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EIFTEENTH INSTALMENT:

1949.

EISENHOWER WAS

FONDAY, June 12, was a - big day for General isenhower. Leaving our

CP before six o'clock in the morning.. he took the visiting VIP party to Normandy.

General Iko came back 0.20 p.m., feeling chipper that he had got anhore at long last, invigorated by actually visiting the troops, and happy that everyone's spirits seemed so high.

In addition, there was another, Unometal reason for his happiness-- a reunion with his son. Graduated from West Point on D-Day, Second John S. D. Eisenhower Lieutenant was en route to England to spend leave with

his famous father. General lite had dispatched Tex Lee to Prestwick to meet John.

On June 20. I lost all Interest In

war.

MY BOSS

By KAY SUMMERSBY

such selfish, venom

I.

action against a general offiear for failure in battle. Privately, he sank into the depths of despair when the Air Force messed up a co-ordinated Result

by dropping its bombs "short" killing some of our own

Generat Lieutenant

troops, including In McNair,

ment

опе

As a patriote Bect for Général

D

аз

Montgomery

was careful and moved slowly. - Kay Summersby today describes the reactions In Supreme Headquarters, to this wary attitude.

high War Depart- observer who had been wounded previously in Tunisia.

Inevitably, General suffered several bad headaches, complained about his blood pressure and, is a existed until This all-out assault upon my rare mood of fatigue, spent ran right into it in Washington, character hurt; it hurt terribly. Some of the most social Army wives After the hurt came resentment ways, the General had Monty made it quite clear-crystal-clear after the resentment," anger.

I shared the they regarded any uniformed female thought bitterly of my ambulance: gawing at its nerves. overseas as a mero "camp follower." daya in the Blitz,- of my torpedoing universal British

I looked at these Washington in the Meditest of my driver's

Montgomery's wives in their smart frocks, nibbling life in North

y's historic success.in the thought desert. As woman and as luxurious foods, making cocktail bitterly of Dicke, I thought of my clvillán, I didn't pretend, to under- talk, safe in one of the world's

his day-to-day work, small but directly stand milltary troubles, such I thought rhen

how

wer. And com

the concentration of Germans 07 "unbombed cities.

and Connected with the Long and

thought of all the kindness, the

the his

ront, the lack of replacements, of the WACS working

hours Overseas,

rentlemanly and understanding

the like. But, as a a SHAEF General Ike had several of us thankless

kindness, shown me by some of

member, as part of the officiat out to Telegraph Cottage for dinner. living in tents or buggy Join, he said, was freting because anxious about loved ones in battle these wives' own husbands; it wasn't family, and as secretary-driver to European action would have kicked General Eisenhower, I grow to dis- up a storm in Britain big enough the West Point graduation leave was still carrying on. I thought of Red fair to those men, let alone to me.

up before dawn

like the very name of Montgomery to mash Allled unity. Cross girls who got up almost over; he was duo back at

My wounds soon featered iplo scar in my personal opinion, ho gave the to drive their Clubmobiles on in Fort Benning,

isolated airfields,

distributing coffee, tissue destined to stay inflamed the Supreme Commander more worry "I'm sending John heme In my

American rest of my life. Practically every than any other one individual in B-17," the General explained. Tex "doughnuts,

off for possi- woman who served abroad in un- the entire Alled command. is going along. So

Mattle cheer to airmen taking of

Ho ble

bears this wound, It's the one I death

form, bears over Europe thought Pinette and Sergeant Farr."

rop I'd

een in thing we'll never forgive, never for- looked at me. There's a spare of the mutilated men place and I know you're anxious hospitals, of the American nurces get. It's the most painful wound of for a woman and it in't to meet Dick's mother. How would who worked day after day with all,

come from the enemy. those wounded, drawing upon a you like go along?"

