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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1954.
Once again CHURCHILL achieves the impossible Alone he looked ahead
RIUMPH AND TRAGEDY Sir Winston sub-titles
the final volume of his "The Second World War." Triumph-obvious to all; Tragedy, best put in these words, spoken by Stalin at Yalta, some of the saddest of the might- have beens of hlatory-"If we, the three Great Powers, now hold together no other Power can do anything to us."
Churchill's conviction that "Soviet Russia had become a mortal danger to the free world" came to him before anyone else and left him a lonely figure at the feast of victory.
"[ moved amid
cheering crowds
or
sat at a table adorned with congratulations
and blessings from
by WILLIAM BARKLEY
reviewing Sir Winston's sixth and final war book*
him now that the has learned much about the Communist
every part of the Grand The Russians called on the attacks on Alliance with an
revolt aching Poles to
and cynically free world heart and a mind oppressed stopped their armies in the out more
skirts al the city while the movement, with forebodings. ... I Germans annihilated the anti- should not tell this tale now Communists within it, when all is plain in glaring
The Russians even forbade OW swiftly light if I had not known it our aircraft to use their airfields
and felt it when all Was dim."
Three days after VE Day, on May 12, 1945, he is dic- taling
telegram to President Truman: "An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front."
The Russian alliance had weathered testible storms He never saw the British Cabinet 51) angry, he Boys, 28 at the "martyrdom of Warsaw."
BLACK
MARK
IN Athens in December
of
1944, enforcing the anti- Commostat settlement. Churchill reports in bia Wwx history 1 *Throo four shell calsed sponta of water fairly near the oruiser Ajax sa we cre about to go ashore.
**Bere an armoured car and military cacori awaited
I said to my private pocretary, Jock Colvile, Where a your pistol ? And when he said that be had not got one I scolded him. for certainly had
my own.
"In
while we
*
Lew momenta, were crowding
into our steel box, he enld,
COLVILLE
1 have gol
A Lomm}
run. "Where
did you get 11 from 71 asked.
DOT- rowed it from the driver,' ho replied,
What he going to do?" I saked, He will be busy driving.*
"But there
bo DO trouble
abicas Wo are stopped," I answered, ‘and what is he going to do then r
"Jock had no reply, black mark ! We rumbled along the road to the
Embasay without any trouble."
Mr
in dropping supplies to Warsaw, It would have been so easy to retaliate: "All convoys will bo stopped by us."
But "in war you have to make even humbling submissions to the general alm."
At other times things went so well. When for the moment our armies reeled under Germany's
dying kick in the Ardennes Eisenhower was anxious to know if the Russians could tale of
поте of the pressure. Air Marshal Tedder, pent on A mission to Moscow, was delayed by weather.
"I said to Eisenhower: I ex- pect Stali would tell me if I asked him. Shall I try?
The answer WAS sent by Stalin the very
next day, a thrilling message, telling that the Soviet offensive would be
accelerated. Says Churchill: "quote this interchange as a good example of the speed at which business could be done at the summit of the Alliance, and also because it was a fine
deed of the Russians and their
hief to hasten their vast offer sive, no doubt ut a heavy cost in life."
IT
OF ATHENS
OF DRAMA
H
the posture of nations
can change! Ona may draw д not unhopeful trom this incredible
moral episode,
For in the vast drame shaped in this one volume the fole of even one nation is an incident, I feel that to many readers, as to me, Churchill has done the impossible; has left the best wine to the last, he has made
the final book the most reader- worthy.
Its range defies review: The battle invasion of Europe, the to the Rhine: the conquest of Germany and Italy, not to for- get victory in Burbia,
The death of Roosevell... the murder of Mussolini,, the mulcido of Hitler... The first use of the atom bomb, which was never for a moment an lasuc, meaning that Its use was never in doubt... in- timate and revealing passages of political conferences and of talks at fighting H.Q.a. Interesi never
age in 073 pages.
OF RE-ELECTION
MOST moving of all the per- sonal glimpses are the war leader's reflections on being re- feeled by the
the people at victory election.
In public, to my knowledge, Churchill has made only comment on this experience of
onc
and saw a shadow
loom in the East
SO TRAGEDY FOLLOWED TRIUMPH
in
Cummings
"an eagle towering in its pride upstairs Q chair by
the from of place being hawked at by a Marines mousing owl."
meetings under the Annexe,
IT is odd to reffect that jun 19 years ago America envisaged her role as that of go-between or peacemaker between what He made the noble utterance; she thought were the
rivalries
"My father always said to me of Britain and Rusala.
Trust the People," " Churchill The biggest wartime dispule had not returned again to power er between Britain and America as Lloyd George never did, it occurred in 1944 when British the mousing owl had not only
Alexander troops under
were hawked at him but killed him as put into Athens by Churchili to it does in Shakespeare, his story
For would drive out the Communists,
convey unendurable time the
des pathos. Here is some of it. position was perate, the British troops circled.
