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For Offence
By Winston Churchill
ing
"1. Industry. Imp. Proter- ente. Any resemblance to the nasty little squeeze merchant is purely coincidental. acquire the knowledge perience of Franklin Roosevelt, U.S. news Item: "No strategic None could equal hĩa commanding | materials for the USSR." "Im- gifts. My own relations with him ports of Russian chroma and
oppor-sil
my
had been re-elected.
Free Play
20 ex-
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their bottoms, sokler them togeth- er, and you have an exceedingly useful drainpipe." Right, done it? -You do need drainpipe, don't you!
reasonably adequate defensive rendors. In this case the Italian the Italian batile floet was dis-had been most carefully fostered manganese doubled last month.”
would bo force here. We should present-front
irretrievably abled for at least six months, and by me, and scomed to have reached Whos atraid of the big bad wol- With all their best troops the Fleet Air Arti could rejoico, a legree of confidence and friend- from? ly be in a position to under-broken.
no ba take certain offensive operations captured or destroyed, force at having seized by their gallant ship which was a vital factor in
thought. To close the slowly- The Soviet delegation in Cuba with exploit oife of the rare would be left capable of which I successful may have
protested against carnival bulit-un comradeship, to break the hos standing a further onslaught, nor tunities presented to them. farreathing effects on the course at any organised retreat bo An ironic touch ly imparted to continuity of all our discussion masks resembling Stalin. Flattery now mind is not the sincerest form of Imita- of the war as a whole.
made to Tripoli along the hun-tila event by the fact on this to begin again with a It would surely de bad strategy to dreds of miles of coastal road. very day the Italian Air Force at and personality, seemed to me a tion.
allow ourselves to be diverted
All Delighted
the express wish of Mussolini had repellent prospect, Since Dunkirk, I had not been conselous of the from this task, and unwise to
"Here is a job for the handymunn. taken part in the air attack on
those employ our dorces in fragments
Here, then, was the deadly secret Great Britain, where they had lost samo sense of strain. It was with Instead of throwing away theatre of war where they which the generala had talked over 13 aircraft. These might have indescribablo roller that I received empty food tins, save them until cannot be decisive. The best with their Secretary of State, found botter employment defend the news that President Roosevelt you have say 30 or 49. Remove way in which we can help Greece This was what they had not wisheding their fleet at Taranto. In be striking at Italy, and we to telegraph. We were all de-
The Corner བས་པ can do that most effectively from lighted. I purred Ilke alx cats.
Where our strengths fere was something worth doing. The story of Suda Bay is sad, been developed and where our it was decided there and then, sub- The tragedy was not reached until our plans are fald. I am anxioueject to the agreement of the Chlots 1941. I balleve I had as much to put before you in detail at of Staff and the War Cabinet, to direct control over the conduct of the earliest date the dispositions give immediate annetion and all the war as any public man had in The and plans which have been work possible support to this splendid any country at this time. ed out here, and propose...to enterprise, and that it should take kitowladge I possesed, the fidelity return home by the shortest Arst place in all our thoughts and and active aid of the War Cabinet, colleagues, route, leaving on the third.
have, amid so many other compel the loyalty of all my Assent was given, and the Scere- ing needs, first claim upon our the
efficiency of our ever-growing
an in all enabled war machine, all tary of State began his journey strained resources.
tert tense focusing of constitutional He got back home on November 8,
nuthority to be achieved. Yet how far short was the action taken by the Middle East Command of what aired! was ordered and what we what
tations or human action, it must be remembered how much was going on in every direction at the same time,
cor-
nirkerable, detail to
PASS."
