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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1950.
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR -
ME
THE THIRD BOOK
I support by all means your proposal of an early-visit to the USTER by the Foreign Secre- I believe our tary, Mr. Eden. Joint consideration and accep- tance of an agreement concern- ing the common military oper- stions of the Soviet and British forces at our front, as well as speedy realisation of such an agreement, would have a great positive value. It is right that consideration and acceptance of a plan concerning the post-war organisation of peace should be founded upon the general ideas of preventing Germany, and in the first place Prussia, once more from violating pence and once more plunging peoples inta terrible carnage.
I also fully agree with you that the difference of the Siato between the organisation USSR on the
one hand
ord Great Britain and the United States of Amerten on the other hand should not and could not, hinder us in achieving a puc- cessful solution of all the fun- damental questions concerning our mutual security and our If there legitimate interests.
are still some omissions and doubts on this score they will be cleared away in the course of the negotiations with Mr. Eden.
I beg you to necept my con- gratulations on the successful beginning of the British offen- sive in Libya.
Soviet The struggle of the amics against Hitler's troups remains lense. In spite, how- ever, of all the difficulties the resistance of our forces grows and will grow. Our will to -victory over the enemy is un-
bending,
Ultimatum
As a result of Stalin's pressing appeal it was decided to go ahead with arrangements to de- liver an ultimatum with a time init to the Finns, and also to
Rumania and Hungary.
Mean-
while I thought it worth while, with the knowledge and agree- ment of the Soviet Government, final and personal to make a appeal the Finnish leader, Field-Marshal Mannerheim, Prime Minister to Field-Marshal Mannerheim, 29 November 41.
to
I am deeply grieved at what I see coming, namely, that we shall be forced in a few days out of loyalty to our ally Russia Finland. to declare war upon
If we to this, we shall make
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
The war in the desert
war also as opportunity serves. Burely your troops have ad- vanced far enough for security during the war and could now halt and give leave. It is not necessary to make any public declaration, but simply leave off fighting and cease military operations, for which the severe winter affords every reason, and make n de facto exit from the wor.
I wish I could convince your Excellency that we are going to beat the Nazis. I feel far more confident than in 1917 or 1918. It would be most painful to the many friends of your country in England if Finland found herself in the dock with the guilty and defeated Nazis. My recollections of our pica- zant talks and correspondence about the last war lead me to send this purely personal and private message for your con- sideration beföre it is too late. On December 2 I received Fleld Marshal Mannerheim's
answer.
Pield-Marshal Mannerheim Prime Minister Churchill.
2 December, 41.
fo
I had yesterday the honour to receive through the inter-
•thority Ilm Tobruch
4
21
By Winston Churchill
been ordered
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to make plans for this movement, the Col)-
sance.
comes
sult of these conjectural schemes at every stage the convictions and support of the Chiefs of Staff, and of my Ministerial colleagues on the Defence Committee and in the War Cabinet.
The
Different view
al
"Threat contempt."
to elto Truman · for
That would be a cite worth seeing.
So the now budget has, na expected, received the hallowed rubber stamp. It Follows fiat government
morb Armly convinced
the than ever that taxpayers owe it a living.
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his old divinity. It'll take a little Hirohito is said to be regaining
time. competition these days,
though. There's more in a general sort of way.
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Commanders-in-Chief pletion of which will of course Cairo took a different view. They depend upon the
facilities looked to the defence of the afforded for detailed reesanais- Delta and the Canal, of Basra and and the Caucasus, and the "bas- The attitude of Turkey béton of the Taurus range" as the
first essentials. increasingly Important, both to Russia
They did not consider Sletly and to Creat
Talking about the emperor's Britain.
elther The Turkish army of Their minds lay right-handed and practicable or necessary.
tour, a contemporary stated that when H. arrived at one village, 50 divisions requires air sup-
We have
"many Inept with " and should it be de- promised a
Which is better after all than move Westward and minimum of four and a maxi cided to mum of 12 fighter squadrons to should our efforts prosper they being like samo people, just inept. Turkey in the event of Turkey Bizerta to any attempt on
the preferred
occupation being attacked. In this event
on Sielty. I fully understood their reasoning, we might require to withdraw some of the squadrons proposed General Wavell from India.
which was strongly supported by to be sent into action on the
Is Russian Southern frent. The best use of our aircraft on bath
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"A lond girl in the 1914-18 wor
consequence
I abandoned the Iden
of an attack on Stelly shores of the Black Sen and the
th("Whipcord"). types to be einployed require Our plan, if everything pros- and a staff sergeant in the ATS to be decided according to clr-pered, was therefore: The clear- in World is shown at the Albert ance of Cyrenaica by the defeat Hall War II, Miss Ruth Burton of Rommel's army; the advance re-uafon chatting to Pte. E. E. to Tripoli; and, with the French help and invitation,, it forth- coming, the entry into French North West Africa. The Sleily project was dependent upon the favourable outcome of the first two, and would be an alternative
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cumstances by consultation be tween the British and Russian Governments and Staffs,
Desert war
mediary of the American Minis- ter al Helsinki your letter of November 29, 1941, and I thank you for your courtesy in sen- ding me this private mesange. I Dm sure you will realise that it is impossible for me to cense
Before the opening of Gen my present military operations
cral Auchinleck's desert of before my troops have reached
ensive Crusader") on Nou postions which in my opinion
ember 18, 1041, discussions tool would give us the security re-
place regarding the explotta- gired, I would regret if these
tion of the expected success by operations, carried out in order to safeguard Finland,
seizing French North would
and Sicily. bring my country into a conflict. with England, and I will be deeply grieved it you will con- sider yourself forced to declare
Africa
James of Brixton.
