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In their earlier Catoctin mountain moun-tain meeting, Churchill writes that he also sought to have Harold Har-old Macmillan shifted back to London with Eisenhower. Macmillan Mac-millan was Britain's chief political po-litical liaison with Ike in North Africa. Shortly thereafter, the troublesom French General De-Gaulle De-Gaulle also returned to London and closer liaison with Eisenhower Eisen-hower and- Macmillan, in preparation prepa-ration for the invasion of Normandy Nor-mandy in June, 1944. This, ironically, is the same Allied team that is again turning its attention to a new German problem, caused by Russia, then our ally. During their week end talks, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan were said to have again discussed the familiar problem of bringing the now President De Gaulle in on their consultations. Allied Summit Sum-mit talks, including De Gaulle, are thus expected to precede summit talks with the Russians. And the Free World can feel a certain confidence that members mem-bers of an old team, ironically, are all back together again. The same team that grew out of Anglo An-glo American talks in the same Maryland cabin where Allied unity has been fashioned all over again! The world's attention turned to the lonely log cabin in Maryland's Mary-land's Catochin Mountains this week, where President Eisenhower Eisen-hower and Great Britain's Prime Minisetr Harold Macmillan have reaffirmed our Anglo-American unity. The story of their historic agreement in taking up Soviet Krushchev's summit challenge on Berlin has already been told. However, one of the real ironies of history in which the same log cabin in which they held their wek end talks also brought them together appears never to have been told. It is a double irony that President Presi-dent Eisenhower and Britain's Macmillan should begin their trek to the President's Camp David Da-vid retreat last week by first calling on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, recuperating from cancer, at the Army's Walter Wal-ter Reed Hospital. j Although they paid a brief call on Dulles before helicoptering to Camp David, General George C. Marshall, also a former Secretary Secre-tary of State, who was lying ill a few beds away in the same ward at the same hospital, was completely ignored. There was particular reason why President Eisenhower and Macmillan had to call on Gen. Marshall. But it had been supposed that they would at least drop by after seeing see-ing Dulles to say "hello" to Gen. ' Marshall, recovering from a stroke, is now able to have visitors. visit-ors. " " Just seventeen years ago, Gen. Marshall, as Chief of Staff, had frequently met with the late President Roosevelt in the same Maryland Mountain retreat to plan Allied wartime strategy. Roosevelt had established the Catoctin Mountain retreat he dubbed "Shangri-La" so that he could get away from the Washington Wash-ington heat occasionally. The main log cabin in the onetime CCC camp was the scene of many war time conferences. President Eisenhower renamed Marshall first mentioned the name of a promising young Maj. General named Dwight Eisenhower Eisen-hower to FDR. Roosevelt sought a commander for the U.S. Forces in Europe and did not wish to spare General Marshall, whom he considered indispensable in Washington. Eisenhower was ok'd and shortly thereafter introduced in-troduced to Britain's Prime Minister Min-ister Churchill, who was making one of his many wartime visits to Washington and who approved Ike's selection. Less than a week later Eisenhower was in London to prepare for the Allied invasion inva-sion of North Africa the following follow-ing November, 1942. The success of that invasion and Eisenhower's mounting new prestige so impressed Churchill tnat he contrived to see much more of that "promising young Lt. General Eisenhower." At the Casablanca Conference in January, 1943, Eisenhower was named Supreme Allied Commander Com-mander in North Africa, and the invasion of Italy was planned. The Russians, suffering great losses against as Nasis, demanded demand-ed an Allied cross channel invasion, in-vasion, however. Once again, General George Marshall hoped that he might lead the liberation of Europe, since Eisenhower had been tied down in the Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. On May 15, 1943, Churchill again visited FDR over the week end at Ills Shangri La Mountain retreat.' They fished for a time. FDR spent hours relaxing over his stamp collection. Then, they got down to more serious consideration con-sideration of the Allied invasion of Hitler's "Fortress Europe," which had been twice postponed. "Overlord" was the top level code word for the invasion. Gen. Marshall still hoped to lead the invasoin, which he was convinced would lead to Hitler's quick defeat. Churchill, however how-ever favored Eisenhower, claiming, claim-ing, he has since written, that British military leaders objected to Gen. Marshall. it Camp David in honor of his grandson. It was in one of these conferences confer-ences at Shangri-La that General FDR was also reluctant to lose Marshall. During the week end in the Catoctin Mountains, the date for the cross channel inva- |