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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1949.

EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS

*

By KAY SUMMERSBY who was the Supreme Commander's privato. secretary and confidants throughout the war' in Europe. In book form, the story is now on the best-seller lists. in America. Scrialisation in the Telegraph started on Monday; this is the third instalment.

increase SUDDEN niotor trips about this time started a series of runs to a bomb-proof building on the edge of St. James Park just off famous Downing Street. Usually, I sat in the car while my passenger conferred inside: I read, and chatted with the high-ranking Allied men who pulled up at that entrance.

A

Smith, turned Ambassador: Martha Rogers. 门 Dixio belle from Afississippi, and Louise Anderson. nf Denver, both now living as civilised Calif

ifornians: Mattic Pinctle. Maine. and Alene Dresmal; of St Paul, both of whom emigrated to Washington, DC, after the war. There couldn't have been more diverse group: maybe that's why we got along so famously..

The only time Colonel Hobby was London enID

That England.

Vi A real in would mutter, "those sonsabitches." la

"I'm sorry, achievement in. Kay wartime Then, he'd turn to me.

Summersby. Miss

Excuse me, capital like London, where occasional

ralds fed the here-today-gone-to- closo to danger in. please."

I had to point out that I had been morrow

where philosoply,

any when she stopped al an open lift the American Army long thing a girl might do was off door and av refused to go in with

home down scoreboard. until General Elsenhower entered enough to realise that Yanks used the curses in such a natural way that

She didn't know it, but the General's no one could take offence.

on advance cadre, Colonel faming neck and face had nothing He was angry. I even told my passenger of the Hobby sent to England fun WAC to do with a blush. time I had yelled "Goddamni in officers. We all lived together before the office at Grosvenor Square, and after I got my commission, lived "General Eisenhower buzzed me together in niany countries, through

I told Patton," and every right away,**

conceivable condition. asked where I had acquired such some three and a half years. shocking Janguage. He smiled came to know each other as sisters, her sex," he once scolded me when I weakly when I admitted I had with that intensity war provides ton, waited for him to step through learned that particular word from The Ave were Ruth Briggs, a Rhode a door. He always, with his Inborn Dwight D. Eisenhower.”

Islander who ended, the war by chivalry, stepped aside to let female going to Moscow with, a Beetle companions enfer the door first-a

Que morning General Eisenhower emerged from that duil-looking building with 11 companion. A they strolled over to the car. I jumped out and assumed my own peculiar brand of attention: It was Mr Winston Church!), the Prime Minister.

that

It may be difficult for Americans to understand the widespread, ab- solute worship for Winston Churchill in those weary days. It was close to what many Americans must have fost for President Rooseveli-a feel- ing I shared immediately at my first meeting with

great

man. Churchill represented a a tired but deflant wartine Britain, all moulded into a very human figure we could and follow. He was a more love real and intimate symbol than the strains of "God Save the King" or the bongs of Big Ben. He was England; more important, he was Lorton for all of us who had played there throughout the Blitz.

I was frankly thrilled and excited Just seeing him for the first time. The now-familiar jutting chin, the round shoulders, the fat cigar-all these were just as press photos had pictured them. But I was astound પર્યા ed at the cherubic face superimposed on the bulldog hend, a face never

of portraying gruin- theless capable piness Incarnate. His eyes were a vivid blue, ut times those of

gure ling infant, at other times those of cold wartime leader, at still other times those of a laughing, socially accomplished diplomat and politician. pink, I was impressed by his clear, baby-like skin. As a woman, I was more attracted to that characterisile than to any other single item of his

wore

the usual appearance. He shinpeless "siren sult," of course, and his flapping, Initialled slippers. Churchill Glared

Self-Confidence

VENERAL Patlon laughed at the

stery, then turned back to his study of the bomb damage. In a tow minutes he was at it again: "Those Al- bastards, those sonsabitches!" ways, the immediate apology. I've heard Patton sweat hike a docker many times, but I never felt actual-

yerbarrassed; he was a man's

man, a real soldier, and yet he unfallingly treated women with an eighteenth century flourish. Also, he WIK second only to General Elsenhower In his intellectual interests and his knowledge of "history.

they

The author, Kay Summerby, seated between General Eisenhower (extremo right)

and General Mark Clark.. small thing, perhaps, yet to a' woman an important und revealing trail.

