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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, - FEBRUARY 15, 1949.

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

The Allied Force that stood onership, the skill, and the judg the Elbe on May 8, 1845, was the ment of the professionals making most powerful military machine up command and staff groups; if these two things are not done, only fallure can result.

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growing influence of the air in the The European waging of campaign almost daily developed

WITH THE REDS Soviet Gives

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new and valuable uses for air ever assembled, its left finnk rest-

power. Its effect in the weaken- ed on the Baltic Sea and its right it werd

In World War II, America and ing of German capacity was deci- Behind in the Alps."

Britain, whose forcessively felt on both fronts, the Al- armadas of planes whose num- Great bers were greater than all the air fought side by side in so many led and the Russian. Beyond this forces of the world a few years battles of the ground, sea, and the plane was a valuable logistica before. Its line of supply and nir, understood and applied these agent, particularly during communications was a vast not truths. In the later stages of the speedy dashes across France in the work that covered, France und war French forces likewise par- fall of 1944 and across Germany hand some idea of the various American, British, Soviet, Dutch,]

ticipated in this joint effort,

ld detachments

the United Kingdom and extend-

of of the

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numerous ed into every community of countries who womelanda has supported by still another victort been previously overrun by the ous host. To the South, pouring enemy.

Co-operation with the Soviet through the Alpine passes that had heen the traditional avenues of forces was, unhappily, not so close. widely einssle warfare, were the million But her forces

geographically, from veterans of the Italian campaign separated, under Alexander, backed also by those of the Western Allies, and the flaw in over-all teamwork did immense air power and БОП power and

were

our

There

Incidents.

Those who have ventured out report they were in no way molested,

Law And Order

The general view is since the

transoceanic supply tot impair the march to victory. supplies to the division during wj entire corps of his army had ini-i Reds entered, Pelping two weeks

more

Becure

the

of

water

tained

Warning

Barlin, February 13.

Soviet plan de will make combat training flights near. the airlift corridor tomorrow afternoon at Perlsberg, Dad Elstal and Tetxin, the Bo. vlet representatives on the Ailled Security Office an nounced today, according to the German news agency,

The plants will fly 'ba- iwaan heights of 1,500 and 1,800 metres (4,921 and 6,005 feet), it

was, stated-Bau-

Mob Sacks Ecuador Radio Station

Peiping, February 14. Foreign quarters here await somewhat impatiently

the day the Communists establish channel for contact with thom. Businessmen are particularly anxious on the subject as the few who remained here stayed behind with the idea of trade. Foreign correspondents also like some avenue to approach the

Даля. any suggestion of recognition, im- are eager for some means of Reds and have dealings without contact.

They want to obtain et frst-plied on either side,

aix consulates here-- In the spring of 1945; without it Red policies-land reform, trade,

Italian and Bölglen. those pursuits could never have foreign affairs.

During parados and other do- prepreded with cust spoed now

la the Reds, took could they have accomplished such Pelping much sooner thu expect figmally mad remarkable results.

ed and were consequently unpre- make it a practice to remain in- The Important road centre otpared for the many complicated doors to avoid the possibility of Bastogne could not have been held problems awaiting them. by the 101st Division during the Consular quarters would also German counter-offensive in De cember 1944 except for the planes that delivered 800,000 pounds of Patton's staff had its orders an supply lines. When these two Even so, if that country could critical days between the twenty- forces came to a halt with the have been as closely knit into the third and twenty-seventh of De, tlated a new attack.

In dozens of ways scientists and ago, law and order will be main German

surrender, their com- team as were the others, victory cember. During our largest air-

Red troops have been well be- New York, February 13.. bined might was overwhelming would probably have been achiev-borne operation, known as Varsity, inventors transformed the face

would in support of Montgomery's erossar, In landing on beaches we haved and well disciplined-this

Four people were reported evidence of democracy's mighted earlier and the peace

flad the great advantage of now

Is the view of both foreigners and diled tonight when a Quito, ing North of the Rhine on March types of naval equipment and even have rested on a n vialble lesson of war.

24, 1945, 1,625 airplane and 1,348 tanke that could swim ashore after

Chinese. Victory in the Mediterranean foundation.

