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Chapter 18 Of Winston Churchill's Fourth Book Of War Memoirs
AMERICANS'
GALLANT
OF AID WHEN TOBRUK
-T is not customary for A Prime Minister to advise the Sovereign officially upon his suc- cessor unless he is asked to As it was war-time
⚫ do so.
I sent the King, in response to a request he had made to me in conversation at our last weekly interview, the following letter:
10, Downing Street, Whitehall. June 18, 1942. Sir-
Mr
In the dive
had some moments. thoughtful Roosevelt's infirmity prevented him from using his feet on the brake, clutch, or accelerator. An ingenious arrangement enabled him to do everything
which
were muscu-
with his arms, amazingly strong and lar. He invited me to feel his a famous bleeps, saying that prize-lighter had envied them.
At the height of the desert battle Mr Char- chill left by air for a second war-time visit to Washington to reach a final decision on the operations for 1942-43. It was also necessary for him to discuss with Mr Roosevelt the atom-bomb developments, diz- guised under the code name of "Tabe Alloys.”
This was reassuring; but I confess that when on 'several occasions the car poised and to where the research plant hacked on the grass verges of was to be set up. Considering the precipices over the Hudson that Great Britain was under I hoped the mechanical devices close bombing attack and con- and brakes would show no
air reconnais-
In case of my death on this
de- stant enemy Journey I am about to under- take, I avail myself of Your fects. All the time we talked sance, it seemed impossible to was erect in the Island 'the- vast Majesty's gracious permission business, and though I
entrust the formation of
to advise that you should careful not to take bla atten- and conspicuous factories that
made were needed. a tion off the driving we new Government to Mr An- more progress than we might
dune
formal thony Eden, the Secretary of have State for Foreign Affairs, ference.
in
Very glad
con-
ourselves
at
We codiceived least as far advanced as our ally, and there was, of course. the alternative of Canada, who bad a vital contribution her-
who is in my mind the out-
standing Minister
the In
largest political party in the House of Commons and in
the National Government
over
spend several
self to make through the_suj- of uranium she had ac-
plies
which
have the The President was very glad ively gathered. It was a hand
the decision honour to preside, and who to hear I had
brought
lo
I am sure will be found cap- C.I.G.S. with me. His field of hundred million pounds ster- able of conducting Your interest was always brightened ing, not so much of money an of competing forms of precious Majesty's affairs with the by recollections of his youth
and 11 had happened that the Pre- war-energy, upon a project the resolution, experience,
of which no sciential capacity which these grie- sident's father had entertained success
side of the Atlantis of on either at Hyde Park the father General Brooke. Mr Roosevelt could guarantee.
in-
vous times require.
I have the honour to remain, therefore expressed keen
Your Majesty's faithful and
devoted servant and subject,
Winston S. Churchill.
Two luncheons
had not been willing to undertake the venture 1.1
in
an
OFFER
FELL
rowspapers, read telegrams for bour, had my breakfast, looked up Harry across the pas- ange, and then went to see the President in his study.
man
could exceed the sympathy and chivalry of my two friends. There were no reproaches; not an unkind word was spoken. "What
can we do to help?” said Roosevelt. I replied at once, "Give us as many Sher
tanks as you can. spare. ship them to the Middle as quickly as possible.." The President sent for Gen- eral Marshall, who arrived in a_few minutes, and told him Marshall re- of my request,
*M** President, the plind,
General Ismay came with me. Presently a telegram was put into the President's hands and He passed it to me without a East
It said: "Tobruk hea surrendered, with 25,000 Lac- tually 35,000 men taken pri- soners This was so surpris- ing that I could not bellove it.
word.
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into production.
Qur own
With
ment. It is a
a terrible thing to
take the weapons soldier's hands.
out of a
Nevertheless
Eettled and agreed policy. I therefore asked Ismay, to Shermans are only just coming But in core no plan can be' inquire of London by tele-
The first few made in
a few minutes he hundred which any respon- phone. In
have been issued to sible authority has good conf-
brought the following
armoured divisions, which dence, and consequently no sage,
had just arrived who have hitherto had to be Admiral engagement on a substantial from
Harwood
at content
obsolete equip scalo in France is possible Alexandria: In September, 1942, what Tobruk
has fallen, and situn- else, are we going to do?
