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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1949.
PEACE FOR HUNDREDS THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH INSTALMENT
OF YEARS POSSIBLE
Bristol, February 20.
The Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, declared fast night: "If the West and the other peace-loving nations got together now there will be no wor for hundreds of years.”
Mr. Bevin spoke at the 15th annual festival of the South West Area of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
'get this co-operation "If we In an obvious reference to Russia without mentioning the instead of going into conferences Soviet Union by name, Mr. and listening to abuse, as we have had to do, we shall sit down Bevin said:
and do business.
They will live their way. "We shall live ours, and peace will be assured for generations to come." Mr. Bevin spoke of the Atton- tle pact as an alliance in which all
contributing aro
each votheo's,welfare a
other and the "If the West peace loving nations get together now, get a complete understand- Ing and co-ordinate their defence efforts, there will be no war for hundreds of years," he declared.
TOURISTS FLOCK TO BRITAIN
New York, February 20. The 130,000 American tourists this year expected in Britain will stay longer and spend nore than ever, the British Travel Association reports.
Some of them are G.Is In search of "the girl they left behind them" during the war.
The Association survey said that tourists will spend an estimated .C 10,250,000 compared with £12,500,000 last year.
Before the war, the season was confined to June, July and Octo- ber, but now it stretches from April to the middle of October.
Many thousands of visitors have already made plans to visit the Shakespeare Festival starting an April 18, the British Industries Fair from May 2 to 13, und the Edinburgh Festival from August 22 to September 11.
Planes now make it possible for Americans to spend longer holi- days in Britain. Before the war the average stay was five days. Now it is 18.-Associated Press.
LA PASSIONARIA
Paris, February 19. Dolores Ibarruri, famous Spanish woman Communist Icader known 08 "La Passion- aria" has been ill for several days with an internal complaint at her Parls homo, according to a spokesman for the Spanish Com munist Party today.
The spokesman said that her illness is not serlous-United.
fo
Own Systems.
"The Americans have never before bean willing to under- take such a great responal- bility."
to
Again referring obliquely Russia, Mr. Bevin declared. that the British people pre willing that
country should have any the system of government it wants.
"But not at the expense of endeavouring to force it on us," he asserted.
(Mr. Bevin said: "The Russians would be able to live in their way of life and we to live in We cannot have one na- ours. tion stopping all progress in the world, and we have had to turn to the people who want to work with us.
Our Policy
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attack wont to "We do not anyone. What we are aiming at In not to be attacked by anyone. That is our policy. But if any one dare otlack one of us, then all of us are in the club together.
Mr. Beyin sald that Britain not want "patronage" dece from the United States.
that "I do not want to feet they are coming to our all. That is not the right spirit. I wont
and
and to feel that we
they others, by joining the pact, are there together all contributing to each other's security."-Associa- tion Press and United Press.
CRUSADE IN EUROPE
However, he agreed with me that destruction of enemy morale must always be the aim of the high command. To this end nothing is so useful as the attainment strategie surprise; a surprise that suddenly places our own forces in the enemy's position to threaton
to continue the war, ability
important area. heightened whon
Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
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the
the appearance of a man who had gone through a serious siege of ihealth. In any event this served to postpone; his visit until approach of winter and he than expressed a desire to go to our country in the spring. Before, that time arrived the Russians had apparently no further intorest in sending one of their Marshals to
week spend a
or ten days in
sterica. and the bor
at least in an This effect is accompanied by the tactical sur-sives they paid a terrible price for habitually rode to battle in lightly prise that arcuses the fear in the victory, The most costly form of armoured vehicles enemy's front-line units that they warfare, and the one in which the contage of losses among theso, I saw Marshal Zhukov for tho of last time November 7, 1945. It was are about to be destroyed. Time diminishing power of the offensive compared to the ghting units of a Soviet hullday, in honour of
percentage of after time in the campaigns in soonest manifests itself, is the losses among the Mediterrancan and in Europe tactical advance by superior forces the normal infantry divisions, which he gave a large reception gains ground clearly indicated to me the desirin Berlin, inviting to It the senior we successfully achieved surprise that gradually
and
costly, bo
comgements mar 2007 to
to
day.
in either the strategie or tactical against a flexibla and skilful de-ability of devising ways and means commanders and staff officers of feld, sometimes in bath. We suffer-fence. The enemy constantly read whereby all troops could go into all the Allies. The weather turned ed tactical surprise in the strength fusts his forces so as to compel battle under similarly favourable bad and flying was impossible.
