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Early in April,
1942, President Roo- sevelt sent Gen. Marshall and Harry Hopkins to London to present the sa lient points of a military scheme which he said he would like to label as "the plan of the United Nations.” He indicated its pur- pose in the White House on April 3.
De
EAR WINSTON,
What Harry and Geo. Marshall will tell you all about
has my heart and mind in it. Your people and mine demand the establishment of a front to draw off pres- sure on the Russians, and these
peoples are wise enough to Bee' that
the Russians are today killing more Germans and destroy- ing more equipment than you and I put together. Even if full success is not attained, the big objective will be.
Go to it Syria and Egypt will bo made more secure, even if the Germans find out about our plans.
Best of luck. Make Harry go to bed early, and let him obey Dr Fulton, US.N., whom I am sending with him Burso with full authority.
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BERNARD WICKSTEED' accompanies
British
contingent to Korea and sends through 2 true story:
Flowers From The Corporal
On Board A Troopship.
I asked if I could use the other desk and in this way T'S funny what a differ-
began a working arrange- once to a man one ment that started in the lotter from home can Red Sea and continued make. When you don't got across the Indian Ocean. any mail your life in the Army can be full of min. givings.
That was the trouble with thia corporal I am going to tell you about.
It soon began to dawn OD me that it was no ordinary Jetter home this fellow Writing. Night after night he went on Alling up sheets of
Wag
foolscap with fight, single- spaced typing.
At last I made some comment |
There isn't much privacy In a troopship and it's hard and he replied rather brusqualy that he was writing to a Inwyer to find a quiet spot to set up to get a divorce. I apologised
a typewriter and work. So for mentioning the matter, and he went on doggedly tapping
one
down the back of his neck im
I pricked up my cars sweltering night on deck away while the sweat tricided when I heard the unmistak- able tap-tap of a two-finger typist at work.
I tracked the sound down to a small office where at. one of two desks was a cor-
salty streams.
Somehow I couldn't concenTM trate on my own work after that and, risking another rebuff, I asked if I could help him out. So out it all came, the story
who came of a soldier
back from six years abroad and
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poral laboriously picking married the first pretty girl away at a typewriter.
PLANS TO DRAW OFF
PRESSURE ON RUSSIA
April 1, 1943, but only if 60 percent of the lift is carried by non-U.S. ships. If the movement is dependent only on U.S. shipping the date of the assault must be postponed to the late summer of 1943. About 7,000 landing-craft will be needed, and current con- struction programmes must
accelerated be greatly achieve this figure. Concur- rently, preparatory work to receive and operate the large U.S. land and air contingents must be speeded up.
The assault
By
Winston
of a preliminary emergency landing on a much smaller but the still substantial scale in autumn of 1942. We were most willing to study this, any other plan of diversion, for the cake of Russia and also for the general waging of the war.
and also
Having meditated upon the President's memorandum und the views of the Chiefs of Staff, I sent the following message to
should take place on selected beaches between the President:
Havre and Boulogne, and be
carried out by a first wave of
12 April, '42.
at least six divisions, supple- I have read with earnest atten- mented by airborne troops,
It would have to be nourished
at the rate of at least 100,000 men
a week. As soon as the beach-heads are secure ar- moured
forces would move rapidly to seize the line of the Olse-St. Quentin, There- after the next objective would be Antwerp.
Be prepared
this 'scale Since invasion on
cannot be mounted before April 1, 1943, at earliest, a plan must be prepared, and kept up to date, for im- mediate action by such forces as may be available from time to time. This may have to be
effect as put into
an emer. gency measure either.
(a) To take advantage of a sudden German disintegra- tion, or
As ever,
F.D.R. On April 8 Hopkins and Gen- eral Marshall arrived in Lon- don. They brought with them a comprehensive memorandum prepared by the United States In Joint Staff and approved by the President.
Favoured theatre
Operations in Western Europe
April, 1943.
by
Western Europe is favoured -as
the theatre in which to stage. the first major offensive the United States and Great Britain. Only thore could
thair combined land and air resources be fully developed
(b) "As a sacrifice" to avert an Imminent collapse of Russian resistance.
event local alr any such superiority is essential, On the other hand, during the autumn of 1942 probably
could
more than Ave divisions be dispatched and maintained. In this period the
bur-
den would fall on the
tion your masterly document about the future of the war and the great operations pro- posed.
