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FRIDAY, NOV. 26, 1948 Eisenhower Was My Boss—
Kay Finds London Gay, Different Than In 1939
Boarded-Up Piccadilly, Center for Troops On Leave, Becomes Boisterous and Alive
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: By Kay Summersby * TWAS SPENDING my off-duty hours during this time in getting reacquainted with the new London, which was a stranger to the one I knew in 1939 and the chins-up, bloody London of the Blitz—even different than the hesitant, bewildered London of 1942. Official histories miss this very human point, that London was
to the second ‘World War what Paris was to the first:
time capital. Part of this new era was inevitable, with the scores of Allied headquarters scattered in and around the capital. But most of it stemmed from the city’s magic as a magnet for troops on leave. London was the leave city. ” . - - THE CENTER of this leaveworld was Piccadilly Circus, dirty, damaged, boarded up, apd blacked out, but still a sort of Times Square for soliiers and officers looking for fun . . . Poles, Czechs, Canadians, Free French, Dutch, Belgians, New Zealanders, Aussies, Scots, Indians, Yorkshiremen, Welsh, Norwegians, Irish, South Americans, colonials of every color, language and uniform. With darkness and the blackout, Piccadilly became more bois-
terous, more alive. One felt rath-|
er than saw the tidal waves of song, drink, love, and loneliness. Strange languages lashed out in the wake of passers-by. The night was filled with giggles, yells, curses, laughs and fights. Doorways became temporary lovenests. Flashlights bounced around in the darkness like fire-flies. Bus-| ges, taxis, cars and lorries jangled along the streets unnoticed, | winding, in out of the crowds spilling over the sidewalks. Sometimes a siren would scream, followed by the long fin-
A gay war-
first time, I had one to myself. Mine was the only one through which special visitors—such as Beetle, the only person permitted immediate entree without preliminaries—could go into the inner office. Even telephone conversations were halted at that barrier, pending verification; I always answered, “Gen. Eisenhower's office, Miss Summersby speaking,” and then stepped in to ask the General if he could talk to the caller. This method did away with the nuisance of switching calls and spared him the nerve-jan-gling screams of telephone calls.
” = = GEN EISENHOWER'S office was, as usual, plain and unpretentious, shocking visitors who expected grandeur in the Supreme Allied Commander's inner sanctum. He laughed at the American idea that an executive's worth is measured by the number of telephones on his desk; he had but two. As the Prime Minister was one of the few figures who outranked my Boss, the telephone protocol was staggering and amusing. A secretary at Downing Street would call me, I would tell Gen. {Ike that Mr. Churchill was callling. Downing Street would put the Prime’s private secretaty on {the wire, I would put the General jon the wire, and, finally, the
secretary would get Mr. Church-
gers of searchlights grabbing at ill on the wire.
the sky; neither ack-ack nor
bombs emptied Piccadilly, how- {pet;
ever—only the ugly morning did that.
» ” » THERE WAS another London, aside from the Piccadilly London.
light of
There was a dark brown carordinary chairs and sofas {fringed the wall. The room was devoid of any hint of a solemn conference table. Gen. Eisenhower's desk, flanked unauspiciously
{in the rear by British and Ameri-
This was the world of theater, of can flags as well as his red four-
movies, Hyde Park -soap-boxers,
{star general's flag,
was unim-
quiet pub-crawling, serious sight-| pressive and excessively neat.
seeing. Fresh from Africa, I got a tremendous bang out of every part of this new, 1944 London. Gen. Eisenhower loved it, too. Of all the worldly honors the Allies bestowed upon him, I think he was most moved by the occasion when, after the war, London gave him the cherished Freedom of the City. But, as Supreme Commander in early 1944, he also knew London’s distractions. I noticed he spoke more and more of his distaste for having a headquarters in a major city, let alone London. He wanted SHAEF chucked out into the country, at least in the outskirts, where his staff could buckle down » hard Work
BEETLE AGREED, emphasizing that London was becoming more and more of a military target. We moved. All of SHAEF migrated to buildings formerly occupied by the Eighth Air Force, the post known by the none-too-subtle code name of “Widewing.” The place itself was a group of temporary buildings and tents in Bushy Park, near Kingston and not far from Hampton Court, the lovely Thames-side palace retreat of England's kings. Our offices in “Building C” were the most spacious to date. The aides occupied one room; for the
” = EJ IN ALGIERS, the General once | walked into his office to find one
of the stenographers filing her fingernails, puffing away at a cigaret like a woman in her boudoir. The resultant storm was such that I never smoked in my office from that day on. It was an order, if not a direct order, and I never disobeyed it. Nor did Ezsmoke while on duty in the staff Car. Likewise, I once heard the General remark that he disliked red fingernail polish. .He never mentioned it to me, but I adopted natural, clear polish thereafter. There was no resentment on my part in sticking to both these rather unusual ideas. Gen. Eisenhower was a militant champion of women in war and I had no wish to let him down by presenting the picture of a night-club woman at the very door of his office. The official day in our part of Building C began, usually around a. m, th Gen. Ike poring over the roon, leather-covered logbook which contained all hushhush cables and correspondence, intelligence digests, staff summaries and the like. s = = . MEANWHILE, I started the previous day's load of “fan mail,” often enchanted by the latest gift of one of Ike's favorite admirers, a Mrs. Chambers, who sometimes gave up her few chickens’ production in order to send the Supreme Commander a dozen precious fresh eggs. Barring inspection trips or visits to other headquarters, the day then settled into a never-ending
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routine of phone calls and High Brass visitors. Lunch might be a sandwich or hot plate, served at
the desk. The real breather came sometime after four in the afternoon, when the mess sent up tea service and I carried it into the
General's office. “Bring yours in, too, Kay,” he
would say occasionally. “It makes more of a ‘break’ to have someone to talk to.”
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