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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1949.
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK
THEIR FINEST
HOUR
Importance Of Darlan
IN the closing days at Bor-
deaux Admiral Darlan be-
By Winston Churchill
loning their
confidence
fortunes or our will.
коп
our
Good Morning!
the footsteps
Formerly only were visible in the New Terri- torics, But yesterday come a mulled roar from Wanchal.
no soda.
of
A
According to a contemporary, The buoyant and imperturbable
"blend new" car is offered for temper of Britain, which I had the honour to express in acceptable sale, with economical fuel con- terms, may well have furnud the mumption. Two petrols please scale. Here was this people, whe in the years before the war had!
the extreme
bounds gone to the
Just after Ipswich Town had pacifism and improvidence, who
rrored the first good in their cun had indulged in the sport of party
fle with
match Aldershot, the RO weakly though
was postponed because potilken, and who,
of fog. advanced light-hearted- armed, had
The affleinl verdiet was, we un- ly into the centre of European
Visibility affairs, now confronted with the derstand, Ipswich 1: reckoning alike of their virtuous all. impulses and neglectful ATIE OMN animante me even countries, that the British Govern ment and nation were resolved to But even If fight on to the last. there were no moral weakness in
came
very important. My
Oran contacts with him had been to the House of Commons, what Are al
A funeral service arranged to whiten All few and formal. I respected we had done. Although the cruiser was
Strasbourg had escaped from their neighbours sought to go. Both him for the work he had done Oran and the elective disable- families requested that the Union
the Frenchment of the Richelieu in recreating
had rot Jack should lie upon the coffins Tricolour Navy, which after 10 years ofthen been reported, the measures side by side with the his professional control was we had taken had removed the and their wishes were respectfully more efficient than at any French Navy fron najor German observed. In this we may see how
eniculations,
the comprehending spirit of simple time since the French Revolu
I spoke for an hour or more that folk touches the sublime. tion.
detailed Kavu afternoon, and sccount of all these sombre evente they were known to mie, I Mouch Trouchy I dichter for the sake of propoflion to end проп a kole which placed this mournful episode in true relation with the plight in which we stond: I therefore read to the House the admonition which
We make no apdogy for Lagain rattling the Commun- ist skeleton, for the lengthen- ing shadow of this apparition makes itself obvious nearer and nearer home. Only the uther day we had to ment on Maurice Thorez of France, who with Palmiro Togliatti of Italy had declar-obsession, and I believe played a ex! that his countrymen definite part in his action, would not oppose the Rus- Sian Army if it invaded, and would in fact indulge in Now sabotage to help it. comes Harry Pollitt, British feader. saying Communist the same thing. People born in London, Cardiff, Belfast, and Glasgow will welcome the alien conqueror if he ever manages to cross the English Channel.
500
of
For the rest Darian had been
I have described, and as present at most of the conferences which
end of the French resistance 251
he had approached,
repentedly that whatever hup- assured me pened the French Fleet should! never fall into German hands.
Bordeaux Now t
eame thei fateful moment in the career of this ambitious, self-seeking and capable Admiral, His aver the Fleet was for all pract- ical purposes absolute. He had only to order the ships to British, American On French colonial harbour-some had already
дя
1
Spread Alarm
'Doom Hour
ΠΗΓΗΣ and
Our
arrange-
to a
defied
the conquerors of Europe. They seemed willing to have their Island reduced shambles rather than give in. This would make fine page in history klad. Athens had been conquered But there were other thies of this Carthaglalans by Sparta. The made a forlorn resistance to Rome. annals of the Not seldom in the past-and how much more often In Tragedies never recorded or long- forgotten had brave, proud, easy. going States and even entire races been wiped out so that only their tame or even no mention of them remains.
