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CHAPTER 37 OF "THE HINGE OF FATE,” MR CHURCHILL'S
FOURTH BOOK OF WAR MEMOIRS
formal rupturo relations
with
StatCL
morning
but
In
the authority
of diplomatic
Alexandria, where the tho United French naval
had squadron boon immobilised since 1010. parleya took place
without That evening Hitler sum- effect. Admiral Godefroy, its persisted in his moned Laval to Berchtesgaden. commander, Laval set out by car in. the boyalty to Vichy and refused to
reached recognise only Munich in thick fog early on Admiral Darien. In his view, the 10th. He was therefore unti
until the Allies had conquered on the road during the hours Tunisia they could not claim when Darlun was negotiating to have the ability to liberate with the Allies In Algiers, and France. Thus his ships con- while the
nown of these par- tinued in idleness until in leys was injecting a little hope fullness of time we conquered into those fow men at Vichy Tunis. who still
wanted the Marshal
to sido.
come out on the Allied.
the
Troops dropped
As soon as the Algiers land- established Gen.
Both Weygand, who had come to Vichy on purposo dissunde the Marshal from giving in, and Admim! Aug was well
Anderton [commanding the phan, Minister of Marino, tried
Army), as pre- their best. They even got him First British
viously arranged, took over to agres to a draft telegram
command
the United to Darlan approving his move.
Gen.
Ryder. Ho dospatched his 30th Infantry Brigade by sea to Bougie,
Secret message
States
from
which they took unopposed on Nov. 11; one of its battalions reached Djidjeni airfeld next day,
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The Germans had intercepted Darlan's message to Vichy, and Laval under their Pressure
Two British parachute com-
on Bone forced Petain to send a mes- pantes dropped
the 12th, and were supported sage to Alglera disowning
from the sea; Darlan's actions Gen. Clark, by Commandos
others on Souk el - Arba when confronted with Darlan's airdeld on the 18th, whence to 'Bela and apparent readiness to withdraw they advanced the orders he had issued, put farther on met Germans ini the Admiral under arrest. The position.
Tbc
36th Brigade, arrival of a secret message pressing on rapidly by road, from Potain, however, in a crossed into Tunisia, and at special
naval code
and the Djebel Abiod on Nov. 17 news of further German ad- German troops.
Meanwhile BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS ASSOCIATION vances into Unoccupied France United States parachutisto had restored both tho situation dropped at Youks-les-Bains and the tempera
those on the 15th, and reached comprised three The Admiral at length agreed against the Allied landings. The
concerned in Algiers. suggested the to order a general "Cease fre" reply from Darlan centre
German air throughout North Africa, "In that the
forces
On the following day, Nov. made was
the name of the Marshal," he based on Sicily and to Casablanca.
in- categorical authority should attack the Allied trans- should send rssumed complete
North ports at sea.
structions to the Toulon fleet put to sea, and further were sent to the messages French Resident-General Tunisia, Admiral Esteva, join the Allies.
Winston Churchill
landing in Morocco landings. In the (on Nov. 8, 1942) main attack there
st
on
of
Gafsa also two days later.
Sardinia 11, it was agreed that Darlan German strength
to
was hope of Fedala, close active local support. Gen. Flanking attacks took place at throughout the French Bethouart, the French Port Lyautey In the north and African territories, and order-
It was not until 7 a.m. that Divisional Commander at at Sun in the south. In some ed all officials to remain
Finally he telegraphed Janded duty.
the Marshal was awakened Instructions to Metropolltan Casablanca, had fought at places the rat troops
the news. was zealous unopposed, but resistance soun France that the Toulon
flect hear
He showed Narvik. He
visible emotion or even against the Germans. He stiffened, and for a time there was to put to sea if in danger little was in charge of the land was severe fighting, particular- of imminent capture by lefences of the greater part of the Moroccan coast, At
ly near Port Lyautey.
At sea a fierce action
Germans.
took
the
Laval hastens
of movement
use
a
of
to hand him his reply.
several accounts are
to
Great
of
dash and enterprise been shown in had
in gaining but now that to ground so fast,
the enemy were met the pace must slacken.
The Germans the interest in Laval's draft reply ful servant of Vichy. He fol- Their furs Now, and soon two Admiral Esteva was a faith- had taken prompt measures. Airst contingents arrived 10 the American President. lowed the cataract
of events by He accepted it without demur, with mounting confusion and parachute
four regiments
and whistling
little bunting alarm," As he was closer 10 battalions
reinforcements a late stage he had been place. In Casablanca lay
to reinforce tune to himself. At nine he the enemy in Sicily and on his
destined to originally received Mr brought into the secret, and unfinished new battleship Jean
Pinckney
Tuck castern frontier, his position Rommel sought to bar the way. to accept Bart, incapable
There was worse than that of either By the end of the month the was prepared
During the early hours
Darlan or Nogues. His high Axis forces in Tunisia amount- Girnud na Supreme French but able
of the subordinates to
fighting troops, matched him in ed to 15,000 her four Nov. 8 reports had begun to
It is Allled climax of this meeting. Commander.
