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"THE HINGE OF FATE"
Pneumonia
Trip
In February, 1942, while the Tunisian campaign was being fought, Mr Churchill had
nevero pneumonia,
a
attack The Speaker, Capt. Filzroy, was taken ill on almost the same day and President did not recover. Roosevelt, as the article in- dicates later, was also tall up about this time.
WAS more tired by my journeying than I at the har realised
have time, and must caught a chill. A few days later, a cold and sore throat obliged me to lie up. In the evening of the 16th, when I was alone with Mrs Chur- chill, my temperature sud- denly rose, and Lord Moran, who had been watching me, took a decided view and told me that I had inflammation of the base of n lung. His pre- diagnosis led him to scribe a drug called M and
B.
The
elaborate
and
day next photographs were taken
Confirmed the diagnosis,
To
36 CHAPTER
Follows My Africa
North
By Winston Churchill
the two French sides together?
como
that from the Now I hear
American point of view the clate of "Husicy" (the land- ta ing in Sicily] will have be postponed to the
will
our
later one, whereas we can plan for the earlier one, which be an aggravation of dimeullies in preparing the operation. This fact will throw out our careful calculations convoys and escorts, and will upset our import programme ngain. I should not think of bothering you questions at
all
for
with these this moment, hent, about
Their own bread and butter
depends upon their good be- luviour, and possibly
lives as well.
The irruption of de Gaulle
the
I had n cinema installed near my bedroom and was able to go from my bed to see it about Feb. 29, I was able in re-
to to send Stalin, against turn
President,
and to the Dominion Governments Majesty just completed, of the Your suppose realises that these two corps of the Eighth Army, prising together 000 men, are
USD them.
htm strength
their
I
Or
his agents into this field, ea- pecially
forcibly introduced
by us, would cause nothing
trouble.
is entirely but
It his fault that
ar- a good
be- rangement was not made
fac- tween the two French tions.
with The roughness which he refused the Presi dent's Invitation (and mine) to come and make a friend- ly settlement at Casablanca put him and his French Na- practically tional Committee out of court with the Ameri-
an
cans
As
but I do feel worried
m, and I would like them, Assurance from you that they are being carefully watched. vital I cannot discuss matters with yourself.
these anyone
but
Believe me, Yours very sincerely,
GEORGE R.I.
Not disturbed
I replied forthwith, and once seemed dicialing it 'I began and Geoffrey Marshall of Guy's easy to cover the ground. Hospital was called in
consul-
me Sir,
at the An-
February 22, 1943.
tation. All my work had come It is very good of Your Majes
ty to write with your own hand to me.
to me hour by aintained my
nexe and I had
usual output far from well. But now I be- I do not feel seriously disturb-
came aware of duction papers which reached me.
naturally there much about both aspects which I would rather have different.
though
feeling
a marked re-
number in the
ed by the course of
events
of
in North Africa, either poli-
When I protested, the tors, supported by my
doc-
tical or even military, though
Rt- is
the_
wife, argued that I ought to quit my
I would
not work entirely. agree to this. What should have done all day? They then said I had pneumonia, to which I replied, "Well, surely we con deal with that. Don't you be- lieve in your new drug?" Doc- he called tor Marshall
oki man's pricumonia
I
tion
sold
friend." "Why?" I asked. "Be-
cause it takes
quietly,"
we
Week
them oft
of fever
So
on
I made a sultable reply, but
renched an agreement the following lines. I was only to have the most important and DBA interesting papers sent me, and to read a novel, I chose "Moll Flanders." about which I had heard excellent accounts, time to had not found them. On this basis 1 passed
the next week
discomfort.
and
lever In
but
test
I sometimes
felt very ill. There is a blank
in my flow of minutes from the,
19th to the 25th.
For me the days passed very slowly, but not without some enlivening diversions. A gentle- Thomson, kindly
with a
a lion, who presented sent me beautiful photo- graph of himself, with
man,
Mr
me
vishes for my recovery. "Rot75"
Was the lion's name, and I had to invoke the aid of the Duke of Devonshire, who was Pre- sident of the Zoo and who had
Mr Themron's been
inter-
have been rending all the atten- telegrams with key
up till two days ago, have when I must admit I fullen a little behind. I am sure
that
Eisen- [Gen.
political ad- hower's
U.S. viser Murphy's nim is to up- hald Gl. and to procure a quiet. tranquil Government for the people Ilving in French North Africa. In this way alone would he gain any credit.
16m.
I
told Your Majesty the last time we met, I tried all could to bring the operation "Husky" forward to June, In this. I was splendidly second- ed by the Chiefs of Staff and
a
June
all concerned. Gen. Elsen- hower, however, expressed decided opinion that a operation would be "unlikely to succeed," and was for July at the earliest, Our Chiefs of Staff
therefore
sent their paper to the Coin- bined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, and I also tele- graphed to Hopkins
asking
him to put this through, with the result that, according to the my latest information.
