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The perpetual theory

of HENRY FORD

'There's always a

H

woman at the bottom of it'

By Richard Jones

E always carried a give things away and then, if

he became angry. back,

jake them

to

gun.

He stocked up arms and tear gas to

He once gave a new car battle with the unions. He

a man named Ash, who ran the the Ford took former criminals

on power

works. When word came that his payroll.

the Ford was coming to the station Ash started carefully polishing

Yet HENRY FORD. little man who built up a £250 million car empire from A of small garage. was afraid black cats,

would never walk under

and ladder.

hated breaking a mirror.

а

didn't want lo know.

In fact. if he hurt people, he

Ford. according

Harry Eennett, who worked for him for 30 years, never gave a gift without strings attached to it.

In "We Never Called Him Henry," just published in America by Fawcett Publica- tions, Bennett describes how time after time he saw Ford

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS

"CLOSING THE RING" – CHAPTER SIX

SHOTS IN A

QUEBEC

CONFERENCE ROOM

Hall.

Mr ChurchBI reached fax. Nova Neotia, on Aug. 9, 1943. The Quebec Conference {"quadrant"} Wan to be FO series of technical talks be tween the British and Ameri

the can Maffs, punctuated by plenary SPERİONS attended by Mr Churchill

President Roosevelt.

From Aug. 12-14 Mr Chur- chill and his youngest daughter, Mary, were the guesta of Pre- sident Ruoševelt. at his home, Hyde Park.

W

E

the

visited Niagara Falls the way. The re porters askest ne what I thought of them, ami gave the following account of our talk: I saw them before

were born came here first in 1900' 'Do they look the same? "Well, I replied, the pro- ciple seems the summe. water still keeps falling

over.

Vert

The

Hang Hopkins cure a Hyd- Park. He was oby.ously

anvied

to please 10 He explant cu

me his alred position He had d:clined un the Iovou: Presiden The Ai

he

12-

inciuen: at lunch. Wen ju

POTTY

Following the estab- listanesal

strong Allied Fees Fanco, per era dem Bu ke at the hea. of Germany and to destroy her ta: Jary To W b under- Taken

G n. Brooke, who had my entire enlener of this change, and Theearchs for it. He bore the gal disappointment with s-i- Carly dignity.

Three phases in Italy

gin

the car.

at station

Ford noticed all this and it made him angry. "Take it from bim!" he ordered Bennett. "He hasn't done a lick of work since

he got that car."

Ford had a deep sympathy with criminals. and used to of the day when there dream would be no gavls.

When he hired an ex-gaolbird he always wanted to talk tu him. He'd say, "Now, how did you cut into this?" and add · "TO bet a woman got you into it."

That was Ford's theory of crime he always looked for a woman nl the bottom of the trouble.

Factory spies

Buff Ryan, a Detroit gambler, called to the works when Ford hired

was

he was on parole.

him on the spot.

Said Ryan: "I've never work- ed in a factory, Mr Ford, but

I'll do my best."

Ford said: "You don't have to work in the plant. Just keep your eyes and ears open. We want to know what's going un round town.”

Ford also wanted 10 know jul was going on in his own works. Factory police checked on the men and even followed them to the toilets.

Unknown to Bennett, arms and tear gas were stored in the plant at River Forge for use in possible Jabotar con C.cts.

Ford also gave Detroit's lead- Philippines the encirclement of with one blow. He turned round, Ing gangster a Ford agency, the Japanese homeland could be smiling and, clasping his hands Ford was for ever trying to seized the chopper again and reunite broken families. If there New bases on the China coast, advanced upon the block of was a divorce or separation he in Formosa, and 'in the small Pykrete. He swung the chopper. tried to reunite the couple, slands south of Japan might all and as he brought it down let go never mind what they want- be necessary bul once these with a cry of pain, for theed. were obtained the full-scale in- Pykrete had suffered little dam- This kind of help was seldom (52 Batand ground and ai

vasion of Japan became practic- age and his elbows had beer welcome, in fact, Ford's zble. fore, to be built up for "Over

