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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949.

this, the fifth, instalment of her in- side story of World War II's Supreme Commander in the European Theatre, Kay Summersby tells of the secret prepara- tions for the North African invasion and how the troopship she took vus torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

【NEVITABLY, I had heard of the impending North African invasion, Talk in the buck sent of my staff car was more Top Secret than any. thing on paper. In general, I knew about as much about "Torch" Operation

most sénior commanders in the early autumn of 1942.

as

General

EISENHOWER WAS MY BOSS

By KAY SUMMERSBY

with the polished modulated voice eccent belonged to our suave Colonel Jullus Holmes, I slept very little that night, listening to the dramatic broadenst and the contiunal martial strains of the Marseillaise.

Foolishly, I packed everything of value, including my best luggage and One month before the birthday North Africa mennt war, but it alse a few precious biis of jewellery. party, I Ind taken Eisenhower

ment' Dick-and marriage, I packed Bul 10 Telegraph accordingly. Mother maintained the Cottage in i hurry. For

one best tradition of British privacy and he seemed preoccupied. He obw viously didn't want to talk: I and awareness of war security, I could tong made it a habit to ask tell her only that I was

not to

Jeaving questions, ever. As we sped through London. Although undoubtedly Kensington he mumbled something Africa and a long war, she asked no

certain I was headed about "big doings for a colonel.' The rest of the ride was in heavy questions and was a great comfort, allence. But Generals-three-star Generals-don't usually get excited over colonels. I knew something big "I don't know how long we'll be here," the General cald as he got out the cottage. "Mickey will look after you."

was up.

nt

There was an air of hush-hush Inside.

Hunt, Maaney, and Mickey walked on tip-toe. I retired to the 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. iclieben and learned that the Generat wns outside talking in literal Whirrers

21 tall, lieutenant-colonel. Aa darkness fell, unmilitary; they camo Inside and sat beside the crackling replace, Kitchen gosslu Hoon established that the cottage housed a queer assortment: Beetle, General Clark,

Eric Brigadier Mockler-Ferryman and Mr William H. B. Mack. Beetle himself, it seemed, had gone to Hendon to plek the colonel. 10 whom they referred as McGowan. Butch had Kone to Norfolk House,

closely guarded HQ of Allied forcas plau- ning the invasion, for the others, Colonel Julius Holmes, the British- toolting U. S. Embassy officer with ilte Guards mowinche, also present.,

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Clandestine Parley

was

IN the next few days detalls of that secret meeting Telegraph

Cottage gradually seeped up to the front seat of my car. "Lieutenant-Colonel

WIS

McCowan"

none other than Mr Robert Murphy, the American undergrowi chief in French Morocco. The coll- ference had been concerned largely with one frightening question mark- would the French Aght when we landed in North Africa? Equally important, it had been

decerned with French leaders' Allies

that the send a lon

top commander to the scene down there to discuss practical details. This then, was the meeting when It had been deelded to send General Clark-on-his-submarine- mission to the North African coast, for a clandestine parley which inleht have been dreamed up by Hitchcock. or Oppenheim.

Shortly afterwards, General Eisen- hower asked the question I had been framing in my mind for weeks to ask him. "Kny," he said, unusually serious, "would you ke to along?

I

was

At The Palace

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slons, and Jean Dixon, friendly Washington girl whose British him band had been killd in the Royal Air Force. Wo tonic turns sleeping on n dirty mattress wedged into the flour beside a double-decker bunk

in

All lights went out. The ship

back and shuddered, then rocked forth.

No one moved or said a word. Several ininutes later, Ethel mut- tered: "This is it, kids,"

The ship settled at a list. We' banged our shins against luggage and

the double-docker before Jean found

Adrift In

anel •

With three separate sittings" for each meal, we spent much of the days Inching along the deck was rationed. snake-like Ines. Even loafing space

a flashlight. I rabbed my shoes.. We queued, stent, Cursing at our empty torpedo bags, and strolled; strolled, slept. and

we ench grabbed a coat and headed queued. Between-times, we foine-1 for the lifeboat station.

the Mediterranean and the gossip-manglers.

Finally, to escape the endless chat- the fast. reseup work over, our boat seemed lonelier than evar. We ter, we sel up a marathon bridge, could see the convoy steaming by. game, Our fourth was Margaret Tin grapher, whose stin alucks, nalty could bear occasional shouts. (Pegt) Bourke-White, the Life photo-lights of other lifeboats

bobbed on the water. We uniform, and neat blue-gray hale A British destroyer came close by, drew a symphony of wolf-calls with. A megaphone voice announceu To us, survivors would be picked up in the sh. Was Godsend. vivacious morning. Que neighbourhood sti fourth in our bridge battie against was

with alive

U-boats, the voice the old shipboard enemy, boredom. explained; it would fake hours to

Several days out, n wild gale

clear the arch. struck with-terrifying ferocity.

