MUST RESIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26046, 9 January 1946, Page 5

MUST RESIGN

U.N.R.R.A. CHIEF IN EUROPE AUTHORITIES INSISTENT WASHINGTON, (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) Jan. 7. U.N.R.R.A headquarters has reiterated its insistence on General Morgan’s resignation. The headquarters not received the message reported to nave been sent by General Morgan's staff deploring his removal. Lieutenant-general Morgan, who was knighted in August, 1944, for his services in the planning of the invasion of Normandy, took up the appointment as chief of U.N.R.R.A.’s organisation for looking after displaced p<ersons m Europe in September last, being released by the British Government from his military duties in order to undertake the task. General Morgan was deputy-chief of staff under General Eisenhower. In April, 1943 he became head of the British and American planning staff which surveyed the whole project, for the landing in Normandy. With two senior assistants and a band of young officers, General Morgan had worked since 1941 on the floors above a famous West End store on the plans for the invasion. He had a bed beside his desk and worked seven days a week. The plan was finally embodied in a book the size of a family Bible and was accepted practically without alteration by General Eisenhower and Field-marshal Montgomery. The Daily Express said General Morgan’s great plan was regarded as one of the classic exercises of military art. “ General Morgan has an untidy appearance,” the paper added, “ but this conceals one of the British Army’s tidiest minds.” General Morgan was described as Shy and unknown to the public. He is now 51 years of age.