to

In ita Nor has it stopped with the re- personal courage almost holy

A small, wicked selflessness. I thought of the nurses turn of peace. I'd seen in the waters around our voice inside cries out: "Next war, all torpedoed Strathallen, the nurses My girl, you may as well do

The mud in the things of which you're ac staggering through

did. they'll say you Tunisia at the time of Kasserine cused; Pass,

Tarnished but slightly by this one. experience, the Washington

pense war-born That old drew to a close. urgency surged through all of us as elty of Washington for a final saluto, the B-17 took off, circled the lovely back and then headed "home","

car

Arc

Our send-off from the Germans was a buzz-bomb. It landed several hundred yards away and rattled the windows as we drove out to the airport.

All of us breathed a sign of velo when London the airport were far behind.

wel-

who

and

How, I wondered, how could these Two women rushed up to.

to Washington.

One was Washington gossips have the colossal us to como Mrs George Allen; the other, Mes conceit and self-deception not to shameful images? Mamie Elsenhower.

I found the see their own

How could they lump all overseas General's wife an attractive, petite

her bangs the hint to a service women into one dirty group vivacious, friendly personality. We and then job it with all chatted exeltedly, Then Mes cruellest weapon against woman Eisenhower and Mrs. Allen went off moral slander? to town, with John in tow, pro- mising to call

woman's

to the war.

any-

Montgomery

no the

vialties who could

of

ta

General Ika My own guess knew that, all too well Ha and no scruples about replacing offloors who didn't measure up to his yardstick of efficiency; he reduced generals right and left. One was a good friend

Д

IT wasn't a question of nationally, and a West Point classmate; when Some of General Ike's best friends this man falled in combat, however,

Com were crusty Iko decided the Supreme open admirers and

such Britishers

Prime mander couldn't afford the luxury Minister, Admiral Sir Andrew Cun of friendship at the expenso of the ningham, and Air Chief Marshal war effort. He reduced the divi

was sional commander to a

colonel. This Tedder. Dwight Eisenhower the

in uvalible one man

the particular officer was pure gold. Ho mould took the demotion gracefully, begged closely not to be returned to the States in then SHAEF, into

which disgrace, stayed on in action icnit Allied headquarters

arxi colonel, and eventually won his stora rose above national rivalries

Regardless, the fact remained that Monty wns characteristics to win the greatest back-the hard way.

OF for In the line-up, for better It wasn't a mere question of iem- worse. war in Europe's history.

perament, for Ike handled the ex-

Unfortunately, I thought it was plosivo General Patton with kid gloves lined in mall and Patton la eften the latter, variably offered the closeat of co-

The Juno day we left for Being human, I was even more

operation, despite his occasional bad- upset at learning my own reputa-

ENERAL Eisenhower was beset

press flurries. (Just after General Washington, for instance, General dlary: In addition to being

Eisenhower entered in the tion was lost. ? Mrs Eisenhower a woman overseas, I was a foreign by thousand worries The Prime Marshal approved Patton's promo "gar Tedder, who is just returned Monty travelled with the Minister maintained his barrage of tion in August, General Elsenhower from tho beachhead. woman and

divablon et

Cave out orders that any NEXT afternoon, I went up to the High Brass. Therefore, I was a Bad objections to

on statement by Blood-and Guis could momentarily expecting heavy coun-- fashionable Wardman Park to Woman. This was fact, gleefully southern France he insisted

Meanwhile he is just visit Mrs Eisenhower, who greeted me acknowledged and established fact. touring the battle area, he called bu strick out by censors. Corres- ter-attack, which he is confident of at the door with a welcome, tinkling.

women "didn't and don't for all-out assaults to destroy the pondents understood.)

platforms Monty, Eritain's most glamorous Six days later he added: "Wrote orange-filled Old Fashioned. Her leave any loophole for doubt; they Nazis, he pressed for Heavier

helped

to Monty urging all-out cordiality

me to meet the didn't and don't give any oppor attacks upon' V-weapon

fretted. alternately, and successful general to date, sim- letter

That was offensive to break the deadlock and wives of various trends around tunity for defence. Nothing I could The General headquarters, men I had known in say or do would change this atti- about difficulties holding up General ply couldn't be sacked. North Africa and

classified, I WAD

(Continued on Faro 3) in England. In fude,

from labelled. Bradley's attack and Monty's push. the simple, unspoken truth, in my get elbow room."

