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Thirty-Fourth Churchill's Memoirs
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thought it worth while to bomb agreed on the following solemn French or British cities she would declaration: not wait for a pretext. Every- That during the present war thing was ready. I was only they would neither negotiate necessary for the French High nor conclude an armistice or Command to give the order.
treaty of peace excopt by mu Lust agreement.
He then unfolded with preci- sion the case for intercepting the German Iron-ore supplies from Sweden. He dealt also with the
OVER
tortoises," not too much afraid away in the general collapse of of the air-bomb or torpedo, by the French resistance. In any the reconstruction of the Royal case, it required prolonged appli- Sovereign class of battleships. [ention to cause major injury to This fell by the way through the the eneiny, movement of the wor and the priorities which had to be 'given
This pact later acquired high to aircraft-carriers. importance.
M. Reynaud spoke of the Im-'cent.
In March, 1940, the British War Cabinet approved Operation "Royal Marine," Mr. Churchill's scheme for mine-laying in the Rhine. All preparations had been made, but it was not possible to get French consent.
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By E. O. O'Brien.
the war
of To sum up: in armies on the ground I was un- der the thrall of defensive fire- The third was the simple turit
On the sea. I strove per- power; cal operation of Inying mines insistently within my sphere to as- Rumanian arrel Baku oiltelds, On April 3 the British Cabinet the Norwegian "Leads" to cut off sert the Inflativo which ought to be denied to Ger-in-pleraented the resolve of
the against མར་ the vital German iron-ore. sup- enemy as a relief from the ter- In all their wars and troubles many. If possible by diplomacy. Sujeeme War Council,
and the piles.
ribly orden! of
presenting our 1 have been listened to this powerful argu- Adiatralty was authorised to mine
enormous target of sea commerce in my ifetime
with the French.ment with increasing pleasure. I the Norwegian "Leads" on April
Fourthly 'Comes "Cultivator No to his attack. bound up
had not realised how fully Mr. 8 I called the actual mininga" (high-speed mechantent ex- ROBERTS-OLLERDESSEN: -Mr. and I believed that they would Chamberlain and I were agreed. operation "Wilfred" because by envatora)-a long-term means for
But in this prolonged trance of Roberts Mrs. F. C.
of do as much for me as for any
Itself it was so small and Inno-
breaking 1 deadlock on tho the Twilight or "Phoney" war, as Shanghai, wish to announce other foreigner alive.
French front without a repetition it was commonly called in the marriage of their daugh- But in this phase of Twilight
of the slaughter of the previous United States, neither France nor not
them. War ler, Gloria Clatre, to Henry
I could
war. This was superseded by the Dritain was capable of meeting James, second son of Mr. & When I pressed very hard, they
onrush of German armour turn-the German vengeance thrust. It Mrs. A. F, Ollerdessen
used a method of refusal which
ing our own invention of tanks was only after France had been Shanghai, on Thursday 27th
never met before or since. M.
to our undoing, and proving the flattened out that Britain, thanks Daluclier told me with an May, 1948.
air of
Lhe ascendancy of offensive into her Island advantage, develop exceptional formality that "The
this new war.
વર્ષ out of the pangs of defeat and President of the Republie himself
the menace of annihilation a no- had intervened, and that no ag-
The Afth wan the operation tional resolve equal to taken must be Kressive action
"Royal Marine"--the paralysing Germany. of traffic on the Rhine by the which might only draw reprisals
France."
dropping and discharge of fluviat upon
This idea of not irritating the
As our mining of Norwegian mines. This played its limited unemy did not commend itself to act of German propaganda upon
Hiller had done his best to French morale. The German ra waters might provoke a German art and proved its virtue from World Copyright reserved
dlo blared each night that the retort, it was also agreed that n the mument when was per-production, even partially, In any strangle our commerce by the Reich had no quarrel with France; Britisti
brigade and a French con- mitted. It was, however, swept language, strictly prohibited. BEACH FACILITIES indiscriminate mining of our har that the origin of the war was tingent should be sent to Narvik
We had beaten him by hourave means alone. Good, de- to be found in the blank cheque to clear the port and advance to The thousands of bathers FROM HANOI VIA HAIPHONG who attempted to alleviate cent, sivilised people. It appeare: iven by Britain to Poland; that the Swedish frontier. Other for-
France had
been dragged into ces should be dispatched to Sto- the record temperatures of must never strike themselves till war at the heels of the British; vanger. Bergen and Trondheim, Morsday
May 31st
the week-end by going to after they have been struck dead. und even that she was not in in order to deny these bases to the FOR PARIS VIA SAIGON
enemy. In these days the fearful Ger- Repulse Bay, the Colony's
its subter-position to sustain the struggle.
