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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS, THE THIRD BOOK
men and the scene.
Prime Minister to Mr. Eden,
Cairo.
- 7 March, 41. Cabinet this morning, con- sidered project in light of your telegrams from Athens and Cairo, and my telegrams. Chiefs
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
The Belgrade revolt
hoping not to provoke, him white stbadily dinner-time ap- proaches.
como
gaden.
To Join the Axis might infuri- ate Serbin. To fight Germany might cause conflict of loyalty in Croatia. Greece, the only pas sible Balkan ally, was heavily engaged with Italian armies of of Staff advised that, in view more than 200,000 men, and was of steadfastly expressed opinion under the menace of imminent on German attack. English help Commanders-in-Chief
the
Encirclement
By Winston Churchill
to the Yugoslav armies if they] seize it while time remains. If Yugoslavia and Turkey stand together with Greece, and with all the aid which the British Empire-can-give, the German curse will be stayed and final victory will be won as surely and as decisively as it was last time. I trust your Excellency
events.
от
Pact signed
-D
*are
20 March, 41, Do not lot ony gap grow up. between you and Prince Paul Ministers, Continue to pester, nag and bito. Demand audiences. Don't take NO for an answer. Cling on to them,
out pointing
Germans already taking the subjugation of the country for granted." This is no time for reproaches or dignified farewells. Meanwhile, at the same time, do not neg- lect any alternative to which we may have to resort if we find present Government have Greatly gone beyond recall.
admire all you have done so for, Keep It up by eveTY means that occur to you.
Give me a Gimleù d "Also taking part in the concert will be the Cathedral choir,”
taken her fourth husband.
Hollywood film atar has just
Her children will have some
surge of national vitality. A pes- ple paralysed in action, hitherto Tetovered and ill-led, long
haunted by the sense of being trouble if they decide to vlait the ensnared, flung their recklers, herole deflance at the tyrant and land of their four: fathers, conqueror. In the moment of his greatest power.
The Tramways dispute is sald to be suspended until after the decision of the arbitration tri-
Hiller was stung to the quick He had a burst of that convul-bunal is known alve anger which momentarily blotted out thought and some times impelled him on his most dire adventures. In cooler mood, a month later, conversing with Schülerburg German Am bassador to Russia ho said. "The
Yugoaloy coup came suddenly out
mand.
Uncertain factor
and
For the life of 'me 'I can't swee why employees and management can't get together once and for all against their common enemy, the travelling publie.
Write turn."
some."
"
•
A
The Fuchrer is determined, Myrtle'r grandfather says without waiting for possible wedding ring is like a tourniquet. loyalty declarations of the new it stops your circulation, Government, to make all pre- parations in order to destroy Perhaps unfortunately, my ex- Yugoslavia militarlly and as a planation of Einstein's new theory. national unit. No diplomatic is held over owing to curvature Inquiries will be made nor of space. ultimatums presented. Assur- ances of the Yugoslav Govern- | ment, which cannot be trusted Bayhow in the future, will be "taken note of." The attack will start as soon as the means and troops sultable for it are ready.
Flaming something or other. "Children," said the teacher, "I want you to write an essay about -
But don't waste King Alfred, time writing about the burning of the cakes."
At the end of January, 1941, In these days of growing anxiety Colonel Donovan, a friend of President Roosevelt, came to Accompanied by the Chiefs of Belgrade on a mission from the Staff, I brought the issue before American Government to sound the War Cabinet, who were fully opinion In South-Eastern Europe, apprised of everything as it hap-Fear reigned. The Ministers and pened, for final decision. In spite the leading politicians did not of the fact that we could not send dare to speak their minds. more aircraft than were already Prince Paul declined a proposed ¦ ordered and on the way, there visit from Mr. Eden.
was no hesitation or division
There was one exception. An among us. Personally I felt that the men on the spot had been Air Force general named Simovic
A focal editor is still puzzling searchingly tested. There was no represented the nationalist eley rise to the height of world
of the blue. When nows was
over the remark of; an aequain- brought to me the morning of tance to whom he remarked, “I the armed forces. Since Decem- -BRITAIN'S EXPORTS doubt that their hands had not ments among the Office Corps of been forced in anyway by polit-Ber his omco in the Air Force
the 27th I thought it was a joke," have neuritis." "Well," said the cal pressure from home.
