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THE SAME OLD STEAM-ROLLER
THE CHINA MAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1910,
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK
THEIR FINEST HOUR
Where Is The Strategic Reserve?"
By May 16, 1940, enemy
arifiours had penetrated 60 miles through,' the gap-left-by
the French Ninth Army; now /
were
no
By Winston Churchill
а
can always e
.
or
from
had been
resolution into the Security nearing at the Embassy about Government, and the War Office no to influential and
13-May
table.
Kame
Inferiority method"-arid then a hopeless
Frontages of Allied Forces
713 May SEVENTH FRENCH ARMY
fitwerp
Bruges
Dunkirk
Calais
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BELGIANS
Louvain
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FIRST FRENCH ARMY
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Lord Douglas daséried få 'the House of Lords that the forces fh Hong Kont are Insufficient for Rs défence. Never mind.
nt Jedist make selves, we enn sure that political refugees Bru sale.
A
Two hundred blectrical ex- perts walled while a hotel elec- trician fixed their conference. room lighting. Something like the frustration felt by an atomic scientist with an empty clgarite lighter.
The Rim or the Colonial Omeo, ya contemporary, "la · to endure Malayal, prosperity." Perhaps they could put up with a little hers too.
•
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Stems It should have been "Get Their Gold" Yunn.
French called the
Therefore the question we must face is whether we can give further ald in Aghters above four
for which
the squadrons
•
The Iron Curtain" thus puts
-pold
To playmates the Board
of Trade Pa
Like Sidney Stanley, subtle
soul,
authority to move four more squadrons of fighters to France. On, our return to the Embassy
The move to restore the lan and also talking it over with Dili, was deciited to ask süheilon for the punge of Shakespeare to the in
fected longues of Britain's in dissolution. The French I whe dumbfounded, What were, Presently General Gamelin was
dispatch of six mure. This would
be regarded by again. He was dis- Seventh Army tad retreated we to think of the great French speaking
forces should leave us, with, only the, 25 fighter Youth will West of the Scheldt, and the Army and its highest chiefs? It cursing whether
the Anal limit. was a rending
No, Dumb Dora, a totalisator Dutch High Command had had never occurred to me that I now be gathered to strike at the squadrons at home, and that wha Hollywood as Rank propaganda.
penetration; cummanders having to de-flanks of the given the: cvase-fire. The 600 miles of engaged Front "Bulge.", na we called auch things declabis either way to 1876. is not the chief executive of n
I told General BEF, with the French First would have left themselves un later on. Eight or nine divisions
that the Cabinet Communist country. to phone Army, had orders to will provided with
being withdrawn masa et mari-
nant were
at once to con- the front, the
If HCL continues to Le In parts.of draio to the Scheldt. Mr. re No one can defend with quiet
Hut Maginot Line: there were two shter an
TWO
would be contour in the buried to line abollched. Otherwine the a clearer view of the
Ute crisis. when
enemy
_next hour, Drag unity Colony a workers will AT about 3 pm I flew to himself to a major thrust which which had not been engaged; did this in Hindustani, having solvent before we know it
jeight-or-nina more i itivisions were||
-arranged for an In- Paris in alumingo-breaks the line and em
Me and Mr. M Government passenger plane, of
have, which
one must diways have, a "being brought-komendy Vilém do ve stondinių three mass of divisions which marches would arrive in the batije zane there
goodbye to all their friends and by in his office. This was my
thank one and all for their General Dill, Vice-Chief of the up in vehement counter-attack (during the next Kortnight or three telegra
weeks. at the moment when the frat
kindness on leaving for South.. 9 pm May 16, 1040. General General Staff, came with me, fury of the offensive, has spent
Giroud
Alone at last.. ป its force.
