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...August, Eisenhower opened a series of discussions on future strategy with Montgomery, the British general's Chief of Staff, Major General Sir Francis de Guingand, and Bradley. The talks turned into a bitter, almost unending debate over whether to carry the attack forward on a broad or narrow front. The Allied Expeditionary Force was about to drive on into Germany right up to the Rhine. After bringing units and equipment back up to strength there, Eisenhower said, he would launch a "sustained and unremitting advance against the heart of the enemy country...
...visible representative of British pride, and resisted the temptation to fire him. With support from Roosevelt and Marshall, Eisenhower knew he could force Montgomery's ouster, but he feared such an intramural brawl would severely damage U.S.-British trust. After the war, Montgomery's own chief of staff, De Guingand, looked back at the heavy fighting in Germany during 1945 and decided that the British could not have made it to Berlin, even with U.S. reinforcements. "My conclusion," he wrote, "is that Eisenhower was right...
...declared that he had warned the U.N. all along that "incitement among nonwhites would give rise to disorder." And just to make sure that the outside world would not be so misguided in the future, a group of South Africa's richest men, headed by Sir Francis de Guingand, onetime Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, and including Harry Oppenheimer, head of the De Beers diamond trust, announced that they were setting up a foundation devoted to promoting "international understanding of South Africa's way of life, achievements and aspirations...
Most generals, he says, kill themselves with detail work; as for Monty himself, he always "works on the chief of staff." The operational planning brain of his "first eleven" is his present chief of staff, little-known, nervous, brilliant, squeaky-voiced Major General Francis Wilfred ("Freddie") de Guingand. Freddie handles Monty's Intelligence and operations. Personnel and supply problems go to Major General Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, who has virtually revolutionized British Army supply methods. Both men are with him now in Normandy...
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