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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 18, 1949,
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK
THEIR FINEST HOUR
Mr. Churchill liad sent Mus- Reporters & General Office 32312 solini a message on May 16 appealing to him "to stop a river of blood from flowing H.K.318.00 between the British and Ita- H.K.136.00 lian peoples." Musolini re- H.K.$72.00
plied that "Italian policy to day and tomorrow in the face of any event whatsoever" was guided by the Italo-Ger- man Treaty. He also referred to the "state of servitude in which Italy finds herself in her own sea.
DEATH
Bedford,
→
on
MITCHELL-At
Wednesday, 10th February, Mrs. Margaret Sarah Mit- chell, widow of the late Mr. E. W. Mitchell, and mother
in her. 42nd
of Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell of Hong Kong
year.
FAR EAST POLICY
tical
FROM this moment we could
have no doubt of Mus- solini's Intention to enter the war at his most favourable moment. His resolve had in fact been made as soon as the We may be better inform-defeat of the French armies ed than to believe that poll was. bbvious. On May 13 he intransigence started had told Ciano that he would only in the last two decades, declare war on France and but we are inevitably condi- Britain within a month. His tioned by our own environ-official decision to declare ment and country of origin, war on any date suitable after and against this background June 6 was imparted to the events stand out with great-Italian Chiefs of Staff on May er poignancy.
20. At Hitler's request the date was postponed to June 10.-
Apart from the bigots, few of the ordinary citizenry can now hear the names of Ram- say Macdonald, Stanley Bald- win or Neville Chamberlain, Hitler or Mussolini, Chiang Kai-shek (or-breathe it Stalin?) without a feeling of resentment at broken pro- mises and consciously mis- leading statements.
wag the question posed.
In her hand.
French Withdrawal
on, but
the
always there was by others of a different
of replaced that he might soon be
If
temper.
Italy Declares War
By Winston Churchill
situation with which we pre both faced at this momunt....
in
In the formula prepared leat
Sun-1 day. by Lord Halifax it was BÚT, gested that if Signor Mussoli would co-operate with us
saltlement of ail securing a European questions which would safeguard our independence and form the basis of on just and durable peace for Europe, we should be prepared to discuss his claims .In the Mediterranean: add certain You now propose to
I cannot specifle offers, which suppose would have any chance of moving Signor Mussolini, and which once made could not be in or- subsequently withdrawn der to induce him to undertake the role of mediator, which the
formula discussed on Sunday contemplated.
and my colleagues believe that Signor Mussolini has long had it in mind that he might even- tually all this role, no doubt counting upon substantial ad- vanleges for Italy in the pro. coss, But we are convinced that at this moment, when Hitler is flushed with, victory and cer tainly counts on early and com
collapse df Allied rešik“ ploto tonce
it would be impossible for
Signor Mussolint to put forward proposals for a conference with any success, I may remind you also that the President of the U.S.A. has recolved a wholly negative reply to the proposal which we jointly asked him to
CANTONESE BY RADIO
Vocabulary:
(C)
¡M 'shai.
BY SK LEE
Yeesa tscen1.
Lesson 23
M shai? tseen2. Shaimi shai,wah
kul jee1?
Yeeoo wah kul jest..
M shai wah kui jeet.
Conversation:
A.
To spend. To use. To send:
Necessary, Need:
An interrogative final particle
expressing surprise,
Busy, (not to have leisure)
Is it necêssary? Is it needed? Yes. It is necessary. It is need-
ed. No. It is not necessary.
need. There is no
bother,
Is it free (of charge)?
Do not
Is it necessary to pay for It?. Money Is required,
It is necessary to pay for it.
It is free (of charge). There is no need of money. Is it necessary to tell him?
He must be told.
It is not necessary to tell him.
Nay, in shai faan' gung' Don't you have to go to work? meh1?.
Today is Sunday. Gum1
yuthai „Lai Baai Yut.
On May 26, while the fate of the hung in the Northern Armies balance and no one could be sure that any would escape, Reynaud
er over to England to have a 129. (shai) shai? talk with Us about this topic,
(me) meh' which had not been absent from 130.
declaration our minds, The Italian of war must be expected at any Useful phrase: Mean-moment, Thus France would burn
a new (18) M duk' haan" upon another front, and ing not the slightest disres-toe would march hungrily upon pect to the individuals con- her in the South. Could anything cerned, or casting any asper be done to buy aff Mussolini? That Questions and Answers:
(A) Shaim shal1? sions on their motives, the
Yeeoo", Hong Kong public did how-
I did not think there was the ever not wax at all enthu-slightest chance, and every fact that the French Premier uned an siastic over the recent com-
an argument for trying only made ments by Captain L. D.
me surer there was no hope. How- Gammans, MP, during his
ever. Reynaud was under strong recent visit here or the pressure at home, and we on cur (B) Shai? m shai tseen?? similar assurance by Govern- side wished to give full considera- Ally whose one vilai ment peers in the House of tion to our Lords-that the ruling power weapon, her Army, was breaking in Britain had no. intention whatsoever of giving up Hong Kong Peoples dis illusioned the hard way by Although there was no need to marshal the grave facts, M. Rey- world wars and crises are becoming impervious to the "ud dwelt not obscurely upon the possiblo French withdrawal from formerly-comforting pro-the war, He himself would fight nouncements of statesmen, The question has, course, an equal importance in international politics.
