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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1948,
The Sixth
Instalment
Churchill's Memoirs
༣
PACIFIST EMOTION IN BRITAIN
by Germany of arms to Rus sta. On the other hand, from 1927 anwards a number of German pilots
were
trained by the Soviets for milliary purposes. There wore fluctuations,, but in 1932 the Bri- tish Ambassador In Berlin re- ported that the Belchswehr had close technical liaison with the Red Army.
Nevertheless, when on July 20, 1034, the British Government brought forwant some belated The German General Staff eldand inadequate proposals for not bellove that the German
strengthening the RAF by 41- Army could be formed and ma
squadrons, or about.820 muclilnes, tured on a scale greater than only to be completed in five years, that of France, and suitably pro-
the Labour party, supported by and 1. MESSRS. G. A.
vided with arsenals and equip-
the Liberals, moved n Vale of GUIMARAES and Mrs. C. M. ment, before 3043. The Gorman Censure upon them in the House
thank Navy. except for U-boats, could
of Commons. The
re- Guimaraes-Remedios all friends for their floral not be rebull! in its old. state un grotted that: tributes and kind attendance der 12 er 15 years, and in the
would at the reinterment of the re-process
compete heavily with all other plans. mains of their mother Mrs. Kate Mury Cruize Guimaraes,
NEW HOUSING
PROJECTS
A.
But a new weapon of national rivalry had leapt upon the scene more capable of altering much rapidly the relative war-power of States. Granted a share. In the ever-accumulating knowledge of of mankind and in the march
cience, only four or five years nation of might be required by the first magnitude, devoting it
the task, toerente self to powerful, and perhaps a supreme, Air Force.
By the autumn of 1933 it was in that neither by precept nur still leas by example would the
Motion
our
ponsibility of the Government as a whole, and we are all rea- ponsible, and we are all to blame.".
from which they seek to pro-Eden-pald 'n visit to Herr Hitler tect us......
in Germany, and in the course of "Let us remember this:
the ari important conversation, weakness does not only involve | text of which is on record, they. ourselves; our weakness in-werp told personally by him that I hoped that this shooking con- volves also the stability of the German Air Force had al fession would be a decisivo
event, Europe,"
ready reached parity with Great and that at the least a Parlia=" I then proceeded to argue that Britain. This fact was made pub-mentary Committee of all parties Germany was already, approach-lic by the Government on April would be
report upon ing air pocity with Bstalą:
3.
up to the facts and upon qur safety, "If Germany continues this At the beginning of May the The House of Commons had a expansion and if we continue Frime Minister wrote on article different reaction. The Labour · to carry out our scheme, then in his own organ, The Newsletter, and Liberal Oppositions, having .4ome time in 1039. Germany in which he emphasized the dane nine months earlier moved or will be definitely and substan- gern of German rearmoment in supported a Vote of Consure even tially stronger in the air than terms akin to ihpso, which I had upon the modest steps the Go- Great Britais. Once they have so often expressed since 1932. He vernment had taken, were in- got that lead we'
we may never used the revealing word "am-effectual and undecided. They
bith," which must have sprung were looking forward to an elec be pble to overtake them.
The Government majority for
if the Government have to from the anxiety of his heart. tion against. "Tory Armaments." admit at any time in the next We had indeed. fallen into
few years that the German air ambush, føreqs are stronger than our
an
own, then they will be held, It was not until May 22 that and I think rightly held to have Mr. Baldwin made his celebrated falled in their prime duty to confession. I am forced to cite the country.