•tion] | [has] · deteriorated much that there is a pos- If the British need is so great sibility
of heavy air attack they must have them; and we on Alexandria in near future, could let them have 100 105- and in view of
mm. self-propelled guns ip ad- approach- Judi Ling
moon period I am dition." sending EM Easter Ficot units south of Conal to awolt aventa. I hope to get HMS. Queen Elizabeth out of dock towards end of this week.
Can we afford in stacki idio in
the Atlantic theatro during
· tho whole. of 19427 Ought Wo
be not to
preparing within the general struc ture of "Bolero some other operation by which we may Hain positions of advantage, and also directly or indirect
to take
of the 1y weight off Hussia? It is in. this setting and on this back
that ground
the operation "Gymnast" (a landing in French North Africa]' should be-studied.
Heavy blow
Ship sunk
To Complete the story it This was one of the heaviest must be stated that the Ameri-| blows I can recall during the cans
than their were botter. war. Not only were its milit word. Three hundred Sherman effects grievous, but it had tanks with engines not yet in- affected the reputation of the stalled, and a hundred British armies. At Singapore propelled guns were put
men had surrendered to six of their fastest ships and numbers of Japanese sent off to the Suez Canal The Now in Tobruk a garrison of ship containing the
Lox engines 35,000 seasoned
arms to
submarine off Bermuda. With- haps one-half of their num
I this was typical
morale
Late on the night of the 20rld down the soldiers had all the, tanks was sunk by s
If the Canadian the Presidential train bore
in
us ber.
per-
of
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terest to meet the son, who Nevertheless, if the Ameri had reached such a high posi- cang tion. When they met two days later he received him with the forward on our own power
should certainly have gone utmost cardiality, and General Canada, or,
a single word from us the Brooke's personality and charm
Government defnurred, immediate to created an almost
of the Desert President and Marshall put
further supply of engines into intimacy which greatly helped game other part of the Empire. back to Washington, which we the
dre. reached about eight o'clock the Army, no measure could be another fast ship and dispatched I was, howover, very glad when next morning. We were heavily
disasters which it to overtake the convoy. the President said he thought escorted to the White House, and impended in North-East Africa,
vily put upon the I told Harry Hopkins about the United States would have
was again accorded the very We therefore took largo air-conditioned room, in I did not attempt to hide was perfect and the moon full the different points on which I to do it.
at from I dwelt in. comfort
the President the shock I sat for two hours or more in wanted decisions, and he talk this decision jointly and settled which the co-pilot's seat admiring the ed them over with the Presi- the basis of the agreement.
about 20deg. below the tem- I had received. It was a bitter perature of most of the rest of moment. Defeat is one thing;' shining sca, revolving my prob- dent, so that the ground was
Nothing the building. I glanced at the disgrace is another.
We left Stranraer
the the course of business, night of June 17, shortly be foro midnight. The
slept
on
weather
sub-
lems, and thinking of the an- prepared and the President's xious battle.
soundly mind armed upon each in the "bridal suite" until wo ject. Of these "Tabe Alloy reached Gander in broad day was one of the most complex light. Here we could have re- and, as it proved, overwhelm-
not ingly the most important. was necessary,
and after making our salutes to the air- deld we pursued our voyage. As' we were travelling
fuelied, but this
Landing plan
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(MORE TOMORROW)
C.V.R. Thompson reports the US scene
an tour
On this same day I give the President the following noto
the on
immediate strategic Our talks took place the decision before us. next day after luncheon, in a
bound to per- Bro Uny little room which juta out
... We with
NEW YORK. ber 317 The Intest estimato be paid is 75 cents SEVETO In the preparation the sun the day seemed very on the ground floor. The room
for "Bolero" La full-scale TOUSEWIVES all over 1,400,000, of 40 percent above (s. 4d). Truman, wants 1: luncheon was dark and shaded from the
last year's record.
raised as soon as possible to a Mr Roosevelt was
landing in France), if possible America are feeling with a six-hour interval, and sun.
dollar (78. 13⁄41⁄2d.) an hour. in 1942 contemplated
but certainly pleased with themselves. dinner conced at a desk almost Inte 1.
