Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utterly Untrue." The heaviest barrage came from London's Sunday Times† whose "military correspondent," Colonel C. D. Hamilton, once served on the staff of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. Treating Eisenhower's memoirs as an attack on Montgomery, Golonel Hamilton counterattacked: "One is forced-to the conclusion . . . that General Eisenhower considers that the war was really won by America, that every American view was right, every British idea wrong . . . His comments on Field Marshal Lord Montgomery . . . are utterly untrue...
...London's popular U.S.-needling Sunday Pictorial also loosed a blast: "Too many passages develop into a justification of the fact that, time and again [General Eisenhower] overrode British plans and demands. And the extravagance of the bouquets he hands to some of the American Generals is in strange contrast to the chilly praise with which he so nearly damns Montgomery...
...Sunday Times's excited conclusion that Crusade in Europe is "a blow ... at British-American friendship" came a soft-gloved slap by Lord Ismay, who was Winston Churchill's chief of staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...
...play and of course he knows every comic possibility and embellishment. Such polished direction as he has given "George and Margaret" would have been virtually impossible in the short rehearsal time available to the group, had not Mr. Savory had the experience of the play's two-year London run to draw on. In a sense, then, this is the same production, having the benefit of Mr. Savory's fully developed and expert staging...
...London, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Benelux trio are now meeting for the purpose of creating an international authority to govern distribution of the Ruhr's coal, iron, and steel production. But the authority will be useless with the Ruhr owned and operated by the German government-to-be. Future allocations will depend entirely on the policy of that government...