Very large naval forces badly jarred.

stubborn efforts to get a nephew lord." and these wil le con- S to Maly, the Chiefs of Staff would be needed, bu only in Mountbatten then cupped mat- to go back to his wife led him

Jang

and

proposed that there should the final phase would

great ters by drawing a pistol from Into actually persecuting the materaner at these forces be th.ce phases in our fu urg armies be required, and by then his pocket to demonstrate

the เกมก. avo tabl in the United King operations. First, we should drive Hitler would be overthrown and strength of Pykrete against gun-

maneudim :0 take ad- taly ou! of the War and es- the main strength of Britain and vantage of any situation per tubish airfields near Rome, and the United States could be hurled Tranportunierie ezek if possible farther north. I point-gainst Japan. Charney move ink: Franke

A-

Iween

Bre. He first fired at the 'ordinary Superstitions

ice, which was shattered. H He was superstitious. If he then fired at the Pykrete, which put a sock on inside out in the ed out that I wanted it definitely The British planners were pro- was 50 strong that the bullet morning he would never change

posing in the coming winter to rirocheted. narrowly missing it. extend

the operations ef Win- Parial. galc's fa:ces into Burma, and

unders ord that I was not com- Operazon mited to an advance beyant the On and" and operations Anroun-Pisa ine

the

drive more care-

But be had a way of ration- Northern The wai'ing offlors outside, wising superstitions. He'd say: Jo Meanese, water these Second, we should seize Sar-

I was convinced who had been worried enough by "If a black cat crosses the road rage long jurats avalia and Cursies, and then press hat this should be supplemented the sound of the blows, and the then you'll

M... be d.st.-

ard against the Germans n the by the seizure of the tip and employed with the

math of the peninsula to stop Sumatra. I said at the meeting scream of pain from Gen. Arnold, fully, and that's a good thing. B: the revolver Anyone who walks under 2 man, object of ensuring

nem joming in the fight against that I was convinced that the were horried

shots, ne of them

ladder crying out, also a tack on Sumatra was a great "My God! They've now started on his head." "Overlord." Opera Overlord," There was

Mediteranean Anvil" a projected leading,

5.rategic blow which should

shooting But who in war wil (Continued on Page 16 Col. 4) as a be raised on with Southern France in the neigh- s.ruck to 1944.

not have his laugh amid the the forees allotted at "Trident"

bhood of Toulon and Mar-

This operation Culverin" skulls?-and here was one. selics and an advance north-

would be the "Tereb" of the

#

The Va confernce

Washington in May, except wards up the Rhone valley,

izd fa as

be These may

vated by dee.s.an of the Cam bined Chafs of Se

The

parag: aphs sine scussion a

produced our meeting,

For Eastern strategy

151

the major question of the amed out the the succes of

Southeast Asia Command the Overlord" depended on certalu

original proposals of the British nd uns bring fulfiied in cew

Chiefs of Staff had been consi- gard to relative strength. I em-

of a Supreme phasised tha, 1 strongly favoured dered. The plan

and arrived a few mpus lae and Overd in 1844, though I had Commander found favour.

ocen in favour of "Sledg: the following recommendations

were made: hammer" n 1942 a "Round-up"

1943.

I though! that every off should be made to add at least 25 percent to the first This would man And-

the Psiden: dal no evin gre him.

I was remarkable bow Anitely my contac.s with the President smproved and vur

5:

affairs moved quicker us Hopkins a more landing-craf appeared to gain his ruence

In two days seemid: be like

old times. He said to me, "You American in

must know

1 T no: wha! I command

was." He had tried 132 much at once. Even his greatness of spiri broke under his variegated ac- tivilies.

