| Show p S fl G E E I 1 vl X V si westbrook begier released by features 0 N PAGE nine of her memoirs 0 of f her service in the war as cie general n eral dwight Elsen howers chauffeur and secretary kay then an english civilian but later by Elsen Eisen howers favor a captain of the american writes of her attachment to an american colonel this officer had h a d a wife and child in the united states during one year of their association and including the time of their betrothal soon after she met general elsen eisen shower seemingly by chance but possibly by plan of the british foreign office or war office he hurled dozens of questions at me about women ambulance 3 drivers driver and role in the war miss N h had p d driven an ambulance in the lon don blitz and was wa now in her own words in process of cf oozing into the personal and official household of the man with the duty of behaving according to the tha moral code of west point and indeed the code of the crusaders as an example to others there is absolutely no discount from this code for west point men either in tho military academy or later at the time when miss says eisenhower Elsen hower hurled the dozens of questions at her she was driving his limousine and was definitely assigned to this duty by y the british she explains explain that in the summer about the time the big blitz ended she ran into an american colonel at a cocktail party he mentioned life she continues that yaa was his little group of 17 r officer observers dull awl then in civilian clothes as america in the war needed drivers who knew london I 1 told him about our work and how bow life at post no 1 had turned dull several days later a few motor transport corps girls were transferred to U S army headquarters A few pages later she is referring to this officer as my own my yer very special american who had bec been n her very special american ever since the days day when I 1 was an ambulance driver and he was a united states army army observer at the embassy that time definitely was during the life of his marriage this marriage was terminated by divorce in reno one year after the meeting mentioned by miss SUM iners bersby by this officer and general el isenhower sen hower were fellow members of the west point alumni and obligated by traditions of honor which discountenance disloyalty in personal as aswell well as military relations Te lations there were only anlys a email dinall corps of west pointers in tile the army and this colonel was known know nto to eisenhower Elsen hower ass as a west point man on page 34 eisenhower Elsen hower asks kay would you like to go along on the invasion of north africa 1 I was almost shouting she pays As I 1 explained that dick undoubtedly would be heading the direction of the forthcoming invasion I 1 would do anything to b be somewhere near him ike knew about dick no further emphasis was vas required be in about telling a month or so he ha the said warning of the need for extreme se secret carity Althou although kh eisenhower Elsen hower had blabbed this vital or mortal secret to an english woman who lacked even a pretense of military status or special qualification tor for essential work miss was in a great about the need tor for secrecy on page ja 5 miss now safe ashore at oran gives a victure picture of a bossy dame bawling out american americ an officers who had the lem temerity erity to give attention to more mo re serious matters than her imperious desires sha wanted to telephone phone algiers and a lieutenant a major and finally a colonel appeared to question her at this point slip writes look here I 1 said in exasperation ive just been rescued from a torpedoed ship I 1 want to call general eisenhower Elsen hower and tell him his staff Is sale safe and I 1 want to get orders ordera what to do next do you mind do you mind la Is la in italics ios for peculiar emphasis the agne magic word elsen elseg hower got me the telephone As far as thi the war was concerned it made no difference whether she was safe or beador dead or what she did next but eisenhower Elsen hower had bad nothing more urgent to do than get on the phone and even put general mark dark clark on by some oversight he manage to talk individually to all th american men and women who went into the water when the same ship went down |