We had already on May 25 at representatives of the gov- the instance of the French Govern ernment of a dominating ment made a joint request to Pre-
sident Roosevelt to intervene. In B. power make conflicting or
this message Britain and Franca unwise statements, the re-authorised blm to state that we territorial suls can be evilly far-reach- understood Italy had
the ing. In an unfortunate spot-grigrances against thon light at the moment is Unit-Mediterranean, that we were dir-
A. ed States policy towards posed to consider at once
reasonable claims, that the Allies CONNECT HONGKONG, TWICE WEEKLY, WITH Japan. Is America going to would admit Italy to the Peaco abandon the Nipponese is Conference with a status equal to lands as indefensible when that of any belligerent, and that the inevitable Communist we would invite the President to push comes? Or are they see that any agreement reached
now would be carried out, being regarded as a bastion The President acted according and front-line base of Wash-ly; but his addresses were repulsed ington in the Far East? by t the dictator in the most B.
Italian
At our meeting It would seem, despite abrupt manner.
with Reynaud we had already this denials, almost certain that answer before us. The French Mr. Kenneth Royall, US. Premier new suggested more pre- Secretary of the Army, incise proposals. Obviously, if these timated this weck that were to remedy Italy's state of servitude in her own sea," they Washington had decided to
muat affect the status both 01 withdraw gradually from Gibraltar and Suez. France was
A. Japan as she has from China: prepared to make similar conces- The world-wide flurry caus- sions about Tunis,
We were not able to show any ed by the publication of this
favour to these ideas. This was declaration has now resulted not because it was wrong to ex- In a person of even greater amine them or because it did not importance-Mr. Dean Ache seem worth while at this moment son, Secretary of State-em-to pay a heavy price to keep Italy phasising that no change has out of the war. My own fealing was that at the pitch in which our been contemplated in Ameri-ffairs lay, we had nothing to can policy in the Far East. ofer which Musolini could not take He did, however, tactfully for himself or be given by Hitler refuse to define this policy if we were defeated. One cannot or commit his government totally make a darted atollating B.
Kasp. Once we started any precise line of action in for the friendly mediation of the this part of the world..... Tenying the situation just as opaque as it was earlier this week, and giving dissident elements every opportunity of making capital out of what may be construed as weakness or conflict among
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Duco, we should destroy power of fighting on.
Cabinet's Answer
any
our
I found my colleagues very s{I and tough. All our minds ran much more on bombing Milan and Turin the moment Mussolini declared
B.
M shai faan' gung'. Nay dukhaan,' tung ngaw seh2 dee1
duk' aḥ3? yeh, "duk"
;m Ngaw yeeoo hui3 geen' gung!
m_dukhaan seh2. Seh mut,yeh nch1? M goy nay bay ngaw taishah lah1.
Nay hul geen mut1 yeh gung1 sh1?
There is no need to go to work. (Since) you are not busy, can
you write something for me?
I have to go to be interviewed
for a job,
(and)
am too busy to write it.
What (have you), to write? Please let me see it,
What job is it that you are
going for interview?
typist:
Yau gaan ngun hong. A bank wants seung" tseng yut1 gawi
.' dah" jee2.
employ
Is it necessary for me to
with you?
Shait, shai* ngaw tung này hút nhan AM shaiz lok
goy1
There is no need. Thank you.
Jok
It's all right for me to go alone..
Please come back for dinner!
Ngaw yut! gaw yun huis, duk lok. Tsing faan lai shik „faan_lah'!
A. M shui lok'. Daw? „dzok Don't bother. Thank you.
Jok..
the powers that be in the war, and seeing how he liked the DO YOU
Capitol.
Such confusion of state- ments by responsible minis ters is damaging in the greatest degree to any na- tion. No one expects the democracies to speak with the single voice possible only under dictatorship, but the ruling party should at least have an agreed policy, par- ticularly where burning in ternational issues are at stake. The young world power of America would do well to learn from the mis takes of earlier states-and their so-called statesmen.
Reynaud, who did not at heart disagree, seemed convinced or at least content. The most we could promise was to bring the matter before the Cabinet and send definite answer the next day, Roy- naud and 1. lunched alone together
at the Admiralty. The following telegram, the greater part of which is my own wording em bodies the conclusions of the War Cabinets Prime Minister, to M. Reynaud. Awa
28.40
KNOW
YOUR
HONG
KONG?
