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HELPING HAND FOR ANITA
FLORENCE.—Anthony Steel, British matinee idol, mops
■ the brow of his bride, Swedish Actress Anita Ekberg, after *
I the film beauty nearly fainted during their wedding cere
mony. Two hundred film fans burst through police guards
to witness the civil ceremony in the wedding room of the
old city hall yesterday.—AP Wirephoto via radio from
London.
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President Doesn't See
Anzio Attack as Failure
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By the Associated Press
President Eisenhower said today he and his staff considered
Jrtans for the Italian invasion in World War II and did not favor
tarrying out the operation exactly as it was done. He added he
does not think the controversial Anzio operation can be called a
failure.
Mr. Eisenhower was asked at his news conference about the
World War II landing. The!
Question arose in the wake of
remarks attributed to former 1
President Truman at Salerno,!
Jtaly, yesterday.
The Chief Executive was asked
today who planned, the Italian
landings. He replied with a
laugh that the answer would be
along story.
Hewent on to say the talialn
Coast landing was proposed be
fore he left the Mediterranean
to become upreme Commander
Os Allied Forces in Europe. He
SALERNO
Continued From First Page
president told you that—he must 1
have said that was what Chinigo
had told him,” Mr. Bailey said. '
Mr. Zusy said: I
■ “Mr. Truman made the state- 1
raent flatly and without attribu-i
tion. Both my memory and my|
notes recorded as he spoke at
test to that. Another corre
spondent who came up and over-1
heard part of the remark heard
and also quoted the ‘squirrel
headed’ phrase.
"After we had finished, the
President said in passing, ‘You
can talk to Mike Chinigo—he
was here then,’ but Mr. Truman
said nothing at all to indicate in
any way that the views he ex
pressed without attribution were
other than his own.”
Asked for comment. Mr. Chin
ifo said today: "I never told the
President that the Salerno land
ings were totally unnecessary or
had been planned by some squir
rel-headed general. I did talk
to him about the landing itself.
I made the landings with the
troops.”
No General Denial
Mr. Bailey made the denial to
Mr. Zusy after the latter asked
him about a report from New
York that the former President
had denied the remarks. There
was no general denial nor aid
Mr. Truman or his secretary in
form Mr. Zusy his quotations
were questioned until Mr. Zusy
raised the issue himself.
Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, who
commanded Britain’s Bth Army
in the Italian campaign, fired
hack at Mr. Truman when the
disputed remark was first re
ported.
"The man is talking absolute
nonsense," he sputtered.
"To land on the most obvious
beaches would have been sui
cidal Has not ex-President
Truman heard of the surprise
Value of warfare? We chose to
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
District and vicinity—Cloudy
and cooler, with low of 45 to
night. Fair and cool tomorrow,
Itißh 66.
Maryland Some cloudiness
and much cooler tonight, low In
40s, except in 50s in extreme
southeast and 35-40 with chance
of scattered frost in western
portion. Fair and cooler tomor
row.
Virginia—Cloudy and cooler
tonight, low 40-45 in north, 48-54
in southern portion. Much cooler
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cloudy east of the Mississippi tonight. Showers are fore
cast for the South and Central Plains, the Central Rockies,
the Great Basin and the Northern Sierras. Elsewhere, It
will be generally fair. It will be much colder In the North
east and In the Ohio Valley.—AP Wirephoto Map.
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:said he and his staff considered:
.it from a technical standpoint!
and did not favor the operation
being carried out in the particu
lar way that it was.
As it turned out, however, Mr.
Eisenhower said, the invasion was
a holding action that kept large
numbers of German troops oc
cupied in tally when otherwise
they would have been fighting
on the Western front.
And so, he said, he does not
think any one can call the Anzio
operation a failure;
. ;
land on beaches which would
give us that element.
“Field Marshal Lord Alexan 4 -
der was in charge of the opera
tions. To .call him ‘squirrel
headed’ is rubbish. The opera
tion was a very fine one well
planned and well carried out.”
Marshal Alexander was not
available Immediately for com
ment. |
In Charleston, S. C., retired
Gen. Clark, now president of The
Citadel, South Carolina military
college, said:
“The Italian campaign with I
its landings, initially at Salerno
and later at Anzio. was a part of
the grand allied strategy of
World War 11, conceived and di
rected by the allied governments
involved, namely the United
States and Great Britain.
