Post-WWII - 1946, France: Army Troops Rally To Go Home; Ike Reads Reply In Washington, DC
Intertitle: Eisenhower Replies To G.I. Demand: “We Want To Go Home”.
05:25:18 GI demonstration in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. Soldiers passing out (?) leaflets & reading; speakers, women in uniform & troops listening
05:25:34 General Eisenhower in Washington, DC seated at desk speaks, SOF: “There has been great confusion in the minds of men overseas & their families at home in connection w/ the demobilization of the army. The simple facts are: of over 8,000,000 men in the army when Germany surrendered five million are now discharged. If this rate of demobilization had been continued there would have been little or no army on April 30th of this year. Some men who had hoped for discharge by March may have to stay in the army for one, two, or three months longer; that is the worst that can happen. Any man who had any right to expect discharge by June 30th of this year will be home, or on his way home, by that date. Surely this is not an impossible price that we must pay to be worthy of those who gave their lives & to justify the vast treasure which we spent to gain our victory in this dreadful war. My sole purpose, which I’m sure you share is that the army which did so much to win the victory will be left fit to preserve it.”
Post-WW2; 1940s;
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Post-WWII - 1946, France: Army Troops Rally To Go Home; Ike Reads Reply In Washington, DC Intertitle: Eisenhower Replies To G.I. Demand: “We Want To Go Home”. 05:25:18 GI demonstration in Paris in front of the Eiffel Tower. Soldiers passing out (?) leaflets & reading; speakers, women in uniform & troops listening 05:25:34 General Eisenhower in Washington, DC seated at desk speaks, SOF: “There has been great confusion in the minds of men overseas & their families at home in connection w/ the demobilization of the army. The simple facts are: of over 8,000,000 men in the army when Germany surrendered five million are now discharged. If this rate of demobilization had been continued there would have been little or no army on April 30th of this year. Some men who had hoped for discharge by March may have to stay in the army for one, two, or three months longer; that is the worst that can happen. Any man who had any right to expect discharge by June 30th of this year will be home, or on his way home, by that date. Surely this is not an impossible price that we must pay to be worthy of those who gave their lives & to justify the vast treasure which we spent to gain our victory in this dreadful war. My sole purpose, which I’m sure you share is that the army which did so much to win the victory will be left fit to preserve it.” Post-WW2; 1940s;