wider than Amerattalion size parts of the world other than

They know.

too, that Britain's ingine up about a book I men-lea's that we have Anty

Thoughtful Frenchmen frequen!. would continue to be true until dua not to profligate the Chinese mainland. This, need

pending or extravagance bat to

state of "adult compli- for their national collups in 1940, Rellle working at capacity.

the former, Bradley wrote to me we agree. is probably over-

In other having expended everything on Vanderschmidt,

corre catenues."

opinion

all plans simplification, but the fact halting Hitler-America's and the pondent or the American maga. Producers are ahding that a prevalled that the French mill-on September 21:"

for future operations always that

Newsweek. legislation world's enemy. remains

zine

special-type model is needed for use in the in the ante lead back to the fact that in ar-

tary debacle about which does not include with- Central Park is a huge Christ- There is one

chapter headed: television appearances. The tong ciency of the Maginot Line. rder to supply an operation of in its scope the vast major as card; Park-avenue is a high- "As Don Sees Un," and another lean, hungry-looking women are in not find any Frenchmen who any size beyond the Rhino, the

out. Chocolate-box beauties. ity of persons calculated toy of white, all Manhattan's called "Poor Man's Iddons."

agreed with this, They felt that port of Antwerp is essential." Vanderschmidt buildings sky-serobers" and tent-

writes! CRuse the Hong Kong Gov-atents have coatings of snow.

"Al-with full features, rose-pelul ne fortified time along the East-Ile never falled to see that logis- though a good many of my cul-mouths, wide saucer eyes, of the ern border was necessary and ties would be a vital factor in ernment serious concern, one Only Broadway, a slab of blaz- leaguon will not agree, I don' young Claro Bow type" are back, served a good purpose in that it the final defeat of Germany. way or another, is highly ob- ing red and green and blue elec. think Don is journalistically

etty, looks angry.

Frightened Town

To Be Continued But his omi to

should have allowed the French vicious. jectionable. Let the Govern-tricity,

Hollywodd says everyone, from The great shopping, thorough leaders what they want has also the great production leads in ernment declare its intentionfares-Fifth, Madison, and

Lex-Kiven them some completely false of carrying out its immigraington-aven

avenues, Fifty-Seventh Ideas or what makes Americans carpenters on the lots, will have ffon laws without reference street are crowded with people. tick. I don't wish to imply to accept economiles. It t to race, or port of departure, Everyone, even

trame that Don Iddon is basically ant melancholy outlook and although the lights on the trees glow und and it would be possible to policemen, swathed in rubber American,"

red-faced. Of course I am not not basic- twinkló along. Sunset Boulevard. approve wholeheartedly the raincoats, ear-mited,

night club ure seems in a good temper. tightening up of restrictions.

"Had It Again'

I think that the Dally M Nord thronged, the tou But laws which make things

Daily Express, labelled as anti- of the future: difficult for a few hundreds British Christmas, and newspapers anything of the sort.

There was great interest in the American by Vanderachmidt, are A meeting on American son' and deliberately miss many said:"Britons have had it again. lova America loss because I love ing the U.S. and Harold Wilson, I do not between Erle Johnston, represent- thousands of persons who are Christmas won't be bright... Britain more.

President of the British Board of far more likely to infringe enough meat to go around ... Anyway, a fine frenzy Van Trade, is forcast. Last week against the safeguards the not enough turkey. not enough dorschmidt's book has put my recommended that Wilson come

not enough clothes Bill is intended to provide, fuel,

| Astorican friends' into,

here. He is regarded us the lead- Shown along Broadway areing spokesman of the "Ket are not to be countenanced not enough sweets".

What the newspapers failed to hardly appropriate. There is tough with America" clements; without at least a token pro-way that there is more than violence and bloodshed. There is a The impression is strong!here complex-Kina The Blood that if the Sociallat Government Of My Hands," "Klas of Death." stays in office it will take over

test.

America And Her Friends

Unless their demnuuds were me!,

mala friends and don't try to sell3ournal-American, Cholly Anthony Bartley, are in town, ant thority of the Central Provisional [

The

the

kiss

Norman

installation

got over c

the

were

and

restricted communica-

of forward

lish Think of Us," by Fred reached

fast week. What the growing pains and have now 13 discussett with me the reasons we could get Antwerp and Mar

London

sive

This Taxi Business cause paralysing strikes in "Kiss Of Fire," "Kissing Band, the Britisti alm: industry. Latest threats in the taxi' the event of Labour feeling strike situation militant | Itself menaced in pocket, picketing on Tuesday and a security or health by en- total cessation of public cars trenched capital.

vesterdav-had little reallty It has, in fact, become in- DO YOU

in the light of day. This creasingly evident that the

may be due to a growing out-of-work taxi driver has KNOW

beliet on the part of many no properly organised trade Chinese employees that, go- | unfon administration to ad- ing on strike in Hong Kong |:vise" Him'on' developments in today has little future for the dispute. The drivers the unskilled' or semi-skilled' | may have a lot of justice on worker.

their side, but they have lost

YOUR

HONG

The hard facts for the public sympathy on more KONG?

can you re cognice we've this bloture viat wer is in Padee taken? The aty

underpriviléged· are that than one occasion by con- there is a vast, reservoir of ficting demands--or by their potential workers in the refusal to submit to arbitra- Colony, and an even, greater tion. The present unhappy number across the border situation might lead, the who are only too willing to Labour Office to a suggest hasten here at the tiromise more—and 'botter -- trade | Seven. of a job. Further, there is untör organisation rather no tightly knit trade union than its abolition,, as sonio organisation which could "tle-hards' miuihtäin.

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