THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 7, 1940.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
GIFTS FOR DEFENCE
Taking hold of a spon- taneous movement that has already done, notable things, the National Sav-| ings Committee is organis- ing "war weapon weeks” in all the towns of size in Britain. Cardiff began with £650,000 the first day, but even the little towns and even villages are organising and a fine emulation in generous and speedy giving is an- swering the great deeds of the Royal Air Force. Leeds has broken away from the succession of Spitfire funds to raise bomber fund, setting it self the aim of collecting £2,000,000 to buy one hun- dred aircraft for offensive operations against the en- emy a truly .offensive defensive. Lord. Beaver- brook has suggested a thousand Spitfires as the London mark. Hong Kong has promised £200,000 an- nually. Individual gifts of remarkable amount have been recorded, and not less noteworthy as signs of fervent patriot- ism are small gifts from newsboys,
to old-age pen-tary have a good werd say But it has sioners, and even children. been my privilege to work for Mr. Churchill, and knowing as I
"HOW'S THE OPeration going **.
"NO NEED FOR ANXIETY, THE SURGEONS WILL LIVE."
This Is
Rarely, I know, does
for her chief's wife!
A secre-
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Mrs. Winston Churchill
will admit that she has much and there were two
-
guests
of and
It hasn't been possible for her to accompany the, Prime Minis ter on his flying visits to Francé but her own private war effort is nevertheless vital and immense;
Sir Pelham Warner is do something of his private life enlisting the support of as well as the superhuman strain
Her husband's health is always the frequenters of Lord's of his public life, there is no word
her first care. There has been I can say in too high praise of the to put up with!
honour-Lord Birkenhead
no trouble with the old haemor- for a fund which will in- Premier's wife.
War rhage, but since the
the She is about an inch taller than Charlie Chaplin. scribe the crest of the
Prime Minister has lost about. One little thing will show you the P.M., slim, wears medium-
doesn't Middlesex County Cricket that I am not alone in my belief. high heels and is usually dressed Englishman-had met Mr. Chur-think this is healthy.
Charlie-who is, of course, an8lbs. and Mrs. Winston in blues, or blacks. Her eyes. are, Club on a 'fighting 'plane. In Downing Street circles, Win-large and vivacious, and I have chill a year or two before, and
So from a rapidly in-ston, as Prime Minister, is al-always thought she looks too frail was to meet him again the next On his first visit to France,
But Mrs. Churchill? She is known to all her friends as Mrs.
Winston.
soldier's
year in New York.
For more than a year I didn't Her father was Colonel Sir meet Mrs, Churchill again, H. M. Hozier, K.C.B. of the 3rd cause Winston In New York had and it is Mrs. Winston who is
"the P.M." and feminine to be a ways referred to as creasing number of places Cabinet Ministers now never call daughter. and through innumerable him Winston, not even in conver-
sation. agencies large financial resources are being volun-) tarily amassed. They are more than a contribution to our strength; they are about the way she is spoken of heartfelt tribute to the in Downing Street that convinces
you she is the right woman splendid valour of the the job, just as the P.M. is the Force which is repelling right man.
There's a touch of friendliness
for
ictoriously the German She is as popular as was Mrs. threat of invasion by air. Chamberlain which is saying h There is no less thankful-gaad deal!
-By- AMELIA ROBINSON
just before he became Prime Minister, he was flown over in a British warplane, while he be-was suffering from acute influenza,
a motoring accident, was run-responsible for him often ap- ovor, and doctors decided that pearing with a heavy great-cont he must go to Salzburg to re- and a muffler, cuperate. Mrs. Winston was with
him all the time-though she Incidentally, it was Mrs. Win- herself had only just recovered ston who got her husband. the from two serious operations. reputation for wearing comic hats! They'd only been married Winston had a severe haëmor- a-couple of years when he was rhoge at Salzburg, and a relapse in an electioneering campaign at again that October whan "back Southport, and just before a big in London. We didn't get much meeting Mrs. Winston dragged work done during those months! | him out for a walk along the
sands. Dragoon Guards, and her mother later, when Mr. Randolph fought But we got busy again a little
He didn't want to go but she. hess and admiration for Her name is Clementine, and Laay Blanche Ogilvy, daughter.
several by-elections. Mrs. Win-insisted and jammed on his head. he ceaseless vigil and have never heard Mr. Churchill of the Earl of Airlie.
