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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1949.

A WOMAN TELLS THE INSIDE STORY OF GENERAL IKE AT WAR

MURE'S HOW IT ALL BEGAN-Kay Summershy was a civilian chauffeur, duing, her bb the war. Through a breath-taking chain of events, ate founid berself General Elsenbower's own driver. She worked up to a Captainey in the WAC's, and was the General's alde and secretary. She leaves battle strategy and war analyses to the historians, and concentrates on the inside story, and what went on behind the

HE

The

scenes.

... Taking a look at the Russian mind, reflected In news circulating In Bartin's Soviet sector...

RUSSIAN WINDOW

BERLIN.

It will have 22 escalators and be entrance to Moscow's capable of handling 100,000 people

RA hour. Directorate of Art Produc- tion was adorned with three gigantic, brightly lit Christ mus trees.

Inside the building a conference was on to decide what headway had been made in improving the stan dard of novelties for

Russia's Christmas trees.

The journal Ogonyok put the target thus: "To produce not only charming toyu but also ones of truo cultural merit which would develop

the artistle taste of the child."

To Western custom the Russian Christmas calen- dar is a bit confusing.

The Orthodox Christmas

celebrated

Jánuary

is

6; exchange-of-gifts day is New Year's Evebat The trees are still called Christmas trees (though "Sapt Claus" is "Dadiy Frost).

IN THE STALLS

G

EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS

By The General's Wartime Girl Friday KAY SUMMERSBY

(SECOND INSTALMENT)

Major

An

ENERAL EISENHOWER

Walking into his sulte was very Above them, a full Ince with a much like walking into a Hollywood broad trin-General Elsonhower. hurled dozens of ques- version of a cocktail party. In fact,· The future Supreme Commander. tions at me about women it was a Hollywood version, because extended a friendly hand and ambulance drivers: how we got the General's aide,

Sy equally friendly greeting. "Kny. along with our male colleagues, Bartlett, was and is a writer in the how are you? I've been wondering how we managed in the rough movie caplial. Using the exclusive where you were over since I return- 'hotel and the high Brass atmosphere ed to London. Thought you wanted spots. Then he asked about

es props, he had begun to stage women who acted as air-raid straight run of parties attended by to drive for me?" He glanced at

General Spaatz, oficials. He went into the other Hollywood-Broadway Agures been hiding her in the Air Force."

and the show people of London's subject of our nuxiliary forces west End. The amoise, the in the Army, Navy, and Air and General

Force.

the rank were overpow noise, busy at Air Force headquarters, out

1w0

We sal like that-without # word-for the better part of houra, ile sat and thought; I sat and fidgeted. Finally, he looked up. "Thanks, Kay. Guess I won't needing you any more tonight."

bo

at

I muttered shyly that I had been of touch with Grade & Пossip Grosvenor Square. But I did re- member to congratulate him upon Commander of the Theatre of Operations,

the

now

you like to come back and drive for me again?" he asked bluntly.

nodded briefly to everyone and strade into another Hia curiosity about people. room. I trailed along. He closed and the individual, eventually into a chair. I stood there uneasily, which fact I had learned in

the door, sighed heavily, and sagged appointment as

European overwhelmed his broader in then sat down stiffy. terest in women at wur. "Tell me," he said, "how did you ever wind up with the Americans?" 1 explained that the big Blitz, the steady Eiitz, was over by the sum

" that time. About mer of 1941.

A ran into an American Colonel it cockta'l

He mentioned that party. his little group. of 17 Hob-

offieer

olathes as America

wasn't in

war) needed drivers who knew London. I told him about our work and how The journni Gudok hits hard-like fent Post No. 1 had turned dull. Several days later, a few MTC girls

Fruit! After almost three ration- U.S. Army transferred to

ed years in wartime London, with and I

look along newspapers, headquarters. Sheila

magazines, and books to while away fresh fruit as rare as nylons, I was over-anxious in replying. "Im.driv- among them.

"And Tee been with the Yanks the hours when he ciug into ever since," I ended.

voluminous reports or drowned in General Spantz in tomorrow, sir.

Tomorrow morning." He laughed; · suddenly himself in meditation, They were well, be sure to come in and see

curious periods.

those. Yet I grew me."

But at Yaroslav-an important centre northeast of Moscow-the rallways are in trouble. Too much

Vodka, too little discipline seem, tu be what's wrong.

1h-

understand

"It is easy to

why there is so often trouble on this Tine. Que has raitway officials there and the way only to know the they carry out their control,

"How can one allow drunkards to

Q

servers" (then in civilian the

were

Common Occurrence THE scene became a common oc- currenco, I think it was partly because the General wanted me to stand by for any sudden trips, part- ly because he liked to have pany during those mighly thinking b bruts. I learned to smother any conversation. feminine Instincts nt

I

wero

instead.

