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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1950,
WINSTON CHurchill's WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
Struggling in
September, 1940, and September, 1941, it was raised from 26 active divisions to 34, plus five armoured - divisions. To this muut.be added the maturity.of the troops and the 'enormous increase their weapons. The Home Guard had
To
the rapids
By Winston
Churchill
Your joint visit to Athens will enable you to contrive the best mathod of giving effect to the above decisions.
It should not be delayed.
Good Morning
Electorage.
Cripps) If the British voters have to go through the whole
| thing again, they're going to be
Attleost alightly peeved
Deposited,
public
incidentally, the soft-hearted
feels that all those, unsuccessful candidates did not
entertainment to
The Chiefs of Staff being In give chough accard, thin telegram was obs- Justify the tax.
for
of
on
As reported locally, there were many amusing and sometimes inexplicable incidents during the that has still got me wondering final day of the election. One
the motorist who want to the polling station "and
govo rendering of the sign in morse code on his home".
the Looking back upon the un-, risen from a million to a millon which was for astray from
patched, It will be seen that cousing tumult of the war and a half; and now all had re- facts, I issued the following:
arma.
Numbers
mobility, Prime Minister to General lamay our Intentions at this time did cannot recall any period when equipment, training, organisation,
to the offer to or Colonel Hollle, for C.0.5. not amount All news contributions to be its stresses and the onset of so and defence works wero vastly Committee.
Greece of an army, but only to “nddrawved—to Editor-in-CHYBY."
many problems all at once or in improved.
January 10, 41. special and teclinical units.
On these orders General W succession bore more] Hitler, of course, had always-a Chiefs of Staff should meet to- Business Fapki and
and Air. Chlet Marshal morning, to vell should. be directly on me and my collo-superabundance of soldiers for morrow, Saturday
ad-
Invasion.
Bow to Athens the various tolegrams Longmore conquer us he consider agues than the first half of 1941. would have to carry and supply from the Middle East HQ, and discussions with General Me The scale of events grew larger across the Channel at least a they are authorised to dispatch taxas (then Prime Minister every year; but the decisions million men. He could by 1941 the attached telegram
which 1 Greece) and Papagos (Greek required were not more difficult; have had a large though not a
in-Chief). Wavell Commandor Greater military
have drafted to General disasters fell upon us in 1942, but by then we craft. But with our-
sufficient quantity
of landing and Air Marshal Longmere, un- January 15 they fold us that the were no longer alone and our for Air Force and naval power giving munication to me upon 1.
douinant less they wish to make any com- Greek Government...
willing, that any of
trops tunes were mingled with those of us the command of both elements Prime Minister to General Wavell.
should land in Solonika until the Grand Alliance,
they we had no doubt of our ability to
could do so in sufficient January 10, 41,
On numbers to act offensively, Our information contra 1.
York "Times" telegram con- receipt of this
the military criticises MacArthur, for diets idea that German
on setting himself up as a demi-god centration in Rumania is mere- Chlefs of Staf telegraphed ly a "move in war of nerves"
be and being responsible for some January 17 that there could
forcing our of the worst or a "bluff to cause dispersion no question of
blunders In tho In conue- Pacific war. of force." We have a mass of aid upon the Greeks. detail indicating that a large quence we modified our view scale movement through · Bul- of the immediate future, decided
"LET JOY BE
UNCONFINED"
No part of our problem in 1941
to all the rest. What was given
could be solved without relation to one theatre had to be taken from another.
destroy or cripple his armada,
All who remember the long and angry campaign against
All the arguments, therefore, on the Unequal Treatles, and the
which we had relled in 1940 were celebration by students and
An effort here now incomparably stronger. So long as there was no relaxation in others of the many Humilia-meant a risk there. Our physical vigilance or serious reduction in The attitude of a dozen Powers, and the Chiefs of the Staff felt resources were harshly limited..
our own defence the War.Cubinet] friendly, opportunist, or poten. tially hostile, was unknowable. no anxiety.. At home we must
face the war
Significant events
tion Days in the Nationalist calendar, must have been amazed by the pacans of joy with which the Chinese were said to be celebrating the Mos-gainst the U-boats, the invasion
Although our American friends, threat, and the continuing Blitz; cow Pact. If anybody had we had to conduct the group of some of whose generals visited us, took a more alarmist view of predicted in those days that campaigns in the Middle East
uur position, and the world, at and, thirdly, to try to make a would come a time
when
tront against Germany In the large regarded the invasion of China would hall with de- Balkans. And we had to do all Britain as probable, we ourselves felt free to send overseas all the lirious delight a Treaty which this for a long time alone.