Already soon flow into Vichy of the 15-Inch guns.
on with 100 tanks, 00 field guns, equal Indecision She was
Their said that when Petain handed Nov. 9 units of the German Air and 30 anti-tank guns. at with approach. Laval, sleeping engaged in a gun duel
based to the Ameri- Force occupied the important dive-bombers, the American battleship Mas his house hard by, was rung the document
a knowing airfield at El Aouins. On Nov. good sirfields of Tunisia, were sachusetts, while the
German political can he gave him French up by the
lap on the shoulder. The aged 13 German and Italion troops beginning with flotilla, supported by the representative at Vichy
Marshal acted throughout these arrived in Tunizia. cruiser Primauguet, put to sea an offer of German support days like a man in a dream.
They should the landings develop in his
to oppose the landing. met the whole strength of the
Laval force in North Africa. officers American
fleet,
illusions of Vichy and
But any the centre of to operations ceased seven French hastened to
that a double game could stil a.m. At 4
the be submarines government.
played by them between
Depressed the Germans Esteva clung Charge d'Affaires, the Allies and American destroyed, with D
Nazi soon dispelled. Jean Mr Pinckney Tuck, arrived at
ond
He hoped that when the
both the Resi moment came
Nogues, dent-General, Admiral Micheller would rally to the cause. At 11 p.m. Nov. 7 he assembled at
those headquarters
whom he had made privy
He told the design.
are "The Americans
morning
tomorrow o'clock."
landing had been
them, ships and three
at
ave thousand casualties. The
Midnight ride
At midnight the party Casablanca in three cars,
when
were
Ships idle
and
wavering.
60me.
on the
to prove trouble-
But already we had brought
a relief to the Russian armies.
In
Bart had been gutted by fire Marshal Petain's private office prexure hardened, and at 11.30 legiance
Axis forces in Tripolitania his latter theatre, a quarter of
and beached.
with the letter from the Presi- dent.
18
During November the Germans withdrew 400 operational air- craft, mostly long-range bomb- to a formal al- ers, from the Eastern Front for to Vichy, while the use in the Mediterranean.
German Air Force whole coming from the cast the
hastened from was now deployed, as com-
French Gen. pared with only a twelfth moved the months before. of the
French Farri- westwards and placett himself under the orders of Gen Giroud. At Bizerta, however, four destroyers and Later In the day a second slx submarines surrendered
meeting accepted a the Axis.
a.m. the Vichy Cabinet accepted
werk offer of air sup- the German
and the Allies port frems Sicily and Sardinia.
west The This caltiff decision enabled the
Barre finally the Germans to take the quick, bulk decisive action of occupying airfields in Tunisia, with all its 500 costly consequences upon campaign.
During the 9th the Ameri- cuns consolidated their lody- Laval took control. He col- left ment and thrust inland. It was tected his close supporters and and not until the morning of Nov. drafted a negative and hostile wo hours Inter took over the 11 that Nogues, under Darion's reply for the Marshal to sign
Rabat, the orders, surrendered. "I
in the morning. An hour later Beadquarters in
our the Vichy Admiralty informed capital, together with the tele lost," he
the fighting ships and aircraft after Darlan in Algiers of the Ger- phone exchanges of
three days of violent combat." non offer to give air support Cabinet General Stuff
the port
anti
"all reported,
office. Unluckily, Gen. Captain Mercier of the Primat- Nogues's secret line was over- guet longed for the Allied vic- looked, and during the next tory, but he died on her bridge fateful hours the Resident-
in the execution of his orders. General was able to communl. We may all be thankful if our lives have not been rent by cate freely with the comman- ders of the main bases such dire problems and
flicting loyalties. throughout Morocco.
1
Icy reception
con-
0
On arrival at Robut Bethouart sent his alde-de- camp to Nogues with written details of the discussions be-
On the morning of Nov. tween Giraud and Murphy and Gen. Giraud and a little later of the imminent Allied land- Gen. Clark, acting as Gen.
On ings.
Bethouart's order
der Elsenhower's personal deputy, Nogues was surrounded in his four to Algiers to arrange with residence by a company of the French authorities the Im- colonial infantry. He was
en mediate ending of all hostill- raged. He arrested the alde leg. The
of Giraud de-camp, who was his own by reception
nephew, and at once rang ug Admiral Michelter at the naval base at Casablanca,
He was told that there was no evidence of any Allied ap-
to
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UMBUSTIOUS,
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Fence.... by
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
It looks ever Do nice. They do look nice, don't they? Special- ty them with pearls and rubies, Those your favourites?-Oh, definately. Unless you
ave a single diamond.
Yes, I like a single diamond. More class Oh, definately.
How long ave we been en- gaged, Georget-Engaged? Us?