"As commander of the sth
Army, w-hose American and Brit
ish troops landed at both places,
I received and carried out orders
from higher headquarters.”
Sir Winston Churchill, then
Britain's Prime Minister and the
ing. held his silence. Mr. Tru
man can discuss the matter per
sonally with Sir Winston in
.June, when he visits the British
statesman in London.
Issue Avoided at White House
Asked for comment on the re
ported reference to a squirrel
headed general. Acting White
House Press Secretary Murray
Snyder pointed to squirrels on
the White House lawn and said:
“I refer you to the squirrels.”
The squirrels there have been
a rather minor political issue in
their own right in the past be
-1 cause they have been digging
the turf of President Eisen
hower’s practice p-t*,ing green.
The battles of Salerno and
Anzio resulted from a United
States-British decision to knock
Italy out of the war. a pet proj
ect of Mr. Churchill’s.
German artillery and tanks in
the rugged cliffs at Salerno
■J chewed up United States and
« British troops who stormed
i ashore September 8, 1943. The
r tomorrow, cloudy In south and
. fair in northern portion.
Winds—Northwest or north
' winds 20-30 miles per hour
diminishing to 15-20 miles per
• hour tomorrow. Small craft |
i warnings displayed. Visibility i
, fair to good.
Klver Report
'; (From U S Engineers!
Potomac Rlvfr clear at Harpers Ferry *
l and clear at Great Falls: Shenandoah 1
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
(Reading washtntgon National Alrporn
; Mldniaht HTI Noon . Tfl
4 am, HO 4 pm, - Ho
8 a m Aa 8o m. ?3 :<
Record Temperatures This Year
1 Highest. 0 1. on May Kt and 14.
. Lowest '2O. on January 24. 28 and
February 22
.Truman Gives
I His Autograph
On Checkbook
PAESTUM, Italy. May 23 UP).
—Former President Truman was
signing autographs yesterday at
the ancient Roman temple of
Prestum near Salerno,
i A reporter got into line, asked
if he could have an autojraph.
and offered his open checkbook.
Mr. Truman smiled.
"Sure I’ll give sou my auto
graph.” he said
He wrote: "Pay to No Protest
—Roman Denier-Nothing.”
Then he signed his name and
i added, “Forgery.”
“Now try to cash that," he
grinned.
He explained that the denier
was a small coin.
(No protest is a banking
term which holders of drafts
or checks sometimes write on
them to make clear they won’t
start a legal fuss if the person
who signed the paper refuses
to pay it.)
Knows Ancient World
Mr. Truman displayed con
siderable knowledge of .the an
cient world and the Roman,
Greek, and Egyptian objects he
saw at the temple and the Paes
beachhcad fighting which final
jly resulted in the capture of
| Naples cost 4,947 United States
:and 7,272 British casualties.
1 When the Italian campaign
bogged down north of Naples,
Mr. Churchill pushed for a
landing farther up the coast at
Anzio to divert the German de
fense. The Germans, however,
were able to hold their line at
Cassino and also contain the
beachhead force for four months.
The fighting at Anzio and Cas
sino cost the United States sth
Army 52,130 casualties in 2 V 3
months.
Eisenhower Views On Record
The President has set forth his
views on the Salerno and Anzio
landings in his book, Crusade in
Europe. In it he said the allied
command picked Salerno after
considering “every spot on the
beach from Rome to the toe of
the (Italian) boot.”
Gen. Eisenhower pointed out
that Salerno’s great disadvan
tage was that it was at the ex
treme limit of range for support
ing allied planes. But, he added
•there was no more favorable
spot to the south, so the allies
.launched their attack with no
| illusions.
Nevertheless, Gen. Eisenhower
stated his objections to the An
izio landing during a conference
in Tunisia with Mr. Churchill
and the new allied commander
in the Mediterranean, British
Gen. Sir Henry Maitland (Jumbo)
Wilson.
Gen. Eisenhower told the Brit-,
ish leaders that landing two
; skeletonized divisions at Anzio,
TOO miles beyond existing front :
lines, was risky and would notj
necessarily force a German re
i treat. He warned the costs would
be heavy and urged careful con
sideration of the whole plan.
But, he added, Mr. Churchill
was determined to carry it out.
