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Observer, La Grande, Ore., Tuei., Oct. 14, 1958 Page 2
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Republicans Have Stepped Up Election Campaign
Monty And History
As long as historians conduct their, post-mortems on
-the battles and strategy of World War II,, controversy
will swirl about the head of Field Marshal -Viscount
Bernard Montgomery, Britain's most famous general of
the war.
' "Monty" dropped into retirement recently after 60
years'; service in Britain's officer corps. His last years
..of duty ,were ,as a deputy to the supreme commander of
CJtfATQ. forces in Europe.
Montgomery became the center of dispute when .it
was , alleged, again and again, that he persued a ,f,ar too
.cautious course in the Allied drive through Fi;a.nce in
the summer of 194-1.
It was .charged that, he fell badly behind schedule in
.th,e taking of objectives assigned to him. In his defense
.hp .claims it .a,lways was his intent to hold his .area as
,a; bnstiQn ;to attract German tank units so American
.armies .could swing Around the Nazi flank and d,ash to
Paris and beyond.
Some support -for this notion was given by the tJ. S.,
commander, General Eisenhower, and his chief .of s.tnff,
G.eri. .Walter Bedell Smith. But the, criticism :on this and
other .counts ,Jyis' never died.
, 'ijfet .there is no controversy over what "Monty"
achiey.ed in ..the North African desert against the highly
.touted iGerman Af rika JCorps under famed General
Jtommol.
-Until he took command of British armies there, the
desert ,cunpa.igns had not gone well for the West. True,
Jlpmmcl .more than , once was pushed back into libya
jfrom .western Egypt, but he always thrust back. In .his
,mpst .threatening .offensive, he drove to El Alamein, a
bate -SO miles from . the vital British naval base. at
Alexandria.
' "There he was halted, and sought time for a new build
up. -But there also, "Monty" took over to begin, cqunter-
preparntions. He prepared well. ' ;
On .Oct. 28, 1942, "Monty" struck. Punching surprise
holes in Rommel's lines, he then :bi!ought up tank forces
(for fbitter, decisive battles on a series of ridges. After
days Of bloody combat, British tanks crushed the enemy.
'Ttie.V .burst through and .within hours were racing 40
milrs behind Rommel's lines.
CtTiereupon began a headlong Nazi retreat clear across
,the desert past the Libyan .capital of Tripoli; Eventually
"Monty" pushed into Tunisia and with American forces
coming from the West wiped out the Nazis in Africa.
it was a great campaign and a great victory. And it
was the first major Allied triumph of the war a turn
ing of the tide.
1 ' ' Whatever the rest ,of "Mopty's" story, that chapter
is a book jri itself. , '
Footnotes
fPlmi-n iiun'f nuinli ,-mnt in u l-ivn nt n- llint ,tti.h it-ttnm'ii- !
tion of growing youngsters ought to have it as tough
as.the ones which went bqfore. But there's such a thing
as making life too easy.
' Probably millions of American families have heard
that old one from their elders about how grandfather
slogged five miles to school through storm and blizzard.
' Jf we have gotten away from that, it's most likely a
good thing. A kid shouldn't have to hold a card in the
JSxplorers' Club to prove his -developing .manhood.
et on the other hand kids still have two legs nnd
it doesn't hurt them, to walk to school so long as it isn't
a long-distance hike. Shane MacCarthy, director pf the
President's Council on Youth Fitness, was talking pretty
good .sense when he advised parents to quit chauffeur
ing their kids on all trips beyond the back yard.
Instead of mothers' "car pools," how about some
youngsters' "walk pools"?
Side Glances
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By RAYMOND LAHR
United Press International
WASHINGTON UPI) Re
publicans stepped up their con
gressional campaign Monday un
der the battle cry that President
Eisenhower's p o I i c i e s in the
Middle and Far East have ".main
tained the peace." '
As the final three weeks of the
campaign opened, Democrats
blasted back by accusing the GOP
pf raising "phony" issues. They
urged Democratic candidates to
fight back by dwelling on unem
ployment, the "farm mess, the
Ijigh cost of living, the defense
lag, the drift and confusion in
foreign policy." , .
Lumber Laden Barge
Pulled From Sandbar
FLORENCE UPI The barge
Wainaku,. stranded since Sept. 28
on a sandbar near here with a
load of packaged lumber, was
pulled free about 10:30 p.m. Sat
urday ,.by the tugboat SalvagE
Chief.
The barge, which grounded
when the tug Klihyam sank, had
carried 1,844,992 board feet of
lumber. About one million board
feet was still intact when the
barge was refloated, according to
Sause Brothers, owner uf the
barge. The rest of the , lumber was
lost when the barge was pulled
free and during the two weeks
that it took to move the carrier
off the bar. . ' , -' .
The barge was .taken to Coos
Bay Sunday.-
!Of xsourea I'm old .enough to know better but he '
, didn't have to say o!"
Vice President Richard M. Nix
on, number, two gun in the GOP
campaign arsenal, hit the' trail
Monday for his third stumping
tour. He will speak in Calif., Uiah
and Wyoming where Republicans
are fighting bard to save Senate
seats' in the Nov. 4 election.
President Eisenhower, the top
Republican of them all, will start
his own speaking schedule on be
half of GOP candidates later in
CAMERAMAN KILLED
NEW YORK (UPI) Roy Ed
wards, 62, a veteran newsrcel
cameraman, was killed Sunday
when the helicopter he was riding
on a picture job crashed in the
Hudson River. The pilot of the
craft, William hchoomaker, 37, oH
Trumbull, Conn., was missing and
presumed dead. -
the week.
Eisenhower described as "good
news" the Chinese Communists'
decision to extend their cease fire
in the Formosa Strait for two
more weeks.
Speaking in New York City
Sunday, the President said the
extension offered renewed oppor
tunity to settle the Far East
crisis through diplomatic negotia
tions. GOP National Chairman Meade
Alcorn immediately hailed the ex
tension as an indication that "the
administration's firmness in this
situation is mantaining the
peace." .
"It is results that flic- American
people are interested in," he said.
"It is not how you get them, it
is the result."
Alcorn also said "we main
tained the peace" in the Middle
East because of Eisenhower's
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"firm position" after the revolt in
Iraq.
The Democratic Advisory Coun
cil described the Eisenhower for
eign policy earlier as "six years
of leaderless vacillation."
"They have led us to the brink
of isolation from our allies and
to the brink of having to fight a
nuclear war inadequately pre
pared and alone." the committee
said in a weekend pronouncement.
Tbe GOP chairman appearing
on a television program Sunday,
charged that "left - wingers" con
trolled the Democratic Parly. He
named Party Chairman Paul M.
Butler, Michigan Gov. G. Mennon
Williams, Sen. Wayne Morse ID
Ore. I and Walter P. Reuther,
president of the AFL-CIO United
A . . f a WnrUprfi.
nuiu i.w.
In a letter to the Democrats
Butler said "just a little com
placency and relaxation" by parly
workers "can mean the loss of a
good number of close races.
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