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FITZROY-WILLIAMS-A
Memorial Service for Davki Fitzroy-Williams, DSC and Bar, Lieut. RN, (reld). will be held at St. John's Cathe- dral-at 4.30 p.m. Thursday,
March 30th.
THE SIMPLE PLAN
As usual, the. tax-collector is running away with policy and doctrine in the People's China. In the era of the Tuchuns, Cabinets came and went
like shadows. Power rested with the Military, and the sole policy of their wars and their peace was to grab more and more of both public The and private revenues. Nationalists also had idealists and doctrinaires, Hu Han-min tried to impose revolutionary changes by legislation. The Hundred Days of reform by Edict of Kwang Hsu was mere byplay compared with the spate of words and laws, Code, including the Civil
which poured from the Legis-↓ lative Yuan in its palmiest days. It was all in vain. The long gowns and short jackets were soon involved in those bitter controversies which culminated in the 1930 civil war. All through events
MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1950,
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK
where in
the
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
Clamour for a second front
By Winston Churchill
trams gravity of the crisis on the Russians front la poignant torma which_commanded my sympathy. But whon presently I sensed an underlying nir of, menace in hla appeal I was angered.
suld to the Ambassador, whom I had known for many I think there is only one
wo shall try even before the "Remember that,only four yours, menna of egress from this situ- months ago wo in this island did Moscow Conference to tell you
the numbers of aircraft ation to establish in the pro- not know whether you were not
and sent year a second front some coming In against us on the Ger-
tonks we can jointly promise 'it to send cack month, together Balkans
or man side. Indeed, we thought
with supplies of rubbor, alu France, capable of drawing
that you would. quite likely
minium, should
cloth, &c. For our part away from the Eastern Front Even then we felt sure we 30 to 40 divisions, and at the win in the end,
We never
we are now prepared to send same time of ensuring to
to the thought our survival was depen- you, from British production, Soviet Union the beginning of
ion 30,000 tons of dent on your action either way. ong-half of the monthly total aluminium by
for which you ask in aircraft Whatever happens, and whatever
and tanks. monthly you do, you of
We hope the people have no October next and a
United States will supply the minimum of aid mounting to right to make reproaches to us."
As I warmed to the tople the
other half 400 aircraft and 500 tanks (of
of your require- ments. We shall use every on- small.or
or medium
More Ambassador exclaimed, Aize). Without these two forms of calm, please, my dear Mr. Chur-
deavour to start the flow of Soviet Union' will chill," "but thereafter his tone
equipment to you immediately. help the elther suffer defent
We or be
The dis- be weak perceptibly changed.
have given alrendy ened to such an extent that it will lose for a long period any capacity to render assistance to Allies by its actual opern-
tions on the fronts of the strug-
gle against Hitlerism,
1
I realise that this present message will cause dismay to your Excellency. But what is has one to do? Experience
to look facts in taught me
the face however unpleasant they fear to express are, and not the truth however unwelcome It may be. The Persian affair has in fact turned out preity well. The joint operations of the British and Soviet forces predetermined the issue, So it will be in future as long as our But Persia
forces act jointly. The issue
Is but an
of the war will not of course be decided in Persia.
The Soviet Union, like Eng- land, does not desire war with Japan. The Soviet Union does not consider it possible to vio- late agreements, including its treaty of neutrality with Japan. But if Japan violates, this agreement and attacks the Soviet Union she will meet with a due rebuff on the part of the Soviet forces.
Finally, allow me to express thanks for the admiration you have expressed at the actions of the Soviet forces which are waging a bloody war with the Hitlerite robber hordes at bandits for our common calise of liberation,
M. Molsky emphasised the ex-
The technicians have done a great, if temporary, job on the railways. The gospel of work is being preached with zeal but not without casuïş- try-"the people cannot strike against themselves, the own-
¦
FHASE II. THE OCEAN
Up to the Entry of the United States into the War March 18th.1941 to Dec. 6th.1941
Summary of Losses
Gross Tons British 1,134,000 Others 430,000. Total
1,564,000
coast of
reasons
.casion and the tuming-point character which would attach 10 our reply. Although, noth- ing in his language warranted the assumption, we could not exclude the
impression that they might be thinking of separate terms.
The Cabinet have thought it right to send the attached re- ply.
Hope you will not object to our references to possible American aid. I feel that the moment may be decisive. We can but do our best.
Cable from Stalin
another telegram from Stalin:
On Sept. 15, 1941. I received
Morning
"Policemen shot by armed robbers."
It would have been a distinctly better story if they'd been phot by unarmed robbers,
So Joe is not going to have a try at regaining the heavyweight championship after all,
Tharo WOA tho disturbing possiblity that he might Louis.
•
Flying saucers are now reported over Morocco.
That's going to aholkh Hem.
I
"Shock to Parisians. No, Myrtle, it wasn't a chorus girl with all her clothes on.
•
·
Was
On his arrival in Slam, the
limousine young king's sprayed with perfume.