Summing things up after the:
heavy American losses at Anzio,
Gen. Eisenhower said Anzio:
eventually ‘‘paid off handsomely” \
but developed initially exactly I
as his headquarters said It would.
Intended to Turn Flank
Anzio was intended to turn the
German flank that had stalled
the allied advance at Cassino
The Army Almanac, an Army
Department publication, calls it
The "famous left hook” that'
nreached the Germans’ Gustav
Line including Cassino and the
;Rapido River and helped the
; allies take Rome.
The official Army history states
that allied leaders, soon after the
Salerno landing, began to con
sider an amphibious landing
south of Rome but far north of
the allied beachheads.
On November 8, 1943, Marshal
Alexander ordered Gen. Clark to
prepare for such an operation to
outflank the strongly entrenched
Germans. This plan originally
called for a comparatively small,
diversionary effort. Later allied [
headquarters expanded it.
In 1946, a group of former
officers who fought under Gen
Clark in Italy accused him of
blunders in the Rapido River
crossing. They urged the United
States Senate’s Military Commit
tee net to confirm Gen. Clark’s
promotion as a permanent major
general.
HUH and Low of Last 24 Hours
High, 82, at 3:lo pin.
Low, 6ft, at 4:50 am.
Tldo Tables
(Furnished by the United States Coast
and Qeodetlc Survey»
Todav Tomorrow
High 8:o4 a m. 8:44 a m
Low 2:18 a.m. 3:02 a m
High B:2f* p.m. H.inp.m
Low 2:50 p.m. *1:410.0)
Tho Sun and Moon
Rises Sets
Sun. today 5:40 a m. 8:21 p.m
Sun. tomorrow 5.4 m a m. 8:22 p.m i
Moon, todav 7:42 P.m. 4:57 a m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current, month to date)
.'.onth 1956 1956 Avg Record
January 1.90 0.31 3.24 7.83 '37
February 2.82 3.31 2.44 8.84 'B4
March .. 3.53 3.70 3.03 8.84 'Ol
April ... 2.06 2.57 3.06 9.13 89
May 0.53 338 3.08 10.60 '53
June 276 3.41 10 94 ’OO
July ... 233 4.26 10.03 'B6
i August 14.01 4.75 14.41 ‘2B
September 0.65 4.12 17.45 ‘Si
October ... 6.46 2.85 8.81 '37
November. 1.63 2.73 718 '77
December ... 0.22 2.01 7.56 'Ol
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Abilene 9(* 70 Little Rock on 67:
Albany 84 65 Los Angeles 73 55
Albuauerque m* 62 Louisville 8' 60
Atlanta 02 69 Memphis mo 65
Atlantic Cttv 62 56 Miami m 2 72
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turn Museum. He called the
temple magnificent.
“Do you suppose it was a
WPA Job?” a reporter jokingly
asked.
“It was—built by slave labor,”
Mr. Truman said. “That’s what
the Republicans said WPA was.
It was not, however.” (WPA was
the Works Progress Administra
tion devised to provide work In:
the early days of the Roosevelt:
administration in the 1930 s when 1
unemployment was a major re
sult of the big depression. >
Mr. Truman saw an ancient
marble bust of a woman deco
rated with swastikas.
“Hitler must have been here,"
he said. Then he added, "Say,
that gal is wearing falsies.”
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! statues. Mr. Truman said in a
i loud voice for the benefit of
, Mrs. Truman, who was along:
“Hairdos haven’t Improved in
tnousands-of years.”
He complained that Mrs. Tru
; man wasn’t paying any attention
. to him.
1 He also detected a resemblance
to modern hat styles for ladies,
‘saying:
| “There’s the original of the
present lamp-shade style. No
improvement.”
The temple reminded him of a
copy of the Athens Parthenon
in Nashville, Tenn. «j
“You don’t have to go to
Athens to see the Parthenon,”
’ he said. “We have a perfect copy
in Nashville. They call Nash
ville the Athens of the South,
: you know.”
TRUMAN CORRECTS
POMPEII GUIDE ON
ANCIENT POLITICS
POMPEII, Italy UP). —
Former President Harry S.
Truman visited the ruins of
Pompeii today.
A guide showed him a
metal bench and said it had
been donated to a public
bath by a Pompeiian poli
tician after an election.
“It must have been before
an election.’ Mr. Truman
commented. “He wouldn't
have got the votes other
wise.”
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