Brute Force
Few
Hrith
anil
fow
When in December, 1939, he hud tomatendo tan granted ye must him a oficial amner, at the Admiralty In response to the toast, he began by reminding us that his great- grandfather rad been killed at the Battle of Trafalgar, I there
of 1 had, with Cabinet approval, cir-Britain, how could the appalling fore thought of him as one those good Frenchmen who hate culated though the inner circles of physical facts be overcomet
almost unarmed except for riflen. England, Our Anglo-French naval | the governing machine the day armies at home were known to be There were in fact hardly 500 discussions in January had also before.
-kuns of any sort and hardly shown how very Jealous the Ad-· iniral was of his professional
medium er heavy tanks in the to whoever position in relation
whole country. Month, must pass was the political Minister of Mar- On what may be the eve of an
before our faclories could make ine, This hud become
u positive
munitions fost at attempled invasion or battle fur
good even the our native land, the Prime Min. Dunkirk, Can one wonder that the Ister desires to impress upon all world at large was convinced that peraona holding responsible postur hour of doom had struck?
"The
Government, is the tions in Fighting
Deep alarm spread through the Serylees or in the Civil Departments, their duty to mala. United States, anil indeed through free countries, all the surviving tain a spirit of alert and con
Americans gravely asked them fident energy. While every pre-
to caution man be taken that time selves whether
It was right плу of their own foreigners understand the peculiar away and mesna afford, there are no ent
to in technical advantages grounds for supposing that more severely imited resourers German troops enn he landed indulge a generous though hopeless sular position; obr was it generally knows how even in the irresolule this country, either from the air sentiment, Ought they not to strain
before the war the essentials УЕПЕН than can be every or across the sun,
of sea and intterly air defence had by the weapon to remedy their own un- destroyed or cnptured
been maintained. It was nearly a needed It preparedness! strong forces at present under arms. The Royal Air Force is insure judgment to rise above thousand years since Britain had seen the fires of a foreign camp on At the summit of excellent order and at the high-cogent, matter-of-fact arguments. est strength yet attained. The The gratitude of the British nation
British resistance everyone s due to the noble Presiden; and German
Navy was never
mained calm content to set their weak, nor the British Army at his great officers and high advisers mine home so strong as now,
for never, even in the advent of fives upon the cast, Thint this was The Prime Minister expects all the Third Term President Election nur mood was gradually recognis- ed by friends and fees throughout nly in high his Majesty's servants
the whole world. What was there places to set an example of
behind the mood? That could steadiness and resolution. They
only be settled by brute force. should check and rebuke the ex
Thero was also another aspect. pression of loose and ill-digested
One of our greatest dangers during opinions in their circles, or by
June lay in having our last re- their subordinates. They should
serves drawn away from us into a Hot hostltate to report, of 11
wasting, futile French resistance necessary remove, any persons.
in France, and the strength of our officers or officinin who дре found
air forces gradually worn down to be conselously exercising a
by their lights or transference to disturbing or depressing influ
the Continent. ence, and whose talk is calculated
alarm to sprend
and despon. dency. Thus alone will they be worthy of the fighting men who, in the air, on the sea, and on land,
met have already
the without any sense of f martial being outmatched qualities.
darted-to he obeyed.
authority
Kindred Spirits
In the morning of June 17, M. fleynaud's after the fall of
General Cabinet, he declared to
Geurges that he was resolved to give the order. The next day Genges met him in the afternoon and asked him what had hep- Darian replied that he pened. had changed his mind. When asked,
"I am
This why, le answered simply, now Minister of Marine." did not mean that he had changed:
to become his mind in order
that Marine, but Minister of being Minister of Marine he had a different point of view.
enemy
Very Silent
To repeat an earlier.com ment. it simply sounds in- credible to any ordinary per- Those of us familiar with Marxist theory can see the theoretical point that Communism is a world-wide faith, impervious to the bor- ders and sovereignty states, that it gives land back to the landless, etc., etc. That is a very well in theory, and sounded much beller three or four decades ago. But one would Have imagined it obvious even to the faithful that today Rus- sia is more nationalistic than any other country on earth, and when her armies march in, it is to impose with utter
How vain are human calcuta- ferocity her own economic tons of self-interest! Rarely has system on another people. there been a more convincing ex- Admiral Darlan had but Do Scottish shipworkers and ample.