I am in entire agree- ment in principle with all you propose, and so are the Chiefs of Staff. We must, of course, meet day-to-day emergencies in the East and Far East while preparing for the main stroke.
Chapter 14 of "The Hinge. Of Fate," Mr. Chur- chill's Fourth Volume of World War II memoirs,
Kuttanlandske makende pÉZSTOASTAL DES PARA RENS
had been reluctant
Churchil
that he saw,
When they took their vowa they'd known each other just Three weeks. Neither of them thought of marriage as anything more than a personal con- venience-he for the company it provided and she for the security.
They might soon have drifted apart for ever if it hadn't been for the arrival of a baby boy.
QUARRELS
FROM then on, for five years
this ship solled out of Liverpool, their lives were one long series of quarrels, boy friends, girl friends, and bitter humiliations, interposed with periods of reconciliation for the sake of the child ་་
date. Things may easily come terval? The main armies could
Those pages of typescript to a head before then.
not simply be preparing all that
he'd churned out for the time. Here there was a wide Marshall explained that you diveralty of opinion. General lawyer told in painful detail
the story of every to press Marshall had advanced the pro- liaison
suspected for an enterprise that was posal that we should attempt to
After I'd read them he show-- fraught with such grave risks reize Brest or Cherbourg, pre-
nd me some pictures of his and dire consequences until ferably the latter, or even both,
reverently wiping tio you could make a substantial
during the earing autumn of boy.
hands air contribution; but he left 1942. The operation would have perspiration from his
They us in no doubt that, if it were to be almost entirely British. before touching them. found necessary to act earlier. you, Mr President, would car. The Navy, the alr, two-thirds showed a folly lad with tousted. grin all over his of the troops, and such landing-hair and
any woman nestly wish to throw in every craft as were available must be face, a boy that available serap of human and provided by us.
would adore and any man be material resources.
proud of.
Only two or three American
We are proceeding with plans divisions could be found. These,
and preparations on that
When he was on his embarks-
tion leave the corporel had a final shot at making things up, but the day before he was duo to leave he caught his wife in
basis. Broadly speaking, our it must be remembered, were agreed programme is cres very newly raised. It takes at cendo of activity on the Con- least two years and a very the over-cager arms of a suitor tinent, starting with an ever strong professional cadre Increasing air offensive both
two special representatives to see you at once about your
plans....
to who wouldn't wait.
there must be an intensive tech-
alter-
"What can I do now?" he by night and day, and more form first-class troops. The en
and frequent
was therefore one on said. "I beat the man up and large scale terprise
then walked out of the house raids, in which United States which British Staff opinion
waiting for an explana- without troops will take part.
would naturally prevail. Clearly to
tion.
the rights and Apart from I agree with the suggestion in
your telegram of April 2 that nical study of the problem. wrongs of the case, a troopship you should ask Stalin to send Nevertheless I by no means start divorce proceedings, and I in the troples is no place to rejected the idea at the outset; told him so.
other but there were
work becAUGO It was hard natives which lay in my mind the bitterness bad eaten into Africa the lotter to a lawyer, he sent a cable a florist ordering Let me now set out my own (Morocco, Algeria and Tunis) flowers for his wife. He fol-
the present view, which was persistent, of which for
widlowed it up with a letter from what had so far been decided, known as "Gymnast," which Aden fall of normal, and of what I thought should had advocated in my paper of news.
Doc. 10, 1041, and which the emerged in In planning the gigantic en ultimately terprise of 1943 it was not pos- great operation "Terch." alble for us to lay aside pit
Deed of shame
be done.
The first was the descent on him, but at length, instead of
French
North-West
1 may say that I thought the
proposals made for an interim obligation was to defend · India operation in certain contin- from the Japanese Invasion,, by gencies this year met the di- which it seemed it was already aculties and uncertainties in menaced. Moreover this task an absolutely sound
other duties. Our first Imperial Never repented
can
manner.
whom we
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chocry
WAITING ...
Na troopship your letters go off before those from home come aboard at each port.
The
In a corporal waited I had a second alternative daze. "I've just made a fool plan for which I always han- of myself again," he said. "AR kered and which I thought I' get in return is a letter could be
undertaken as well
There was no letter for him.