The Russians, how The other two circumstances. attacks and | timing of the German attack
chief cancelled their Buccessive The Dayco of the Bulge in agonist the same for fewed measures ig-protect chief cancel December 1944. In this instance, pared positions and, as the main the individual against fatigue and but knowing that
Attended home, I determined to however, the probability and the tenance factor begins seriously to wounds as possibly too
they seemed to
the ceremony, although general location were foreseen to enter the problem, the enemy may Great victories,
had to make night trip inevitably require huge lo so i extent that reaction had been reverse original relative values in think, the
by train, followed by a long planned and could be effectively both moral and material strength, casualties.
To return the courtesy extended automobile trip during the exécuted. Nevertheless, the early In the early Russian counter-offen-
When I arrived Marshal Zhukov, effect on
morals of front-line sives of the war Zhukov had been to me by the Russian Government, troops was noticeable.
compelled to employ his armies in the American War Department, with his wife and a number of The experience of Russia in this expensive method. was not with the approval of President his color
line. Ho greeted then
promptly deserted The year 1941 saw the entire that the Soviets began, in a mill-Zhukov to pay a visit, to America. me and Western portion of that country tary sense, to gain the great re- An immediate acceptance was re- the receiving line. Ho took his overrun by the Nazis. From the wards paid for by their earlier turned and we thought that the wife by the arm, and the three of depart for us, with an interpreter, retired to region of the Volga Westward, severe sacrificos. Proud of their Marshal would soon almost everything was destroyed. victories, the Russians always re- the United States. He asked that a comfortable room where were We When we flew into Russia, in 1945, mambered with bitterness
General Clay or I go their did not see a
him so that he might have refreshments of all kinds. house standing cont. between the Western borders of
I know that in my personal | In country, Just
In my the country and the area around reactions, an the months of con- companted me during my trip to Moscow. Through this Overrun fiict wore on, I grew constantly Russia. I had to tell him that be- region, Marshal Zhukov told me, mora bitter against the Germans, cause of special circumstances and
many numbers
problems at the moment I could of women, particularly the Hitler gang. On
but arranged for
I killed that the Russian Govern- of the destruction that
Hitler's
F's General mert would never be able to esll-ruthless ambition had brought shal Zhukov also asked if my son mate the total. Some of their great no demanded its price in broken I told him that John would be don
battle, every
ery skir- could accompany him as an afde.
until November 1942 there seemed bodlog and in the extinction of or would the cities had been laid waste and mish,
ourcil to do so and that, morcover,
glad
to none the
World War II was a hareh one. until the final months of the war Truman, promptly invited Marshall in the receisyants, was standing
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"friend
as ho
ho had ac
children, and old men had been all sides there was always evidenco) not defer to no with him, Mar-1
tile In-
Bend him
that
in
T
talked for two hours.
(To Be Continued)
THOUGHT HE
WAS SECOND HITLER
Munich, February 19.
be rehabilitated and the Western after Allied of rope, in NOTCH! Russia in the plane and had great Nazi American Bund, against his
of
to be little hope that their des- the lives of young Allied saldiers.', the Sullow his delighted lum. court hearing the appeal of Fritz Mr. Roy Carlson, American porate defence could hold of the Marshal Zhukov showed
author, today told the Munich enemy until their industrica could tereat in measures that thought, regularly used
He had already ridden through Kuhn, former leader the pro- Allen could get into the war in Africa and
should be force.
taken to protect the foot soldier confidence in it and the crew. Ha 10-year sentence as a Nazi major All this would have embittered and to increase hix Individual sold something to the interpreter offender. that Kuhn thought of any people; It would have been effectiveness. The efficiency of which was given to me as, himself as a
a 'second Hillar. completely astonishing if the ground units is markedly affected the general's plane and the gan
Kuhn issued an order to defy Russians had not a more direct by the success of a commander in oral
in oral's son to-getting his men on to the buttia | perfectly sa I know I shall be] Governor Thomas E. Doway, then and personal vindictiveness
New York State Attorney, on ward the Germans and a aterner line without the fatigue of long Unfortunately the Marshal soon the ground that he was Jewish- attitude toward the realities of and exhausting marches and under fell ill. At the time there was some influenced, Mr. Carlson said. The war than was the case in countries such conditions as to provide them speculation as to whether it was pubile prosecutor demanded far removed from the scene of protection from the sporadic fires diplomatie Illness, but when sentence of 10 years' hard labour. hostilities.
that always harass the rear areas. next saw him at a meeting of the The verdiet is expected on Tues. Even in their successful offen-| Certain of our special formations | Control Counell in Berlin ho gavo1 day--Router
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