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EISENHOWER, Dwight D. "I am now a Londoner" by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, O. M., Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Freedom of the City of London, the Rt. Hon. Lord Mayor Sir Frank Alexander, Guildhall [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945.
8o, blue calf tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles.
LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 5 SIGNED COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION, signed on the titlepage "Dwight D. Eisenhower." Also signed by London's Lord Mayor Alexander and T. Kingsley Collett; with inserted ALS of Collett to E. W. Ganderton, 24 March 1950, describing the printing, binding and distribution of the 5 special copies. A rare special edition of a short but moving address of Eisenhower just a month after V-E Day. Ike uttered the title phrase in an impromptu address not long after he delivered this address in the Guildhall. He begins by acknowledging "The high sense of distinction...inescapably mingled with profound sadness": that there had to be a war; that so many have lost their lives, that so many more lost homes and loved ones. "...My most cherished hope is that, after Japan joins the Nazi in utter defeat, neither your country nor mine need ever again summon its sons and daughters from their peaceful pursuits to march to the drums of war. But...neither London nor Abilene, sisters under the skin, will sell her birthright for physical safety. She won't sell her liberty for mere existence..."
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LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 5 SIGNED COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND FOR PRESENTATION, signed on the titlepage "Dwight D. Eisenhower." Also signed by London's Lord Mayor Alexander and T. Kingsley Collett; with inserted ALS of Collett to E. W. Ganderton, 24 March 1950, describing the printing, binding and distribution of the 5 special copies. A rare special edition of a short but moving address of Eisenhower just a month after V-E Day. Ike uttered the title phrase in an impromptu address not long after he delivered this address in the Guildhall. He begins by acknowledging "The high sense of distinction...inescapably mingled with profound sadness": that there had to be a war; that so many have lost their lives, that so many more lost homes and loved ones. "...My most cherished hope is that, after Japan joins the Nazi in utter defeat, neither your country nor mine need ever again summon its sons and daughters from their peaceful pursuits to march to the drums of war. But...neither London nor Abilene, sisters under the skin, will sell her birthright for physical safety. She won't sell her liberty for mere existence..."