"His Majesty's Jovernment, should enter upon a policy of rearmament neither nereginted by any new commitment nur calculated to add to the security. of the
the nation, but certain to
(in November, 1934, Mr. e the prospects & m-
disarmament and to Churchill pave the Government an even more deflalto warning. encourage a revival of danger- ous and wasteful
to which Mr. Baldwin replied war.
that we had a margin in. - Εκτορα Liepurollon for competition in
Alone of this complete re- Support
of nearly 50 per cent), On March 18,
1935, fusal the Opposition take
AG the any measures to strengthen our Estimates were presented 10. the
speaking House. air power, Mr. Attlee,
reiterated my statement in their name, asid: We deny of November, and again directly the need for increased air artan-challenged the assurances which ments. We deny the propost- Mr. Baldwin had then given. A ten that an increased British air very confident reply was made force will innke for the peace uf
Government's statement on the present stage of negotia- tions for subsidised housing schemes in the Colony makes or encouraging reading. twenty proposals submitted, nine have been approved, and Lassuming that their sponsors British effort for disarmament world, and we reject by the Under-Secretary for Air.
are now prepared to proceed succeed. The paciflam of the la
not legether the clulm lo barh" with and complete their pro-bour and Liberal parties was not the laberat party supported this Jeels, approximately 2,000 affected even by the grave event
of the German withdrawal from centure motion. w residences will be pro- the League of Nations. Both
This was vided within reasonable time. continued in the name of Peace
the formative time Four further sites are avail-te urge British disarmament, and when by extreme exertions we could have preserved the air
*
able for additional develop anyone who differed was called #strength on which our Indepen ment by other applicants who "warmonger" and "scaroeling dance of action was founded.
Great Britain and Frant maintained
had
However, at the end of March the Foreign Secretory and Mr.
It:
.
their pa
part appeared captured by Mr. Baldwin's candour.
His ad-
mission of having beop ufterly wrong, with all his sources of knowledge, upon a vital matter for which he was responsible was
"First of all, with regard to held to be redeemed by the frank- the figure I gave in November
ness
with which he declared
of German seroplanes, nothing error and shouldered the blame. hàs come to
my
knowledge
There was even a strange wave,
since that makes me think that of enthusiasm for a Minister who figure was wrong.
did not I believed
not besitate to say that he at that time It was right. was wrong. Indeed,
mony Con- Where I was wrong was in my servative Members seemed angry estimate of the future. There with me for having brought their We trusted lender to a plight from
was completely wrong. were completely misled on that which only his native manliness subject
and honesty had extricated him; "Whatever responsibility there but not, alas, his country. may be and we are perfectly
(To be Continued) ready to meet criticism-that World Copyright reserved. Re- responsiblity is not that of any production, even partially, in any single Minister; it is the res- 'language, strictly prohibited.
The Biggest Lies Since Ananias
Berlin, Apr. 20.
Spring Offensive
„Athens, Apr. 19. The Greak Government's spring offensive against the querillas officially, opened igst Friday with large-scale
enerations involving re
30,000
man::of
the
Army against 2,000, quecillas. The operations are being carried out by theee....divi- gionu, it was learned authori. tativelyReuter.
tras come, British U.K. Bacon Cost More
יוון ידו
To
have been invited to modify was endorsed by the people, who, Great
that their appeared their original plans to con- of course,
quantitative understand. did not form with the special condi-what was unfolding. At a by-parity with Germany they would
double tions that the Government election which occurred in East together have been
Fulham on Oct. 25, a wave of strong, and Hitler's career of vio- Colonel Alexei Yeligarov (USSR) told the other has properly seen fit to attach, pacifist emotion increased the So-lence might have been nipped in three Deputy Commandants in Berlin today that bearing in mind the substancialist vote by nearly 9,000, and the bud without the loss of a
the British were exporting from their sector five Thereafter it was too tial subsidy that it is propos- the Conservative vote fell by over single life.
times what they imported and that the Amori, ed to grant in the form of 10,000,
fate. successful candidate, Mr. We cannot doubt the sincerity land allocations at a price wilmot later to become Minister of the leaders of the Socialist and
cans were taking out six times as much as they brought in. considerably below their real of Supply in Mr. Attlee's Cabi- Liberal Parties. They were com market value.
Allied Control Authority ruling net] said after the poil that "Bri-pletely wrong and misloken, and
The Bussian charges forced forbidding the movement out Coupled with the private tlah people demand...that the liey bear their share of the bur reconstruction work proceed- British Government shall give a den before history. It is indeed the suspension of barge trame rationed foodstuffs from the city.
that the Saclelict between Berlin and Western
Barget Stop ing on a steadily increasing lead to the whole world by astonishing
endeavoured Germany.
