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"Goodness, I shall have to cut something here...

D-Day had been fixed for the morning of June 5, 1944, but by June 3 weather prospects were That causing anxiety. night Mr Churchill, in his special irain near Southampton, was in- formed that the operation would probably have to be postponed for 24 hours.

.., and lop a few things here...

... and freeze something

...and curtall THIS... ... and prune here.::

here...

D-DAY.... HITLER'S

TYRANNY DOOMED

Gen. Eisenhower would Coneluding “Closing The Ring,” the fifth volume

wait until the early hours of June 4 before

making a definite decision, of

T

I

Winston

Minister Roosevelt,

BO

to

Churchill's World War II memoirs

Cummings

... in fact an austerity to end all austerities .......

London Express Service

Reporting America

By R. M. MacColl

D%

NEW YORK. that you recall all Song and dance that went on about the rain- making in upper New York State last year?

Then the New York muni- cock-a- cipal authorities were hoop at their "great success" and in Bghting the drought, spent considerable sums on the New new "scientific marvel."

was

strained and disillusioned, recolling on her home land. All danger to Australia and Zealand had passed away.

Italy was fighting on our side. The Hussian Armies had driven

and most convenient we doubt that decisive victory HOSE who had seen and comradeship, and his hopes formation about the forthcoming swiftest

I assault.

route, but he drew himself up would be gained. Africa was the array

in the and longings for our success.

De Gaulle said that he must and stated that he preferred to cleared. India had been defend- cabled a grateful but somewhat Solent felt that the discursive reply.

be free to keep in touch with motor with his French officers ed from invasion. Japan, over- President Algiers

operations about

in separately. movement was now Prine

June 4, '44. Italy, and I explained that 1 us impossible to stop as an

was glad to get your was only talking about "Over Decision to avalanche. We were haunt-

charming letter of May 20. Bord." I then unfolded to him

invade ed by the knowledge that Our friendship is my greatest our plan.

amid the ever- stand-by

After he had thanked me for if the bad weather continued

Increusing complications and the postponement had

this exacting war. be prolonged beyond I June 7 we could not again get the necessary combina- tion of moon and tide for at lcast another fortnight.

to

Meanwhile the troops had all been briefed

clearly They

on board could not be kept these tiny ships indefinitely. How was a leakage to be pre- vented?

But the anxiety that one felt was in

T10

perent at the dinner

every-

wy ap

table in

the train. Field-Marshal Smuts most entertaining was at bis

He told the story of the pitch Boer surrender at Vereeniging in 1902 how he had impressed on his colleagues that it was no fighting on and that they must throw themselves on mercy of the British.

use

the

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He had been assailed as coward and a defcalist by his own friends, and he had spent the most difficult hour of his life. In the end howEVET

he

d won through, had gone to Vereeniging, and peace waa made.

on

The Field-Marshal then went

about his to speak periences at the outbreak of the Second World War, when had to cross the floor of House and fight his own Prime

wished Minister, who

Cx-

he

the

to re-

main neutral

Postponement ordered WE

soon

the as

from

the

For a while they basked the warmth of popular acclaim and Iudly poob-poohed any of this I asked if he would send a THE hours dragged slowly by the German invaders from their suggestion that there was little publie message to France a6 until, at 9.16 p.m. on the country. All the gains Hitler had direct proof of any connection

armada had evening of June 4, another fate- acquired

KO swiftly

between rain-makers and rain. actually salled Queen Withel tul conference opened at Eisen- Soviets three years before had

battle

Now headquarters, vanished with staggering lossca

things are rather mina, King Haakon of Nor- hower's

Conditions

different. One hundred were bad, typical of of men and equipment.

and way, and rulers of other coun- December tries which the

rather June, but

The Crimea had been cleared. sixty-nine damage claims have enemy

the weather

Polish frontiers had been been filed experts gave some The

by residents of the pected us to attack had agreed

promise of a

Mountains a to do so, and I hoped he would ment on the morning of the 6th were desperately seeking

temporary improve- reached. Rumania and Bulgaria Catskill

region rain-making to they all took the do the same. He said he would. After this they predicted a re- escape the vengeance of

word, their experts at their

they He hummed Blunt speaking

turn of rough weather for an Eastern CunqULTOTS, Russia's complain-and the total is the indefinite period.

our tidy little sum of £783,750. new offensive timed with continental landing was about

break to

am here near Ike's headquar ters in my train. His main preoccupation is the weather. There are wonderful sights to see with all these thousands of vessels.

committee by De Gaulle's

large majority decided he should accept my Invitation to come here. and

hawed,

but

that

Massigli

and several others threatened to De Gaulle

to resign if he did not do so.

We expect him on D minus

than

If he arrives, Eisenhower Eden now intervened in the attack for a least a fort- A ships

I.

will see him for half an hour and explain to him the posi- lion exclusively in its military aspect.

