Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1948 — Page 39

SUNDAY, DEC. 5, 1048 .

. Eisenhower Was My Boss—

| tke Coldly Firm At Surrender

German Generals Met With Icy West Point Formality i INSTALMENT 35 vs

By Kay Summersby ;

> IN YHE WEEK leading up to the surrender, neither I nor any-

i one else at Supreme Headquarters had time for conjectures about Se. the future, The war might end at any minute of any hour; perhaps

tions.

as the enough.

hower.

mess.

Or a

The big receptio WAC house.

The latter started from -a-cas-val conversation in the officers’|!® a Washroom. I heard one of the lieu- Finally, Beetle came in. | The surrender, he said, would §-

tenants across from me remark, ar {be postponed until at least the

“Seems sort of funny that I'll finish—out the war without —see- L0LlOWINg day. ing the Supreme Commander.”

“Don’t SHAEF?” . “Ever since London,” he re- a plied. “I was down in Algiers; THE FOLLOWING DAY, May ‘with AFHQ, too.” [8 we learned Adm. Doenitz was “And you mean to tell me sending Gen. Gustav Jodl, Ger-| \mdn chief of staff, to Rheims]

you've never seen Gen. Eidenhower P with the necessary authority for;

A d sarcasticall

n ‘+ can't al § ! ' | Back in thé office, I told, the| . They arrived in late afternoon. ) |. Gen. Jodl and his aide joined | .~ “There must be dozens of offi- Adm. von -Friedeburg and the! cers right here in headquarters German War Office colonel; they| ) 0’'ve never seen you, let aloné conferred alone for quite a while, | ~~ met you,” I added. “How about then, .about 6 p. m., entered

General of my talk in the mess.

SHAEF breaks =

Colonels and general

range from

al, or vice versa.

with the next telephone call to our office. We were proportionately

Like everyone else around the world, T spent every free moment planning V-E Day celebra- - 3 - rls. and) I-set yp a I arrived the next morning. Most

to be held at oup of us sat around talking about

We named May 6 he surrender ceremony, which| that seemed safe Was to take place in the War| And 1 suggested an-|RoOom. dther kind of party to Gen. Eisen-

. a jnor the Gepman War Office

I LOOKED UP [colonel ¥ith him wads authorized you work here at

[to make a surrender. No reply could be expected, Beetle added, until tomorrow.

rey Ce

; you know.” laide.

having some sort of ‘open house,’ Beetle's office for the confer-| cocktail party, before ence. | up?” - {~The final hitch came when the "= = {Germans, playing for time to]

HE SAW THE REASONING withdraw units from the Russian | behind my idea and, foregoing his front, asked for an adjustment of | normal reaction to social events,|48 hours before signing the final decided to stage such a party. surrender; this time was neces-| officers sary, they contended, to permit] would be excluded, as he had met communication with their outlymost yof them. Guests would ing forces. Gen. Eisenhower relieutenant” colonel plied firmly; unless the Germans down to warrant officer, the men agreed to his terms immediately, || who'd never--had -an-opportunity he would break off all negotia-| to meet their Commanding Gener- tions and sea] his lines so no /more Germs == cnuld get through. !

“That's a very good idea, Kay,” | 2 = =

he said.

“We'll certainly do it—|

mans at Lubeck. Meanwhile, at we all adjourned to the reception.

render.

S8HAEF, Gen. Eisenhower learned! that Adm. Doenitz apparently in-/ abandoned or gay, for no one| tended to make an over-Ml sur-| was able to

ss & | what's happening.”

ONE RANG. about 7+ Just after midnight, a call from 5 m. I answered it. It was the General Staff secretary indionty.

cated the big show was about to

Butch and I eavesdropped take pl , shamelessly through the open! I called Gen. Eisenhower's door. The ceremony had gone; hou el through, but it was not the all-'phored’ before me; he.-was just fronts surrender. - lledving. & = I There wasn't much work being . done in our red schoolhouse whe,

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Klelg lights blazed in the War, re Room. I went on to our office, office, 1 felt a shiver of excitesomewhat disappointed at -missing the ceremony. The General

Beetle stomped in, half-grinning, half-grim. .

The Nazis arrived shortly after! 5 p. m., met by two British offi-| cers from SHAEF, and escorted

Neither Adm. von Frie eburg| IE

BY THIS .iu& it, was about 9! right after the official surrender.” o'clock... Our party was well un-| On May 4, Monty met the Ger- der way at the WAC house—so

Actually, the party wasn’t very

ignore the event i} {about to take place in the school- | All afternoon we waited tense- house. ! ly for Monty's call. Air Chief Gen. Eisenhower stayed only a Marshal Tedder joined the Gen- few minutes, his thoughts far eral in his tiny office; Butch, up away from casual cocktail ghat= from Paris, joined me in my of- ter. fice. We waited and waited. | fice,” he told me. “Let me know |

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mans were on. their way up to our

“Come on, let's all have a pic-|slig Everyone gathered near Gen. the Boss as he held two of his sig- th, nature pens in a V-sign. He said ‘Ruth and I should appear in the picture, as we had been “in_this house. thing” since the beginning. Ruth, however, was down in Beetle's

erect, and despicable, thing seemed unreal. " +—1In the inner office they came ment of s to a parade-ground halt, clicked their heels, and saluted smartly,

brittle. “Do you terms of the docu- retnatked ‘that MII you have-fumt o occasion called for a bottle of

(champagne. We repaired to his

ment; these - wou German Brass, other than prison- ( ers of war ana dead Germans. was pacing. up and down his/I shoved Telek under the desk, (with no hint of the room, into my office, back into! commanding him not to bark, to his room, just as he aid when dictating.

4 I heard a ‘Ja, ja,” “fallowing Gen. Strong's interpretation. : gd I+ Gen, Eisenhower concluded thi NHOWEK - stood historic meeting with two more coldly undramatic Sentences: “You will get details of instruetions at a later date, And you will be séxpected ‘to carry them

t two hours or $0 bore more resemblance to a group site ting around discussing a juste ended bridge game than to people who had just seen the end of ‘a There was no galety, no to|joking, no la

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Scottish dignity’ |to the enemy. : rr

r [Stock-still, moreIt was nearing 3 a. m. when| At the sound of heavy boots had ever seen Mim. Ahy human nearing our door, I rose from my curiosity at this fifst meeting! 1 desk in the same respectful at- with his ¥hemy-—it was the first The surrender had been signed tention I showed to. any high-|and —officially, at 2:41 a. m., Monday, rankifig officers.

wilftary -than I

fice. was empty once more. Ruth came in’ to chat With me; Air Marshal Tedder stayed etiind

_ofily time he was to, see the talk with the General.

They marched Gefman chiefs — was ‘completely| —AFTERWA May T.. zs 8 = __|straight by without as much gafsubmerged in an icy West Point stretched into the broadest grin THERE WAS NO TIME fora ‘glance, exact prototypes of formality, I bent over my diary of his career. elation, for celebration. The Ger-!filmland Nazis, sour-faceg; glum, 'to take his words down.

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