After shooting Niagara we had could carry and to wage offensive troops our available shipping confirmed.control by a foreign
now to struggle in the rapida. cou! Power of the great railway One of the difficulties of this nar-war in the Middle East and the Here was the system and the main port and rative is the disproportion be- Mediterranean.
hinge on which our ultimate vic- fortified base of Manchuria,tween our singlehanded efforts
to keep our heads above water lory turned, and it was in 1941 he would have been regarded front day to day and do our duty, that the first significant events
and the remorseless development began.
in
armies must fight. of for larger events.
Africa was the only continent in any rate n solid which we could meet our foes on foundation in Great Britain. land. The defence of Egypt and was sure that provided we inain of Malta were duties compulsive tained the highest state of read-upon us, and the destruction of forces, a German attempt at in we could gain. The British resia. iness at home, and the necessary the Italian Empire the first prize vasion in 1941 would not be to tance in the Middle East to the. our disadvantage. The German triumphant Axis Powers and our air strength in all theatres was attempt to rally the Balkans and them are the very little greater than in 1940. Turkey against whereas our air fighter force at theme and thread of our story home had grown from 51 to 70 now. squadrons, and our bombers from
as crazy.
There is, of course, a pro- mise to return these things, and it had been assumed in Washington-and doubtless in many other centres too-that all the propaganda justifying the Pact would concentrate on that promise. But that was simply ignored, as in fact were all the details of the Treaty. So far as can be scen, no attempt was made whatever to rationalise it, to analyse it, or to discuss it as one normally discusses, say, an agreement between two separate Powers. That, evidently, would be sacrilege, The Communist papers merely sounded off slogans: Great Treaty, Great Friend- ship; a Great Achievement Without Parallel in Chinese History. More praise, too, seemed to be bestowed Stalin and the party of the other part than upon any of the Chinese negotiators them- selves. Such curious inver- sions have been known before, of course, and are usually -given-a-somewhat.sinister-in- terpretation by critics of the Communists. The Great Khan in the Kremlin is told that "the people of China will: thank you and the Soviet people for ever for your as- sistance." The China Demo- cratic League is quoted as saying in a message to Stalin that "the signing of the Treaty
on
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We had at
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•
•
27 to 45 squadrons, The Ger- The desert victories cheered inans had not won the air battle the opening days of the year. 40,000 In 1940. They seemed to hove Bardia, with more than little chance of winning it in men, surrendered on January 5. within Tobruk seemed certainly 1941.
our grasp, and was in fact taken, with nearly 30 900 prisoners, in ù
Our army in the island had stronger. Between grown, far
Benghazi
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Barce
Mechili
Fabb-7
Jan 27
Sohrch
Feb 5
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Antelut.
Feb 5:7 -
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Bomba
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Mr. Churchill at his favourite pastime-painting.
Jon 21-22 Tobruk
El Adem
Bardia Jan 3-4, Ft.Capuzzo, Sollum
Sidi Omaro
CYRENAICA Maddalena
Mersa Brega
6 Australian Div.
7 Armoured Div. m nm me
100
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the
garla
were un our
"What makes a really brilliant man so forgetful?" asks a reader,
I've forgotten.
Lese Imperor).
The
Now
By gad, sir, just let some of these irresponsible journalists try emitting such blasphemies in see what happens to
Tokyo and
them.....
*
Do you know what a sweater Firl 7 One who pulls your eyes over her wool.
Steel production in America is likely to be reduced drastically following the labour troubles,
• Ono
wondering
cannot help whether the Iron curtain could maintained if
be SO firmly
Russian trade unionists were permitted to come out on strike.
I'd like to be a glow-worm,
A never-say-no worm,' Going home every night Lit-up quite.
·
"If a good girl kiss you," asked the young man, "it's an encouraging sign, Isn't it?
"Good or bad, my boy, It's encouraging."
•
Asked what she did with party Irftovers, Myrtle replied: "I phong for a taxi."
Myrtle's grandfather
says his
old woman is always eager to do his bidding-at the bridge -
tabic.
Rainwater is good for a girl's
•
to push on to Benghazi, and complexion-it i really is her
up meanwhile to build. the complexion, strongest strategle reserve possl-
Baby Bear sat down On 証 ble in the Delta,
On January 21 the Chiefs of thistle, but not a murmur did he make. Not even a squeak. Said accordingly proposed Wavell
Mummy Bear to Daddy Bear: that the
of capture Benghazi was now of the highest "Darling, don't say we've bred importance)
considered one of those Dead End Kids!"
Staff
They
to
that if it were made into n strongly fortified naval and air base, the overland route might that we should lunch together and alone the next day. Thus I met Hopkins, that extra-
1194 the German Air Forca, the war soul that Bamed out
He
be dropped and both men transport saved. They also urged Harry him to seize the Dodecanese, and ordinary man, who played, and especially Rhodes, as soon as por was to play, a scmetimes decisive in order to forestall the ar- part in the whole movement of sible, rival of
His was a soul with its consequent threat to our communications with Greece and offrail and failing body. Turkey, and to form a strategic was a crumbling lighthouse from reserve of four divisions to be which there shone the beams that ready to help these two countries. led great fleets to harbour, He
to had also a gift of sardonic hum- our. I always enjoyed his com- pany, especially when things went ill. He could also be very diangrecablo and say hard and
American contacts
.
