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hower again. His personality had made a strong
impression on me during our former meeting in
Versailles. He received me in his office, in the
enormous building of the I. G. Farben works, which,
curiously enough, had escaped destruction under
Allied bombings. Otherwise, Frankfurt am Main
had suffered much during the war and great parts
of the city were completely destroyed by bombs.
I opened my conversation with Eisenhower with
the request that the Swedish Red Cross detachment
be admitted immediately to the American and British
Zones in order to begin work there. It was very
interesting to see the expression on General
Eisenhower’s face when I handed him a copy of the tele-
. gram I had received in Stockholm informing me that
there were still many objections to the activities of
the detachment. He immediately called for his chief
of staff, General Bedell Smith, who later became the
American Ambassador in Moscow. General Smith
did not seem to be in a very good mood on that day.
Later I heard that he had a toothache. He explained
Why, in principle, it was unthinkable to permit
foreign activities in Germany. They had, for example,
rejected a similar request from the Spanish
government. When I remarked that the comparison between
the Spanish government and the Swedish Red Cross
could hardly be considered apt, I immediately felt
that I had won Eisenhower over to my side. In such
an enormous organization as the Allied
Headquarters, it is natural that the highest in command cannot
be informed or cannot be troubled with such
insignificant details as the Swedish aid was in comparison
with the central problems they had to solve. However,
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