Sublime

Eisenhower told Mountbatten that mutual respect and confidence among the senior commanders was the most important ingredient in achieving allied unity.

Lutes ensured that American forces always had more of everything than they might possibly need.

On his own authority, without seeking the approval of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, the British war cabinet, or Washington, he had installed a new government in France, saved Paris from destruction, and received the adulation of the French people. By providing de Gaulle the opportunity to occupy the Palais de l’Élysée, he outmaneuvered FDR and the

Toujours prêt à donner un renseignement ou une directive, il fut le chef qui sait laisser aux exécutants la liberté nécessaire, tout en prenant la responsabilité de tout.

Roosevelt was not a friend of detail and did not pursue matters to the third decimal place. The landings in North Africa, Sicily, and at Salerno may not have been textbook examples of military precision, but Ike had prevailed. (Shiloh and the Wilderness were not pretty, either.) As a result of those landings, Eisenhower had a firsthand knowledge of

Drawing on a thin pool of talented officers, Washington was forced by circumstance to tolerate a high rate of failure among his generals. A master politician in the making, he had a knack for spotting and rewarding faithful subordinates who repaid his trust with absolute devotion. He seemed to know implicitly that no loyalty surpassed that of a man

In the conquest of mind-space it is the inches, consolidated, that count.

À quoi tient cet ascendant sans pareil ? À sa connaissance profonde de la langue arabe, à une étude patiente et perspicace des mœurs du pays, à une droiture que les Orientaux respectent toujours si elle est alliée à la force ? À un courage dont on ne parle même plus tellement il est un fait établi et qui le fait toujours charger à la tête de ses ho