Light Forces
which
-
at
duo course tlioso proposals
In order to appreciate the mi-
"HELF? HERE'S UNE SHOWING PICHY I'
I
Former Naval Person to Pre- 6.xL40 dent Roosevelt,
"A lusty young engineer" gives dance hostesses in did not think it right for me a report on as a foreigner to
express any Canton. No reflection is meant opinion upon American politica on his moral character.
while the election was on; but
now I feel you will not mind my
+
saying that I prayed for your 9.15. Authority and the In-
does
that I am truly success and
This thankful for it.
sock not mean that wish for anything more than full, fair and free play
the
dividual, by Bert and Russell."— Sunday paper radio programme. Gert and Daisy next week?
·
"Dancing is in my blood, you know."
of your mind upon the world insuon now at stake in which our "Then you must have poor clr-
It hasn't ations have to discharge culation.
got-lo your two their respective duties,
feat."
•
with you in all that confidence "Ah" sighed the visitor, "at and good-will which has grown last I've seen
what my wife
up between us since I went to should have married." the Admiralty at the outbreak.
Things
afoot which will be "During the past year she has ramembered as long as the Eng been attending a college of liber- lish language is spoken in any al rates"
A liberal rat is one that wants quarter of the globe, and in
a pound of cheese expressing the comfort I feel to give that the people of the United every mouse.
cast States have
once again these great burdens upon you, I
to
Myrtle's grandfather thinks must avow my sure faith that most old men give good advice in the light by which we steer will order to console themselves for bring us all safely to anchor. no longer belag in condition to Curiously enough I never reset a bad example. calved any answer to this tele- gram. It may well have been en- gulfed in the vast mass of congrat ulatory messages which were swopt aside by urgent work.
Swept Aside
vo-
jed
Wife to Irate. husband: "Nor- maily I wouldn't dream of open- ing a letter addressed to you, this one was marked 'private'."
Gossip note: "They had their friends in last night for a souse- warming.
house near
Oxford. Ditchley is only four or five miles away from
In today's columns a respondent takes us to task for a recent editorial on the in Britain, situation food His comments are fair, and as they obviously represent and came that evening after the were brought before the War of his usual rald had began to see me in Cabinet. I was ready to state the the beliefs of many
my temporary underground abode case or have it stated. But when countrymen and sympathisers in Piccadilly. He brought with him
generals on the spot
and the abroad, they warrant a re- the carefully-guarded secret which my colleagues learned that the I wished I had known earlier. Chiefs of Staff were in full agree- ply.
We stated that the Home- Nevertheless, no harm had been ment with me and Mr. Eden they
We are entering upon a sombre
phone or what must evidently be A man was being shown over a Land could have obtained one. Mr. Eden unfolded in con- declared that they did not wish to
"That machine," said select circle, know the details of the plan, that
a protracted and broadening factory. Nevertheless it remains Including the C.1.5. and General the fewer who knew them the bet more food supplies-a
war, and I look forward to being his guide, "does the work of 30 Lattay
The offensive plan which ter, and that they whole-heartedly astonishing to me that we should
able to interchango my thoughts| men.". mark which is received with
So- Genoral Wavell and General Wil- incredulity. The true cialist (much less, one must on had conceived and prepared. No longer were we to await in our extreme No admit, than his
fortified lines at Mersa Matruh an Communist relative) cannot Italian assault, for which defensive believe ill of his godhead, battle much long and artful pre- in face of apparent parations had been made. On the proofs to the contrary. The contrary, within a month or so we fact remains, however, that were ourselves to attack. The since the 1945 General Elec-operation was to be called "Com tions, many former food im- to escape porters managed
Marshal Graziani's Italian army abroad for various reasons,
now above 80,000 strong, which and returned with reports had crossed the Exyptian frontier, printed only in the Opposi- was spread over a 50-mile front tion Press-about foodstund were separated by wide distances, which they themselves could were
with no depth in the system. Be- have obtained. To the wri-and not mutually supporting, and ter's knowledge, in every tween the enemy's right flank et case which came as far as a Sofai and his next camp question in the House, the Nobelwa there was a gap of over "scrubbed (20 miles. The plan was to make an matter was
Up till this time we had placed in the round," either by denuncia-offensive spring through this gap
ur orders for munitions and, turning towards the sea, at-
"Memorial to Shakespeare. Bul tions of inflated prices or tuck Nibelwa camp and the Turn-
United States separately from, statements that long-term mar group of camps in succession
though in consultation with, the before Parliament next week." were being from the Went that is to may.