If, as our experts believe,, we bore a decisive relation to the as the invasion of French North Salling me names."
carry this whole plan whole war. To leave 400m. of Africa. This was "Jupiter It was the same at Colombe a through successfully, it will his Majesty's Indian subjects, namely, the liberation of Nor-week later. With a great effort be one of the grand events in to.
were bound In thern Norway. Here was direct he sent off another letter full all the history of war. U.K.
be ravaged, and old to Russia. Here was the of hope, and again there was honour, to overrun, as China had been, by only method of direct combined nothing in return. the Japanese would have been milltary action with Russian
From Ceylon to Singapore in a deed of shame. But also to troops, ships, and air. Here was four days steaming, and I allow the Germans and Japan- the means, by
securing the noticed that the corporal had
For example, on Sept. 15 the
U. 5, could find 2 divisions Memorable meet
of the five needed, but only
disaster to
700 combat aircraft; so that On the night of the 14th the ese to join hands in India or northern up of Europe, of open-got out his fool cap sheets the contribution required from the U.K. might
Committee met our the Middle East involved a ing the broadest flood of sup- again, and was going over them amount to Defence 5,000 aircraft.
American friends at 10, Down- measureless-
the plles to Russia. Here was an
enterprise which, as it had to Thank
pentence by sentence. ing Street: On the 17th I re- Allied cause.
goodness ho It ranked in my mind almost volved neither large numbers of
be fought in Arctic regions, in-didn't end them because this fetter for him.
and the maximum support Much exhausted ported to the President:
given to Russia.
The decision to launch this Hopkins, much exhausted by offensive must be made at his journey, fell for two or orico, because of the Immensu three days, but Marshall started preparations
many
necessary in talks with our Chiefs of Staff
1
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My own cholca
Was
I do know there were DOING for unapa of the boy in it, becauso
bo Unul it can at once. It was not possible to Chiefs of Staff, I think, how- likely. I had faith
"down with the Defence Committee'll havo at once a short account wer of the Russian armies tem viso in 1942. The at-posted detter to the Inwyer:
well
the enemy. In the arrange the formal conference- West
be pinned and kept in uncertainty by Tuesday, the 14th. Meanwhile ruscs and raids, which latter I talked the whole position over would also gain useful Infor- with the Chiefs of Staff mailen and, provide valuable as with my colleagues. training
We were all relieved by the The combined invasion forces evident strong American inten- should consist of 40 divisions tion to intervene in Europe, and including nine armoured), of to give the main priority to the
This which the British share is 18 defeat of Hitler. had pl- "divisions (including three ways been the foundation
moured). The supporting our strategic thought. On the air forces required amount to other hand neither we nor
100 combat, aircraft,12,650, of professional advisera could de- any practical plan for the Channel with a noo of the large Anglo American army pal lipit- and landing in France before
the
Bring
reached.
Your envoys will take back Soviet Rusala behind the Urals, supplies and munitions.
as the equal of the retirement of men nor heavy expenditure of time there was a
I don't know what it said, but, with them a full note of our or even of their making a memorable meeting last Tues- separate peace with, Germany. day and a detailed commen. At this date I did not deem "Torch," and if I could have had he showed them to me. tary on your proposals by our either of these
Contingencies
my full way
I would have tried And I do know that the un- ever, that you would wish to
to forma bridgehood at went out of the porthole in. and nation fighting in defence' Cherbourg seemed to me more little bits that are now fosting of the conclusions which were their native soll. Our Indian difficult, less attractive, less im- harmlessly on the China, ses Empire, however, with all its mediately helpful or ultimately
(Lotion Express Berolçe)]) We wholeheartedly agree with glories, might fall an easy prey, fruitul. I would be better to your conception of concentra I had to place this point of North Afrion, tear with our beft your right claw on Franch tion against the main enemy, view, before the American on at the North Cape, and wait a and we cordially accept your voys Without active British year without risking our teeth with one broad quali ald India might be conquered in upon the German fortified front cation. As you will see from a low months. Hitler's subjuge scross the Channels my telegram of April 15. It is
.is.tion.
tion of Soviet Russia would be essential that we should pro a much longer, and to him more Those were my views then, vent a junction of the Jajan- costly, task. Before it was ad- and I have never repented of ese and the Germans. Conso- complished the Anglo-American them. I was, however, very quently, a proportion of our command of the air would hayo ready to give "Sledgehammer combined resources must for boen established beyond chals as the Cherbourg result the moment be set aside to bait jenga, Even if all eles failed called, a fair run with other the Japanes kdvante, **** this would be funlig, degisivas, suggestions before the Flannig
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