Quite understandably, as the car. with scent out to adulate.
In my last message (he said) I stated the viewpoint of the Soviet Governmen! that the establishment of a second front Is the most fundamental remedy for improvement of the situation - Aduldet. with regard to bur common cause. In reply to your mess- age, in which you stress more the Impossibility of a so- cond
front at the present
олес
mo-
ment, I can only reiterate that the absence of a second front simply favours the designs our common enemy.
attain
I have no doubt that the British Government desires to see the Soviet
Union victorioUS and is looking for ways and means to
this
end. If, пр they think, the establishment of a se- cond front in the West is at pre- sent impossible, perhaps another method could be found to render to the Soviet Union an active military help!
1
It seems to me that Great Brl- tain could without risk land in Archangel 25 to 30 divisions, or transport them across Iran to the USSR. Southern regions of the In this way there could be estab- lished military collaboration be- tween the Bovlet and British of the troops on the territory
lar situation-exls- USSR. A similar ted during the last France. The arrangement men- tioned would constitute a grea! help.
It would be a serious blow against the Hitler aggrcs- sion.
in
It is almost incredible that the head of the Russian Government with all the advice of their mill- tary experts could have commit- ted himself to such absurdities, It seemed hopeless to argue with a man thinking in terms of utter unreality. He continued:
thank you very much for your promise to render LIS 03- sistance by the monthly delive. ries of aluminium tanks and aircraft.
understands
RC-
I can only welcome the inten tion of the British Government to render this assistance in alu- the orders for supplying the minium, tanks and aircraft not on the usual commercial basis Persian railway with rolling (but) of comradeship and colla- stock to raise it from its pre-boration. I hope the British Gov- sent capacity of two trains a ernment will have ample opport
each day
way up to its full unity of being convinced that the capacity, namely, 12 trains a Soviet Government day each way. This should be how to appreciate the help reached by the spring of 1942, ceived from its ally.... and meanwhile will be steadily
Locomotives improving.
and to be sent round the Cape from this coun-
my after b try being converted to cil burners, and the water supply alang the railway has to be developed. The first 48 locomo- tives and 400 steel trucks are about to start.
rolling-stock have
Joint plans
sage.
The
have conformed with the good old rule, the simple plan, that they should take The Soviet Ambassador, who who have the power, and they was accompanied by Mr. Eden. stayed and talked with me for should keep who can. The
an hour and a half. Hoem- only difference nowadays is phasised in bitter terms how for that more is taken and less the last 11 weeks Russia had beon bearing the brunt of the is kept!
German Judgment of the Commun- Germ onslaught virtually
The Russian
were armica alone.
cussion went over the ground ists will be based on what now enduring a weight of attack already covered in the inter- they do for the people, not by never equalled before. He said change of telegrams. The Am- for an imme- speeches or doctrines. The that he did not wish to use dram-bassador pleaded People's Government must alle language, but this might be diate landing on the
a furning-point in history. If France or the Low Countries. I Be expected to be a govern Soviet Russla were defeated how explat
milliary explained the ment for the people, if not by could we win the war?
which rendered this impossible, or of the people. The higher
and that it could be no rellef to
I sent the best answer I could Russia. the claims, the higher the ex-
to this message. I said that I had spent five
Prime Minister to M. Stalin pectations, the steeper the
with
17 September 41. drop in popular esteem if the-things-that-prompted the hours that day examining
our experts the means for greatly
1. Many thanks for your mes increasing they fail in this, Certainly, in lament from Peking.
the capacity of the
Harriman
Hasion I spoke more, Socialist Trans-Persian railway. many things they are doing What is
has all arrived, and is working of the
Beaverbrook Harriman
Beaverbrook better than
all day long with any previous ideology about State controls, of
[shortly to
to go to Mos-
and his colleagues. The
object government in China's State monopolies, and State
and of our resolve to give
la to survey the whole flold of modern history, in the teeth trading, will infallibly be all the supplies we could spare
resources so as to be able to of difficulties and economic regarded by the rank and or carry. Finally Mr. Eden and
definito work out with you a should be
programme of monthly delivery deterioration that have be-file of the tax collectors not as I told him that we
by every possible route, and thus come progressively worse. a gift from the gods of politi-ready for our part to make it
5. We are ready to make help repair as far plain to the Finm that we would
Es possible But the tax-collector is more cal and economic philosophy, declare war upon them if they joint plans with you now. Whe-losses of your munition Indus
than rapacious
ever. The but merely as a means of advanced into Russia beyond ther British armies will be
tries. President Roosevelt's idea the Victory Bond racket has at bringing more grist to the their 1918 frontiers. M. Malsky
strong enough to invade nould not of course abunden his mainland of Europe during 1942 tacked high and low alike mill.
appeal for an immediate second must depend on unforeseeable except the officials them-
front, and it was useless to argue events. It may be possible selves, of course. Ideology
further.