The rest of the long, long night was The storm thrashed us about for spent trying to keep warm--and daye, reducing life to its barest Trying to keep from getting sick. minimum, gloomy and dreary. Then,

every appearance

There Time evaporated quickly. was a mad round of shots for every thing from typhoid to lockjaw, the arrival of WAC's and civilians who were joining the party. Luckily, one driver friends was going atong Elspeth Duncan, a friendly

of my

Scol who later became the wife of a British General in Berlin.

on deek.

Kay Summersby, who was-General-Eisenhower's-wartime- secretary, was "in" on all the big events. From Algiers to Berlin, from a secret English cottage to the rear seat of n jeep, she was always at Ike's headquarters, wherever he went. Above, she is photographed with Admiral Cunning. ham, Winston Churchill, and her Boss,

As

The first leg of our journey was a in the dark hours after midnight, it We hur- long, hungry, night-time trip from scurried away to the west. I Euston Station to Scotland. Arrly-, ried topsido.

atmost shouting explained That Dick undoubtedly ing at Greenock village on the Clyde, "Look!" one of the British nurses would be heading in the direction of the same port first seen by hundreds

the forthcoming: Invasion.

was Tangler, u I would of thousands of Americans who cried. "yhgs!** 10 to anything to be somewhere near came to England, we were welcomed and sighted stuce Scutland, the sparkling necklace of a city-the hin. Ike knew about Dick. No furby more mountalus of red tape. The ther emphasis was required.

"Ilitary enjoyed hot coffee anulat lighted city some of us had be in about a month or so, he said, doughnuts.

while

elvilians seen since 1939. we warning of the need for extreme shuffled to OnG Risc .for. paper Morning brought hope and a cheer- security,

clearance.

ful sky, plus the rich blue waters of the Mediterranean. Pale-faced, sud- Syed officers and nurses appeared on days, seck for the rst time la soaking! Strathallen shivered that night as

up the sunshine. The she dropped a frothing succession of depth charges, but no one seemed concerned over

reports of Germon subs in the vicinity.

Boat drills were resumed; only one dally.

Amidst all this

and

them

The weather couldn't have been more iniserable. Even the English IKE took General Clark with him to usually and Scotland's climate wel, say goodbye to the King. Telek And this was a superbly typical day:

I drove

clown 10 great sheets of cold, Kusty rain Buckingham Palace and waited in soaked us to the skin while painthig the historic courtyard; Telek was the whole БСЕПС ini depressin quite unimpressed by his surround- grayness. ings and insisted upon committing a blatant indignity upon the Royal property, Wiren returned,

General

slow; we circled around the harbour revealed that he had worried need for the better part of an hour. lessly over one major point of shivering in the open tender, using | protocol-how to

away from anything from bogkane to news- Majesty, without falling flat on papers to hido from that, cold down- his face. "He came right to the door pour, with us," lke laughed.

Jlis

our

back

Food

After endless delavs, we lodd

Ba into small boats. Embarkation was

nows came

spent the night of November 7 Finally, we rerambled onto the virtually inside my radio. Not long ill-fated Strathallen, off to war, after 1 a.m. which I know to be and disaster.

-Hour, the through. The Invasion was on. I heard some remarks by Prezident Hoosevelt, and othern by a "spokes- man" giving Instructions to people Fortunately, my two "cabin

л Troopship life evolved Into world without privacy, a world of restless boredom and endless rumour.

reassuring not-

mailty, the loudspeakers blured fortn a long-awaited announcement: we

would land the next day.

Every cabin beld a "last night" party.

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Just before dawn the sea enlmen The barrage of depth charges lessened. And the sun came pouring warmth and light and colour

over the scene.

Morning's Climax

THE

15]

E porning's climax came when Our ok friend, the British destroyer, hove into

sicht

In

POCKET CARTOON

by OSHØRT LANCASTER

"I wish I could remember erectly which of Maudie Littlehampton's husbanda it was she was married to

In that drean."

C.V.R. Thompson Ike's war

for peace

NEW YORK. General Ike, university pre-

sident, author, and amateur cook, is taking his uniform out of moth balls.

Washington wants him and his rank and prestige again.

But this time Eisenhower's job is not to plan a war. In- stend it is to preserve the peace.