Faced with the desperate al

"New York City caused the ternatives of accepting the tim-

storms that ruined my crops," mediate risks or of postponing

is the complaint. And what s the

New York City doing about 17 conversation,

saying night, Gen

Gen Eisenhower,

NEW YORK is considering with the the great operation im- advice of his commanders, hold- that

at sea

quick ch

the title change in

of pending had taken

our ly, and as

proved wisely, chose

some of its officials. Their job thoughts, but after It Was to

to go ahead with the

operation, WHILE I sat in my chair in the is defined "receiving foreign Jaunched

it might be useful to subject to final confirmation Map Room of the Annexe the diplomatic envoys and certain political ques early on the following morning. thrilling news of the capture of taries, and setting up appoint- I explained that I had At 4 am on June 5 the die was Rome arrived. The

I see some of your newspapers discuss are upset at my references in ions.

Commons the House of Spain.

to been

unfair. This is very

Ay

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immense ments for such persons.

digiri-

But

in correspondence with irrevocably cast: the invasion cross-Channel enterprise for the in the books the Civil Service for some time, would be launched on June в. liberation of France had begun. title for this post is "sewage as all I have done is to repeat the President

he had begun In retrospect this decision All the ships were at sea. of October, and that while my declaration

wanting the General to rightly evokes admiration, It had the mastery of the oceans only 1940. I

United States he did was amply justified by events, and of the air. Franco's name to show

mentiqned visit the

how

We treatment worker."

so anxious about it and was largely responsible for The Hitler tyranny was sons in a trailer near Somers,

gaining US the precious advant- doomed. Here then we

thetr

LLOYD MILLER, who lived with bis wife and four small silly it was to identify Spain not seem

might Connecticut, said: "I really with him or him with Spain now. This was perhaps because

I of the way Gen. Giraud had age of surprise. We now know by means of carlcatures.

that the German meteorological pause in thankfulness and take must go and buy a new stove. hope, not only for victory on all That one we have is no good do not care about Franco but been treated.

officers To this de Gaulle replied that Command that invasion on

informed

High fronts and in all three elements, at all." I do not wish

the to have

the Peninsula hostile to he thought it

was better at 5th or 6th of June would not be future for tormented mankind.

but also for a safe and happy Iberian

to be in Englanti possible owing to stormy wea the British after the war. this moment

than

I ther I can de rather

Washington, I do not know how

which might last thin that berated

(World Copyright reserved. Repro- pend on a de Gaullist France, warned

production, even partially, in any would have to be France' might for sume time several days. Germany

The fact that such a complex language, strictly prohibited.) held down by main force, and only

of a few people series of movements could be we have a 20-years alliance under fire, and both Eden and accomplished without detection

THE END with Russia You must re- I strongly urged him to visit by a Wary and determined' mmerber that we arc very Mr Roosevelt soon.

car to all this pleasant out- Jook,

consist

for

enemy is a remarkable tribute to De Gaulle said that he was the work of the Allied Air quite willing to

do this, and Forces and the excellence of our We should not be able to agree had so told the President, but deception plans.

here in attacking countries he was anxious about who was which have not molested us to administer liberated France. Severe trial because rive dislike their This should have been arranged

to troops totalitarian form of govern- long ago, last September. ment. I do not know whether This remark made me speak

thère is more freedom

Stalin's Franco's Spain.

half- E went to bed about

past one. Ismáy told me that he would wait up to hear the result of the morning con- terence. As there was nothing I could do about it, I said that I was not to be woken to the result. At 4.15 am, Bise

again met his comman - Bower

weather dere, and heard from the

report Regret for experts the ominous sky overcast, cloud ceiling low,

bombings wind, south-westerly strong with rain and moderate 'sea.

even worse.

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In the

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de

And off he went. On his way back from the village with the new stove he noticed

clouds of smoke above his trailer. somehow The cld stove had been upset and all four of hes boys were dead,

This drug spells

SAFETY

-

THE CHAPMAN PINCHER COLUMN A surgeons

in bluntly. The United States and ALL day on June 5 the con- Russia than in Great Britain were willing to voys bearing the spearhead

DRUG which enables surgery and in deafness opera¬ risk the lives of scores of of the invasion converged on the

tions." to perform to liberate rendezvous south of the Isle of a quarrel thousands

Dr Enderby warned Thence, in an endless intricate operations more only highly Gaulle Wight,

not stream, led by the minesrotected skilfully and more swiftly anaesthetists can use the drug

on B

a wide front and was his own affair, but if there on all rides by the might of the than ever before, is being safely, which is still expert was a split between the Nation Allled Navies and Air Forces, tested in British hospitals.

Liberation the greatest armada that ever

al Committee of

more

that experienced

'mental.

SOUNDER SLEEP

than

and

doctors. of New

we left our shores get out for the It almost euminates loss of. should almost certainly

A side coast of Fran

BLEEPING TABLET The forecast for the 5th was PRESENTLY Mr Eden arrived the the United States

wish Gen, de Gaulle, who with the Americans.

cut. blood' when tissues are

said to

.be. so safe that

Reluctantly he ordered

About a had just Rown in from Algiers.

the administration of The rough conditions at sea Trials so far have shown that de Gaulle that I had berated French sall, if Gen. were a severe trial to troops on the drug provides three great even a huge overdone is harm- less has been discovered by pcatponement of the attack for I told

Gaulle wanted us to ask the terrible discomfort of the

the eve of battle, particularly in advantages:

U.S. scientista, ja 24 hours, and the whole vast asked him to come because of de

forthcoming operation.