Barge a policy of Party should have iminediately scale in various bomb-dam- Initiating
general disarmament,'
in after years, to claim superior The American Deputy Com-Zone of Germany to Berlin, Was This election left a aged areas, it can at last be
deep im- foresight and should" „háve remandant, Mr. William Babcock, suspended fodgy after notifica- felt that some appreciable preferred to it in a remarkable failing to provide for
upon Mr. Baldwin, and proached their opponents with said the Soviet statement was tion had been received, from the alleviation of the housing he
national "probably the biggest collection Soviet (ransport authorities that safety. shortage is emerging into speech three years later.
Ottawa, Apr.20. It would be wrong in Judging
of falsehoods and misconcep-new system of identification "I said in this debate:
was being prepared...
The Canadian Ment Board,an- view. Not that any direct the polley of the British Govern-
"One would have thought tions on record since the time of
When the British authorities nounces an increase of, 25 cents benefit to the 'poor man' is ment not to remember the pas- that the character of His Ma- Ananias.”
protested to, the Bovist trana: per 100 lb. in the price it pays for involved. The building pro- sionate desire for pence which
jesty's Government and the re
Mr. Babcock told Col. Yall-
port, authorities, they stated bacon for export to the United cord of its principal Ministers
that the British would be noti Kingdom mos- gramme now approved, bo- animated the uninformed, misin
formed majority
BRrovi. "You act like a of the British would have inducer the cause of the factor of cost, people, and seemed to threaten
fled when the paw system i Op-
quito buzzing a lion!”. position to view the request for
been worked out tom had The Increase applies to all The inland canals on
rados, and weights of Wiltshire will depend for its success with political extinction any
an increase in the national de-
Nineteen. Germen bargo Beides and other export cuts put upon the active
interest of party or politician who dared to
tains arrived in t Berlin today from Intoc ence with sunje condidence of barge traffic was halted
one of the main communications
cure after Monday, people of means able to take any other line.
I do not channels between East and West Wittenborg, a German check point-The Board's price increase will some consideration. finance what, in most cases, This, of course, is no excuse
suppose 1
there bus ever been Germany, Borges normally carry the Elbe, where their barges not raise the cost of bacon, to the had, been held up by the Soviet United Kingdom, the announce- will amount to the purchase for political leaders who fall short of their dufy. It is much
such a pacifist-minded Govern-food, coal and bullding materials. aut of their own homes, either better for pucties or politicians to
to zo Berlin to get new per outright, or by instalments. be turned out of office
train or plane-United Fress. Projects of an order calculat- Imperil the life of the nation.
The suspension affects chiefly "Swearing" ed to produce 2,000 new re- Moreover, there is no record in sidences will, however, re-r history of any Government
Borlin, Parliament and the people asking lieve the pressure on existing for the necessary measures of de-,|
make pacism. The Lord
Colonel Yelisaray accused this property, though whether the fence and being rotused.
British and American colleagues President of the Council (Mr. at today's session of the four Hoosening up will proceed to Nevertheless, those who scared
MacDonald-Baldwin:
Baldwin) is chiefly associated Deputy Commandants of the city the extent of deflating rentals the timid
fa. the public mind with the of Government from their path must remain a matter for should at least keep silent.
repetition of the prayer Give a sweating" at him instead of "Togical answers to his doubt.
peace in our time"
statements. supposed
The
Soviet representative an that would have
when Ministers like these swered the Western Deputien comp forward and say that they criticism of the present enormous feel it their duty to ask for backlog of parcel post, which Mr.
