European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In two full dress interviews in Paris and Wash Dwight Eisenhower talked about some of the High spots of the Campaign for Europe and about certain pos veday ques its been generally agreed that the inter views Lucre pretty Here Are highlights of the generals talks to press in the two Allied from the standpoint of the they Are tired of the they Are tired of of All of american and they Are not articulate about but i know one thing they have got an Earnest Hope for it is my conviction that they believe that if the same for Bearance and Goodwill is applied All through our the United in meeting the problems of we ought to be fully As successful in peace As we were in there is going to be a lot written about this Many of you Here present Are going to Ana Lyme various methods through your acquaintance ship with staff and with what had happened you Are going to know much about the basis of they were Why they were taken and other things that other peo ple dont if i could urge upon you one thing to study it is this the value of integrated tactical Power in i dont mean to use 10dollar what i am trying to get at is this there is no such thing As a separate air War or a separate 4sea War or logistic War or any other one thing i think i have a right to speak about since the War in Europe is done is to refer briefly to the japanese the reason i would like to put in a boost in pulling for maximum Effort against Japan strictly upon my own sex when you apply maximum your losses Are if you put one regiment to attack a Well defended battalion you Are going to have serious but when you apply Over whelming overwhelming Over whelming air Power to that you have no they Are at no one no no two can do the Job if we have proved anything in we have proved that in the integration of the fighting services and Supply come rapidity in operations and a minimum in and i am certain that we now As in looking at that Pacific War i have no part in it officially i am just another at it i believe that everyone of us that studies this business of War and believes he understands it in the slightest bit should pump and pull for maximum Effort to get the thing done with and save after making formal statements to the press in Paris and Eisenhower threw the interviews open to questions and Here Are some of there seems to be a Large Campaign in a number of places to talk about a Russo Ameri can there is nothing in your experience with the russians that leads you to feel we cant cooperate with them perfectly on my i have found the individual russian one of the friendliest persons in the he likes to talk with laugh with he loves to and i have talked Tomany British officers and they find him the same in an atmosphere of that it has its the peace when you get Down to with All the Peoples of the not just for the moment with some political Leader who is trying to direct the destiny of a country along a certain if All the Peoples Are we Are going to have with tens of thousands of your men going across the country to the Pacific in the next few have you any tip you would like to give the Home folks about what we can give them the Only thing is for goodness Sake dont Psychoanal be they Are perfectly Normal human they have been through a lot and very naturally they want a Pat on the Back and they want to be told they Are pretty Good Fel they but they want to be treated just like they were treated when they went from the enemy which Day and what event would you say constituted the last Straw that broke the camels Back when was it perfectly obvious that the Jig was up from everything that we can from their own they knew professionals knew the Jig was the third Day after the Rundstedt offensive had started in the they knew then that they could not Eisenhower discusses the War go where they if they could not get Complete Surprise and drive Clear through to Liege and then drive on behind then there was not much they could what was the most worried night you had in the last three years to Tell you the i believe it was the night we first attacked in North there were so Many confusing factors we went in there As we hoped to make an but we had to go pre pared to fight if necessary to make a great show of we hoped that if we made a show of overpowering the germans would not hold that part of France that was then unoccupied and would let it that was one the it was an amphibious operation i undertook and All of us were More nervous about i than later we we were trying to do a lot with very Little and the weather on the West coast was and we did not know what we were going to run into Over and a fourth communications were so in the Mediterranean we found that the radio practically does not i should say that the most worried night i spent during the War was the night of novem Ber 7 or i Are you convinced Hitler is dead to Tell you the in i was at i thought the evidence was quite but when i actually got to talk to my russian i found they we rent i dont the Only thing i am sure of is what i said in my Paris interview if he is not he must be leading a terrible life for a Man that was the arrogant dictator of to be hunted like a criminal and afraid of the next touch on his had you expected the War to end in Europe when it did for once in my life i am going to defend on october i made a bet that the War in Europe would terminate in i have been jeered at a Little bit because i missed it four but i just want to ask you this under the if you will go Back to How Many people believed that we were going to be Able to invade Europe Success fully and Rush Forward like we did what i was expressing was a tremendous Confidence in our ability to get across the Channel and whip the i could do it in the next i was wrong by four would you care to go Back to 1942 and give some evaluation of the German commanders who opposed you to my von Rundstedt was the most 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