in command of the French I shall be glad if the Cabinet Africa, Advt. placed
could meet immediately to con and General Ismay. It was
of the gup. The What was the Maginot Line Army North good machine, very comfortable,
sider following, Situation grave According to u trade Journal lvance hence- and making about 100 miles an tor? It should have economised Germana would
in the last degree Furious there has been no change in hour. As it was, unarmed, an troops upon a large sector of the forward through a corridor be-
18 twenty years. Cerman thrust through Sedan men's sulis finds
Armies. -This applies particularly to the escort was provided, but we frontier, not only offering many tween two fronts on which war
and fure in the fashion of 1917- soared off into a rain-cloud and sallyports for local counter
grouped, mitay in North, ethard pockets. little strokes, but also enabling large 1918 could be woged. Perhaps
in Alsace. At least four days reached Le Bourget in
forces to be held in reserve and the Germans could not maintalri
required to bring 20 divisions more than an hour,
its ever-in
to cover Faris and strike at From the mor.cht we got out this is the only way these things the corridor, with One thing is noteworthy in
the flanks of the Bulge, which this was bo
be built-up, and at the Soviet policy: once it has been the "Flamingo" it was obvious can be done. But now there was creasing double flank-guards 16
is now: 60 kilometres wide. ned 1 time
40 nourish their armoured in- formulated, no manner of re- that the situation was facomo reserve. I admis
T life. Why had. ¡buff can prevent it from run-parably worie than we had im-fone of the greatest surprisesursion. Something in this sense Three [German] armoured divi- Even if we can't look after dur
slons with two or three infan- agined. The fleers who met us have had in my
seemed to say, and alt
divisions have advanced, try course. told General
that the not known more about it, even damelin sect may ning its prescribed
through gap and large masies The Introduction of an al- Germans were expected in Parks though I had been so busy at the this was quite sound. I was con
in this small but
hurrying forward behind them ready rejected disarmament in a few days at most. After Admiralty? Why had the British selous, however, that it carried
Two great dangers therefore respon⚫ I drove to position.
the above not known more about hitherto
ove all
threaten. First that BEP will in the air 5,38 ? It waè no excuse that the sible company. Council, coupled with a sharp Qual d'Orsay, arriving at
will be largely left asked General Command would. Presently 1 conducted into French High I was attack on regional security o'clock.
in taking no action to make * when and where he
dimeuit disengagement and programmes, falls into the one of its fine rooms, Reyraud not impart their dispositions to Gomelin
treat to the old line. Secondly same category Os Stalin's was there, Daladier, Minister of or to Lord Gort except in proposed to attack the Banks, of
that the German thrust will famous imitation of a turtle- Defence and. War, and General vague outline. We had a right to the Bulge. His reply was: "in-
French resis wear helore bi
down the dove a week ago and Molo- Gamelin Everybody was stand- know. We ought to have insisted: feriority of numbers; inferiority
did well Both armies were fighting in the of equipment,
It can be fully ing. At no time "simultaneous | down tov's almost
around a
Utter line together."
Orders given to defend Faris af tirade bitterly condemning
German advenĪCAS
pil costs; but archives of the the Western powers. The
Qual d'Orsay already burning Kremlin having decreed that
I consider the in the garden next for Paris and
three or four a peace-offensive should be launched in an attempt to lull the West or alternatively provide propaganda materi- al, it was to be expected that the forum of the Security Council would not be over- looked. None of this deceives and. powers the Western they are not likely
to be diverted from the course laid down after two years of vain efforts to find a satis- factory formula før amicâble relations with Russia. The conclusion to which they have been forced is that they must make their own plans- and pursue them in areas where they still exert influ- Fence. Out of this conclusion has grown the projects of Matshall Aid, a Government for Western Germany, Council of Europe, and At- and President lantfe Pact nouncement about aid for for the undeveloped areas of the
I went back again to the win-shrug of the shoulders. There world. Against this struc
face. In front of Gamelin on a dow..and the curling wreaths of was no argument; there was no- ture, the Soviet tactics or student's easel was a map, about smoke from the bonfires if the head of ginment. And where der upon the comic. In fact, two yards square, with a bidek State documents of the French were we British, anyway, having