It is worth-while looking back. foremost beach resort, could mon voleant and all
The question, he said, was wide- There were stili
"How can on the stages by which at last explosion-point. have been impressed by but enn fires drew near to their
The the decision to mine the "Leads" one thing, the hopeless In-months of pretended war. On the asked in France.
number of divisions," "despile Bri-was reached. I had asked for it adequacy of the facilities one side endless discussions about the Allies win the war?"
trivini points, no decisions taken, tish effort," was increasing faster on September 20, 1930.
Nothing avallable to make the trip a
or taken rescinded, and the A few tents for rule "don't pleasure.
to then the German side than on ours. relevant had altered in the mean- be unkind
When, therefore, could we hope while. The moral and technlen) the fortunate carly arrivais, enemy, you will only make him to secure that superiority in man-objections on the score of neu What sort of mon is he, who, would have earned him a fortune Lido boxes for those who angry. On the other, doom pre- power required for successful ac-trality, the possibility of German wherever he goes,
draws record as a private dealer. relaliction against Norway, the crowds of enthusiasts. the paring a vast machine grinding on in the West? could afford them-for
What is His work keeps him in cities importarice of stopping the flow his secret? Why was it that last and engaged in the problems of There was a general_feeling in of iron-ore from Narvik to Ger-July, when he went rest more discomfort and in-forward ready to break upon us!
down to the nation's industry. But if you convenience than could pos-
The defeat of Finland was fatalFrance that the war had reached many, the effect on neutral and Cardiff, 40,000 peoplo-the big-were to give him a choice-tel! sibly compensate
for their
a deadlocks, and that Germany had world-wide opinion-pil were ex-gest crowd ever attracted by ahim that he had to give up poli the Doladier Government,
only to walt. Unless
actly the same. some ac-
political occasion in Wales in tient life he would, I think, be share of the enjoyment whose chief had taken so marked,lon were taken to cut the enem-
living memory-came to hour come a farmer, certainly a gar- getting into the water.
if tardy, action, and who hades supply of all and other raw Now after all this vain boggling.bim? Why was it that, when he doner. His fans would scarcely It is more than a year ago personally given disproportionate material, "the feeling might grow hesitation,
of policy, went on to "chlidren's day" loat recognise the Immaculate An- since there
discussion prominence to this part of our that blockade was not a was
between weapon arguments
summer at Leeds, it took a dozen thony Eden of the photograph in good and On March 21
victory worthy people unending, we had braway police to force a way for the absorbed, completely happy about elaborate schemes for anxieties.
strong enough to secure Cabinet was formed under M. for the Allied cruse."
at last reached the simple point him through the cheering crowds shabbily shirted and trouserod replacing the old private Reynaud, pledged to an increas-
on which action had been de--many of whom were probably gardener who presses his guests matsheds by extensive public ingly vigorous conduct of the
"Royal manded seven months before. politieni opponents? About the operation
Into the tasks of digging and What is the secret? and dressing war. pavilions
Perhaps it delving. But they would he said that, though good Marine," Quite a comprehen- My relations with M. Reynaud in itself, it could not be decisive. But in war seven months is as his integrity. The British pub-him none the less,
lie has a certain odd instinctive sive report was produced by stood on a different footing from and that any reprisals would fall long time. Now Hitler was ready,
any I had established with M. upon France. However, if other and ready with a far more power-thony Eden of tradition-perfect-
knowledge. It
the An. knows î committee appointed to
Daladler, Reynaud, Mandel and things were settled, he would fat and well-prepared plan. One ty tailored, wearing the hat to him. I have a picture of a So- sume emotions make a special effort to secure can hardly find a more perfect which he gave his name, the viet Embassy function last sum. HONG KONG study the over-all problem had felt the
of catering to the public need about Munich. Dalodier had been French concurrence.
example of the Impotence and charming centrepiece of photomer. Neglected, nobody speaking AIRWAYS on public beaches. The re-
stdc. the other
1.therefore
fatuity of waging war by com-graph and newsreel.
to them, were the members of Іл the He was for more responsive mittee or rather by groups of
the Government headed by Mr. commendations were submit. welcomed the change French Government, and
also about cutting ΟΙΣ supplies
of committees.