Staff Combined Chiefs of who are
and the
supreme official body through which command is exercised-have Eisenhower to ordered Gen. prepare for the June opera- tion with the utmost zeal, and to report to them by has April 10 what progress been made. Thus you see the American Chiefs of Staff took the same view as burs did, and, if I may say so, as I did. That is how the mat- ter stands now.
Best troops
our own
Alm, Battle "Desert
com- of Alamein, called
Victory," These photographs, about 100,-
like tho Russian, perhaps
the inken by the operators best troops in the world,
Therefore I look
The
were
under
Was sacrifice
and
ΠΟΙ
"Any appropriate senti- ment you wish to have enclosed with it, sir ?"
London Exprake Sercion.
Let's Clear
confidently heavy fire and at some loss of
into te. forward to their entry
have made in vain, for the fruits of action. Moreover, we
their work excited the greatest enthusiast Gen. Alexander under Elsen- admiration
world hower to concert and com- throughout the Allled bine the entire movements.
all closer 20- the und brought us well It may
be that
task. our common enemy is wasting strength on gether in
false assumption and
n
give Montgomery
chance.
I
need scarcely
til all the
Our Minds
About The
will The President replied; Scientists
The best thing
an earlier
By James Dow
17 March 43THERE is a great deal
Dear Winston, That new film Desert Victory
poppycock
being
is about the best thing that talked abut Professor Pan- Though it is na- has been done about the war tecorvo, on either side. Everyone here tural that his disappearance is enthusiastic. . . .
from Harwell should arouse
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that ro word of mine is intended in disparagement of the Ameri
are brave but cans. They not reasoned troops, who will from not hesitate to learn defeat, and who will improve by suffering un- themselves
their strongest mar- tial qualities have come the front. What a providen- tial thing it was that 1
per- petually
for pressed Gen. Eisenhower to take the com- mand, as the defeat of Americax 'sdios if it been under
a British eral, would have given enemles in the United States a good chance to blaspheme.
Confidence
the
of
had
gen-
our
may
four days in bed-then a lot most of us, at first-have been deeply shocked when which sulphadiathole, cured the fever and left me "top-grade" scientists chose feeling like wet rag. I was to go over to the Commu- no good after 2 pm, and mist side of the world. On after standing it for a week its face value, it is a slap
in the face for democracy.
After all, we may here scientists are clever, think- Can there be ing men. something beyond our or- knowledge
or so I went to Hyde Park for five days; got full health in
glorious weather-came
ZATO
back last woek, and have been a Aghting cock feeling like con-
ever since. Anthony
three evenings with me.
Generally I feel that we awalt with reasonable fidence the development of the situation in North Afri- ca, and I look forward to an improvement before lang. Although I have
been ham- pered by a high fever from reading all the telegrams, I think I have the
picture and mind,
I my truly in
that wish indeed
could I have given this account Your Majesty
verbally
[Eden] has
spent dinary
He attracts
say,
which these scientists
is a grand fellow, and we and allows them to see Red are talking everything, from
Ruthenia to production and like it, secret police,
the
of peanuts! It is an interest-labour camps and all?
ing fact
that we
agree on
of all the
scon
to
about 95 percent. 庭 subjects-not
bad average... to
nt
luncheon. I send this instead.
With my humble duty,
Winston S. Churchill.
As to the battle, I suspend Stalin at this time. sent me a Judgment till we hear from film of the Stalingrad victory. Alexander. The 2nd Ameri- with all its desperate fighting and portrayed, can Army Corps sustained a wonderfully
heavy
defeat, and apparently with the final
surrender
of
Model patient
This, of course, is bun-
kum. With all due respect,
I'd sooner have a common
man's opinion of Russia
Please, please, for the sake of than a professor's. The fact
the world, don't overdo these is that the scientist, in front days.
You must remember of whom we are too prone that it takes about a month to stand in awe, is quite of occasional let-ups to get likely to be more ignorant back your full strength.
was deprived of about half Field-Marshal Paulus and his Tell Mrs Churchill that when than you and I about world-
11 is quite true that we have for this purpose and to safe- guard our vital communica- with a mass tions to work of French officials who were
but I Vichy; appointed by without them I really do not know how the country could be governed. Even in Syria we have done this to
some
extent. I do not anyself see officials any danger of these changing their sides or ob- structing our operations.
two
to
Soviet Russian
its important weapons with- appearance before the
The out indicting any serious loss court-martial.
im- Government treated this upon the enemy..... look forward
both the portant German war chlet 10th and 30th Corps being with the greatest considera- in action in Tunisia by the tion, and he has been in their
since. middle of March, or it may service ever
A less fate
the awaited Nevertheless, agreeable earlier. matters may not wolf
German pri- so endless lines of
the film shows long, because if Montgomery soners, whom feels the enemy is wilting on marching wearily forward ever
certainly the limitless wastes of snow.
