Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Years with Eisenhower is the result: Harry Butcher's detailed, gossipy record of the period July 1942-July 1945. Written day by day on the spot, and now edited down to something like half its original size, it is still a warehouse of high-command anecdotes and behind-the-scenes yarns. Butcher was at the General's elbow much of the time ("he wanted . . . an old friend around to whom he could talk eye to eye"), ran errands for him, played bridge with him, sometimes shared the same room. No one else had readier access to Eisenhower...
...Forward Camp, tried to argue Eisenhower into shifting the scheduled amphibious attack against Southern France to the still-occupied ports of Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire. Writes Butcher: "Ike said no, continued saying no all afternoon, and ended saying no in every form of the English language at his command...
...level Washington could best evaluate Halifax's long mission, and how well he had accomplished it-in Lend-Lease, joint command, victory and the possibility of United Nations. He had certainly done his best. History might yet surprise the newspapers by writing him down as one of the great ambassadors. The U.S. he was leaving would remember him as a good...
...shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...
...forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading the invasion." The British had seen to it that they were in actual charge on land, in the air, on the sea. The "Great Montgomery" arrived to take command of the ground forces, "did not even bother to call up American headquarters...