US Generals Mistresses

[Sunbury]

Hi Mike, your question

Was that a military decision? Or had that decision been made by the political leadership? The Soviet zone extend well to the west of Berlin, it was not in our zone of occupation or was it in the British zone.

That question should be broken off to its own thread, I will do it tomorrow, today. But in a nutshell, Eisenhower contacted Stalin directly and agreed on the boundaries for post war Europe at the Elbe. He didnt get political approval, nor Military approval, he did it on his own. Hence the controversy and why it deserves its own thread.

[Peter H]

Monash had a mistress--Lizzie Bentwich.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 1117996310

In 1917 Monash took leave in London. His wife suggested in a letter he should look up their mutual friend Lizette Bentwich, who they had come to know among the Jewish fraternity in Melbourne. She had gone to London around 1900 on receiving an inheritance. They became lovers. In dramatising the prelude to this event, Moore's documentary takes some liberties. Confronted with news that Monash's wife, Vic, wanted to travel to London to join her husband, the dramatisation quotes Lizzie: "Order her to stay home. You're a general for God's sake! I would have thought that was the point of all that rank, getting and taking whatever you want."

Moore says that was "an imagined conversation". But the response was real, taken from Monash's letter of reply: "It is my duty to advise you very strongly against undertaking such a risky enterprise". The affair continued, unhindered by the presence of a wife.

After Monash's famous victory at Le Hamel, where he devised the "perfect battle" and set the template for the decisive actions which were to come, he again took leave in London. He was in Lizzie's arms when he received a coded message to return to the front: the Battle of Amiens, which the Germans were to describe as "their blackest day", was about to begin.

[Annelie]

Peter,

thanks, never heard of this Monash but the article certainly made for interesting
reading. He was quite a man. Lizzie was not only his mistress but it says after
his wife died they were still a couple but unable to marry because of objections
of his daughter.

[ChristopherPerrien]

Except Monash was neither American, nor in the time span of 1919-1945, so he is off-topic and off-forum. LOL

Chris