គ.
be
his front
he will
THE SCIENTIST'S
IN TROPICAL
the British TODAY
colonies are broadly speaking, with
main problems. The how to introduce
mediary, to provide him with a home. He was a male lion of first is
father of
I
I
was laid up was aly matters.
and
live
thoroughly model patient, A scientist, and particularly
that I hope you
will an atom scientist, is a specialist: down the reputation in He has had to devote to study our Press of having been and research in one particular the "world's worst patient."
God bless you,
branch of science, the time and energy which ordinary mortals: spend in reading, talking and
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life.
Moreover, if he is a physics whose student, he is a man
mind and whole outlook is trained and focussed upon solv- ing all problems in physical terms.
ms. He must find an equation
or a formula for everything.
Such man (and there was
proof of this before) is apt to forget or
or even to discard the old
There .is spiritual values.
for no formula for God or Freedom. And his mental ar- mour against the false allure of is not this Ay, the carrier of try success that before World War the totalitarian system panosomiasis, deadly to cattle. I the Gold Coast alone was as strong as the ordinary British In spite of strenuous efforts in producing over half the world's working man's.
estimated
to be infested with trom
Accra, proved such
faced, ******** By
every territory, the fly is prob- supply ELSPETH
fine quality, and in eight years modern forms of democratic became the children,
in
a
came
peasant
On
cocoa.
Ιπ 1930
reported
and
ita
of
was ably spreading, or at best being a new disease
swollen
It held in check.
shoot. Drugs which
spread We are too often inclined to Are. To
check HUXLEY
a bush immunise against the disease like
neck make this old mistake of con- into many government
cocoa farmers were re- offer hope, but have not come it,
fusing knowledge with wisdom. to dif-
cut
down societies shaped by a
Wisdom is gained by living not writer and up to their early promise. Until quired
Infected trees, mediately without well-known The assistant secretary, who ferent
and all-round tradition
fly can be conquered,
by book-learning. the middle of 1950 more had been with me in the aero-
colonial this the whole broadcaster
wisdom is, by all reckoning, a with disrupting
millions of people must continue by
nine milion trees had
rare thing among scientists and plane at Algiers.
and creating a subjects, and author of to live on a diet lacking in than some papers. Ife was a charm-society
even among intellectuals, whe- number of books on anima! protein, and mixed been cut, for which the United
Government had ther they are political or not. ing mon, highly competent, but series of weak, chaotic and a
essential step Kingdom side.
has husbandry, an The Kenya, where she unbalanced
A man, in fact, may be very states. physically on the small
more than £774,000 to soll improvement, must be pald chaff, I now
lived for many years.
But compensation.
even this clever and highly educated and Indulging
ruled out. him magnificent second is how to control showed
halted the disease, yet have no sense. hand
the often .................................................................
be has not develop
Discuses of plants can
So it is just as well that Sir photograph of Roth with
Gold
Percy Sillitoe should take a and mono- Fifty million out of the mouth open, saying, "If there limited resources of these
Coast's 400 million trees closer look at Harwell. For satisfied if the natural resources equally pernicious; are any shortcarnings in your
as to feed and of these regions are made to culture, the concentration on a
gives reckoned to be infected, and it work shall send you to him. colonies so
He provide for the needs of yield for more.
And the coil, single crop for export,
As oppor is denred that the whole in- diseases Meat is very short now."
in dustry may be wiped out if no took a serious view of this re- populations which have sud- the water and the forests do not
disease tunity. Panama narit. He reported to the office denly started to multiply increase. On the contrary, they
provides a good ex- remedy con be found. Today's
first bananas are shrinking.
the West Jamaica in at a startling rate.
It is easy enough to under- task is therefore to reverse this ample.
built up its prosperity on tho
single stand these population increases, process, or else all hopes of Indies
export at a
Meanwhile a West African The colonies lile almost wholly progress will be doomed,
Both the dimculties and the variety, the Gros Michel. The I now received a letter from in the tropics. Tropical peoples
appeared in the Cocon Research Institute has followed the King, who
in 1011. the have suffered for centuries from favourable signs are set forth disease first
In spite of been set up and scientists are with the diseases and disasters which in a brief plthy book: "A Short island course of the war
History
of Agriculture in the drastic steps to curb the infec- striving hard to and a way of closest attention, and was not have kept their numbers almost
destruction checking the plant virus which British Colonica" by G.B. tion, such as the anxiety on without
stationary.
all banana plants round destroys the troos. Whether or has often been as high as 80 or press). A lecturer at Oxford, cach aspects of it.