But that will won't satisfy him. big as the apartment.
1943. The whole of this
ADVERTISEMENTS bave ap. The final target one dollar sat or stood in the background.
budness is now going on.
For a month or two their peared urging Americaną to: 20 cents (8%, 10%d.). Arrangements My two American friends did
being Inade not seem to mind the
for a landing of chief grumble has been the send out Churchill Christmas
the
long. We had two
after arrival,
·
un that
**
Harry
Latense
Great progress
DOW
For the Inst two hours we Blew over the land, and it was about seven o'clock by Amer heat. con time when we approached Washington. As wo' gradually descended towards the Foto- mac River. I noticed that the top of the Washington Monu- ment, which is over 550 feet t told the President in gene high, was about our level, and eral terms of the great pro
impressed upon Captain gress we had made, and that Kelly-Rogers the chief pilot our scientists were
de- of the flying-boot]
it initely convinced that results would be peculiarly unfortunate might be reached before if we brought our story to an end of the present war. He said end by hitting this of all other his people were getting along, objects in the world. He na too, but no one could tell who- sured mo that he would take ther anything practical
would apecial care to miss it. Thus emerge till a full-scale cxport- and smooth- ment had been made. We both we lunded safely and ly on the Potomac after felt painfully the dangers journey of 18 flying hours.doing nothing. Lord Halifax, -General Mar shall, and several high officers of the United States welcomed us. I repaired to the British Embassy for dinner.
Hyde Park
the
of
the
un-
Wo know what efforts Germans were making to pro- cure suppiles of "heavy water" - sinister term, corle, natural, which began to creen our socret papors. "What if the enemy, should get atomic bomb: before. Wo However sceptical one
the assertions
infa
carly fo
Caro
Ho
cards this year, Bores contain- BELIGION: Gramophone ght divisione franco price of coffee. The average ing 12 cards, each with companies report a sudden and
Beptember. How family here uses 3lb.
of different Churchill picture re-growing boom for religious
produced on it, will sell for 75. ||
ever, the British Government coffee a week, and for would not favour
avour an optra
1
tion that was certain to load time coffee went as high as to disaster, for this would 78.
not help the What-
over
would
"Someone-no one has yet dis
music. A record "called" "Our Lady of Fatima," a religious Said the advertisement: song written by à Clòcinnati each stroke of the brush, in hourwife, is out-selling all the their
each rich Bash of colour latest jazz records.... will find the same warmin and expose compromiso and
the French covered who-docided to do understanding that, has made-
“UNEMPLOYMENT? Är Now vengeance lation involved,
and something about 1. A crain Winston Churchill's name great
letter campaign, calling upon among gravely delay the main
month for the first time, in
norths. until the price went down, strongly to the view that swept across the nation.
Employer blamo
for putting there should be no subatan-
controls too quickly."
stacy.
the
on
GAMBLING-Tegal gambling.
operation. In 1943. We hold women to refuse to buy coffee world over of "good"the whole - York is 'tip ten percent this
FOR PUBLICITY, a manufac- ¿ington Hal landing In France this Each woman receiving à let turer the other day throw near They say there is not enough Year unless we are going to ter was urged to write a similarly £800 worth of dollar notes arns work yet to compensato
out of the window of a Broade for the cut in civili produc letter to all her friends.
way hotel. Traffic was blocked' tion. No responsible British military
A typical letter: Tet us get for half a mile by the shoving authority has, so› for boun, able. to make
a Plan for police prices down. Griping mob, trying to get hold of the
won't do it, (but this chain letter notes, September, 1942, which had wif you do not break the Police summoned the man, that le -- stil sooms to have any chance of succors, unless chain and if you will stir with. The 5 charge de littering the more enemies than friends. · Ini the Germans become uttery
Nu vimin nga California" and Arizona, voterm demoralised, of which there us women who are fed up, streets.
turned down
to Have the Well, the price of coffee is to do
have teperd the great Bian to pomi fruit machines (@
So was rejected. And the people buying hash for TV sets. much so, that a Chicago desler 94 New Hampshire have voted down a Blater lotten to joance ps announced to command the enterprise? VITAL STATISTICS;
Powable customers wat pe trouble wali better, old-ago Pen- What Hiltish forces and · ́a
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