lo sail in any one of his ships to Welsh miners and English
nay port outside France to be- come the master of all French la- steelworkers really look for-
The House was very silent dur- German control. ward to a Communist re-terests heyond
iting the recital, but at the end there not have
come, like pecurred a scene unique in my ex- gime? If they do, it is up He would to the authorities to acknow- General de Gaulle, with only an perience. Everybody seemed
unconquerable heart and ledge the Party's loyalty to
kindred spirits. He would have stand up all around, cheering, for
moment this
Conservative a foreign power, and protect carried with him outside the Ger- what seemed a long time. Un till had treated me with some the general interests of the man reach the fourth Navy in the
offeers and men Party world, whose
It was from the reserve, and nation.
were personally, devoted to him. Labour benches that I received the Much as we value such
Acting thus, Darlan would have warmest welcome when I entered rights as freedom of speech, become the chief of the French the House or rose
on serious oc-) now all Joined. In of publication, thought and Resistance with a mighty weapon assembly, it has been found his hand, British and Americon calous. But
dockyards and arsenals would solema stentorian accord. necessary in several civilised have been at his disposal for the The elimination of the French important factor states to adopt precautions maintenance of his against Communist infiltra-French goid reserve in the United Navy tion in government depart-States would have assured him, almost at a single stroke by violent
of once recognised, ample reaction produced a proféund
Here ments and vital industries. sources. The whole French Empire pression in every country.
Britain which ao many In Britain, however, it has would have rallied to him, Nothing was tha not yet been thought neces- could have prevented him from had counted down and out, which
kad supposed strangers being the Liberator of France. The stra sary to treat members of the
he so quivering on the brink of SUITED- fame and power which Communist Party ipso facto ardently desired were in his grasp. der to the mighty power arrayed as traitors. Yet in view of Instead, he went forward through against her, striking ruthlessly at recent shameless pronounce- two years of worrying and ign- her dearest friends of yesterday ominious office to a violent death, and securing for a while to her- ments, it would seem that a
u dishonoured grave, and a name self the undisputed command of watertight case has been
long to be execrated by the French the sea. It was made plain that the
War Cabinet had British made out against them. Is Navy and the nation he it wise to wait until war or hitherto served so well.
nothing and would stop at nothing. This was true, a similar emergency breaks out before starting to rope
a few
fleet. The
Final Note
辐林
ди
to
nerve
War Ends
In Truce
every
Yerr
War"
Bangkok, February 28. Slam'a "week-ond ended today with a reported truce with the rebels and the appointment of a Gov- crnment Conclliation Com- miurion,
A Government communl- called the troops que sald out for the suppression of be with- the revolt would drawn by 6.00. p.m. local time to but would be ordered
further petion. stand by for
The
Army
ม
of
At least 43 rebela were ar- rested. No casualty figures have been released.
which fighting. and Navy
groups clashed in the streets of the capital, was believed to be scqual to an open revolt
Government against the Marshal Pibui Songkram by the civilian followers of Pridi the wartime Panomyong, leader of the anti-Japanese Resistance Movement.
Pridi Panomyong was supported by elements of the Navy.
Firat reporte fram the vald Blamete Army Radio heavy fighting had 'centred the railway workshop
the outskirts on
of Bangkok, around the Royal Palace in the centre of the elty, and at the river mouth town of Paknan, 20 miles to the South.
on area
Ini-
to bo
The fighting began, the statement wald. when party of people in military uniform attacked the Pub. licity Department and took over Its radio station-one of the four broadcasting sta tions in the capital. feared
Tha Glamero Alr Force and police were understood to have been neutral in the criciz.