headquarters астоя the river
But now in a passion he sum acquaintance, "you certainly Economic problems have
Smuts, with all his wisdom, and from Belgrade at Zemun had be-
But on the evening of March moned the German High Com-needed
Goering. a clandestine lately been overshadowed by
centre
Keitel of 24 Cvetkovic and. Markovic crept
Correspondent to an English the British General Election from his separate angle of thought opposition to German penetration out of Belgrade from a suburban Jodi were present, and Ribben-
and fresh eye, had concurred. into the Balkans and to the iner- railway station
newspaper says he saw 'a' crowd on the Vienna trop arrived later, and the stalemate that follow Nor could anyone suggest that we tin of the Yugoslav Government. train. Unknown to public opin-
of ants pushing a lump of sugar ed. But they remain in the had thrust ourselves upon Greece
ucross his lawn, lon and the Press, they signed
He thinks their idea was to forefront of all national pro-against her wishes. No one had
the pact with Hitler at Vienna DA been over-persuaded. Certainly
forn the next day.
stockpile prior to blems. Britain's exports for we had with us the bighest expert
When the
The minutes of the meeting are On February 14 Cvetkovic, the turned Ministers laid before the found in the Nuremberg records.
nationalisation. the month of January (26 authority, acting in full freedom Prime Minister, and Markovic Yugoslay Cabinet the taxt of the Hitler described the Yugoslov working days)
The small girl taken to her was £176 and with all knowledge of the obeyed a summons to Berchtes pact three colleagues resigned, situation after the upheaval He „millions, a figure which out-
Together they listened and rumours of imminent dises- and that Vigosinstis muss first church service was fascinat- la fillera sooount of the might ter Awept through the cafes and certain factor in the coming ac-ed by the preacher, who sutera strips any other recorded. I€"
My colleagues, who, were taug- of victorious Germany and to his conclaves of Belgrade.
tion against Greece ("Mariin "ed his Bock in resounding tones, represented a big improve hened by the many risks we had emphasis on the close relations
and even more in the "Barba waved his arms about and moved I now sent instructions to Mr. rossa" ment on the monthly aver-run successfully, had indepently between Berlin and Moscow. It
undertaking against from side to side of the pulpit.
and Bel-Russia later on. He
Finally the child turned deemed it age for the year 1949, which I reached the same conclusion. Mr. Yugoslavia would adhere to the Campbell, our Minister in
Menzies, on whom a special bur- Tripartite Pact, Hitler offered, grade.
fortunate that the Yugoslavs had clutched her father's arm. "What worked out at £140 million. den rested, was full of courage, in the event of operations against
revealed their temper before do we do if he gets out?" she One conclusion drawn from There was a strong glow for ac- Greece, not to march through
"Barbarossa" was launched, asked worriedly. The Cabinet was short; the Yugoslavia, but only to use its these figures by the economic tien
decision final.
roads and railways for milliary expert Mr. John Kingsley is
supplies. The Ministers returned that since devaluation in Sep-
to Belgrade in sombre mood. tember, United Kingdom ex- porters have continued to make rapid and sustained. headway in most foreign markets. Another conclusion is that Britain is now shipping abroad, in terms of value, at
spot, of the Chief of the seemed doubtful, and at the best least as large an amount of
Imperial General Staff, and symbolic. goods as it is buying overseas.
commanders of the forces to be Imports for January were
employed, it would be right to valued at a little over £201
go on. Cabinet decided to au
Actual military support millions, against exports and thorise you to proceed with the
In order to help the Yugoslav operation, and by so doing Government to reach a satisfac
against Yugoslavia is to be ra- a lonely cottage in a forest, and re-exports totalling some
Cabinet necepts for itself the tory decision, Hitler proceeded
quested of Italy, Hungary, and was admitted by the farmer's £182 millions. But as im-
fullest responsibility. We will with the strategic encirclement of Direct acilon; if the Govern-
in certain respects of Bulgaria wife. What happened after that Germany, communicate with Australian their country. On March 1 Bul-ment capitulated to ports are quoted at the land-
too, Rumania's main tasit is the I'm not allowed to say." protection against Russia. The some ed cost, which includes freight and New Zealand Governments garla adhered to the Tripartite had been discussed for
Communism, anys a writer, is Hungarian and Bulgarian Am- accordingly.
Pact, and the same evening Ger- months in the and insurance for the journey
bassadors have already been essentially sound. And, man motorised elements reached officers round Simovic. A revo=
notlled. During the day a course, fury, to Britain, one can deduct a
The signing of the fateful the Serbian frontiers, Mean-lutionary stroke had been caro- The leader of
message will be addressed to
to 'Samson
and Delilah', sum equal to about 12% per avlet-German pact seemed to while, to avoid provocation, the fully planned.
