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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951.
Elbouang aside a
herd of Lords.
Maxwell Fyta is sick of people
Just discovered
casting doubt
on his Welsh parentage.
There are not enough
men or materials go round
we spy Rab Büller
groped by Cily friends who fear he is not
what they paid for
Already Macmillan has bagim inspecting models
for his 300,000 houses.
"OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
Ah, here is MEC. conducting, his
"Sone-cigar-butts"
Economy campaign
Poor Sandys wondering,
how to sell The sterk vidustry!
back to ex- Shareholders who dont
Emerali dy arrangement with. Buts Ferula
want to buy
t.
LONDON'S "SOUTH PACIFIC” FIRST NIGHT
It's
not in the same
street as "Oklahoma
says
BEVERLEY BAXTER
London. galleryites, after hours of could not contain itself: A great, to thrilling British cheer swept over
FT is not an easy task for waiting for the doors
Faced with an utterly undis-
the critic to keep his open, felt that they had our national theatre as If Stalin had announced that he was going judgment
detached entered the inner temple. to disarma. from the atmosphere of
came a They
to their task spectacular premiere such with the same reverence as criminating gallery which was 23 when the triumphant opera lovers listening to determined to swallow everything "South Pacific" reached "The Ring" at Covent Gar. and anything and declare it food fit for the gods, the critic had to Drury Lane. For the last den.
watch out that he did not move two years or more this Rod- On such an enchan ed evening, too far in the other direction. The gers and Hammerstein epic how could you expect the gallery temptation to debunk a Broadway mind success is obvious, just as the New has been spoken of with to keep that alertness of
with which they approach a York critics love to belabour a awe by those
fortunate British play or musical? They had British Importation that does not enough to see it in New come to cheer, and no hing would piense them. York. In fact, to secure dissuade them. When Mary Martin Bat we all owe much to Oscar two seats for it over there actually soaped her head-with Hammerstein raised your social standing, tal soap, mind you--in the lively Rodgers for
song, "I'm Gonna Wash That Man genius in breaking through the No wonder then that the Right Outa My Hair," the gallery established
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS
"CLOSING THE RING" - CHAPTER 34
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS OF CROSSING THE CHANNEL
In order to construct suffi- etent landing-craft to make the "Overlord” landing in Normandy possible with five divisions (instead of three}, D-day had been postponed until early in June, 1944.
Mr Churchill telegraphed
to Gen. Marshall on March
that he was
"harden-
ou
this "to
much ing Very operation" and wished strike. If humanly possible, even if the limiting
oph- ditions we laid down at Moscow are not exactly ful- filled."
be
into
K Adml, Ramsay commanded two
This alone involved an
each having its cwn Concentration
and Richard their courage and
Imitations of the
play. I believe that "Oklahoma" will live for a hun- dred years. "Carousel" will not quite so long. Then what of "South Pacifle?"
live
Briefly, this is a drama of the
recent war in the South Pacifie based on a book of short stories which won for its author the
coveted Pulitzer Prize. Oscar Hammerstein and Joshua Logate (author of Mr Roberts) adap.ed it for the stage Richard Hodgers put it to m
a
im-the
Or Byrod
The American fleet has occupied Polynesian island In the Pacifie and you know what American sailors are at any rate In the heatre. Mr Hammerstein, who is a most generous and lovable creature, has constituted himself be absorbed due course
Then there were the tides
the poet of the inexpressives. Not the "Mulberries."
we landed at high tide the under- Task Forces, one British and the mense amount of thought and for him the high-falu in nonsense Coastal ekreas were of Romeo and Juliet, teasing each On the suggestion of Adml. water cbstacle would obstruct the other American. The Eastern Task action.
visitors; censorship other about the Inconstant moon. Tennant, who was in charge of approach; if at low tide the troops Force, under Adml. Vlan, would banned to
aTo Mr Hammerstein there is more the operational side of the would have far to go across the control all naval operations in the was tightened; letters after
were held Adml Kirk, certain date
back "Mulberry" plan, it was agreed
Many other British actor.
romance In
a sex-starved marine ee exposed beaches.
for from delivery; foreign embassies saying to a girl, "Gee, I donna that all the "Gooseberries" factors had to be considered, and U.S.N., operated similarly
were forbidden to send cipher what to
By than in all the lyric should
to land the American First Army.
say," 1 was finally decided composed of bluck-
telegrams and even their diplo- ships, although this meant using about three hours before high
beauty of Shelley or These two commands contained matic bags were delayed. Moving water.