ONE: By reducing the risk of In a the President to give him the smaller craft. Yet, in spite of all severe hemorrhage

test 134 six-manth fact aaray was put into reverze

it makes

from sufferers deeda

Insomnia found of accordance

carefully could not do this by telegraph, te

France

the the vast movement was carried operations safer... prepared plan. All convoys at air felt that the bistory of answer was "No." If he wanted through with almost the preci-

that the drug usually put them

to TWO: It enables the surgeon soundly sleep in less required us to ask the countries turned about and small our wo

President to sion of a parade, and, although

to operate

more surely of France agree that the Committee was not wholly without loss, such

and half an hour. craft sought shelter in con- that the liberation

because the

The sleep was restful rapidly venient anchorages. Only one must not be undertaken by the the principal body with whom casusitles and delays as did tissues are not obscured. the patients experienced Large

comprising 138 British and Americans without convoy,

he should deal in France the cur, mostly to small craft in tow, THREE: By

reducing the hang-ovetropolitan Hospital STOPS TOOTH DECAY BEST small vessels, failed to receive the French being informed. answer was “Yes.”

had no appreciable effect on

on shock of surgery it helps York's Metr the message, but this too was I had intended to invite him

events.

patients to make a quicker re- report. turned overtaken ang

round a little before D-Day, but the Eisenhower

Round all our coasts the net-covery after operations,

An overdose of the tablets without arousing the suspicions weather had forced uff to

work of defence was keyed to The drug-It is called hexa- produces extremely deep altep of the enemy.

the nesuult for 24 explains postpone

Un the highest pitch of activity. It was a hard day for the hours, and it might even be

bromide acts by But there is no danger. methonium Home Fleet was alert

The new thousands of men cooped up in later. This was a grave fact. De Gaulle replied that he The

pressure. By propping the drug, say the doctors, does not quite understood that if the against any move by German causing a rapid fail in blood like barbiturates, lending craft all around the I then went on to say how east. The Americans who came much we regretted the bomb U.S.A. and France diagreed surface ships, while air patrols patient in different positions lower the

watched the enemy coast from the surgeon can make any part

VETTED from the West Country posts had ing of the French railways, Britain would side with the

Norway to the Channel

veta arre suffered most,

but we had fewer infantry remark the interview ended. Ou

a title. about five o'clock

Bedell

Smith again the only way wo

could atop Elsenhower's beadquarters in cay, aircraft of Coastal

mand, In great strength, up- Dr Georre Halo Enderby, train the pubile, to call them Tamny confirming them bringing up overpowering the woodland, where he wa* ported by flotillas of destroyers, anaesthetist of the Royal Na- "velerinatý, surgeons," they are postponement, and Tomay reinforcements while we balt most ceremoniously received. Kept watch for possible enemy tonal Orthopaedle Hospital, now agitating to, bo cailed vent to bed. Half an hour

try out the on-to-earth Vets, bra op- one another in Meir courtown that over 50 U-boats were drug in an operation. him. He told me the news. He

naked for nas pomolutely

concentrated In the French Bir He has used it muccessfully posing the change for & Bur- I made no comment. He

ant free right to telegraph to map tent, and for 20 minute any ports ready to intervene of more than 250 patients rang, prasing reason may point out The curls post brought in a les da his own or imparted to him the whole when the moment came. The ing in age from 11 to 16:9 that the word "vel has a much

from Ahre President

|Doctors and (margoona "from" Higher "manding in the the recognised head of a great story of what was about to hour was now strikinggang written

before fortnight

De guage than

doctor silen-" Here then wo reach what the other hospitals have met hewski, it was let hoppen. withheld for delivery that the tapice

We then returned to my train. Western Powers may Justly Enderby in London to compareThele arguments vert atehil movement came. As I poble to deny him dres, right

WIUNEA LEO my thing i en höndumble act, Cannot for it. X.D.R. ennamed of communication, it woed Film I had expected that de Gaulle regard as the supreme climax of their experiences In Che andet Fundly by his for an eos that he would would dine with us and corus the war. Nor, though the road drug Verdicts (ft. La proving brutto doctor" 1

reputablaring My mine bade to London bực? this, the might be long and hard, could particularly valuable in plastic Feelings about bur" Joint

HOST THOROUGHLY PROVED AND

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DOeathing rate.

BRITAIN'S

the greatest distance to go and with M69 1000 of French Ufe US.A. With this; ungracious out at sos, in the WOE' ETN Ap. of the body almost bloodcure hankering after

that than the Germans, and it was. In a little while I took him to proaches and in the Bay of "Bla-can bo rostored rapidly. 1 Convinced that they will never

The patient's blood Commal by an injection.

later I woke up and sent for up our front like und Boded Benith vied with reactions Our Intelligence told was the Best to

Tho General was bristling Presently The took him to that cond

Rod