than to
For the moment, that is not
The Air Estimates of Margh the most vital consideration. 1094, totalled only £20,000,000, The important thing is to get and contained provision for four things moving, to get the new now squadrons, or an increase in buildings up and occupied. 850 to 800. The financial cost our first-line air strength from By no other process is there involved in the first year was (FARE)the least prospect of a down- £180,000. scaling of average rentals. HK$180.-
Italian Elections
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The results of the Italian' elections will be hailed as one sign of returning sanity in a disordered world, though it does not mean that the in- ternal struggle in Italy can how be regarded as at an end. Most important factor, of
On this I said:
That!
ond
There is the Prime Ministar/Ailled Traight is handled by authorities. The captains were- ment said. The Luard will.. pay
ment:
who
In the war proved in the angst extreme manner and with very great rourage his convic- tions and the sacrifices he would for what lié believed was the cause
fold
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20. Czechoslovakia across the Soviet shipment and pint tundling
some small increase in the plling up in Berlin post offices mcans they have of guarantee because of the Russian refusal fo Ing the public safety, it would move it out of the city.
Wolgh with the Opposition and In partial explanation, he said wild be capsidered as a proof that the present system of nar of the really of the danger, 201" "þõit despäten violated
"We are, it is admitted, the Arth
air Power only-that. We are but half the strength of France, our Germany is aming tas CARNIVAL
and no one is going to stop ther.. seems quite clear.. No one poses a preventive war to stop Germany breaking the Treaty of Versailles. She is golog to arm; she is doing it; she has been doing it."
a="
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nction. His was the power, and his the responsibility." In the course of his reply Mr. Baldwin said:
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WOMEN, TO QUARD IMPERIAL PALACE
"If all our efforts for an' agreement fall, and if It is not .possible to obtain this equality in such matters as I have in-, dicated, then any Government of this country--a National Government more than jany, and this Government-wiled. to 'It. that in air strength
and
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ita
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́Although' Germany
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Tokyo, Apr, 11. “ing had now, tencreu a point
Japanese women, audio wit: wiltre, they could VERY SATQİSİ pon Join Austtaliät, and United; reinforce and textand the intere States. soldiers-lif, guard duty!, "and: Megal", military ale; force Ba the gates of the Intimpl
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An
By Dick Turner
Zone-Reuter.
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of bacion
Associated Press.
Lewis Union Fined
Million
Dollars
Washington,
Washington, Apt. 20.
John L. Löwn, Prandant of the United Mine- workers, was fined $20,000 and the Union fined $1,400,000 here today for contempt of court arising out of the re
recent strike of 400,000: saft Coal miners. Judge T. Alan Goldsborough yesterday convicted Mr Lewis and the Union, for failing to comply with a court order of April 3 to end the strike. The Assistant Attorney Gen-ports indicate that the number of eral, Mr. Graham Morison, told idle men is increasing. A
Continuation of the strikes miny the court that a fine of 31,400,-|| 000 against the Union and of subiect the JMWuend. Lewis to further, punishment, on briday, $20.000 against Mr. Lawis
when they will be sentenced for would, in the opinion of the civil contemplUnited Press.. United States Department Justice, he a sufficient penalty for their convictions on criminal contempt.
of
con-
recommended sideration of a possible additional. benalty Patempt Rere- served suiti
JUBRO
Alan Goldsborough, im bering the ines recommended by the Department of Justice, sold It had been..his own inclination to send Mr. Lewis to ation Reuter.
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London, Apr. 20, Lieut-Gen. Sir Charles Fro- derick, Keighley, who succeeds Lieut-Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks as commander of occupation troops in Germany, is 47 Ellisburgh, Apr. 20.
-At-40-he-was the youngest MAJ- Over 150,000 coalmliners quit General in the Army He com work today in profeet against fimmanded the 11th, Armoured/ conviction of Johus
the United Mine
A United Presi quɛyay
that more than 200k20 at the
400,000 **United, Mine
were refusing ÅR, PROTI,
Tun
100,000 had refused to end the A12 pension strike which had led the contempt (enviefings, nnd most 180,000 more)wakkesi Monday and Twandax Judgo
Alan verdlet and dr
"Union Chattiof,10 and waste the tel
both of Ware
which dia bril work during
he landed in No pok part in the
Capa Dom.
the