HIS retirement He was forced to take demotion opinion the beginning, I felt strange and and filed. foreign, much too British and much too militarised for this forgotten

.

social side of femininity. But their

naturai

2. friendliness

soon thawed tlawed

my embarrassment. Morcover, Wo had mutual interests, mutual friends their husbands. I

meeting the wives of friends, putting flest on the name- akcictons rattled so continuously by lonely husbands abroad; they en- joyed meeting someone who knew their husbands, who could tell them how their husbands locked, how they

felt, what they ate, where they Ilved, et cetera. It was a lovely

and I

enjoyed 11

afternoon thoroughly.

Thousand Worries

the

air

futuro

Sitting on the

LD MOORE GUBBINS, the world-famous astro- loger, writes

Although packed from the first day to the last with un- relieved misery, 1940 will be heaven compared with the dreariness of the years to follow.

There will be a lot of argument about the nationalisation of pubs.

Amidst all this excitement 1 tried -to-get-In touch with Dick's mother at her home in New York State. Innumerable telephone calls (which impressed me with the speed and courtesy of long-distance operators that

will

Old Moore Gubbins prophesies

they

be nationalised

Fence

by NATHANIEL GUBBINS

become

As all human joy withers at the will in America) disclosed Mrs Argold eventually because the pub is on its

they Gradually to be en route to Florida, No one way out,

accustomed to tea and rock cakes touch of the official hand, even the knew exactly

how she was going. .or how

As most of them have already being served in the bar, to a dead Government pubs will die of inter where she would

down there. lost their character, this won't level of mindless conversation which ference, and Stafford Cripps, If he Two days before our party was matter much.

accompanies ten and rock cakes, to is still with us, will smile at laat, due to head back to London, she

the feeling of guilt when asking By the time they are nailonalised called from Florida, distraught at

for beer, to a radio that is never driving right through Washington, the whole of Britain will have lost turned off unless it is to allow the

its character.

vicar to preach a State pub sermon, or some buck-toothed woman with cropped hair to squeal about State pub culture,

unaware I was there on a visit

I had a woderful day and a night with Mrs Amold, collecting a bad case of sunburn in Miami... and, more important, a new, close friend.

Army Wives

• Women struck the first blow at Dogs struck the second. pubs.

The anal Radio struck the third. blow will be struck by some future Government department.

of

Cradle of wit, and nourisher genius, the pub, which was once the meeting place for good conversation between "this happy breed of men," has now become a meeting place for women and dogs.

When

either of

not these are

ND I didn't have to ride back A in that bucket-sent C-47. Our old B-17 showed up in Miami. Captain Larry Hansen, General Eisenhower'z plot, had a double reason for coming down-firstly, we were due to leave for England the very next day; secondly, his wife lived in nearby yapping you can overhear some. Coral Gables.

We took off for witless little pest trying to shout a dirty joke through a symphony Washington that afternoon.

concert Some of the Army wives I met this time left a bad taste in

my memory. A few seemed so calcu lating, co cold. They gauged each

the cost of this boredom, is other purely by rank, more so than

rank-conscious,

now almost prohibitive, West Pointer,

social and ersonal who remember the time when you

on those

whose could buy cosiness, elegance, and centred on husbands carried more Brass. And, entertainment for a chilling or two a shocking amount of will soon be staying away from puba that attention was focussed on the in-thousands, ranking leaders with but one of two ideas in mind, sometimes both a promotion for the husband, and or a transfer to better duty, preferably in the United States.

the most

attention

all

I was hurt, then angered. at the glander of WAC's DVŰrneas, The girls in London and Algiers had to me about it, but I still didn't believe

NANCY

BUT WHY PUT ALL DAT CANDY ON TH' WINDOW

·SILL 7

Nuts to You

A JOKE

ON.