General Elsenhower ed to shake off his serious mined. winked at General Clark, and seem

"Do you enjoy driving las around London?"

I answered that it must be au- vlous.

teal with such responsible matters? The supervisors of the maintenance section are often found asleep until the very Conducted

moment they are fold that

train has

"Well, one of your girls wouldn't!" broken down. "Son of the managers. le laughed. "Remember that beliave to the same way.

irst afternoon when we got here? I They all have certificates walked up to the girl at the head of that they have completed

the line of cars and asked if she Кеге our driver. She looked me necessary for winter. when in fact straight in the eye and sald, Uh,

by PETER BURGHETT

THE Central Committee of the

Communist Party planned that the 30 theatres in Moscow and Leningrad should each produce two or three new Soviet plays. So far this season there have been seven.

the

measures

there is no point on the line really. prepared."

Gudok's solution?

Change the management!

AT THE CONCERT

no! I'm Keneral!"

driving

ה.

three-star

Priceless Box THE next day I drortholt. The

generals out to weather was

were

fing. They heading for Scotland and then the United States. We all got out and shook hands. "Be sure and let me know if you ever come backs to Lon- pleasure to drive you both again. don," "I snid. I would be

comi-

to understand the drep concentra- tion of General Spautz; to respect the enormity and loneliness of his Jask, and, sally, to feel perfectly

I didn't know what to say, General Spantz spared me the em barrassment of a reply. "Now don

he you take Kay away from me," growled. "She's the only driver. I've found who really knows Lon- don,"

Generat Dropping the subject, Eisenhower, turned back to me. "Well, when are you coming to Lon- don?" He smiled again. "I've got but sint fruit." some fruit for you. Sort of crushed,

Transfer To London

"I'm

at in the silent hours at NEXT day I hurried up to the first Ndoor (second floor, American Claridge's.

Several times General Spratz 'styla) of the modern Grosvenor. directed me to four bombed-out sites Square block of flats which had be-.

The come Theatre headquarters. around London. It was no morbid, sight-seeing curiosity. He had been General's offices were surprisingly in battered Loniton during the small and unpretentious. original Luftwaffe assault, sitting

Kay Summersby" an- on roots during the heavy raids and making notes on Nazi tactics. Now, nounced hopefully to a tali captain. he studied the debris itself with I believe, the General expects me?"

sen the intensity of an

He introduced himself as Captain engineer. He Ernest (Tex) Lee. "Yes," he was studying bomb

said, damage first- hand; there was no better labora- "he. General expects you. To tell tory, outside Hitler' Europe.

In the truth he has expected you ever the Lambeth district I

I pointed out since he got back to London. I even our old MTC headquarters, and he left a note for you in what some-

about soon got me talking

those one at the motor pool said was knocked experiences. It

G few your staff car." (I remembered that chips from the wall of reserve-be- note, signed by a Coptain Lee and tween us....I even told him about asking me to stop by his office. I Dick.

regarded the paper as a joke at the It had been better than mast jobs; I did confess that

I didn't tell him all the details but time; I hadn't known that Captain stlil, I was just saying the usual cwn, my very special American, that

Dick was my Lee was an aide). goodbyes. wartime goodbyes.

General Eisenhower, although in he had been ever since the days--the-mist-of-now-staff-conferences, General Clark mumbled some when I was an ambulance driver took time to chat and to hand me thing about my "efficient driving," and he was a United States Army 4 veritable treasure General Eisenhower went back into the car. When he stepped out there was

box precious, priceless

of sweets in his hand. "Here you are. Kay. We want you to accept this HE campaign to popularise the little box of candy as some sort af THE

appreciation. And if we're ever Michurin-Lysenko theory that back this way, we want you to drive environment can change heredity in plaritss #athering momentum. All school textbooks have been re- vised, and schools which neglect the Lysenko theory are being sharp.

y criticised in the press.

SHOSHTOKOVICH, who has been out of favour since the attacks by the Communist Party on moderu One of the seven, "The Moscow Soviet composers last year, has its just composed popular musi for Mali two films, "The Young Guard" and the latest Soviet production, "Michurli.” His

stands bigher.

Character," has just hud premiere at the Moscow theatre.

The central figures are Patnpov. the director of a machine tool fac- tory, and Grineva, his wife, chair- man of a textle trust.

The factories are trying to finish- the Five-Year-Plan in three and a half years. Potapov refuses to ne- cept a new labour-saving lathe in- vented by the textile trust because The objects to them meddling in the

affairs of his factory.

The play reaches its climax when Grineva raises the question of her husband's misdeeds at the local Communist Party meeting. Potapov is attacked, finally admits his mis- inkes. The the is accepted. harmony of the factory and at home In restored.

as

"Would not all good Communists," aska Pravila, "bave behaved Grineva did-pulling their personal interesis In the background and following the Communist ideal?"