American Army, Navy and Air-William to you. agreements
from the rear. negotiated.
Meanwhile, both the Sofab approved the xoneral policy of the have failed to make Suda Bay the Services. The ever-increasing
offensive. This was the attitude amphibious citadel of which all lume of our soveral Öne instance of this, In-
Every. to overlapping at numerous cidentally, was when we lost camps and the camp at Meiktila,
on the coast, were to be contained which the War Cabinet adopted on Crete was the fortress.
soveral
Important occasions, and I thing was understood and agreed, with possibilities of friction arising hundreds of tons of Scan- [by light forces. For this purpat record it here that it may be aand.much was done; but all was at lower levels in spite of general] Blenheim. In these agreeable nur- dinavian bacon, butter, eggs there were to be employed the 7th motel, should similar dangers and half-scale effort.
We were pre- goodwill. "Only a single, unified roundings I received the Ambas
procurement polley sador. and cheese while haggling Armoured Division, the 4th Indian diflculties arise in future times. gently to
pay heavily for our short Covernment
for all defence purposes," writes Lothian seemed to me a changed Divisten, now complete, and the
The Italian
Fleet had not react- coringa.
"could do the man. In all the yones I had known On November 9. Mr. Neville r
Job that was now him he had given me the impres ment. Negotiations with the
This meant
that the United sion of high intellectual and aris- hated Peron also dragged, on
from the Karrison of Mersa ham had for Bome time been home in Hampshire, I had obtain-he for months, over the matter Matruh.
anxious to strike a blow at themed the King's permission to have States Government should place all tocratic detachment from vulgar This plan involved 4 of high prices. The bulk
Ittering with his now augmented naval air him supplied with the Cabinet the orders for weapons in America, affairs, Airy, viewy, aloof, digni- buyers took the attitude that, risk, but als offered & glittering forces as they lay in their main papers, and until a few days be-Three days after his re-election fled, censorious, yet in a light and gay manner, he had always been even with the fantastic sub- prize the risk lay in the launch-base at Taranto. The attack, was fore the end he followed our affairs the President publicly announced a
American arms output. sidies, they could not affording of all our best troops into the delivered en November 11 as the with keennces, interest and tonaci "rule of thumb" for the division good company. Now, under the As same hammer that beat upon us heart of the enemy's position by climax of a well-concerted series of ty. He met the approach of death we
all, I found an earnest,
deeply- to buy on the free market, ja move of 70 miles on two success operations, during which Malta with a steady eye. I think he died weapons cano off the product stirred man, He was primed with
ling they were to be divided rough- and although
were sive nights over the open desert, received troops, and further naval with the comfort of knowing that ly 60-60 between the United States every aspect and detail of the "stung" time and again be- and with the
the his country had at least turned the forces. That same day the Priori American attire. He had won cause of maladroitness, one led and attr of being observ reinforcements,
tho from
air battleship Barham, two cruisers corner.
tles Board approved a British re-nothing but goodwill and conf- the intervening day and three destroyers,
The Roar
quest to order 12,000 more aero-derice. irs Washington by his may perhaps admire their during
Besides this the food and petrol Alexandria.
United State in handling of the Destroyer-cum- stand. This, however, does had to be nicely calculated, and H
Above the roar and clash of planes in the Modern Forms
we had Bases not refute the claim that ex- the time-scale went
arme there now loomed upon us addition to the 11,000
contact wrong the
the with Taranto lice in the heel of liely a world-fateful event of a differens already booked. But how was all from Intimate He was
President, with whom he had tra food was available.
consequences must be grave.