Yet it must be admitted that in many more vessels.
Eve assault forces, each carrying
"South Pacific" the plot does get under their own power, they could
But this was not all. The tides the fighting elements of a division
away from the "guy and dame" quickly reach the scene
Stuff for a time. In fact we are and be sunk in the right place, varied by 40 minutes between the and
give close
asked to give our thoughts to no thus providing a certain amount castern and western beaches, and specialised craft to
lees a person than the attyish M. of shelter almost at once. All there was a submerged reef in one support to the troops in of forces
five of the British sectors Each sector landings. Here was the hard co
de Becque, who had inadvertently had to have a different "H-Hour," of the attack.
honourably killed
a man in which varied from one place to protecting the assault forces wouldUR major deception was to
pretend that we were coming France and had fled to the Islands another by as much as 85 minutes. be the powerful Allied Navles and across the Stratis of Dover. It for the peace of forgetfulness.
Pursuing this admirable coun Air Forces.
course would not be proper even now Only on three days in each
Poly- to describe all the methods em- he had wed or bedded a Pal From the embarkation peris, lunar month were all the desired
nesian woman who had presented enemy, fullled.
tu mislead conditions
The
ployed first stretching from Felixstowe on
the obvious but
ones of heavy him with two children, and then three-day period after May 31, the cast to the Bristol Channel concentrations of troops in Kent she departed from this world and arising
date, on the west, shipping would and Sussex, of could Gen. Eisenhower's target
fleets of small the story. But since romance ex swim ashore had already been was June 5, 6, and 7. Thus was be brought coastwise in convoy craft collected in the Cinque abbors a vacuum, Mary Martin
successfully used in the Medi- June 5 chosen. If the weather to a rendezvous near the Isle Por
turns up as a wartime nurse and be 題
Wight.
From
the Ports, of landing exercises on terranean, and would certainly were not propitious on any of of
in-Monsieur de Becque talls deeply Nor the nearby beaches, of bridle or a spur. The be wanted again. There was those three days the whole opera- vast armada ould sail to Nor- creased wireless activity, were in love.
mandy. Because of the great all used. reader of these volumes will also a process of "waterproofing" tion would have to be postp congestion in our southern ports
W; -
always willing to join with vehicles to enable them to drive whole month if we waited for the and to help our deception plans, made at or over the places we
under their own power noon. ashore the United States in a direct through several feet of water. assault across the Channel
Meanwhile he had been studying, since his return from Marrakesh, the techni- cal problems Involved, some of which are discussed be- low.
T
HOUGHT
from factual perience may
could be laid in four or days.
The Phoenix" concreto caissons complete the "Mulberries" would be towed over by insta]- ments, but this would take at least 14 days.
tr
"D.D."
be aware that while I was ordinary
tanks which
tracked and wheeled at least a fortnight-indeed, a
on the German seafront in Hard experience France, I was not convinced
that this was the only way at Dieppe
of winning the war, and I
ture.
те
This
the
themselves
By April our plans were tak-
final shape. ing
The Second British Army, under Gen. Demp-
Surrounding and
here
the
More reconnaissances were
the heavy
naval bombarding forces would
assemble in the were not going Clyde and at Belfast
sey, was to land three divisions Three-week
on beaches north and northwest
of Caen. One airborne division assault
was to be dropped, a few hours
Build-up over Lessons from previous large- scale exercises, and, of course beaches from our hard experience, ht applled in nal
but
to than at the Now this exclled New York places we were. The final re-theatregoers to a state of frenzy. sult was admirable. The Ger- Fifty-year-old company directors man High Command firmly be rushed to the theatre to see the lieved the evidence we obliging-
conquest
middle-age over ly put at their disposal. Rund youth. The excellent but mature stedt,
the Commander-in-Chief baritone Mr Pinza of the opera on the Western Front, was con- was cast for the part over there vinced that the Pas de Calais and became the rage of New York Youth had had is day, was our objective.