ston had turned her hopes to her the first hat they found on the call her by any fancy ΟΙ pet strong defence of
the names. They are devoted-and
I was only a baby when, inson, and she sat cool, smiling, but hall table! A photographer seashore' Navy, holding off the pos-
1908, the engagement was an very excited within, as Mr. Ran- snapped them at the
the with Winston" still wearing the nounced: between a then success-Wavertree Division of Liverpool, tiny felt hat that wasn't his
dolph faced big crowds at ibility of attack by sea;
ful young politician and President and as his father made great and put of this one incident the and the stirring exploits vices, not really less dear of the Board of Trade, and Miss speechs in Mr. Randolph's favour, whole legend has been built up.
f the Army in Belgium to the heart of the nation, ther tells me that it was one of nd its splendid deliver-will feel no jealousy if this the big events of the season. nce are not and will not is the RA.F.'s special e forgotten. The one dif- hour of honour and also erence just now is that of danger.
Clementine Hozier; but my mo-:
Now all her hopes, for her Mrs. Winston is still keeping son and for her husband, have open the Westerham home, with been more than fulfilled. She is great, polished wood floors und Less than a year later, Mr. has been the hostess of No. 11, chintz-covered easy chairs: The Churchill went to Germany to Downing Street, when Winston Prime Minister's own lofty room, meet, the Kaiser. He was just was Chancellor of the Exchequer: with its yellow-and-red striped 34 then, and the most meteoric Now she is hostess of No. 10, arm-chairs, ..its whitewashed. he way of appreciation is What could be more in-political career since the days of which surely is every woman's walls and oil paintings, it kept.
Pitt, seemed to be within his dream.
dusted and ready for him. asier when the unit of dicative of the Empire's powers. And then came the efence is relatively small determination to -hold War. and the cost of it within back nothing that will What did Mrs. Winston do? went to. During the Chamberlain of his pet hobbles until last he compass of an appeal make for victory than When I first met her at a house regime Mr. Butler, chief struc-September) still stand about the
an urban area of no these free gifts, both large proudly showed me one of her. Works, has bad the job of en- them.
party at Westerham, in 1931, she tural engineer of the Office of room as Mrs. Winston arranged reat size. Add to this and small? They are a most treasured possessions atirdly modernising No. 10 so f
Mrs. Winston's big ginger',cat
cd. Over £6,000 was spent, and while the Churchills' other cat,
She has a much better house His own oil miniatures and: now than Mrs. Chamberlain first water-colours (painting was one
onvenience in giving the voluntary levy added to small brooch, made in the shape us plumbing and kitchen heating
of a rifle, with a fixed, bayonet. and lighting fitments are concern-still strides about the house, pprehension of local dan-the demands which the
..
It bears the Initials R:S.A.F., Mrs. Winston now has a kitchen Nelson, is moving into No. 10 er which German raids tax-collector is making and was specially cast for her by in which even a Hollywood film from Admiralty House! ave quickened and a and will yet make with in-some enthusiastic workers at the star would be proud to be photo-
Royal Small Arms Factory, over graphed! -
Mrs, Winston · hasa - treasure eightened sense of unity creasing insistence. Will the comforts of which she had
chest of the Primo Minister's f purpose, as of interest, ingly paid taxes, money crintended dozens of YM.CA.her particular hobby being pro-tom of the chest is a bundle of ccaselessly supervised." "Shé sup- She has many war-time Jobs uniforms and robes/At the bot- ensuring the inviola-gifts for aircraft, interest-Hostels during the War, and her viding comforts for the men of expensive robes, all overlaid with lity of the British Isles, free loans are all a mea- life was often in danger.
the mine-sweeping service. She gold. It is the gown worn by Mr... has organised thousands of wo- Churchill's father when ho... wus“ nd the springing up of sure of the strength of a I shull never forget that Wes-men knitters, and Mrs. Winston's | Chancellor of the Exchequer, and pitfire funds is explain- spirit which indeed knows terhum party. Most of the Chur charm has helped to ruise thou- after his resignation kept by Mr. chill family was there, including gands of pounds with which to Churchill's mother for 40 yours The other great Ser-no bounds.
Mr. Randolph and Miss Diana,, buy wool,
in tissue paper and camphorf