The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-17
GEN. EISENHOWER
IS In ENGLAND
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cussions could be disclosed, those
final sessions probably determined
most of the questions that could
be decided before the fateful hour
when the armies come to grips
across the Channel.
Announcement of the Churchill
De Gaulle meeting prompted ad-
ditional speculation in London con-
corning the time and place of
the opening of the western front
as well as the scope of French
participation in the invasion and
how effectively French resistance
after the landings can De coordi-
mated with military advances from
the beaches.
1t seemed certain that De Gaulle
would desire that the French army
be represented as strongly as pos
slble in any assault upon the Ger
mans in France.
A new volume of invasion talk
both here and on the continent
conceded With the announcement
OF ElsenhoWer's arrival.
British war workers adopted
new slogan, Berlin this year"
Its author is Sir Stafford Cripps,
minister of aircraft production.
From Berlin neutral correspond
ents reported that Nazi military
commentators were theorizing
that Marshal Josip Broz Tito),
the Yugoslav partisan leader, was
using his strong forces to keep
path clear for an Allied thrust
from the Adriatic into central
Bosnia.
The word of the arrival of the
western invasion chief conceded
with further heartening news from
the eastern front, where from the
Baltic to the Crimea the graphing
for decisive advantage grew mole
intense by the hour.
How closely the American and
British operations from the west
would tie in with the Russian drive
perhaps even Eisenhower could
not say now, for future events
must largely guide his course.
Eisenhower said farewell to his
Mediterranean troops Jan. 2. :.
Until we meet again in the heart
OF the enemy's continental strong
nold' after predicting Allied vic
tory over Germany in, 1914.
Now he starts his great task of
shaping the vast army assembling
here-thousands upon thousands of
them men from all States of the
Union, of all branches of service.
veterans and those who never have
been under fire-for the ordeal
ahead.
Berlin radio broadcast an Alge.
clras dispatch saying 40 ships es-
corted by four light naval units
left Gibraltar Saturday.
A Reuters dispatch from Ankara
said the Sofia radio had been
heard calling on all reserve Off
GERS Of the Bulgarian army up to
6O to rejoin the colors Immediate
ly.
This broadcast followed new re-
ports via Stockholm Saturday that
the Bulgarians were concentrating
forces opposite the Turkish from
tier.
Gen. Eisenhower's arrival round
ed out an impressive roster of
Allied military leaders who will
command the armies and airforcee
the invasion.
1hose who had arrived in Lon
ion previously to map the cam
'aign are:
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur
edder, deputy supreme COM
handler; Gen. Sir Bernard L.
montgomery, commander of Brit
sh ground forces; Air Chief Mar
shall Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory
Allied air commander; Lt.-Gen
carl A. Spaatz, commander of U.
;: strategic air forces; Gen. Sir
harold Edmund Franklin, COM
mander in chief of the British
nome forces; Lt.-Gen. Van Stry.
donck De Burkei, commander in
chlef OF the Belgian army; Maj
Gen. H. J. Phaff coy,,roandar of
Dutch forces; Gen. Wilhelm Han
steen, commander of Norwegian
forces; Gen. Serge J. mgr, COM
mander in chief of the Czechoslo-
yak army, and Gen. Kazimierz
Sosnkowski. commander of Polish
forces in Britain.
Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle
was named commander of the U.
S. Eighth Air Force but his ar
rival has not been announced, and
the commander of U. S. ground