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the first thanksgiving celebration after the war.
Eisenhower immediately contacted General Patton,
who promised to come to Stockholm at the end of
November if the authorities would permit. I thus had
the pleasure of meeting Patton in Stockholm. When
he heard that a Swedish delegation was leaving for
Germany for further negotiations, he offered us his
plane, which he had left in Copenhagen.
General Patton was one of the most prominent
figures of the Second World War. The better I came
to know him, the more he impressed me. On the
occasion of his visit to Stockholm, the Chief of Staff of
the Swedish Army had invited him to review some
Swedish troops, and he thus had the opportunity to
see a Swedish regiment in action and to impart to
them some of his unusual war experiences. Perhaps
some people will recall that General Patton, for a
time during the war, was not very popular in
America. He was considered a very tough and exacting
general with no interest in the welfare of his troops.
Some people said he hardly possessed human feelings
at all. However, my impression of him was quite
different. He certainly was a tough and exacting
warrior. But at the same time he was a perfect
gentleman vis-à-vis his opponents, whose achievements he
often praised. I had much evidence that he possessed
a warm heart, and the way he associated with our
children proved that he was not of cold and inhuman
nature but a man who could show many warm and
even tender feelings.
I asked him about the report we had read in the
newspapers, according to which he had slapped an
American soldier in the face when visiting an Ame-
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