"Into the Duce. cent of the total value, to deliver the Balkans at a stroke Yugoslav Army remained un- the projected rising was General
DeMille has put all the Cecil B. into Axis hands. The fall of mobiilsed. The hour of choice Bora Mitkovic, commander of the make them more comparable France in June, 1040, deprived had now struck.
knowledge and showmanship he's Yugoslay Air Force, alded by
acquired in 38 years of picture with exports. It this is done, the Southern Slavs of their tra- On March 5 Price Paul left Major Knezevic, an Army pffleer,
making. It's a knockout. The friend ditional the import figure becomes he Russians revealed their in- chtesgaden, and under dire pres-established
and protector. Belgrade on a secret visit to Ber- and his brother, a professor, who
Bible story, you know," political contacts £176 millions, and the export tentions about Rumania
and sure undertook verbally that through his position in the Serb surplus for the month £6 mil- occupied Bessarabia and the Yugoslavia would follow the ex- Democrat party. Knowledge of lions.
mali Bukovina. At Vienna in August ample of Bulgaria. On his re- the plan was confined to At the beginning of 1950 1940, Transylvania was awarded turn, at a meeting of the Royal number of trustworthy officers, below the rank of to Hungary by Gennany and Council and in separate discus- nearly all British exporters had achiev-Italy. The net around Yugo-slon with political and military colonel. The network extended
the main garri- | ed another significant goal. It slavia was closing. In Novem-leaders, he found opposing views, from Belgrade
"Hurry and tell the foreman ber, 1940, Markovic, the Yugo-Debate was violent, but the Ger-sons in the country, Zagreb, estimated is provisionally
slav Foreign Minister, first trod In man ultimatum was real. General Skoplje, and Sarajevo, that the volume of exports for secrecy the road to Berchtesga- Simovic, when summoned to the
27, 1941, in Belgrade upset all this trench must be shored--it's
dangerous."
"He knows. 20 the hope of a united Balkan group
We're just dig- January was one-sixth above den.
When during March He escaped without for- White Palace, Prince Paul's resi-
Hungary ging him out." the monthly average volume mally committing his country to dence on the hills above Belgrade, news of the return from Vienna adhering to the Axis,
the Axis side, but on December was firm against capitulation of the Yugoslav
tho Although
mein for 1949. As the volume for 12 a pact of amity was signed Serbla would not accept such a rumours of the
pact began to
German thrust against the recal- -1940-worked-out-at-about-50 |-with-the-minor - Axis--partner, decision, and the dynasty would circulate in Belgrade..the .con-
The citrant Yugoslavs would clearly be endangered. per cent above the level of Hungary,
Prince spirators decided to act.
Rumania, all lines come through to seize key Paul had already in effect" com- | signal was given exports in the pre-war year
communication of
led through mitted his country.
points in Belgrade, and the royal
Hungary was bound by a pact of 1938, this means that the
residence, together with the per-Hungarian territory. Almost the volume of exports in January
son of the young King, Peter II, first reaction of the German of friendship to Yugoslavia signed But December, 1940. by dawn on March 27.
Government to the events in Bel- only in was about 75 per cent above [the senior Regent of Yugoslavia] From London I did what I While troops, under the command grade was to send the Hungarian open opposition to the German the level of the last pre-war carried the policy of neutrality to could to rally the Yugoslavs of resolute omcers, were scaling Minister in Berlin by air to demands could only lead to the its limits. He feared particularly against Germany, and on March of the Royal Palace on the out- Budapest with an urgent message German occupation of Hungary When the Anglo-American
that any move by Yugoslavia or 22 1 telegraphed to Dr. Cvetkovic: skirts of the capital, Prince Paul. to the Hungarian Regent, Ad- in the course of the imminent
neighbours, night provoke
military operations. There was knowing nothing or too much of miral Horthy: Loan Agreement was signed the Germans into a Southward
23 March, 41.
also the temptation of re-occupy- what was afoot, was in the train
ing the territories on her South- at the end of 1945, an increase advance into the Balkans,
Your Excellency: The even-bound for Zagreb.
ein frontiers which Hungary had tual total defeat of Hitler and
lost to Yugoslavia by the Treaty Mussolini is certain. No pru- dent and far-seeing. man -can doubt this in view of the re-
Few revolutions have gone spective declared resolves of the British and American de-more smoothly. There was mocracies. There are only 65 bloodshed. Certain senior officers were placed under arrest. Cvet- million malignant Huns, most of whom are already engaged kovic was brought by the police. in holding down Austrians, obliged to sign a letter of resigna- Czecha, Poles and many other on, Machine-guns and artillery ancient races they now bully
year.
in the volume of exports of 50
above per cent
pre- war level was considered the amount necessary to enable the country to afford imports at pre-war level. In January, with ex- parts three-quarters above the pre-war level, imports were still running probably some 10 per cent in volume below the level of 1938; over the whole year of 1949 they were running at 13 per cent below.
the volume of pro-war. One reason for this is that world prices of goods have become less favourable for Britain than in 1938.