October had replaced June,
The
the of concentraion
two
must
be
knew that it would be a very THE theory-and practice batore, northeast of Caen to heavy and hazardous adven- amphibious operations had capture the bridges over the lower THE mighty offensive assigned to Bomber Command had long been established by
and protect the eastern already been in progress for assaulting forces-178,000 men, Orne
But do Messrs R. and H: expect Combined Operations Staff, flank.
many weeks. The Allied Tacti- 20,000 vehicles, and many us in England to get excfled over The fearful price we had had under Admi. Mountbatten, who had been succeeded by Gen.
On the British right the First cal Air Forces, under Air Chlef thousand tons of stores, all to this phenomenon? Here in these to pay in human life and blood
It had now
to be U.S. Army, under Gen. Omar Marshal Leigh-Mallory, not only be shipped in the first two days North Sea Islands of ours, the for the great offensives of the
in itself an enormous blush of youth has never had a First World War was graven in
to all concerned, in ad- Bradley, was to land one division helped the heavy bombers by was dition to the thorough general
Vire destroy enemy communications task. It was handled principal-chance against the greying temples on the coast east of the my mind. Memories of the train
needed for modern estuary and one division north of and isolate the battle area, but ly by the War Office and the of middle-age. And quite right, Somme and Passchendaele and
Otherwise
why grow up? of course had . The latter would be sided by also had to defeat the enemy's railway authorities, and with too. lesser frontal many
attacks
Martin To ream to Mary and un in Britain a previous drop of two airborne Air Force before the battle great success. upon the Germans were not to long been going
and America in exercises, great divisions few miles inland began on land.
From their normal stations all her Frenchman, Mr Wilbur Evans, be blotted out by time or
and small, with live ammuni- Each Army had one division in
the troops were who plays the role, sings to her German airfields and installa- over Britain Лlection.
and tion. Many officers and men ships for immediate reinforce- tions were attacized for three brought to the southern counties, Some Enchanted Evening,
fato dreds stretching romet me copless that I found it It still seemed to me, after a entered into battle for the first ment.
weeks before D-Day in growing inch round to Cornwall and render and hauling. quarter of a century,
that time, but all bere
weight of bombardment, while fortifications of concrete and like seasoned troops.
fighter sweeps tempted the re- the Bristol Channel. The three mumbered among the best things luctant steel armed with modern fire-
For airbeanie divisions which were Mr Rodgers has written enemy to battle,
But the initial tesk
But Mary does not suspect task to drop on Normandy before the assault fully manned
itself the power, and
by trained, resolute men, could
was to protect our naval forces sen nesault were assembled close the
when the ends out only be overcome by surprise
and convoys in time or place, by turning Dieppe, were
to neutralise the would set out. included Caen, Bayeux, Isigny, enemy's radar installations, and, which culminated in early May.
while joining in the joint bou. No sign Our plans had to be altered and Carentan. When these were and kept up to date as fresh gained the Americans would bardment plan, additionally to
The Cotentin provide fighter. cover over the Luftwaffe the advance Beregs information came in about enemy. Constant air recon peninsula, and also drive north- anchorages and beaches,
Before D-Day' preliminary als naissance kept us informed of ward to expture Cherbourg what was going on across the British would protect the Ameri- attacks had been delivered on ROM their concentration areas batteries, not in rear troops were brought Channel. And of course there can tank from counter-attack many coastal bombard bombard- were other ways of finding out from the east, gaining ground merely those covering the in- forward for embarkation
Many trips
to cantos in the essigned priority were made by
where we could create airflelds make of deception, all along the marshalling areas
pear the French shore. On the right be- coat. At the marshalling
Fortunately the second act was could easily have ready other some doubtful point, to take and use our armour.
were divided up into lines behind their Arst, and the soundings inshore, to examine
fore D-Day. a great force of camschments, Corresponding to shorter and much more lively. intervening ground
bombers would It was hoped to reach the line Betish heavy which the new obstacles, or to test the slope artillery could conquer would and nature bf a beach. All this Falaise-Avranches three weeks attack the 10 most important the ships or boat-loads in which Also there was a fascinating por become impassable craterfles, had to be done in darkness, with after the landing, and, with the batteries that might oppose the they would be embarked: Here rayal of the local Island Bloody every man received his arders. Mary, played most picturesquely These were the fruits of know- silent approach, stealthy recon- strong reinforcements by that time landings.