A smashin girl, a smashin Then any child, asked about Oh, years, I should think. vacant dance,
the affairs of the day,
would
And jolly clever, too, the leading French com-
that's us. manders was fey. The local
Behind our ruther Resistance organisation, so long dials
A smachin night, a smashed answer in the following man fostered by both American and And painful, slow, superior romance.... British agents, had already col-smiles,
That's how a silly English wooden chap
Escapes
matrimonial trap.
lapsed. The first conference Behind each ruddy. held by Clark that evening pan
proach to the coast. This nega- between Darlan and Giraud There lurks another English- tive news determined Nogues'a produced no agreement. It was man. action. He ordered the "Alert" obvious that Giraud would not A lively, intellectual chap
to super be accepted by anyone of im- and told Micheller pede Bethouart, now in Rabat. portance as Supreme At that moment the American Commander. fleet of more than a hundred
ships, carrying.
Gen. Patton's
French
had
Dar
now
In bowler, trilby, huntin copi
Creative and excitin fella With old school tie and rolled
113.
✡
the
Rumbustious, rumbustious, And jolly clever, too, that's
Kind Uncles all
ner.
Only the other day Mum was asking about my engagement ring. She thought I might ove She must be Why are we living in peace, just it-Lost 12
balmy. if not safety?
You don't ave to insult my Decause kind Uncle Ernie
George, Well, you Bevin is taking care of us, with mother,
can't lore something you've the help of kind Uncle Harry Truman, But neitier of them never ad, can you? It stands to
reason. could do it toithout the aid of kind Uncle Nat, whose income tax buys most of the пус
tohat
Tou
Do you know what my sister
about you? She
Boys you're mean--And she's dam ments.
right. I'm so mean I wouldn't | Why
do you Far more important was the umbrello.
have lovely cheap food to eat?
give landing force, were in fact but news that the Germans
a starving friend a tanner 30 miles away; but no word begun to invade Unoccupied
Because of kind Uncle for a cup of coffet.
George! Tell Maurice Webb, But he couldn't
you had yet reached Nogues even France. This simplified about the landings which were lan's position. He could
Though most of us appears a
do it without the ld of king though. I nearly bought CCORDING to 丘 report already in progress in Algeria. maintain, and his word would gent
Uncle Nat's income tax, which something last week. It was so from Rumanía children
cheap I said to myself "The be accepted by local
We oficiala
are uproarious, turbu
pays the food subsidles, are taught to give thanks to and commanders, that Marshal lent:
Why can Mummi- get free said to myself. "No, I'll invest ver thing for my girl? Then I Government Communist Patain was
We want to shoul no longer a
and sing the
medicine when the for all the blessings bestowed on she has headach.*?
Imagines it in football peola." The German move, also and dance,
What happened? I ruck Darinna
wicked, side them.
Because of kind uncle Nue 21,000. You know it's To give tho norvt.
When an American visitor Bevan, But he couldn't do 10 asked Q Rumanian girl what trithout the aid of kine tincta birthday tomorrow? she learned at school, she Te Nat's income tax, which pays
for the health service, "We live in peace and safety Ana In love, our
beating heart because of kind Auntle
Pauker. But "Auntie Ana takes wings;
In each of us the poet sings, could't take care of us without ald of kind Uncle Joe Though, in the slow pursuit the
Stalln,"
All arrested
vital
Део
and want to devastate
At 5 am Noguen received Very soon advanced · German lung glance; rom the American Vice- elements would be entering. We Consul in Rabat a personal the great French naval base at Letter from President Roosevelt. Toulon. As in 1940, the fato The female heart with clied:
calling on
him to -- pld, the of the French Fleet was now Two hours later, after again in the balance. andings had begun, he lu
Gen.
hed Darlan in Algiers that On the morning of Nov. 10 1 had Injected this: United
Clark, who realfaed Statea villmatum.
Bethouart now situation, arranged und his. Zow” sdherents were second meeting with the Ad- miral. He told Eisenhower by
himself
olophon to shoot
daza
ardent phrase.
the
auf mate,
We are inariiculate, -
For all wo say to her when
benefactor?
So
won
your
I ought to, George-Well, I
Then who la your greatest tried to forges it, but I couldn't. I wait to myself, I buy her some little thing for once.” Dut than I said, "No, Fil put the money in the pools again."
Kind Uncle Nat
Engagement off So if you're thinking about
An indignant - girl, complain=.
birthday present, you've ad it, I son.—- But 7 tell you what.
a
to shoot radio that a deal with Darlan Jeavin the officers of the colonial was the only solution.
There Is "Thank you for a' smashin Apart from the joy of knQW= . regiment Involved, “All weth, was no time to engage in.tola- evenin."
hing that my darling Apa, test, Ing to a newspaper about the Yes, George?-If I win an arrested forthwith.
Bethouart graphic discussions with Lon- Or if she walks next day in heard of as Rumania Foreiga mostness of her fiative, enja, other, £1,000 111 buy you some
don and Washington* ~;Chirkud] tweeds,
Secretary, 18 riot, being taken that the broadest hints and bath walfe for. Churtrimmer, I will was hat present, at:
at this meof. With doggies, pantin on their care of by Uncle Joe in a cont, prochine an engagement methank you, Georg-Bu
#evon teasing", bays: Called / a, de Anately, 1. Darlan healtated on the leade
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