The prize was worthy of the 320 miles from Malto. Its magní-order. The Presidential Election this to be paid for?
In mid-November Lord Lothian established a warm personal Further, about 99 per cent of the planners' purchases hazard. The arrival of our van-jacent harbour was heavily defenï- | took place on November G, 1940 who had recently flown home from friendship. His mind was now Bet theguard on the sent at Bug-Bug or at agent arrival at Salts of with which these four yearly, con- Washington spent two days with upon the Deilar problem; this were conditioned
thereabouts would cut the com- attack. The Lastes of bricklayers, plum-minications of three-quarters of some fast roconhaissance machines tests are conducted, and the bitter me at Ditchley. I had been advised was grim Indeed.
domestic issues not to make a habit of staying at prey. And miners-highly. Marshal Graziani's army. Attack-enabled us to discern, our
ere every week-end, expecial Chequers every
World Copyright reserved. Re- individuals who ed by surprise from the rear, they The British plan was to fly two which at this time divided the two when the moon wa
by
fail, in production, even partially, in any do not, however, form all of might well be forced as, a roault waves of aircraft from the Illus main parties, the Supreme Caunease the enemy should pay me language, strictly prohibited.
and the wae respected by the responsible
Exclusive rights in Hong Kong second the community. Even such of vigorous fighting into masseur.trious, the first of ie
of aide, of which 11 were leaders, Republicans and Demo- spoelal attention. Mr. Ronald Tree
and his wife made me and my by "China Hall" prized products as Stilton
to carry torpedoes, and the rest crate alike. At Cleveland cheese were not allowed to ter off in the long run than other bombs or flares.
November 2 Mr. Roosevelt said: stoff very welcome from time to The Illustrious released her air-"Our policy is to give all possible time at their large and charraing (To Be Continued Tomorrow) be made in England, the the skilled lawyer, *.doctor, small amount of milk used draughtsman, civil engineer, craft shortly after dark from all resist aggression across the material aid to the nations which Sony, as Dr. Edith Summer journalist, chartered accoun- Paranto. For an hour the battle Atlantic and Pacific Oceans." His skill inferred, better used in tant, scientist, professor raged amid fire and destruction opponent, Mr. Wendell the manufacture of the yel- How much of this world's among the Italian ships. Despite declared the same day at
Garden:
den: "All of ed by the horny-handed lathe-hand or a furnaceman craft were shot down
in giving ald masses, but spurned by the receive compared with his new safely back to the Illustrious.
By this single stroke the balance to the herole British popple. cultivaled professional schoolmate who builds up a of naval power in the Meditor must make available is classes, mere drones who thriving small business by his rancan was
decisively altered producte of our Industry,” the
This larger patriotiem guard would soon disappear in any own energies, or a surgeon The air photographe showed that
who has taken a lifetime to Bittorir, had been torpedoed, Union, and our life. Still, it was three battleships, one of them the both the safety of the American In which connection, it is perfect his skill?
and in addition oña:cruiser was with profound, anzistý that 'I The crushing taxes on the reported hit and only fair to remark on our
much
damage awaited the result. No newcomer truthful man who dares to 'make {inflicted on the dockyard, correspondent's
"Hair" into "power could possess or soon claim, that the Labour Gov-more than a few pounds, a ernment is carrying out its week in Britain go to the election pledges. Yes, it is, "working" man: Is he never
Mr.
over a quid pro quo agree 16th British Infantry. Brigade,fed in any way against our occup Chamberlain died at his country trentinus?
16th together with a composite force tion of Crete, but Admi. Cunning.
bers necessary
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wero,
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to the powers that be In Perhaps he has, and still KONG? Whitehall, even though they has an" dary conscience. may have contributed, their does look as if Talight ma small part in the past to JONES
making Britain great.
governm
By all means, give the Job, Bu "working" man a fair deal. den But first of all; what is "a' the fair deal?" Does it really: cen meat that he bit to Be But ot
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