The genius of France enabled her people to comprehend the
in the traitors after they There is a final note which whole significance of Oran, and in have been able to carry out should be struck at this point, Inhor agony to draw new hope and their publicised plans of n letter which Darlan wrote to strength from this additional bitter sabotage?
m on December 4, 1942, two pang. General de Gaulle, whom I In countries behind the days before his assassination, he did not consult beforehand, was vehemently claimed that he had magnificent in his demeanour, and iron curtain one has only to kept his word. It cannot be dis- France liberated and restored has voice views, dissident with puted that no French ship was ratified his conduct,
I am indebted to M. Teltgen for those of the regime to find ever manned by the Germans or
used against us by them in then tale which should be told. In a oneself in concentration camp or facing the firing squad. War. This was not entirely due to village near Toulon dwelt two Admiral Darlan's measures:. but peasant families, each of whom Democracies do not want he had certainly built up in the had lost their sailor son by British such, horrors, but surely wise officers and men of the French precautions can be taken? Navy that at all costs thai, ships
should be destroyed before being | Certainly it is not easy to seized by the Germans, whom he stamp out Communism, as it disliked as must as the English. is not easy to stamp out any (All French warships militant idea, but that is no
Portsmouth or Plymouth were forcibly tnken under British excuse for letting rampant
control on the night of July 3, KNOW evil spread and organise at 1940. Unsuccessful attempts will.
were made to persunde the French flect ut Oran in Algeria either to join the British or to Bull across the Atlantic to be demilitarised. In order to en- sure that these ships should not fall into onemy hands intact, they were finally subjected to
· bombardments and air attack by a superior British force.) On July 4 I reported at length)
no ordinary
These are times, and it looks as if the future will be more extra- ordinary still. It is obvious that national security de- mands a tightening up of the laws on treason in peacetime. But even with present cyl-" dence, the authorities at Home should decide to act.
A Communist may stand on his followers to sabotage his his head to see his weird con- country's war effort when it qlusions in perspective, but starts, it sounds like real, old- to the balanced mind, when fashioned, treason in its own
a man promises on behalf ofʼright.
DO YOU
YOUR
HONG
KONG?
Can you re- cognise where 'this' plature was taken? The an
werin - In-Pago'
Devon,
The capital was practical.
wore
ly back to normal today but Government -buildings and strategic points. strongly guarded,
Diplomatic sources regard. ed the situation au stiil toned but Improving The robel leaders and the Government were reported to be in con- forance on a final "pace" settlement-Router.
English soil.
When the Superintendent de Clared that
was obviously drugged, Myrtle's brother, who was the constable, atmitted that he had drug him all the way in.
Recent official warnings in Canton that a quantity of worth- money wha in circulation less did not greally disturb the citizenry. They had already noticed it,
A Chinese witness in court rose said he couldn't even read his own hame on an envelope It might without his spectacle. just as well have be written in English,
•
very
A friend of mine just return- .of our ined from London was discussing a former schoolmate of ours who had died in such glory that they'd put a plaque outside the build- ing where he had lived, to per- petuate his memory. "Ah," said
for me when I die." "Why sure- 1, "I wonder if they'll do that
ly," sald my friend. "What d'you think they'll put on it?" And he replied, Room to let.* **
J'
If Hitler had been gifted with supernatural wisdom he would have slowed down the attack on the French freut, making perhaps a pause of three weeks after Dugkirk on the line of the Seine, and meanwhile developing his pre- parations to invade England. Thus he would have had a deadly option, and could have tortured us with the hooks of either deserting France in her agony or squander- ing the Ing last resources for our future existence.
The more we urged the French to fight on, the greater wan our obligation to aid them, and the would have become more difficult to make any preparations for de- fence in England, and above all to the 25 squadrons keep la reserve the
of nighter aircraft on which all de- pended. On this point we should never have given way, but the re- fusal would have been bitterly re; rented by our struggling ally, and would have poisoned all our re- lations.
or
with It was even
actual sense of relief that some of our high commanders addressed them- zelves to our new and grimly sim- plied problem. As the commin. sionaire at one of the Service citba in London said to a rather down- east member: "Anyhow, sir, we're in the Final, and it's to be played | on the Home Ground."
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