Many still marvel at the snooth Bre to a radio station which had Ecuador, mob sacked and set glider sorties carried into battle and European campaigns gave the Although Allied unity, and

way in which the change-over| le to all who preached, or in our waya and means of attaining it, more than 22,000 troops and al- being launched into the

many hundreds of yards from the was effected, seeing it involved terrorised them by reports of time shall preach, that the demo- constituted the principal war les most 5,000,000 pounds of equip- beach. Before the end of the war

many Nationalist division and the an "Invasion" from Mars. decadent, afraid to son, we within the Army were ment. The airplane became we were employing in great num- entry of strong Red forces. cracies are

primarily concerned with the les a most valuable means of obtain bers recoilless weapons of very Aght, unable to match the pro-

The report of the attack on the In fact, the Reds were here ductivity of regimented econo- song that affected purely military ing information of the enemy, not light weight that deliver projectiles several days before the process of station was relayed from Guaya-

concepts and principles. If every only at his major bases but along of tremendous force. mies, unwilling to sacrifice in

be studied, the actual battle front. Airplane engagement could

While we studied the effect on Nationalist withdrawal was com- quil Ecuador, and re-broadcast here. It said many people were common cause

pleted. The Arst and most enduring while the memory of it was still photography searched

appears to be na injured. new weapons, new systems of Besson of the Mediterranem and fresh in the minds of those who minute details of defensive and the conduct of war of new vehicles.

New York Times. Radlo spid at the fought it, and both its tactical offensive organisation and our transport and communications, at longer in force, though no notien campaigns

Was the achievements and errors were sub-techniques were developed to the the same time we re-examined the formally rescinding It has been least six were dead. Several that war can bo wagedd

point that information so derived role of the fundamental agent in Issued. effectively by a colition of past to direct scrutiny, we could

was available to our troops within military

Theatres and other places of were injured when they jumped add an immense store of factual

success the individual

from windows to escape the blaze Historic difficulties had

a matter

amusement, which did little or no knowledge to the selence of war- ter of hours.

soldler.

In the radio station, overcome and the grave

The combination of an over-

the siege, now The trained American possesses business during

Property damaged was estimat- doubts that

make up hnd

Bre trying to existed on this are the speedy attainment of

losses. point even at late as the fall of military victory at minimum ex- whelming air force and the great qualities that are almost unique. mobility provided by the vehieu Because of his initiative and re- pense in lives.

The Peiping Club, which for lar equipment of the Army enabled sourcefulness, his adapatability to subsidiary economie, political, ant immediately after the cessation of us to strike at any chosen point change and his readiness to resort. many weeks closed down daily at the jactor-producer, which caused

along a front of hundreds of miles, to expedient, he becomes, when until 10 p.m.-Associated Press.

7.30 p.m. now is keeping open Our flexibility was nowhere better he has attained a proficiency in all counter-offensive In the e most formidable soldier. Yet man

when

Patton's army even he has his limits; the pre- Ardennes

an servation of his individual and ceased its preparations for Eastward attack, changed front, collective strength is one of the In order that the War Depart- and undertook a movement ex-greatest responsibilities of leader

have permanently tending over ment might available all the facts, so far.es at right angles we could unearth them, and the direction of advance. In less than hours from the time opinions of the men most experi-72 enced in the actual business fighting and of battlefield main- tenance and administration, the board was provided with possible facilitity and was given all the time it desired for the com- pletion of its task.

tlons.

Been

1042 had been completely dis- pelled. Governments and their

bined. Into

military organisations had com- one great effort in

For this purpose we organised of the large board hostilities a most experienced and at the same could find. The board was ori- ginally headed by General Gerow, who was later replaced by General

out

also

evch

which no major difficulty could time most progressive officers wo illustrated than during the Ger- the normal, techniques of battic,

be traced to diverging national interest- interest-

World

Patton.

Allied effectiveness in War II

II established for all time the feasibility of developing and employing joint control machin- meet the sternest cry that can

The key to the tests of war. matter is a readiness, on highest levels, to

to adjust all nationalistle differences that affect the strate- stie employment of combined re- sources, anti, in the war theatru, to designate a single commander who is supported to the limit. With these two things done, suc- Foremost among the military cess rests in the vision, the lead-lessons was the extraordinary and

every

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The Incident recalled the pre- war radio play by Orson Welles, thousands of people in the New York, New Jersey, arén to fice from their homes in the night and HEINZ LICKED take to the hills to escape from H.

G. Wellsian monsters. Moscow, February 14,

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