For Amerien's top brass wunts incredibly short time him to convince Congress that the she was picking up the best insurance against war · ទ Q survivors in each lifeboat. When strong, efficient U.S. Army. our turn came, I helped Peg up the rope-ladder with her cameras. · The deck fell wonderfully solid and very very welcome. Far below, empty lifeboats floated by, trim wreaths in meinory of thore who had died during the night.

This will take money, moro moncy than Congress, ut this time. seems willing to grant.

For sonie mouths, then, Elsen- nower will be attached as personal Chief of Staff to Defence Secretary Jans Forrestal. Ami in thut posting his "beach-head" will ha N the wilness boxes of 起 dozen Congressional commitees, where he

Late in the afternoon our destroyer pulled into Oran,,tied up alongside a pler, and dropped the ladder. The will fight a new kind of battle, the

usual

Battle of the Budget.

11.4

women - md- children -firs" tradition was reversed; wo women waited for the men to disembark. They organised into original outlits ALL U.6. NEWSPAPERS, excep: and marched off, a ragged military the stodglest, have set.lcd.

of half-dressed soldiers and if by agreement, upon the appro- parade officers.

priate headline for Britain's Prince · Searching for Dick'st Oran head-| --"Honnie Prince Charlie" quarters, I was regarded with open suspicion. The guard, however, nd- mitted there was Lieutenant-Colonel splendour of New York's best Arnold in the section; in that very building, in fact. I'll get him for you," he said cryptically.

He asked Dick to come down to the lobby, then hung up without

BACK AGAIN in the plush-lined no.el, Alfred Edwards, the Socialist M.P. who changed his mind, is at his favourite task, telling Ameri-

cans of the ills of Socialism.

have found that "... "Under

His latest quotes: "Whatever is mentioning my name on the phong,

wrong with Capitalism, we British baked 10 telephone Algiers.

Is not That request brought out another

the naswer to Heutenant in charge, suord,

the nationalisation.

Inbourer has maior-and-finally-a

-n-full-colonel.

proved hat ̃ ̄luhan ̄all ̄the ills, all- Each of them studied my torn skirt the selfshness, and all the laziness. shredded nylons, open-necked shirt

of the capitalist." by al

They

and my straggly hair,

handkerchief. peasant-like whispered among themselves,

"Look here." I said in exasperation. I income tax evasion

D

THE DEFENCE in

* Baltimore

case WH3

was

11 simple-

follow the

The

added, understand

"I've just been rescued from a tor- that the prisoner petoer ship. I want to call General ton who "cannot even Eisenhower and tell him his staff is plot of a Western movie"

but safe. And I want to get orders judge acquitted him,"

"You know I cannot what to do next.. Do you mind?"

them myself.”

One Magic Word.

SECRET America's air force

THE one magle word-Eisenhower A has been trying desperately to

T

ni: the telephone, I hide has come out. The secret was wenk with relief when the

tho is "a flying palace,"

injost operator got me through to the luxurious plane Auferica has Over General's office and Tex Lee came on bullt, And it was made ready by the line. "Tex." I said with com- the tur foren for "President" Tom plete lack of imagination, "we're Dewey's official use. here."

shame-

He

don't want

They finally showed it Tex shid the office knew we had facedly to President Truman. been torpedned, but didn't know if grinned and sang: "I "Just we had been picked up.

It, you ma havo 1, it's Ind swank minute," he added. "the General tor me." will want to talk to you."

n

General Eisenhower asked ofler

each of the office gang, put on Gen-TELEVISION has been recognised In the American cour.a as eral Clark for n moment, then cou- cluded the conversation by ordering one of the necessities of un to Algiers the next day,

I hung up thoughtfully and turned to ask the guards where Ethel, Jean. and I could spend the night.

My vision blurred. The guards faded from sight,

Tite.

moderni

into

shopping Fifth-

URING a Christmas

excursion, I went avenue's largest china shop.. It was. almost sold out of British china and flooded with drders for

more.

Ji was 1.30 in the morning before All I could see was a tall, dark: Recognising my accent, an assistant we tip-toed back, anxious to pin up Heutenant-colonel who thought I said: "Please tell them to send us our hair and grabs some sleep: 1 www

TWO U.S. VISITORS to Dellal,

in London. Thoroughly be-more in a hurry."' sank onto the bunk and kicked out wildered, he couldn't utter à ̈word. my shoes, Pictures of Aiglers bubbled up, pictures where all the women "Erk!" I cried. running towards looked like Hedy Lamarr and to him, breaking down in a most un- men spoke like Charles Boyer.nlitary fashion. And I heard companions were old friends Ethel, pulled off my neckle and lazily un- a proclamation by General Ike, in Westcumana. the dispensary nurse bottoned my collar beautiful French, Since he spoke who had been out to Telegraph A tremendous explosion threw !! no French, I know

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