Can you
have with my colleague cognise where amined with the most careful this plature Was and sympathetic attention: the taken? The ang proposal for an approach by awer-le in: Pags way of precise offer of conchs-| Bayan. elona to Signor Mussolini that,
you have forwarded to me toi day, fully reallting the terrible
Good Morning
The Artists League of America has listed woman's 10. most per- fect features as forehead, nese. oyes, lips, ars, cheek bonts, chin, make, and that no response has shoulders, thighs and legs. Com been made to the approach plately unorganised artists which Lord Halifax made to Paris are reported puzzled by a . the Italian Ambassador horo
feeling of incompleteness. last Saturday,
Stout Hearts
"Australia as Britain's Arsenal in the Pacific." What for? A cup final with the Russian Dynamos?
Therefore, without oxcluding the
"Braves and Squaws Swing to possibility of on, approach to Signor Mussolini at some time, Jive," says teen age item. In our we cannot feel that this would day it was, naively, "Boys and Timo be the right momen, and I am Girls Come out to Play." bound to add that in my opinion Jitterbugs on. the effect on the morale, of our people, which is now firm and Eye disease affects Renault resolute, would be extremely motor factory. A site for sore
You yourself can eyes? dangerous.
beat Judge what would be the
Peddlers selling silver dollars offect in France:
the in Shanghai were charged with You wil ask, then, how
situation to be Improved? My damaging the national currency. raply is that by showing that Worse, added the police, they were
the loss of our two blocking the traffic. after [Northern] armies
RTLE
Bup-
the
port of our Belgian ally we still
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Not cottoning.to the idea of Jap
have atout hearts and confidence textile competition, foreign inter- in ourselves we shall at once cats think it should be Nipped in strengthen our hands in negotia- the bud.
tions and draw the admiration
and perhaps the malerini help of the U.S.A.
There is no truth. In the eug-
gestion that "transients" in Hong
Moreover, we feel that pa long as Kong will be made to wear a..
un distinctive badge so that shop- wc stand together our
defcated Navy and our Air keepers, as well as hotellers, can Force, which is daily destroying indulge their sporting instincts-
Government licence, German fghters and bombers at under
11
A racial bars to immigration are to ba into the United States Rfted. Surely the Ku Klux boys aren't running short of material for these happy_get-togethers?
a formidable rate, afford us the course.. means of exercising in our com- man interest a continuous pre- Asura upon Germany's Internal life. We have reason to bellove that the Germans, too, are working to time-table, and that their losseR and the hardshipa imposed on them together with the fear of our raids is undermining their courage. It would indeed be n tragedy if by too hasty an ac- ceptance of defeat we throw away a chance that was almost within our grasp of securing an honourable insus from the strug- gle.
In my view if we both stand out we may yet save ourselves from the fate of Denmark or Poland, i Our success must depend first on our unity, then on our courage and endurance.
Italy At War
This did not prevent the French Government from making a fow days later a direct offer of their own to Italy of territorial conces Bions, which Mussolint treated with disdain, "He was not inter- Bald Clune to the Frouch cbassador on June 3, "in",
|_ re- Fronch territories
covering any
by peaceful ncgotiation. He had decided to make war on France." This was only what we had expected...
And
tera.
Burmese peasant's, cry: "Novor let a Chettyar chent yer."
Holland has got itself in Dutch with the Indonesians.
·
•
"Strategic Ichong Shelled" And
the Nationalists? Icheng to fight
back.
This is the reply from
Washington!
though rare, are not necessarily
good.
On June 10 at 4.45 p.m. the Italian Minister for Farelan Af- faira informed the British Ambas- sador that, Italy would consider herself at war with the United Kingdom from I am. the next | day. A similar communication was When Clano, delivered his note made to the French Government.
to the French Ambassador, M. Francola-Poncet remarked as he reached the "door: "You too will
the Germans are hard mas The British Ambassador, Six Forthwith the Italians attacked Percy Loraine, received tho an the French troops on the Alpine nouncement with perfect com-front and Great Britain recipro posure and apparent indifference. cally declared war on Italy. The He asked only one question: Was live Italian ships detained at Clano's statement early news or Gibraltar, were seized and orders was it in fact the declaration of were given to the Navy to inter wart Clang replied it was the cept and bring into controlled Tafter. Loraine then made a formal | ports all Italian vessels at sen. bow and left the room without | On the night of the 12th our bom- another word,
ber squadrons, after a long flight from England which meant light From his balcone in Rome Mus loads, dropped their first bombs. solini announced to well-organized upon Turin and Milan. We looked crowds that Italy was at war with Forward, however, to a Franco and Britain It was, as heavler delivery as soon Clano
much
said to have apologetically could use the French airfields at remarked, later on, "A chance Marseilles, which comes only once in five
thousand years. Such chances, (Continued On Page 11)
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