however to assist
the ex- you in
there is has come down from the stars
treme. North when more darkness. We are hoping and people are being com-
to raise our armies in the Mid- pelled to turn their pockets
dle East to a strength of three- out. Desperate needs have
million before the quarters of end of produced desperate methods,
the present year, and thereafter to a million by the and desperate methods in err" and there is a great upon the issues raised in this con-
summer of 1942. their turn require desperate body of fervent faith seeking measures
the stars. Any faith, after Even the Communist hier all, is better than none in the archy are alarmed about it pass to which a great and all, and the Central Com- historic people have come. mittee on Saturday issued an But faith alone is appeal--pardon, an instruc-enough. Fallure can obliter- tion to all Party members ate it. And the new regime to "extend and strengthen stands or falls not by the their links with the masses sincere faith and ideology of a and non-party democrats." handful of idealistic pedants The Committee pointed out but by what it does in cop- that the Party was workinging with the economic crisis. for the interests of the people It was a major factor in the and the nation, and sought downfall of the Nationalists absolutely no self-interest.it will remain a major The Party should not run factor in the survival value counter to the people's will, of the new regime.g and should stand with them The Canton Tax Bureau and not above them, MA Commissioner is quoted as Some of the "errors""" that having publicly complained have accompanied the famine that tax assessments were crisis were exposed recently "not sufficiently democratic": by Tung Pi-wu, but this is and that the formula and pro- merely one phase of current cedure wore "Inofficiant!! complaints which Have Neither in Peking nor in Can- caused a great alump in the ton will euphemisms and popularity of the regime, gentle rebukes intimidate Heavy taxes and grain levies, those who have outsqueezed conscription of labour, econo-all the squeezers of the past mic disorders of unprecedent
ed variety and - range -- gravated by the bloo
bombings -- pra
of food, hars
tyranny: thèse «are
never
Cabinet consulted
I at once consulted the Cabinet
110
versation and in Stalin's message, and that evening sent a reply. Prime Minister, to M. Stalin,
September 4, '41. Onco 1. I reply at
in the Al- spirt of your message. though we should shrink from no exertion, there is in fact posibility of any British action in the West, except air action, which would draw the German forces from the East before the winter sets in. There is no charice whatever of a second front being formed in the Balkana without the help of Turkey I will, if your Excel- lency desires, give all the
roa sons which have led our Chiefy of Staff to these conclusions. They have already been dir- cussed with your Ambassador
#with
the In conference tơ day. Foreign Secretary and the Chiefs of Staff Action, however well-meant, leading only to costly flascos would be no help to anyone but Hitler 5.2.4. The information at my dis- posal, gives me the impresion that the culminating violened of the German invasion is al- ready over, and that winter will give your berufe
About
Italian
Once the German forces in Libya have been des troyed all these forces will be available to come into line on your Southern flank, and it is hoped to encourage Turkey to maintain at the least a faithful neutrality. Meanwhile we shall
continue to batter Germany
from the air with increasing
and to keep the severity open and ourselves alive.
0. In your first
paragraph του you used the word "sell."
matter
in had not viewed the such terms and have never
Wo
Thought of payment. Any 48- sistance. We can give you would beller be upon the same basis of
comradeship
as the American Bill, of which no
formal
kept in money. *** 7% Wo are willing to put any
war
upon
Finland in "our. Including Immediate
that we will doclare.
upon her should she con tinue beyond the old frontiers. WA are asking the United-Staten to take all possible steps to in Euence Finland hole matter so Y-thought the whole Important that
sent simultane oplosion
Ud following telegram "to We are the President while the impres
h'in my mind: To a grievous sion was fresh"
Paron to President loseqs which Russian industry tormer,Navel. has matained, and very stort
well aware of
months with ap simees were
us to help you
has been and-"will
Vitenbitri i Brought? the subjóined @niewRJEST
•
This closing of factories brings balm to nobody, except those who have Rod spots.
Philadelphia
surgeons
have
successfully operated on a man's heart through the neck.
When the patient arrived in hospital, his heart was in his mouth. How very convenient. said the medicos,
*
*
"Whittle down what extra bulge with tested zoven-day diet."
I give up. Tell me
•
*
Then we had: "If your hips are prominent, tuck them under a couple of inches."
Of what?
❤
"Most adults are children
nt
heart, and they love ico cream old and triffes, no matter how they, are."
Sorry, but when they're more than a week old, this adult just loses interest.
Forward Draouta.
"Next change: 'Kiss the blood off my hands.
It would be quite a chapge, but at the moment I'm otherwise engaged.
Local trade unionista bave offered two motor vehicles .to Peking, and are due to drive them to the mainland today.
They will at least have a run for their money....
1
A company has been formed in England to offer holidays to be pald for on the instalment system. So it will be a casa of saving up for one's last holiday.
cover
is that this plan should up the end of June, but na- turally we shall go on with you the con- till victory. I hope ference may open in Moscow on the 25th of this month, but no
publicity-ahould be given till all are safely gathered. The routes
be '. and method of travel will signalled later.
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