But to many women i

General Ike "was” and unsocial ogre.· ́Soon after his arrival in England, British and American hostesson sent a Niagara of Invitations cascading over his desk. They clogged the telephone wires with both coy and demanding invitations to parties, week-ends, receptions, dances, dinners, circons, even breakfasts

Jun-

The harassed General at first tricu to co to comply, in keeping with his near- frantic Insistence Anglo-Amertean

ocial and

upon

practical

Unsocial Ogre

military because you put a woman bad experiences for "JUST better, it doesn't change one time he lost an entire afternoon's

relations, both But severn) changed all that.

work because he agreed to lunch very simply with Norway's royalty: although Intrigued and charmed by King Haakon, he fumed over the (Continued on Tare 5)

on the

Sitting on Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

the

evening sitting on books or papers they were trying to read.. or biting their fingers Ir they tried to kalt.

For supper there was cod's roc paste on toast, and a perfect day came to an end when I staggered off to bed with slight indigestion.

I baci to count mice diving through a hole before I could get to sleep.

The sweep

The Palton ego was, to me at least, more n superb telf-condence (which he always justified) rallier than empty bragging. I'll admit that I heard him ask for medals; but he had earned them a hundred times

he over; knew, further, strengthened his men's respect and added visibly to his chosen felime career, Pation referred to "clusters" us sel us self-starters, lie once admitted in that high-pitched, creaking volce which seemed so foreign to the restRumania," has been described of life and death from day to day "Cor stone the crows, it makes you of his makeup: "There's only one by amazed reporters as "The Of comrades who annoy-er,

I don't want a self- medal here starter for--my Purple Heart!"

NA PAUKER, Rumania's Ana, unkind comrades say,

. Communist Foreign. Is richer than a Doyar.

Secretary. who "runs Apart from ministerial pay

Ana has the yea or nau

Battle Axe of the Cominform."

She has been observed at parties devouring great plates of hot food while-ordering the diamissal or liquidation of officials,

Request For WAC's ENERÁL Patton was curious U about the behaviour of women fu Britain's war effort. But it was only a flurry of interest compared to the storm of questions General Elsen-

On her rare holidays she has lyen hower poured on Colonel Oveta Culp' seen "diving and ducking her large Hobby when she visited London.

in and out of the water "If you don't send me WAC's over ENERAL Eisenhower accomplish here," he exclaimed, "I'm just going ed an introduction as though ali to hire a regular army of civilians of us should be very good-ve what women can do in wartline; I've seen how they can free men for their primary duty fighting."

thice friends.

Churchill glared. "I hope you'll

take good care of our General," he growled. Then that impish look in his eyes: "Mind you now, don't you lose him in London!"

The General laughed. "Don't you worry. Kay knows London as well as any Cockney tuxi driver."

appreciate

body happy and sportive as a sen lion" She may be Hell's pin-up girl to those who cannot virility and unusual beauty of | Communist womanhood, but to her Uncle Nat, frequently attracted to the unconventional, she will always be his lovely Ana Pauker.

In this rhyming tribule he found difflcult to conceal his hopeless passion for her.

Colonel Hobby, the charming WAC director who retained all her news- paper exccutive ability from civillon days in Texas, attempted to explain: that her girls still were training. Furthermore, she wasn't certain how America would reset to the new idea of women going overscus,

to

General George Patton Impressed me dimost as much as Mr Churchill, Introduced by General ke as one of his oldest and closest friends, Patton at once displayed that Old World gallantry which all his bio graphers

missed. seem to have When he shook hands and bowed, everything was there but a Con- tinental kiss of the hand. There was no hint of the expected Amerl- Can backslap or the wolfish

cyc. All he needed was a cavaller's cape y and a sword. I also found him the "Anyhow," most glamorous, dramatic

General

Ana Panker's fair to see,

Lovely Ana Pauker, "I've seen what women can do" Darling of the Kremlin, she, the General insisted. "And I'm goingered by all and loved by me,

Loved bỷ even Vy-skin-sky. have them

Theatre, in the

Ann, she's a corker.. whether they're British or American or French or what”. As a beginning, Ana is my fairest rose. we he naked for a wholesale shipinent

of so: 5,000 WAC's.",

Colonel Hobby explained quietly ther Teministe troops weren't for foreign duty as yel. she added, "you're asking for well over a third of all I'd ever met. His chest was covered the WAC's we have." She made a than that ofcer discreet reference to the existence with morò ribbons.General Stair of a war in the Pacine:

down at the Imperial

No Scandal

FINALLY,

When she has a day off, In the sea my darling goes, Lovely limbs does she expose, In her daring bathing clothes, (Ana Pauker thar she blowA.J

Ana she's the pay off.

