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Interview with Carlo D’Este

By Gene Santoro | World War II Conversations  | 0 comments  | Print This Post  | Email This Post

He distrusted authority—except his own.
Another aspect of the enigma: for all the squabbling and fighting, he never overruled the chiefs of staff. When they said no, it was no. The problem was, no didn’t mean, “Let’s move on,” it meant, “Let’s argue for days, weeks,” until he finally realized he wasn’t gonna win.

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He won the war, then lost his job.
He didn’t bother to campaign; he figured, “They owe me.” I can see why he’d feel that way, but the public may have had a better sense of Churchill than he did.

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