The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-31
SEEDS OF WORLD WAR "

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 The strange inteFlude between two wars, which might ironically be called the tragedy of peace. was to find Eisenhower preparing for Der Tag" when Germany would strike again.
 Six days after the AFmistiee end- ing World War !. signed in Marshal FOcll's railroad coach in the Forest of Compiegne. Eisenhower was com. manding Tank Corps troops at Camp Dix, New Jersey. from Nov. is to Dec. 9. 1918. with the 57th In- faniry. Then he vent to Fort Ben- ming, Georgia, until March i5. 1919. when he was ordered to Fort Meade, Maryland. to serve as executive ofn- eeT and command various tank bat talions for the next three years.
 He was in Maryland when the peace treaty was signed at Versailles between the Allied powers and Ger. many on June 28. 1919. with Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson as the head of the American delegation. Ike carefully scFutinized every pr0yi- sion in this treaty. It embodied for the first time in history a plan for adjudicating disputes in a League of Nati0ng-the first step ever taken toward the abolishment of the age- old war system.
 Wilson's opponents in the United States Senate refused to Tatisy the Naroafllae fFraatas ansfffa AfE TaQ0ala of Nations provisions. It vas Te- jected on Nov. l9. l9l0-and that date marks the beginning of World War II.
 During these discussions ElRens hover was the observer on Q tFans- continental journey with a mot0r- truck train from July 2 10 Sept, 1. 1919, He vas graduated from lns fantFy Tank school. ie2l, and be. came commander Of the famous 20lst Tank Battalion. He heard these political disputes from both sides: as a military man he could not engage in them, But his later utteFannes, while commanding Al- lied forces, demonstrate that he Is Q firm believer ln world cooperation L0 protect the peaee-ln some form of unity and organization between nations 10 stop war at It's inception,
 While at Camp Meade, Lleuten' aDt- Colonel Elsenh0Wer's temporary war rank reverted 10 his permanent rank as captain 0n June 90, 1920, but he was promoted tw0 days later to aj0T, the designation that he was t0 bear for the next sixteen years. While at Camp Meade be lost his son, little three,yearsOld D0ud Dwight Eisenhower, who died on Jan, 2, 1921.
 We And him sailing for the Pans ana Canal Zone on san, 2, 1922, where he remained as executive 0fT lleeg Ot the 20th Infantry Battalion el Camp 0aillaFd nntsl Sept te, lp2l,
 4 fellow ofIleeF tells this aneed0te about Ike at Panama, One afternoon Ike casually remarked, 'This Is . fine day te have your appendik removed" Asked whether that 0Fs gan had been troubling him, De re- piled, No. ! don't even kn0W have an appendix, but lt might rear nD and put nc out 0f action sometime when things aren't 60 quiet"
 Nal, Gen Nok G0nnoF, bis boss ln Panama, sald t0 hila, ''T'he work 0f the Gay was always first with him, but every spare moment was devoted 70 higher studies, giis grasp Of the laasone 0f the World WaF Was superb. t Was evident that be would go far."
 Ike, always keeplng . weaiheF eye on the world, was convinced things were aolng 10 happen fast. And they did. 1lfe nlissian Gianf, having thFoWn CT lte centuries ol ezaFd0ln. had established the Union q Soviet Republics; the IEish Free