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1049.

EISENHOWER WAS

FONDAY, June 12, was.a

big day for

MMY BOSS

Elsenhower. Leaving our

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

General Ike came bnek 8.30 p.m., Sceling' chipper that he had got. nshore at long last, invigorated by nctually visiting the troops, and kappy that everyono's spirits seemed so high,

By KAY SUMMERSBY

such keldish venom existed until This all-out assault In addition, there

Iran right into it in Washington, character was another, unofficial reason for his happiness -

with his

famous father,

General The had several of us out to Telegraph Cottage for dinner. John, he said, was fretting because the West Point graduation leave was almost over: he was due back at Fort Benning.

Some of

I looked at these

their mart

frocks,

na to

Upon

nction against a general officer - 101 failure in battle. Privately, ho annie into the depths of despair when the Air Force messed up co-ordinated assault by dropping its bomus "Ahort," killing some of our own troops, including Lieutenant General L. J. McNair, a high War Depart- ment...observer who had beon wounded previously in Tunisia.

Inevitably, the General suffered several bad headaches, complained about his blood pressure and, in a my rare mood of fatigue, spent ong

hurt: It hurt terribly morning in bed.

resentment:

and

like the very

such as

ค

worry

Montgomery WAE

caroful and moved slowly. Kay Summersby today describes the reactions In. Supreme Headquarters to this

wapy attitude.

Always, the General had Monty, a reunion with his con, Graduated made the most social Army wiver After the hurt camo

it quito clear-crystal-clear after the renatment, anger. Ignawing at his nerves. from West Point on D-Day, Second they regarded any uniformed female thought bitterly of my ambulance

a patriotic Briton, I shared the Lieutenant John S. D. Eisenhower overseas as a mere "camp follower." days in the Biliz, of my torpedoing universal British respect for General the Mediterranean, of my driver' Montgomery's historie success in the Washingt was en route to England to spend wives Scavo

Uliuught desert. Ar a woman and ne General

cocktail fc in North Afrits. luxurious foods, making lke hnd dispatched Tex Loo

bitterly of Dick.

I thought of my civilian, I didn't pretend to under- to Prestwick to meet John. .............

talk, safe in one of the world's low day-to-day works, small but directly stand his

troubles, On June 29, I lost all interes! In unbombed cities. Then I thought

connected with the war. And the

The concentr

of of the WAC's working long and I thought of all the kindness, the his front, the lack of war.

hourd thankless

overseas, often

gentlemanly

* understanding

the like. But, and

SHAEF us a ilving in tents or. buggy barracks,

kindness, shown me by some of staff member, as part of the official anxious about loved ones in battle, thrse wives' own husbands; it wasn't family, and as secretary driver to Europem action would have kicked still carrying on. I thought of Red fair to these men, let alone to me.

General Eisenhower, 1 grow

to dis up a storm in Britain big enough Cross girls who got up before dawn

name of Montgomery. to mash Allied unlly. to drive their Clubmobilez.

My wounds soon festered into scar In my personal opinion, he gave the I'm sending John home in my Isolated airfields, distributing coffee, tissue destined to stay inflamed the Supreine Commander more

My own guess la General He the General explained. "Tex doughnuts, and B-17"

ever than any American rest of my life. Practically. Food

other one individual in knew that, all too well. Ho had no is going along. So Mattie cheer to airmen taking off for possi- woman who served abroad in uni-

Dre

the entire Allied command.

scruples about repiscing officers who Ho blu death over Europe. I Pinette and Sergeant Forr."

thought form bears this wound. It's the one men I'd seen

didn't measure up to his yardstick of looked at me. "There's a

in thing we'll never forgive, never for- rpara of the mutilated men

efficiency; he reduced generuls right place and I know you're

American anxious hospitais, of the

nurses get. It's the most painful wound of

brid left,

.. One was

triend after day

આ માનું worked day

with

all, for to meet Dick's mother. How would who

woman-and it in't

wasn't a question of nationality. sed West Point classmate; when come from the enemy. those wounded, drawing upon a you like to go along?"

I'

Some of General Ike'n best friends this man falled in combat, how personal courage almost holy in its Nor has it stopped with the ra-

decided the WCTO open admirers

crusty Ike A small, wicked and selflessness. I thought of the nurses turn of peace.

stich as the Prime mander couldn't afford

luxury I'd seen in the waters around our voice inside cries out: "Next war, Britishers

ali Minister, Admiral Sir Andrew Cun- of frientiship at the expense of the torpedoed Strathallen, the nurses My girl, you may as well do

war effort. He reduced dvi- Marshal

the staggering through tho mud in these things of which you're ac- ningham, and Air Chief

Tedder.

was sional commander to a did.