NOSEY ROSIE

As

the men

They will either drink at home or join clubs. As they are the men who made the pubs, the pubs will die without them.

Old Moore Gubbins' foresees that the Government will then take over, though the younger generation, who have never known anything better, will hardly potice the difference.

THEY'RE CHOCOLATE COVERED ALMONDS AND SHE HATES. ALMONDS

clubs.

Clubs next

BY

-

End of middle-classes.

mutterings

at the

ballermakers' allering after the first week.

What is quite certain is that if professional men are taxed any more they will find that the work is not worth the money. left by the tax-gatherer, and the country will have to rely on amateurs for all its entertainment, whether it is art, music, drama, or literature.

even

1999

DEERINGTM Into the distant-future, O.M.G. can see a Britain once famed throughout the civilised world for its poets, unable to And the writer of a second-rate thriler in a population composed of all in Government officials, Government

workers, and guaranteed employment, all properly employees, fed and housed, and all doomed to live very long and dreary. lives. thanks to the advance of medical science.

༞་་་

Writers worth reading must either DY this time the destruction of the suffer or observe others, suffer; or middle-class will bc almost must be indignant about something. complete. With all their money or for somebody. In Utopia there gone to buy, dentures for the tooth will be nothing to be indignant less and wigs for the bald, winkled about. Nobody will suffer anything Although this will be a most ad- COON after that the Government out of their clubs by women and but boredom.

will become more and more savage dogs, and unable to bear the dominated by women, either in the organised misery of the State pub mirable state of affairs, for which Government itself or at the ballot (even if they had twopence left to all thoughtful and humane people box, and will turn its attention to buy a rock cake at the dreary bars), have striven, it will be a very dull the survivors will die of broken state of affairs. There will be no- thing now to read, see, or hear, be- hearts or semi-starvation.

cause men who produce work of hated Womens have always

Old Moore Gubbins believes that any value are not bred in safe, un- in them. Maybe dogs the death of the middle-classes will adventurous communities, and never men's clubs because women are not allowed dislike them because dogs are kept have a profound effect on other will be. classes out, too.

As the thief contributors to the D.M.G. therefore prophesies that,

the arts and to national entertainment

Looking 50 years ahead, Old under pressure from women, Government will pass a law making the end of the middle-class will Moore Gabbins can see Britain, once

incan that the rest will have

the envy of all nations, as no more The result of this will be that entertain themselves, writing their than a minor Iceland, only colder clubs for men only illegal.

Even then the Inhabitants will and not have found out how to keep sheets, producing women (and their dogs) will force own dull books, producing their own their way into the clubs... All the dull news

Thanks to the discovery of new funny films and plays, painting their- members will resign at once, leaving acting in their own unconscious their houses warm.

As women are not clubbable in own terrible pictures, writing their life-saving, drugs, the average age the women in complete possession.

will be B5, which

to

the sense that they can be happy own incredible music, and providing of the populationtonal cost of

12

will increase the wigs and dentures,

together for long, the cluba will die: their own radio programmes.

Whether the workers will rerata

But an the middle-classes will be and another chunk of British lo

they are happy and cheerful will be wiped out.

People will be so mizerable by obliged to listen to the Boller dead and the young people will have then that some ass in some Govern- makera Bross Band or the Factory escaped to foreign, parts, there will ment department will be told to Follies is problematical, though Old be nobody earning money to por So the old folk will be looking revive the spirit of the British pub. Moore Gubbins thinks that, as they for them in taxation.

He will be about as successful as have been so long accustomed to ' the half naked women who try to first-class professional entertainment preity rough by then, And revive folk dances...

for almost nothing, there will be cares?

LATER

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