BY TRAIN....

PRAISE and trouble-for the rail- ways. Moscow's tumous Un- derground-of which the Russiarra are always 50 proud-is being stendily enlarged. Work has now begun on The Great fiing, ultimately to be a 10-mile-long track 4724- circling the city to serve the outer suburbs.

IL# And at

•

“MIRACLES"...n

stock

Fresh examples of Michurin. Lyrenko "miracles" are given dally--the crossing of apples

with pears; of mountain ash with grape vines to produce a brilliant red Krape the colour of a mountain ash wheat which grows on branches like grass Instead of on a single stalk, which will be sown on thousands of acres this year.

45,"

"observer" at the Embassy.

Theatre Commander M forward. For once the furiowa AY two-stor passenger lenned

were gone from his forehead, the.

cold-steel missing from his eyes.

"Kay," he said, "I don't talk Within a fortnight I was driving much. But I've hung on to you as B new general, Carl (Tooey) driver because you have a con- selence something like mine. You Spaatz

he.

"I

never

oranges,

lemons and grapefruit

The General apologised because. some of the fruit was bruised, then asked directly, "Would you like to come back again, for good?"

"Of course," I murmured, still not certain.

"I see what can be done about it," he concluded in dismissal.

I was transferred back to London.

Good Discipline

sec

to London, even I the sharp change

Army

discipline.

once been social centre: we went to work around ten in the.

lea-

berry and flesh as firm as a plum;ing man who would hardly stand He turned again to the bomly time in the afternoon. Now it was

The Council of Ministers has just published a decree announcing six-year programme to turn Soviet farming methods upside down, to abolish sleppes, deserts, and Arefle wastes.

Propagandists arė especially proud

mind

The now-famous and retired, never complain If I keep you late or

DETURNING Tooey Spaatz was, in early 1942, a if I ask you to do some odd job any could grimly silent major general. As chief other driver would bitch about." He

American smiled. of the new Eighth Air Force, these evening chores

realised what in had a gigantle job.

spent And he

menn, From: The motor pool had every waking moment

now on, any time your explain isn't rather a pondering over problems

know. involved in the away on a trip-just let me daring principle of daylight bomb We'll arrange

thine off,

somehow. morning, took an hour and a half

for lunch, knocked off about Ing. A rather unspectacular, bald- War stops for some things."

damage, his brow ridged, his run on strictly military lines. Head-

quiirlers

had been shoulders hunched, his eyes squint-

reorganised. of the easy-going group of ed in that old intensity of concen-

"dhervers," whose schedules in- tration,

cluded long liquid lunches and early- That's the way things were until cocktail hours, 20 Grosvenor Square one fine summer evening when 1

was peopled by Army men who pulled up at Claridge's, almost four

comprised the harti weeks later. General Spaatz jump America's new Europera Theatre of ed into the back seat and muttered: Operations. And they were an "Important mission. Hendon Air- seven-day week. General Eisen- port-and don't spare the horsea!"

hower had come, ovať to do a job;. There's something special about he was wasting no time,

out in a crowd, he called to that pensive statue, "The Thinker." He concentrated so intensively that I often thought he was asleep. Naturally, he had no time for the ordinary little details of everyday life. He was. In fact, coldly im- patient with them,

Unofficial Aide -

RADUALLY, I became experi- of the Michurin-Lysenko cows-the enced in a part I was to play "Kostroma strain-producing pro- for General Elsentwerthat of geny weighing halt a ton and Elv- "anoficial aide.” ing 15 gallons of milk dally,

core

of

an acroplane coming in to land, no Within a few weeks, mumeroun- inatter how many you've travelled men who had been-in-London- in or how many you've met. Judg- too-long were on their way back to

It was rather embarrassing the lug from the array of awaiting Brass the States, unable to adjust to the- first time. I had just let General and the way General Spaniz dasher! new order. Their rank was high. COMMENT from Dorothy Spatz qui at Claridge's after a long, out on Hendon's runway, there was General Elsenhower often remarked,. famous Shorthorn at Northwood,

too-social. Komsomol Square they Middlesex: “Extraordinary! Even tiring day. He leaned in the car 55mething extra-special about this when, irritated by some

window, and`__said, "You'd better plane. I ran over to see the VIP's officer: "I'd like to send him back. are building what Pravda calls "the Strachey was pleased with me when come on un, Kny, I may need you unload,

on a slow bont, without destroyer- greatest underground station in the I pove 2,160 valtons in 305 days, or Inter." I 'parked and joined hlin at Two wide shoulders appeared in escort?” world."

a little over seven gallons daily,"

the Bt.

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