This war in the Albert Hall sounds most interesting, but the photograph was deadly dull.
No, Myrtle, a Soviet is not a Russian napkin.
to the third. All this was, how ever, so speculative that I did not wish to continue the strategie The robbers threw the shop argument with the Middle Eastwatchman's shotgun on the street, Command,
which the watchman retrieved Prime Minister to Minister of and with which he aimed at, the State.
escaping thugs."
In all the fellow confused.
11 November 43. I could find no answer but silence to your and Auchin- leck's telegrama about "Cri- sader." view can be talten
of the future until we know how this goes. A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to
мест.
स
excitement, the was understandably
The agency report of a wee hour's vote! makes me think that of more minute knowledge popular sayings would prevent a second misquetatiɔn. That ma' Scots upbringing.
"The play will be given in two parts. Sixteen years passes between parts one and two, Cafles will be served during the Interval."
German Army Planning Staff had made a study of future opera- tions, called Plan "Orient," to overthrow the British position in the Middle East. Their major as- sumption was that the Russian war would come to a successful
The Tingaling Restaurant across end in the autumn. If so a big the street is quoting-reduced rates
Ponzer
Corps from the
the for snacks by the month would Caucasus
drive South- wards through Persin in the win-
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With all these imported troops ter of 1041-42. From Bulgaria, if and technicians Russian about, Turkey were acquiescent, a force
there is said to be a move afoot of 10 divisions, half of them armoured and motorised,
to re-name it Shanghaigrad. would traverse Anatolia Into Syria and Iraq. If Turkey resisted, double that strength would be needed, and in
consequence the plan would have to wait till 1942.
The German and Italian forces in Africa were given only the third place. Their role during the
The trouble about Colonial Governments with an official their sweet majority is reasonableness in debate. In Parliaments run by Parties the fur flies furlously, and the ruling and opposition parties regard each other, for the purposes of debate any- way, as sworn enemies. Now we have His Excellency claim- ing the unofficial members as the official partners with members in the Government, and repudiating a description of them as the Opposition! There was even the still more modest suggestion that the Unofficials actually ride, guide, whip or spur the poor, cumulative effects. There was dumb, but obedient grief at having to spend so quadruped, biped, or wooden much, and grief at having so horse of Government! But little left to spend on the ex- riders do have difficulties pansion of social services, _with_their_mounts sometimes..-And-there-is-always-the-final Exactly how the taxpayer consolation of the departing Finland figures in this sporting conceit we do not know, unless it haspirits: "it is also clear that withdraw her troops to her 1939 ready in the United Kingdoin one in Libya would advance on Cairo.
we cannot allow our expendi- frontiers, and the British Gov-armoured and three field
went ahead sions, with sufficient naval power, ture to mount indefinitely.th the arrangements to declare while the German Air Force was
ernment therefore and there may come a time war. Bimilar action followed in absorbed in Russia, to carry them when some quite drastic cuts regard to Rumania and Hungary,
to any point in the Western Mediterranean will be necessary." Here, one is left miserably to feel, is the unkindest cut of all-no cuts today but what a cut in the frightful bye-and-bye!
summer and autumn of 1941 was
to be purely defensive, except
My hopes were that we might win a decisive victory in the Western Desert and drive Rom- war upon Finland. It was mel back through Libya and Tri- very kind of you to send me apolitania. If all went well this that Tobruk was to be taken. By personal mesege in these try-might bring about the rallying the winter their losses in men ing days, and I have fully and Morocco, and, perhaps even
from Vichy of Tunis, Algeria, and equipment would be made appreciated it.
up, and then, when the genera) the accession of Vichy. Itself.
assault was made on Persia...and This reply made it clear that This purpose was only a hope Iraq, and our attention and forces
was not prepared to bulit on a hope. But we hold
were distracted, the Axls army
The autumn and winter months The German Air was gone from were therefore our opportunity. Sicily. The Russian front lapped
Staff.
Eden's mission
back-
dlvi-
Air
blockade and reached
Benghazi.
(To be continued).