Dwight Eisenhower

to a colonel. This Tun'ala at the time of Kasserine cused; they'll say you

any- 100

the

gold. He in the particular officer was pure 'Pass.

one man avaliable howl"

Tarnished but slightly by this one Western armies who could mould took the demotion gracefully, begged Washington visit AFHQ, then SHAEF, into closely not to be returned to the States in experience, the

knit Allied headquarters

which

disgrace, slayed on in action as a drew to a close.

roso above national rivalrica and colonel, and eventually won his stars That

or sense

Regardless, characteristics to win the greatest back the hard way. war in Europe's history.

the fact remained that Monty was in the line-up, -for better, or for worse.

was o

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

airport. All of un breathed a sign of relief when London and the airport were for beland.

Two women rushed up to wei- come us to Washington. One was Mrs George Allen; the other, Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower. I found the General's wife an attractive, petite weman, her bangs the hint to a vivacious, friendly personality, Wo nl chatted excliedly. Then Mra Eisenhower, and Mrs Allen went off to town, with John in low, pro- mising to call.

How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips have the colossal conceit and self-deception nol to see their own shameful Images: service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's cruellest weapon against woman moral slander?

How could they lump all overcas

old war-born

urgency surged through all of us as city of Washington for a final saluta the B-17 took off, circled the lovety and then headed "home" to the war..

back

Thousand Worries.

ENERAL Eisenhower was beset by thousand worries. The Prime Minister maintained his barrage of

to Bad objections

tho invasion

of

Montgomery

It wasn't a mere question of tem- perament, for 'Ike handled the ex- kit plosive General. Palton with gloves liner in mail-and Patton in- offered the closest of c-

Backpile his occasional bud-

Supreme

Unfortunately, I thought it was often the latter,

tho

Monty

Being human. I was even more

The Juno day wo left for upset at learning my own reputa-

General tion was lost. In addition to being

press flurries. (Just after General Washington, for instance, woman overseas, I was a foreign

Marshal, approved Patton's promo- Eisenhower entered in the diary: woman-and I travelled with the

tion in August, General Elserkower Saw Tedder, who is just returned

beachhead, future from Cave out orders that any High Brass. Therefore, I w.s a Woman. This was fact, gleefully southern France, he insisted on statement by Blood-and Guts could momentarily expecting heavy coun- peknowledged and established fact. touring the battle area, he called be struck out by consora. Correr- ter-attack, which he is confident of

defeating.

Meanwhile he is just women didn't--and don't for all-out assaults to destroy the pondents understood.) These leave any loophole for doubt: they Nazis, he pressed for heavier

attacks

V-weapon platforms. Monly, Britain's most glamorous didn't and don't give any oppar

Six days later he added: "Wrote to Monty urging all-out Nothing I could The fretted, tunity for defence.

alternately, and successful general to date, sim- letter

That was offensive to break the deadlock and say or do would change this atti- about difficulties holding up General ply couldn't be sacked.

get elbow room." classified. I was

Intelled, Bradley's attack and Monty's push, the simple, unspoken truth, fo my

demollon opinion. Hig retirement He was forced to lake

2FL

tude. and filed.

Mrs Eisenhower NEXT afternoon, I went up to the fashionable Wardman Park to visit Mrs Eisenhower, who greeted me at the door with a welcome, tinkling, orange-filled Old Fashioned. Her cordially, helped me to meet the wives of various friends around headquarters, men had known in North Africa and in England. the beginning, I felt strange and foreign, much too British and much too militarised for this forgotten social side of femininity. But their natural friendliness Boon thawed my embarrassment. Moreover, we Rad mutual interests, mutual friends her husbands. I enjoyed meeting the wives of overseas friends, putting flesh on the name. skeletons rattled so continuously by lonely husbands abroad; they on- joyed meeting someone who knew their husbands, who could tell them how their husbands looked, how they felt what they ate, where they lived, el cetera. It was a lovely

enjoyed

afternoon and 1 thoroughly.

12

air

from

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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, 1949 will be

with heaven compared dreariness of the years to follow.

the

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

Gradually they will become

mutterings at the bollerinakers" offering after the first week.

What is quite certain is that if professional men aro 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.

1999

DEERING into the distant future, O.M.C. can see a Britain once elvilläed Lamed throughout the As all human Joy withers at the world for its peals, unable to find even the writer of a second-rate thriller in accustomed to tea and rock cakes touch of the offelal hand, even the

a population composed of As most of them have already being served in the bar, to a dead Government pubs will die of inter- Government officials, Government in lost their character, this won't level of mindless conversation which ference, and Stafford Cripps, if he employees, and workers, matter much.

accompanies tea and rock cakes, to is still with us, will smile at last. guaranteed employment, all properly

asking

Amidst all this excitement I tried to get in touch with Dick's mother There will be a lot. of argument at her home in New York State. about the nationalisation, of pubs. Innumerable telephone calls (which

"Old Moore Gubbins prophesies impressed me with the speed

and

they will be nationallsed courtesy of long-distanco operators that in America) disclosed Mrs Arnold eventually because the pub is on its to be en route to Florida. No one way out. knew exactly how she was going, or where

she would stay down there. Two days before our party was due to head back to Londen, she culled from Florida, distraught driving right through Washington, unaware I was there on a visit.

