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Eisenhower's report was written long before his critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. declared that she wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
...Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General Patton's 3rd Army had it not been for the fact that the late General moved too fast...
...Sometimes there was discord ("After all, Allies are like families"): in November 1944, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery sent a letter suggesting that the Allied armies had suffered "a strategic reverse" and needed a "new plan"; this, says Butcher, "made Ike hot under the collar." Of the General Patton soldier-slapping, Butcher reports: "Ike is deeply concerned and has scarcely slept for several nights." One night at dinner Eisenhower was called to the phone. "We soon heard his voice saying, 'Brad, that's wonderful. . . . Sure, get right on across with everything you've got. ... To hell with...