Atileo,
Prime Minister- ted as a matter of urgency, hoped that my fluvial mines Swedish iron-ore and he stated
But it has perceived something transient embarrassed phantains.” although it was blithely ad- would now have a better chance that there was an exact relation It fell to my lot in the weeks more, The X-ray oye of the Two people had big, eager knots mitted that it was unlikely acceptance.
between the supplies of Swedish Which followed to bear much of public has sten the streak of of Russians round them. Mr. Churchill To M. Reynaud iron-ore to Germany and the the burden and some of the odium tempered steel that is in his back was Winston Churchill.. The that any great progress could
March 22, 1940. output of the German from and of the ill-starred Norwegian cara bone, the stool which is con other Anthony Eden-two people be made to take care of-the
I cannot tell you how glad steel Industry,
paign, the course of which will sealed by his charm (as the whom the Russians respected. 1947 summer season! At
I am that all has been accom-
presently be described. IInd I hecklers at his "tougher meet-
Fine Soldier the beginning of the summer... „plished...._50_ successfully and _It_was_at_last_decided that, after been allowed to act with freedom ings have discovered to their
The other picture is of a door. speedily and especially that Da-addressing
in and design when I first demanded cost). of 1948, plans have still not
to Norway and permission, a far more agreeable It has realised that It would be man saying, is he went by: "You indler has been rallied to your general terms jadvanced beyond the draw-
Cabinet. This is much admired Sweden, we should lay minefields conclusion might have been mare possible. for Anthony know, I was in Mr. Eden's Com- ing-board stage, and folly of
He was the over here, and also Blum's self-in Norwarion territorial waters on reached in this key theatre, with Eren to lend his name to policies pany in the 60th. follies, no official indication
April elfacing behaviour.
5, and that, subject to the favourable consequences in every or practices of which he is Anest regimental officer we ever But now all was to be [approved than that pigs should (hnd." And with that his platoon Has been given of the nature I rejoice that you are at the concurrence of the French War direction. of the refinements to the helm, and that Mandel ls with Committee, "Royal Marine" should disaster. original plans, a serious error
you, and I look forward to the be begun on April 4 by launching very closest and most active the fluvial mitjes in the Rhine, because there are reasons to
co-operation between our two and on April 15 upon the Ger- believe that the modifica- Governments. tions would rouse a storm of criticism.
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sergeant whose life he saved in It remembers his resignation of No Man's Land (when he got his the Foreign Secretaryship for M.C. at the age of 18) would conscientious reasons in 1038.
For Anthony Eden is a North Even that is not the whole countryman with all the moral secret of his hold over the pub- I look forward to
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lle. Real charm is not synthetic, meeting of the Supreme Coun- Il, was also agreed that if Ger-
Perhaps the accent should bofTo have a lasting effect it must cil, where I trust concerted uc-many invaded Belgium the Allies
It may here be right to set forth
He is a come from the heart, be as na- on the "countryman," tion may be arranged between should immediately
Into the various offensive proposals fine linguist, he has travelled an tural as breathing. French and English colleagues that country without waiting for and devices which in my subora private citizen or as the repre-
Anthony Edon, for all his for that is what we are.
a formal invitation; that if Ger- dinute position I put forward sentative of this country ali over fundamental toughness, · for all
Bel-during The French Ministers came, to many invaded Holland, anderst was the entry and domina-inherited from
the Twilight War. The the face of the world. He has lus Intolerance of the things he his father, Sir thinks wrong, has a natural in- usually explained by the in- London for a feeling of the glum did not go to her assistancetion of the Baltic, which was the William Edení, not merely a giftistinctive courtesy and considera-
Supreme War Council on March the Aliles should ability of someone along the Mr. Chamberlain opened with selves free to enter Belgium for sovereign plan if it were possible for water colour painting, but a ton for others,
ine of the file circuit to make a full and clear description of the the purpose of helping Holland. It was veloed by the growing taste In books and pictures which his secret. up his mind, but this parti-scene as he saw To my great Finally, as an obvious point on realisation of the air power. cular problem appears to be satisfaction he said his first pro- which all were at one, the com-
We have come, when hav- ing to deal with govern- mental methods, to expect these interminable delays,
consider
50 lacking in complexity paul was that "a certain opera- munique stated that the British that the inaction is almost lon, generally known as 'Itoyal and French
Marine, should be put into opera-
inexcusable. If one can tion immediately."
The second was the creation of Governments had a close-action squadron of naval
imagine the Government The British anticipated that CARNIVAL granting a franchise for the this attack would create the ut whole of the beach to a pri- most consternation and contusion. It was well-known that no people vately-capitalised company,
than the the job would have been were more thorough
Germans preparation and plan- completed months ago, andning, but
no people could the public would now be be aore completely upset when miscarried. They could greeted by facilities design-
their Plans ed to attract, instead of what not improvise. the war hod
Again, he said
Government ultimately in- tound the German railways in a tends to perpetrate, some precarious state, and therefore barn-Bke structures without their dependence on their Jaland [any defence from the sun waterways had increased. In ad- dition to the floating mines other except such as may be east we by their own shadows. We weapons had been designed to be from aircraft. in canals might, too, have seen the ap- within
itself, where Germany pearance of a pier, one of there was no current.
Secrecy would be endangered those things considered to be
by delay, and the river conditions were about to be particularly
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