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Ike Walks With Kings, Keeps Common Touch

CHAPTER THREE By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL KE EISENHOWER has “walked with kings” also with Presidents, Prime

Ministers and French Gen- ‘ erals——and still has “kept the - ~ common touch.” : He has become an outstand ing soldier-statesmar whom future historians may “well decide to class with John, Duke of Marlborough. He has learned the hard way the truth of Clausewitz’s = pregnant dictum that “war is only the continua-

tion of politics by other means.” -

That realization was "first brought hpme to th# English léaders soon after the conquest of Sicily when Eisenhower was selected for his greatest task, Overlord—the invasion of the south of France He was to command the Normandy operation and the final destruction of Hitler's Germany. He had come a.long way and he had learned a lot. He was intimately acquainted with all the Allied personalities, political and military. Victory was perched on his banners and he was far more sure of himself than he had ever been before. 2 ” = THROUGHOUT he had been preserved not only by his common sense and human decency but above all by his natural | in-

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+ Tw <t o out cn 1 e .} oral courage a vh the deas o ¢ correspendents ha he wa niere -chairman of the board” or only a ‘‘military diplomat An integral part of Overlord was the droppit g of three air.porne.. divisions — one British and two .American. Eisenhow-

ers ‘air. commander was an Englishman, Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory.

Only five days before the in-

vasion was due to start, LeighMallory “formed up” to Eisenhower ' and represented that

though the British airborne division had high hopes of cess, the two American airborne divisions were due to land in impossible conditions and that

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casualties as high as 70 per cent might expected. Eisenhower pondered the

matter for some hours and then telephoned Z.e i g h-Mallory to say, that the airborne operation should proceed as planned. At the same time he told LeighMallory to put nis reasons in the operation went wrong the latter should be excused from all | responsibility.

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the airborne was 4n fact achieved : without undue loss, Leigh-Mallory (who was later to lose his life flying out to the Far .-East) was the first to telephone Eisenhower to congratuiate him upon its success dnd to excuse himself for having added to his burden in those anxious days

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THE OTHER. story which testifies to Eisenhower's moral courage concerns the most important single decision taken in the whole course of the war. The landings in Normandy had been originally planned for June 5. Adverse weather reports had led to a postponement of 24 hours. The conse-

quences of a further postpone--

ment were, in Eisenhower's words, “almost. too bitter to contemplate.”

It would be imp sill to keep at sea the troops Who had

already sailed. Ships) would have to be brought back to port and unpacked, and a postponement Of nearly two weeks would have been necessary. Secrecy and security would certainly have been compromised by any postponement. It was a tough decision which "Eisenhower faced. The weather reports for June 6 were only a little better than they had been for June 5; but having heard the opinion of the

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tion should. go forward.

air Eisenhower the operaun n 5 IT IS TYPICAL of he should have made this

him that decientirély on The Minister: was near at the British Chiefs of Staff were © easily accessible and it would have been simple and natural for Eisenhower to have said: “I am prepared to take the risk with American forces, but I cannot do the same with the British unless I ° have authority of the British High Command.” But ne did not seek to involve anyone else in .the de-

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cision. It was his job and his decision,. so he took it, ard he took it correctly. ; If, in fact, he had taken what would have: seemed in some ways the easier cburse and .postponed the operation,

there would have been a colossal disaster. The weather forecasts on June 17, ,the next convenient period for the operation were wonderfully favorable. The expedition would certainly have sailed. On June 19 there came the worst gale which the English Channel had experienced for sixty years in the month of June. The American Mulberry Harbor was destroyed, and for four days virtually nothing was landed on the Normandy coast. If this had happenéd on what would have been D plus 2 of the operation, the Allied troops would almost inevitably have been driven into the sea. Happening as it did on D plus 13, when considerable forces and

supplies were ashore, the storm |

was an inconvenience but not a disaster.

n on = WHEN THE WAR was over, Eisenhower was given the Freedom of the City of London. After the luncheon at the Man-

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sion House, he came out on the balcony with the Lord Mayor, and the first words he to the

staff, thanking them for all their Kindness and co-operation, -and they, in reply, sent him this generous message. :

spoke, gigantic cheering below revealed his wonderfully human quality,

crowds that we would gladly entrust

With his face broadening into our last man and our last shill-

its famous grin, he said: . “Now Ing to your command. We can that I am a Freeman of this not say more; but we certainly city, I have as much right-to cannot say less.”

be down there yelling my head off as you have.” He had fought the geod fight and he had ‘won. He wrote a letter to the British chiefs of

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