Masefield (Oxford Univery of
infected one, the disense not they will succeed is Buckingham Palace.
70 percent. On the one hand
Mr Mascheld WAS senior spread so rapidly that by 1942 yet an open question. February 22, 1943.
moral of this malarla, hookworm. yellow agricultural officer in Uganda, a more than one-third of all planta...
many
Mr others in on the laland had been and of fever, sleeping sickness, dongus, country that has been intensively tions
Masefield's book, is surely that
that I was in a
delirium.
King's letter
My dear Winston,
some
Infant
mortality
their
Remedy Sought
I am very sorry to hear that
you are ill. and I hope that a doza avered them; on developed, over the last 30 years, abandoned.
fections have ravaged you will soon be well again the other, such calamities g
on- But do please take this
hurricanes. Invasions, Y locust A rest, and portunity for
and outbreaks of epidemies forget will not trust
you
one periodle famines have taken a carned that you have after your last tour, and you heavy toll of life, must get back your strength
the for
strenuous coming Now Millions months. I missed being able
last
to have a talk to you Tuesday, and
to
you
Y
The
Striving Hard
05
absent-minded professors аге apt to take things away with them as they are to forget their hats.
Have no doubts then about any man who goes willingly to live in Russia. Rather he needs your pity.
He has reduced the freedom
of his wife and children to the square root of X, and if X equals find that power may equal evil. power, he will sooner or later
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If scientista successfully
A police matron bared a by the menace of soil exhaus
called in at the earliest stages baby's bottom in a Houston, Lion.
Scientists had meanwhile
out by find
experiment
Texas, courtroom recently Tho seeking a remedy. Cotton, first seriously intra bren
crops can safely duced in
one of the 1004, proved an best hope seemed to lle in
to untangle what and how, and grown instantaneous success. By 1930 breeding a variety immune to
tallest stories of the year. exports had reached $70,000 the disease. To that end thou dangers, are to be expected.
Tearful, hard-up bales annually and the growers, sands of varieties werd col- Today
there is much talk Farrie Bell, separated from her all pensant producers, lected and the most promising of raising the standards of husband, had gone to Selence has today conquered nearly
richest
the so-called "back-alleging that Mr and understand nearly all the worst endemic were among the we may not meet next Tues-diseases. The island of Cyprus, Arlen o much so that at least crossed with the Gros Michel living of
There is some-Edward Hartman had her baby. very difficult business, ward areas". day either, so I am writing for example, is for the first time 100,000 men and women trekked sinco this variety is normally times a tendency to talk as if and wouldn't give it back.
claimed the Instead.
Belgian territory to without in its history, tree from malaria. In from
is merely a question of The Hartmana 1032 the this I do not feel at all happy infant mortality is falling fast. work on African farme, But
acedlings spending money. But money in baby's mother was an unmarried about the present political Forethought and transport have, this Intensivo mono-culture
the woman who had agreed to bear situation in North Africa. I for the time being, circumvented soon began to toll on the soll, and breeding stocks was de Itself will not discover
as the child by Hartman. to such problems and stroyed
But know we had to leave the
Scientists
⚫ porsevered. Now the control of disease, nor will political side of "Torch" (the famines, and even locut out- Vielda began to drop,
and produce the mystery woman, and breaks can, with prompt action. erosion to become a serious prob-
varieties Immune to the st perauado peasants North-West African opera-
discuso sro now being grown, pastoralists tion] to the Americans, while e nipped in the bud Millions lom. Now the rain task is to
to change the Nuree Ellen Durgin teslilled that bavo people who would
persuade the peasants to carry
Bell's. we were able to keep Spain of and Portugal friendly during perished now survive, and use out anti-crosion methods and but the scientists work is not habits of centuries as they the baby was definitely Mis Durgin said she remembered the time the operation
was very success of selenco and ad- where possible, to adopt mixed ended, since they have not yet must do, dor instance, in such going on. I know we had to ministration is creating problems farming, keeping a few cows managed to breed a variety An matters as the culling out of Mrs. Bell's baby had a red birth
mark on its Buttocks. Bo; the { and Valucin tread warily at, the start, os grave as those which have and resting thele land at- fu satisfactory for caling and Interior cattle, which in places
new, tervals under parture and keeping as the Gros Michel are ruining whole stretoties by polleo maron undid 11-months- bat is there nothing we can been solved. Toru do now to strengthen Mac-millions must be fed, and more Hera angther dimaully inter. A similar tato le infolding grazing land, and whose quite old Caroline Sun's napkin,
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