Comrades one and all agree

Beauty's often fickle, Comrades cannot comrades be

If a comrade falls to sec The absolute integrity

Of hammer and of sickle.... Then my Ana Pauker fair, With a inest disarming air, Hanes a contrade here and there-

She's a little pickle. -

Comrades aping bourgeoisie Must be quidated, see? Ana takes their dough-ray-me. Oh boy, oh boy, oh Boyar.

Boyars rich Russian peasant Animal Sunday

QUNDAY

was

"WELL," said the Sweep, "ow do you like the look of things now?

"Not much," I said..

"No more do 1," said the Sweep.

think, don't it?”

"It certainly do."

A

"Ere you ave Hittle old Church talkin about V2s iltin Surrey and Kent again, yet it was only about three or four years ago since we

was it by the last one."

"That's right.”

said

"Three or four years ago," the Sween, there was no link too fer them there little Old

animal Sunday, bud during which all animals were Germans, and nothink too good

"Too true," I said. specially remembered by those who fer them there little old Russlana."

"Now there's nothink love them, and prayers were offered in churches to soften the hearts of those who don't.

*

*

Lottle, cat columnist, writes. My dears.

and

too bad fet them there to old Russians, nothink too good for them there little old Germons."

"That's it," I said.

"After we spent millions a day blowin them Germans to bils and It was just one of those days, tryin to starve them out, we're now

if you know what I mean. which

belifes to keep them alive. With en will always remember. Last spendin thousands a day fill their Sunday, I mean,

your money, too,"

For breakfast there was a grilled 'herging with a soft roe, perfectly cooked by Mr G, and the top of the milk to follow.

After this I felt absolutely full of beans and loosened up with the ping-pong ball. Then I went for the

big chairs and cofas in a

way. Usually when I do this every- body yells "Stop it, Lottie," and will even try physical restraint, But this time they didn't

"And yourn.""

"And I suppose if them there little old Russians start

anythluk

In Germany we shall ave to start bicwin em all to bits agin."

"Quite likely."

"Cor sufferin archbishops," said the Sweep, "You don't know where you are, do you?"

Suy or

It

DJ

certainly don't,"

"Still," said the Sweep, "you don't

do anything but look rather pained want to start memmin before you're (and rather foolish, I thought)

I simply tore the stuffing out of new útility armchair.

"I ain't moanin." 1 rakit,

"You can always look on the bright side. Only a little while ago. we was blowin up the French fleet, and now i see admiral fot

Well, after that I knocked over Allied Nivy.

a few omaments, stuck my nose in what goes on."

there's a French big job with the Which shows you

a flower vase and upset it; and not "It certainly do,"

a word was said by anybody. Sa

►

"Cor luvaduck," said the Sweep, their put

little ald general from Luxemburg in charge of the

Ome-

I licked over their butter ration "it wouldn't surprise me if they and watched the horror on faces. Why horror? I suppose I'm and as clean as they are, or cleaner.

Lunch was simply too marvel- lous-chicken liver and gizzard, with gravy, and a piece of Urenat took rather neatly somebody's plate,

it fairly binzed with ego, experiencu thu And and pride of profession. chest underneath his brilliant tunie

the Colonel agreed to zoldler. E was every inch that of a

send over large numbers of Blindingly polished cavalry boots WACK as soon as they were trained, and tailored Jodhpurs completed the equipped and available. She kept picture.

her word The first group was Patton's Curses hand-picked for all-around ability.

Guard," true comrades trained WHEN Patton meationed interest They made a tremendous hit among Like

bred, in bomb damage around London, the homesick GI's, and buckled down

Ana's quite a talker. Elsenhower General

remarked: to administrative work with dazzling

stoff Facts and figures she can shed "Glve

him the sixty-four-dollar melenicy. I heard many a

ofleer rematic

that British ufice or iron ore and steel and leed tour, KayLunbeth."

workers were wonderful, but Stored up in that pretty head. The future. Third Army chief was

to up

the Clever And Papker. mcasuro Just sappatied by the Lambeth vetrial ability and morale uplitt | dristation as Generals Eisenhower, Clark and Spuntz had been, of American girls

And I'm happy to add that, Although his Cil's probably wouldn't

collection of have believed it, he sat on the front despite the fantasie sent with me. And his ramrod back backgrounds, those women behaved never once unbent, never touched so conscientiously that I never heart the seat. "Those sonsabilches," he a word of scandal about any WAC

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What a charming manner), white other, comrades sip and plot, Ana, chewing something hot, as a plotting comrade alot, Teaching him to pan hér..

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"And with all your experience as a private I daresay he'd be as good hom as you."

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