-38-#669, Eighteenth, from London.             
 
                                                            
 
 
command of General Eisenhower and we march with discipline 
                   wherever we are told to go.              
 
                                                            
 
 
According to the professional advice which I have at my disposal 
      what was done to meet Von Rundstedt's counterstroke was resolute 
      wise and military correct. A gap was torn open as a gap can always 
      be torn open in a line hundreds of miles long. General Eisenhower 
      at once gave the command to the north of the gap to Field Marshall 
      Montgomery and to the south of it to General Omar Bradley. Many 
      other consequential movements were made and rightly made and 
      in the result both these highly skilled commanders handled the 
      very large forces at their disposal in a manner, which I think 
      I may say without exaggeration, may become the models for military 
                     students in the future.                
 
                                                            
 
 
Field Marshal Montgomery at the earliest moment acting with 
      extraordinary promptitude concentrated powerful British reserves 
      at the decisive strategic point. Having been placed in command 
      as he was by General Eisenhower of American forces larger than 
      those he holds from His Majesty's Government or form were the 
      Canadian's larger than those he holds in the 21st