I had a woderful day and a night with Mrs Arnold, collecting a bad case of sunburn In Miami . and, nioro iniportant, a new, close friend.

Army Wives

at

By the time they are nationalised the whole of Britain will have lost its character.

Women struck the Arst blow at Dogs struck the second. pubs.

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

Cradle of wit, and nourisher of ND I didn't have to ride back genlus, the pub, which was once the A in that bucket-sent C-47. Our old inceling place for good conversation -17 showed up in Miami. Captain between "this happy breed of men," Larry Hansen, General Eisenhower's has now become a meeting place for pilot, had a double reason for coming women and dogs. down-Arstly, we were due to leave

When either of these are for England the very next day; secondly, his wife lived in nearby yapping you can overhear some Coral Gabics. We took off for witless little pest trying to shout a dirty joke through a symphony Washington that afternoon.

concert.

not

never

the feeling of guilt when for beer, to a radio that is turned off unless it is to allow the vicar to preach a State pub sermon, or some buck-toothed woman with cropped hair to squeal about State pub, culture,

always

End of middle-classes

The

fed and housed, and all doomed to live very long and dreary Ilves, thanks to the advance of medical science.

✩ -

Writers worth reading must either By this time the destruction of the suffer or observe others suffer; or middle-class will be elmost must be indignant about something or for somebody. In Utopia there complete. With all their money Clubs next

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 boredem.

will become

more savage dogs, and unable to bear and umballer women, either in the organised misery of the State pub mirable state of affairs, for which Government itself or at the tallot (even if they had twopence left to a 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- clubs

hearts or semi-starvation.

thing new to read, reg, or hear, be hated

cruse

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

As the chief contributors to the Some of the Army wives 1 met

O.M.G. therefore prophesies that,

50 years ahead, Old this time left a bad taste in

my

the arts and to national entertainment ★

*

under pressure from women, memory. A few seemed so caluu-

Government will pass a law making the end of the middle-class will Moore Gubbins can see Britain, once mean that the rest will have to the envy of all nations, 39 no more tating, so cold. They gauged each

As other purely by rank, more so than

the cost of this boredom is clubs for men only illegal.

The result of this will be that entertain themselves, writing their than a minor Iceland, only colder. 'own dull books, producing their own the mea West new

almost prohibitive, most rank-conscious

women (and their dogs) will force

theets, producing and not have found out how to keep all Pointer,

who remember the time when you social

and personnt

their way into the clubs. All the dull news attention centred on those whose could buy cosiness, elegance, and

members will resign at once, leaving acting in their own unconsciously their houses was o

funny films und plays, painting their Thanks to the discovery, of - now husbands carried more Brass. And, entertainment for a shilling or two I'm afraid, a

a shocking amount

of will soon be staying away from pubs the women in complete possession.

As women are not clubbable in own terrible pictures, writing their life-saving drugs, the average age that attention was focussed on the in thousands,

the sense that they can be happy own heredible music, and providing of the population will be 85, which

will increase the national cost ranking leaders with but one of two

They will either drink at home together for long, the clubs will die their own radio prokrammes, deas in mind, sometimes both or join clubs. As they are the men

Whether the workers will remain wigs and dentures," another, chunk of British life and

But as the middle-classes will be happy and cheerfal if they are. a promotion for the husband, and or who made the pubs, the pubs will will be wiped out.

to listen to the Boller- dead and the young people will have a transfer to better duty, preferably dis without them.

People will be so miserable by obliged then that come ass in some Govern- makers' Brass 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 pay.

Moore Gubbins thinks that, as they for them in taxation: revive the spirit of the British pub.

So the old folk will be looking Ho will be about as successful as have been so long accustomed to the half naked women who try to first-class professional entertainment. pretty rough by then. And revive folk dances.

for almost nothing, there will be cares?,

the

In the United States.

Old Moara Gubbins foresces that I was hurt, then angered at the the Government will then take over, londer of WAÇ': overseas. The though the younger generation, who eleis in London and Algiers had tard have never, imown anything better, me about it, but I still didn't believe | will hardly notice the difference.

NANCY

BUT WHY PUT ALL DAT

CANDY ON TH' WINDOW

SILL P

Nuts to You

A JOKE THEY'RE CHOCOLATE

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