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Nevertheless, if Govern ment insistently knows better than its rider, if it goes its own
up the fuel needed for the Italian Fleet. During August 33 per cent If we got Tripoli, and France of the supplies and reinforce- gait and always gets there, it
would not move, our possessionments to Rommel were lost. In is neither silent nor sullen. It
of Malta would enable us to has an argument for every
October this important figure rose descend upon Sicily, and thus open
to 03 per cent. The Italians were the up
only possible signal, and removes the
"Second Front” in Europe with-
pressed to organise an alternative idiomatic steamroller from
It was against such a Thus and thus are we laid
route of supply by air, At the end In our power while we were alone that preparations were in the West. ground
of September Mussolini under- controversy as a graceless low and forced to
I could not sce seek made for Mr. Eden's mission to anything else, except Norway, air to Tripoli at the rate of 16,000 took to corry reinforcements by misnomer. It merely has the shelter in mere persiflage, Moscow. He was to be accom- however good our fortune on the last word, and as it always while furious Letters to the panied by General Nye, Vice- battlefield, which we could men a month, but by the end of wins, nothing is left to the Editor appear sacrilege. Chief of the Imperial General accomplish by ourselves in 1942. October only 9,000 had arrived. Sea transport to Tripoli was at A general review of the The plan for the invasion of punter but to applaud, and The new taxes stay, and alter-war in both its military and gen- Sicily had been carefully worked the same time brought to a stand- pay up instead of pick up natives to direct taxation are cral aspects was to be undertakes aut by the Chiefs of Staff and the sill, and only a few convoys ran for this is where an otherwise swallowed up as additional in these talks in Moscow, and Planning Committee. We called pleasant simile vanishes from perquisites, while to cap it all if possible the alliance was to be it "Whipcord." the sportive scene.
Once Rommel was beaten and another million or two are put on a formal and writen treaty
des- his small, audacious army bosis. the Unofficial Certainly,
piled on to the Estimates,
I drew up a general directive troyed and Tripoli was ours, IJ, members cannot complain with the Select Committee for the Foreign Secretary, re was not thought impossible for that the arguments they put as the anonymous alibi. Gov- viewing certain aspects of the four divisions of our best troops, to land and forward were ignored. They ernment, said the Financial military situation as seen from about 80,000 men, were merely overwhelmed! Secretary, in his burini aur side. The battle in the De- conquer Sicily. The Gerus 80 Exclusive rights in Hong Kong |
sert, which will presently be Force, who. had wrought with a mighty mass of coun- peroration-Government still described, was already at its much harm from the Sicilian air- ter-argument, always with holds the view that "we" height. that air of sweet reasonable should aim at a revenue for ness which makes a hostile the coming year of at least vote seem so ungracious-not $204 million, and it is proposed to say futile as well. And we to increase the Revenue total: must say, in a spirit both to this figure in the final print rueful and grudging, that of the Estimates. Govern- much of it carried conviction ment will give further con- tool
sideration to the manner in It's all wrong, of course. which this additional $12 mil- Governments that derive from lion should be produced, and no popular franchise have no the views expressed by Un business to work upon public official members will receive complacency like this. They full consideration. should have an inferiority And with that air #full of complex, and bridle at the sweet desolation, balmy pain," least suggestion of criticism, the Financial Secretary as Party Governments are subsided in his seat, leaving it wont to do. But look at the to His Excellency to apply to grief with which the Financial the prostrated Unofficials the Secretary spoke of the costs consolations of his fraternal of administration and think assurances and sporting wit of the effect it must have Who does not remember made on the stony hearts of Rebbie Burna Address to a the spending Departments Mouse whose demands Mr. Follows has to meet
There were even two kinds of grief, crushing in their
The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft-a-glay: An' lea's us nought but griež
and pain, For promie'd joy li ji
:80 many
the
had been called away to 5 Dec., 41:
and there were now no The prolongation of the battle German troops
island. in the in Libya, which is drawing in Wes
When our expedition was at sea
the Mediter Axle resources, will, and had entered probably require the use both ranean it would of course be
50th
and 16th British spotted. But the enemy could not Divisions, which' wo had hoped koow whether we were going to might be available for the de- French North Africa--Bizerta, fence of the Caucarus or for Algiera, Oran-Or to Sicily or action on the Russian front. In Sardinia. Such
are the
advan the near future therefore these Lageous options open to naval divisions cannot be considered power. available.
The best form which our aid It is and thing to see the for- can take (apart from supplies) ward path and another to be able is the placing of a strone. CAN- to take it. But it is better to bave ponent of the Air Force, my 10 an ambitious plan than none at squadrons, ¿on. the Southera all. All turned first on the success flanks of the Russian armies of General Auchinleck's long- where, among other things, prepared offensive in the Western they can help protect the Rus Desert. All
All had to sian naval·luscs pa the Black relation to the unklowed in
to the
dangers Son. Those squadrons will be which would be opened upon us withdrawn fram the Labynn by German penetration to battle
moment Carplan, or their
move Possible when miccom han gained. ment through Turkey In
In the Thị
imovaneats of tháir ground sime direction, or into the Middle 72 Porsia undif
and Iraq. Hat garded all these as comparatively willikely posibilities. In the event this proved the correct view.
//sian communications, and would
the craw, if infantry calvislos were ‹ less a Urbs: Há: Com mand" in the Middle East has,
I carried with me in the pur-
An old man stood on the street while corner waiting to cross, trafle streamed by. Time went on and lie became impatient.
Seeing another old man on the other side of the street, he called gut," say, how did you get over there?"
The other anelent cupped his hands about his mouth and shouted: "I was born over hore.”
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