(To be continued)}
World Copyright reserved. Re. production, even partially in any language, strictly pro- hibited.
With the New Year more in- sour things. My experiences timate contacts developed with were teaching me to be able to President Roosevelt. On Junu- do this, too, if need be. ary 10 a gentleman arrived to see me at Downing Street with
highest
credentials. Tele- towards the
Greek tho Frontier, almed presumably at Washington stating that he wa grams had been received from Salonika, will begin before the end of the month. Hostile the closest confidant and personal I there. forces to be cimployed in the agent of the President. aforesaid invasion would not fore arranged that he should be be large, but of deadly quality, met by Mr. Breadan Bracken on One, perhaps two,
armoured his arrival at Poole Airport, and divisions, with one motorised division, about 180 diva-bam- bers, .and
some parachute that troops, seems to be could cross the Bulgarian- Greek frontier up till the mid- dle of February,
THE ADVANCE FROM TOBRUK
On the 19th wo fortnight. reoccupied Kassala, in the Sudan, and on the 20th invaded for it not only deepens the paganda and fantasy, a tailan colony of Eritrea, seizing close friendly relations be travesty of the people's real the railhead at Biscia a few days tween the Chinese and Soviet feelings. And yet, here in later. On that same day the Em peoples, but also strengthens Hong Kong, one paper which peror Halle Selassie re-entered
Abyssinia.
But all the while the the forces of world democracy bears a title famous in the reports accumulated of the Ger- and peace, and deals a telling history of Chinese journalism; man movements and preparations blow to the war
for a Balkan
campaign. mongers. also contributed its slogan. It for a The great contribution render asked the Colonial people to Staff warned the commanders On January 10 the Chiefs of ed by you and the Soviet "follow Mao Tse-tung's way in the Middle East that a Ger- people to world democracy and not that of Nehru." The man attack of Greece might start and peace has won the sup- Chinese leader managed to would
before the end of the month. It come. they thought, port and high respect of the persuade the Russians to stay through Bulgaria, and the prob- world. We hail the everlast in Manchuria a little longer.able line of advance
would bo ing, friendly co-operation of In Delhi, Admiral Mountbat- down the Struma valley against the Chinese and Soviet ten, rushing the Indians off Salonika. Three divisions, sup- peoples and the great victory their feet in his hurry to bers, would be used, and
ported by about 200 dive-bom- of the forces of world. demo-transfer power and authority, or four more divisions might be cracy and peace,"
had a large calendar specially add Chiefs of Staff added, that Such sublimation of Chinese printed for his purpose,
the nationalism and, of Chinese which warned them anew Government to give
decision of his Majesty'a tho greatest rights and Interests is truly a that every day that passed possible help to the Grecks wonderful thing to behold, was a day nearer the time meant that once
Tobruk
Was and shakes even the confirm when the British would get Middle East must have second
taken
all other operations in ed cynic's disbelief in the outd
place, and they authorised Millenium. We are told, how- The injunction that joy dispatch therefrom of, mechanisód ever, that a mere 2,000 should be unconfined and not and specialist unite and air for mostly officials at that too particular came down ces up to the following limits: celebrated the Pact in Shang-from above. But behind the one regiment of cruiser tanks, one squadron of Infantry tanks, hal, compared with 10,000 in reaction, to it there will also 10 regiments of
after March,
three
2. But this force. If not stop. ped, may "play" exactly the same part in Greece as tho German Army's break-through at Sedan played in France. Ail Greek divisions in Albania will be fatally, affected. Those are the facts and implications which arise from our informa- tion, in which we have godd redson to believe... But is that not also the very thing the Germans ought to do to harm us most Destruction of Greece eclipse victories you have may Turkish -at- have shown ourselves callous of fato now of allles you must therefore, conform
MARICied. In Talby album aut
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Astray from fo
facts
to larger interesta" at!!
a. Nothing must hamper cap- ture of Tobruk, but, thereafter
all operations in
in Libya
subordinated to aiding; Grecce, and all preparations, must be made from the receipt of this telegram for the immediate succour of Greece up to the limits prescribed. These im weighed bakindapo
say, with conspicuous mild- which grasps that the Pact ness, that it was "a great en- has a significance which can couragement to Shanghal's not be minimised, from what The Commanders-in-Chietin six million people in their ever plane it be regarded. Catro thought that the German struggle against the blockade! The part exists, however it is concentration in Rimmel and the bombing Shanghai really regarded by the Chin which we had warned them, we say so certainly heads an uplift ese people, and the weighty murely war of Terror Whether the Pact provided;
it is another quea
the answer to all
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