Ink line purporting to show the Republic. Still the old gentlemen regard to our the only point of interest in
divisions. them for the Western Powers Allied front. In this line there were bringing up their wet, War, and, not is Stalin's purpose in fishing was drawn a small but sinister barrows, and industriously cast-
bulge at Sedan
ing their contents into the domes, tank elvision
was with an unbalted hook. Had
considerable The Commander-in-Chitef to be
in changing groups there appeared
i of behou.. thing resembling en any
South
around the principals, of which
has published, der Gamelin's and front of 50 or 60 M Reynaud which could have served as Sedan, the Gemüts mit groken tailed record. I am represented ormous difficulties, would still
of them was destroyed or wither wal stand in the way of agree scattered & heavy onrusti
vehicle was advane-should counter-attick. over Ger-
armoured ment especially settlement in with unheard of peed to- this was my mood. But here was burther as well as higher
wards Amicis, and Arras, with no considered military at this fighter support was destined to could possibly be reached, on
Intention, apperabbeville was the first realisation we had be
of It must be remembered that, the foundation of a general; reaching the coast
sations fighter' Invish, and hollow, declara
thereabouts: Alternatively at the
conference until ch dess the course 03 his appeal. apparent French cight
that fighters wors ho sáld, atmaur one of the greatest tragedies hindi
mo-operations, and our army, which the French Army, but also to of Soviet policy. that its pro- or 10 Gurman divisions, all ages. We were not conducting the Gamelin
tor sedz
were driving onwards, was only a tenth of the troops no stop Hic German tanks AL paganda has emptied the
making flinke for, tiemselves as the creat words of... humanity,
command they
he: British armies on I and the
llory to stop the tables. öfficers with) democracy, brotherhood, disconnected French
me were staggered at the evident The business of the fighters le to patriotism and peace of practfettner Re:
Menerot talked tops conviction. of the French Com-cleanse thakles (nettoyer le The cally all meaning.
Ave
without anyone say-mander-in-Chief and jeading clel), over the battle.org. only way now in which con-en word. What he stopped Ministers that all was lost, and It was vital that our,, metro- fidence in Soviet intentions there was a considerable flchco.in anything that I said was polltan fighten. air force, should violently... against this, not be drawn quts of Britain: pai, Where is the reacting and; break There
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GERMAN ADVANCES on successive days 13-17 May 1940
dejection was written on every
briefly explained what had hapverton
North
uru
· and
a
of
bombere
French are, very and whether, a larke long-range heavy
nights upon the German masses
crossing the Meust and flowing into the. Bulge. Even so results cannot be guaranteed; but the
nch
resistance
roken up
the Bulge. Ik won.
may be
of Poland unless this battle of Up as rapidly of that sonally feel that we should send squadrons of fighters de-
to
I person
manded
Bly morph nd concentrating pil morrow, and,
available French and British aviation, dominate the air above the Bulge for the next or three days, not for any local purpose, but to give the Jast „Ellince to the French Army
Bibvery
and good
16
Fally Ita strength. It would hat historically if their requests were denied and their rum resulted. Also night bombard
force of ment by a strong ficass
bombers can no doubt (be arranged. thy contribution
eleht monilis
of
de in action
I saw bl Westier lost i The
General Indeed of all the French High Command's subsb
the,, Northern their inferiorily in the air and contrary they pornest entreaties for more zqba- Royal Force but
OD
La basis for discussion, en- the French Army; in as urging that there should be noquent remarks, was insistence
101 | Armies, that pa the, Cainly drons of er for
opinion.
In
tlon of. peaceful intents It is they might make for Paris. Be-of or agnitude of the dienster repentod at every subsequent
the
France, post
bestle 10.8ive cover to
this
advanced gainst the two front, was serving, under theid: "No. It is the business ot?
concrete and pathstaking stralogip
can be revived is by modest, ir then i weIVOOLING Tased they were quite right, and that on this. Nevertheless, it (wah, lefforts to restore point by ing into, 25 nse): the most rapid reirent to the necessary to cut to the bone. In:
point some of the meaning
K
Indiferents de
South was imperative. This soon the morning, before I sinrted, 10. these much abused terms, General Gamelini, turned to me became obvious to all.
the Cabinet had given mo Meanwhile, the "Western
and, with a #thake powers will continue undis- and a :shrug, said:
head "Aucune.
Longspause.
of smoke
turbed Ringtheir own "efforts ... There was n
to consolidate security and Outslid in the
Qual d'Orsay
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