Planning for

invasion

"

AS the United States had the

African

had

command. been agrred between the Prest- dent and me that the commander of "Overlord" should be British,

and I proposed for this purpose, with the President's agreement,

be

Indian Ocean. In my opinion full and fair

i would not be beyond the

compass of our resources. We

a point

C

CTUALLY

should be striking and scizing place in war

of cur own against

the dispute be- which the Japanese would

A tween the British and Amer, have beat themselves an Chiefs of Staff was on the they wished to end the severe

issue that Britain demanded à drain which would be im-

the war posed on their shipping by our full and fair, place 14

against Japan from the moment air action from Sumatra.

when Germany was beaten. She The Presiden: seemed to think demanded a share of the air- that such an operation would be fields, a share of the bases for. heading away from the main the Royal Navy, a proper assign- That

duties (a)

the Combined direction of our advance towards ment of

to whatever Chiefs of Staff will exercise a Japan. I pointed out that the divisions she could transport to

jurisdiction

would be to over alternative general

waste the Far East after the Hitler busi- strategy for the Southeast the entire ear with nothing to mess was finished. In the end the Asia theatre and the alloca show for it but Akyab and the Americans gave way. tion of American and British future right to toil through the resources of all kinds between swamps and jungles of Burma, the China theatre and the about the suggested reccnquest of

Southeast Asia Command.

(b) That the British Chiefs

of Staff will exercise jurisdic

tion over all matters pertaining

which I was very dubious.

Assault on

to operations, and will be the Japan

channel through which all in- structions

My friends on the Chiefs of Staff Committee had been press ed by me to fight this point, not indeed to pistols, but to the afmest limit, because at this stage in the war what

I most feared was that American critics would say. "England, having taken all she could from us to help her

to the Supreme THE Staff discussion upon the beat Hitler, stands out of the Commander are passed.

share we

There was a spirited argument the major

were to have in war against Japan and will leave assault upon Jopan us in the lurch." However, at

Gen. Brooke, the Chief of the at our first plenary seeing on became heated and led to an the Quebec Conference this im- whole question of Far amusing incldant. Each of the pression was effectively removed.

the

It the 17 the Presiden: and Imperial General Staff, who, ON

IN Aug.

Harry Hopkins reached may be remembered, had com- Eastern strategy, on which Quebie, and Eden and Brendan munded a corps in the decisive work of the Chiefs of Staff was Bracken flew in from England. battle on the read Dunkirk, to centra in the following days. As the delegations gathered fur- with both Alexander and Mont- There were sher news of Jalian pesce moves gomery as his subordinates. eume nut to us, and it was under

the impression of l'aly's

inlks were held.

proaching surrender tha!

ap-

some close to the President who advocated making

had behind them a

considerable group 02 12 10-20 Target for

Staff officers, a quivering

silen

with gleaming victory

Presently the chairman

"I think we had better N

I had informed Gen. Brzoke of into China. They argued that discuss this without our St the late afternson of Aug.

carly our this intention

the main assault through Burma teid,

and oir bases in

23 we had our second China being presen" upon which the plenary meeting to discuss the in 1943. ports However, as the your advances would be indispensable for in- group of high Staff qfficers Aled draft of the final report of the Combined Chiefs of Steff. No and the immense plan of the intensive and sustained air a:lacks out into a waiting room. The first plenary session was vasion began to take shape,

The quarrel was duly settled, decision was reached in the re- I against the mainland of Japan. increasingly held on Aug. 19. Highest strategic became

Although politically attractive as usual, and Mountbatten, whose part on the actual operations to priority "as a prerequisite 10 with the very greatl

in American eyes, this Idea ignor position as Chief of Combined be undertaken, though it was de Overlord' the 1944 landing in anco of American treaps that ed the impossibility of deploying Operations gave him a seat on elded that the main effort should France]" was given to the com- would be employed after the large armies, most of which the British Chiefs of Staff Com- be pu; Into aftensive operations binet bomber

with offensive

by mitee, seized this opportunity to with the object of "estabilahing equal would have to be found against original landing Germany. lengthy discus-

The

had been numbers

successful, Britain, in the jungles of Burma, ask the chairman he might land communications with China demonstration of the and improving and securing the give a cious upon Operation anal Japanese forces China special mixture of ice which his air

in the teck the int:lative of proposing rating on interior lines

at dentists had found. This was the overall strategic con- all called Pykrzte,

"OPERATION "OVERLORS".

deserves a pot of paint

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to your

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