Once briefed, none were par- Smith, end the ledge which
the French and naissance, and timely withdrawal, ashore, to break out eastwards British had bought so dearly from 1915 to 1917..
their flanks, or by some new and rehearsals by all three Services, HE Rrs) objectives of the attack or air; thom attack by sea to the airfields whence they are his le Polynesian children
mechanical device like the tank.
No final
answer
UPERIORITY of
The
no final answer. The defenders 'parties in small craft to resolve south and southeast of Caen vaslon beaches, but, for
Across the Channel the whole
Intricate
front bristled with obstacles; decision
defences had been built and manned. The enemy
expected
u, but did they know where
towards the Seine, and westwards Deceiving the
towards Paris,
northeastwards
to capture the Brittany ports,
These plans depended on cur Ebility to maintain a rapid build-
enemy
in
she breaks off relations with him, thus permitting the sluggish first act to come to an end,
here
There was some good and there, but no wit and little beauty. Again and again the music came to the rescue, but the story creaks like an old tanker in distress. The first act took nearly two hour
A British autkus k
by camp. Then of Belts St. Johd as Mary'
of
the story? The
mitted to leave
camps themselves were
near to the embarkation
Those were ports or "harda
daughter.
The Frenchman
Mary
Le streiches of beach concreted in not only!
became great hero and
to allow of easy embarkation on Martin not only forgave him for
any rate within the range of leading assauld erkit should: bit, Communtie at the Supreme spolling aircraft. About haldun, that all this moviment by a fot: ne medalje ali men, - |
our fighter air cover.
A had to
the
suns indeed the is any artist og
up over the benches To CA by mellum bombers to be met by the naval
T dawn their place was to be smaller craft. Here they were having wedded or beddes a Polynesian woman but seemed to N intricate decision was the ordinate all the intricate spion and stipe gunfire, directed by
stilps.
It would do the world aspécial organization
It seemed
wiggest that Improbable most when or how. They had no choice of D-Day and "H- movements
behaved danks that could be turned, at llour," the moment at which he was
beadquarters at hour after first light the full and land would escape the sin like manner
Miss Martin has great vitality the beach. From
with subordinate weight of the U.S. heavy and tentions of the enemy. There this many
other interco
medium bombers would fall upon wore many empuk precatiors Impossible not to like. Berpand for and good humour. 1. It is quite Be
back- worked
at bodies
the nemy defences. Ships were more vulnerable
A great their Air, and It was agrted to approach embarkation porta. This enabled
the commanders on the far shore": variety of guna and rockets were taken. Nearly 7,000 guns than ever to
moonlight, enemy coast by shore batteries the which could alm by radar. Once Bonose this would help both our to control the flow of supplies to mounted in naval assault craft and rockets and over 1,000 bal- mich our troops were landed they strips and our airbone troops their benches. A similar organie would join in a crescendo of loons protectell the great man Frenchman at de
of ten and vehicles, But there we and our old friend still had to be supplied and short period of daylightisation controlled supplies from fro the onemy's air and tank before HAHuur was also
Of course, we had not only to was no gn of the Luftwaffe. PuwIE WES counter-attacks beaten off.
plan what we were really How different things were four la sua zilies the deploySitio Natale snake would', be to, going to đó, The enemy were years beforei ̈ Thradhetic) the wall, draft and accuracy to
safely acres bound to know that a great in- harbours were meeting the Clerval
bombardment. But brand support the land vason was being preced; we Intended at the
the place and world Copyright reserved. Rapin Go and H-Hour way ob low the log with at available mele, had to conceal
entre would arve more time to inerenter to ensure the timely time of attack and make him duction recover from thele Murpifin arm arrival of reinforcements and think we were funding ane langage, siricity. prosinia) are on our troops the adheren, despite all the Incards where he and at a different
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