'
Neutral policy
In this atmosphere Prince Paul
Prime Minister to Foreign Secre- |
tary,
14 January 41.- The Cabinet today should consider these, telegrams from Belgrade about Prince Paul's vłown They leave me un- changed. It is for the Greeks to say whether they want Wavell to visit Athens or not. It is the Grecics who must be the judges of the German reactions..
Secondly, if the Germans are coming South they will not require pretexts. They are, it would seem, already acting in pursuance of a karefully thought out, plan which one can hardly assume. will be hurried or delayed in conse-; quence of any minor move- ments of ours. The evidence in our possession of the Gar- man movements seems over- whelming. In the face of it Prince Paul's: attitude looks like that of an unfortunaté vnan Sin the cage with $ tiger,
But
small circle of
Politically it is especially im- portant that the blow "ngainst Yugoslavia is carried out with unmerciful harshness and that the military destruction la done in a lightning-like undertaking. In this way Turkey would be come Bufficiently frightened and the campaign against Greece later on would be in fluenced in a favourable way,
The dramatic events of March|
Ministers and affected.
was directly and immediately
Smooth revolution?
no
to Simovie's headquarters and
and pillage. The peoples of were placed at suitable points in the British Empire and of the the capital. Prince Paul on arrival Informed that United States number nearly at Zagreb was 200 million in their homelands Simovic had taken over the Gov- and British Dominions alone.
ernment in the name of the young that the King, Peter II, and
We possess the unchallenge- Council of Regency had been dis- able command of the oceans, solved:
and with American, help, will Boon obtain decisive superiority
"The
military commander
of
in the air. The British Empire Zagrob requested the Prince to and the United States have return at once to the capital. As more wealth and more techni~ soon as he reached Belgrade cal resources and they make Prince Paul, was escorted to the more steel than the whole of office of General Simovic. Toge the rest of the world put to ther with the other two regents gether. They are determined he then signed the act of abdica- that the cause of freedom shall Hon. He was allowed a few hours not be trampled down not the to collect his exects, and, together tide of world progress turned with his family, he left the coun backwards by the criminal try that night for Greece dictators, one of whom has MANDAT already been irretrievably The plan had been made and punctured. A MEAN,
executed by a close band of Serb nationalist officers without wait We know that the hearts of upon public opinion. It let all trum Serbal, Croats and Bio- loose an outburst of popular en- venes boat for the freddoen, hullasm which may well have
It is true that without de- valuation there is no certainty that in January Britain, would have been able to send over- seas three-quarters more goods than in 1938. But it is their efforts. The spirit of also certain that but for de- the industrial centres in- valuation imports would have dicates that they are ready to cost less. The average price do so. There is no defeatism for imports fell by 7 per cent among the Yorkshire men, between January and Septem: the iron founders, of Teeside, ber, 1949, and meanwhile the the shipbuilders on the Tyne, average price of exports, was and the engineers of the Mid-Integrity and independenes of surprised its authors. The streets steady, so that the terms of lands. Industrialists in all trade were moving in favour these and other areas which of Britain. However, be Kingaley visited told him of tween September and the end plans to expand still further of the year the import price their foreign trade, with a average rose by 12 percent and the terms of trade. unfavourably?
that in
1949 rat hage done in
lopment
oved
their country, and that they of Belgrad" were soon thronged share the forward outlook of with Berbs T chanting lather the English-speaking world. Was than the pact; rather death It. Yugoslavia were at this time may alsvery. There was dancing to stoop to the sum of Rumania) ?inyine squarer; magish and Frenchi ERESA appeared over, wherojë the
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One essay read: "King Alfred went and knocked on the door of
Yes, dear.
of
"The upward trend of prices is
matter of some gravity." Oaly difference is that gravity does have a downward pull.
territories which she had been -forced-at-one-time-to-cede to
Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia will be annihila- ted, for she has just renounced
publicly the policy of under standing with the Axis. The of Trianon, greater part of the German armed forces enust pass through Hungary But the principal
(To be c
continued)
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