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The Eisenhower Story—

SUNDAY, SEPT. 30, 1951

‘We Saw in Eisenhower A Not Uncommon Type,’ Instructor Said

NOTE: This is the last of a series by the son of the former Prime Minister, who served under Gen. Eisenhower during the African invasion in 1942,

By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL CHAPTER FIVE

| FIRST met Ike Eisenhower in the late summer of 1942.

He was then concerting

the last details of “Torch,” the great amphibious operation in North . Africa which was to take place in November, I had been invalided home from the Middle East two months before, but was fit again, and had the good fortune, through my friend General Bob Laycock, who had recently been given command . of all the Commandos, to be appointed to a minor role in . this fascinating operation. I naturally jumped at the op-

ity of meeting the Com-

mander-in-Chief under whom I was to have the honor of serving. Eisenhower received me in his office in Grosvepor Square, He was very busy in those days amd I could not trespass on his time. for more than a few minutes, but I was instantly captivated by his friendliness and charm. There’ seemed to be something exceptionally attractive in his wide, generous smile, and I noticed at once his famous clear blue eyes which sparkled with encouragement, but which can harden into an icy stare if "his anger is aroused. I am glad to say that I got the sparkle, and not the stare, put those who have seen the latter have described it to me with awe. What manner of man is this general who is to lead the North Atlantic defenders of

democracy? » ” »

DWIGHT DAVID EISEN-

HOWER was born in Dennison, Tex., on Oct. 14, 18900. He was the third of seven sons, all of

whom, save one, survived to

manhood. The Eisenhowers originally came from Germany, but in the early part of the 17th Century,

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during the Thirty Years’ “War, the family fled to Switzerland. A hundred years ‘later they crossed the Atlantic and settled in Pennsylvania, arriving there in 1732, the year in which George Washington was born. Ike Eisenhower's career at West Point was undistinguished. Twelve years before, a cadet named Douglas MacArthur had graduated first of his class. Eisenhower was 61st out of his total class of about 150. Years later an instructor in the Department of Tactics at West Point wrote of him: “We saw in Eisenhower a not uncommon type. A man who would thoroughly: enjoy his Army life, giving both to recreation and duty their fair values, but we did not see in him a man who would throw himself into his job so completely that nothing else would matter. ~ For the next 25 years, Mr. Eisenhower followed the dull, pedestrian, even treadmill life that is the lot of the profes-

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gional soldier in peacetime in either the British or the American Army. He was already a lieutenant in the Army when President Woodrow Wilson declared war upon Germany in 1917. He longed to go overseas, but the small peacetime American Army was being mul-

tiplied and nearly all its tiny

core of professional officers were needed for training. By e time Mr. Eisenhower reived his orders to go to Eufope the war was over. He had, meanwhile, been promoted temporary lieutenantcolonel and had been put in

‘charge of the tank school at

Gettysburg, where he had thousands of men to train in tank warfare, but not a single tank. In July, 1920, he reverted to his permanent. rank of captain and, three days later, was promoted to the permanent rank of major. For 16 years he was to

ot sadvance: no. Jurther.

UNDER the guidance of Fox

" Connor, who had the ear of

Gen, Pershing ands who had

first and,

already detected the military abilities of George Catlett Marshall, Mr. Eisenhower studied military history. ‘He went to the Army Command School at Leavenworth. Eisenhower has always heen noted for his tact. All the same, there is an apocryphal story that when he was once asked by a friend whether it was true that he had served under Gen, MacArthur, he replied: “Sure, I ‘studied dramatics under him for more than two years.” Probably Ike never made this crack, but it is a good story; in any case, in a free world where there is room for all sorts of generals— “Monty” and MacArthur belong to one school; Alexander and “lke” to another.

n n ” . BY 1941 Europe had been overrun by Hitler, George |!

Marshall was Chief of Staff | and he knew all about Eisen- |

hower. Thus it was that immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, Eisenhower was summoned to Washington to be Assistant Chief of War Plans. In March of the following year he was promoted to be a temporary major-general. *' In June, to his astonishment, ne was given the command of all American troops in thé FEuropean theatre of operations. Thus he came to London for the first time. At this period no decisions had been reached as to whether a second front in 1942 should be launched in Europe or whether North Africa should be the target, no one “in the know” on either side of the Atlantic thought it strange that the job of commanding this immense operation should be entrusted to Eisenhower, So ably had Eisenhower fulfilled this task — so foreign to the ordinary soldier—that when the expedition to North Africa was decided upon, his selection as commander-in-chief was accepted without a murmur by all the British officers who were to serve under him. Working in unison, Eisenhower, Alexander and Mont- | gomery captured Tunis in the in some ways, the most complete joint ArngloAmerican victories of the second World War,

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