OF DUTY HE writes
a
ch-
Churchill upset his family by flying off there on Christmas
of his health and Day
feelings just after VE Day, All the time he was being May 9, 1945:- assalled with
from protests
"On both sides opinion about America that this was dictator the result was divided, and con- ship, this was not democracy tradictory and the self-determination of the free world for which the war was waged,
re-
was
again.
the had gathered in a soldiers' club Cabinet when he declared it open:-
They
all sang For He's a "Still, I had the world position Jolly Good Fellow and were en- as a whole in my mind, and I urely friendly. I thought i de- ledge, Influence, and even deemed myself to possess know- tected a certain ale of sheep
au- Ishness, which might be due to which might be ot most of them having voted majority. At luncheon my wife thority.
service,
"I therefore saw it as my duty to try, and at the same time as my right. I could not believe this would be denied me.**
Recall that polling day was July 5 but the results were not announced until July 26. In this time he had a week in the sun at Hendaye:-
adversely."
Then on July 25 home for the election result. "The latest view of the Conserva- tive Contrai Ofice wos
that we should retain subatan tial majority. I had burdened unduly
D
not
"i strove to put party politics guess-work reigned. I was myself deeply distressed out of my head. And yet I must at the prospect of sinking from confess the mystery of the ballot. myself a national to a party leader, boxes and their contents had an with the subject
This
"not"
ugly trick of knocking on the while because
occupied seemed less pleasant to live a door and peering in at the win- with the grave business of the than private life
to conduct dows. When the palette was
On great affairs. At this time I was spread and I had a paintbrush conference. very tired and physically in my hand it was easy to drive the whole I ne- recble that had to be carried these intruders away."
This chapler on Greece counts his mast direct and personal intervention in the war, He was sure he was right. It was largely duc to him "12 Greece has escaped the fate of Czechoslovakia and survives to- day as one of the free nations.'
He says readers will be as-
Trupedy" "Triumph and tonished at the fury of these published by Carrell at 30%.
over at once to sleep I did not wake til nine o'clock, and when I went into the Map Room the first results had begun to come in. They were, as I now expected, unfavourable. By noon it was clear that the the Socialists would
said to me:
· MEMO.....................ng
Prime Minister to Bir Edward Bridges Permanent Bedro- tery to the Tregsurp on Apeli 4, 1945'
am-
ABRANGE With the Admiralty to bring up both cases of the transfer of warships to Canada and An tralia nt some Cabinet meeting to which the Dominion Ministers Are moned. Then make them a full and free presentation there and then sernas the table, The Admimity should propose this. No dnanéist
br
your bread upon the waters: It will return to you In not many days.
соп
10
have
a
'It
may well be a
blessing --in-dia-
guise." I replied: 'At the moment It seems effectively guised'.
quite dis.
Sub-titles of the O SIX volumes
The
form a sign - post to these terrible yoar& Gathering
Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring, and now Triumph anct Tragedy.
in all
cepted the view
the
Party In the same interim he went managers, and
The work went la on to the Berlin Conference.
numbers to bed in Three or four hundred soldiers the belief that the British people 4,448
pages, with index. It would wish me to continue my concludes with his messages to work.
the people on resigning office in "However, just before dawn July 1945.
Wilkins Spots Some Mysterious
Things Moving Around On
YSTERIOUS things
Mare happening on
the
moon, which astronomers
By Chapman Pincher
The Moon
once believed was a dead, From his home-made ob- of 183 phones-48 of them in servatory in his suburban back public kiosks, the rest in offices. unchanging world.
gardon at Bexleyheath, Kent,
He found germs of the kind or from the French observatory at Meudon, Wilkins's eyes have responsible for sore throats and
valleys
eys blood poisoning on a substantial explored mountains and which no man had seen before. number of the mouthpieces. But Some idea of the work he tests showed that these were has done 19 given in his unlikely to be inhaled, and fascinating book, "OUR MOON would not cause infection unless (Muller, 128. 6.), just published, the speaker touched the mouth-
piece with his face.
Strange dark patches which might be swarms of insects or vegetation have been seen spreading slowly over parts of the moon's pock-marked sur- faco.
Flashing lights, sudden surges of colour and odd-shaped shadows, which could not be
Wilkins does not think that
cast by the light of 'sun or the first men to land on tho
earth, have been reported
reliable moon-watchers,
There is much evidence
recent moon-quakes In
GROWS SO FASTI
BRITAIN
When height records for the last 100 years are analysed there is no evidence for Lho bellef that we are becoming taller as a nation.
The average height of British and men is still 6ft 7ins,
remained that seems to have unchanged since at least 1850. BUZZING IN VAIN
HONEY DEES ard not attracted by the buzzing of their hive-mates and, maybe, are dear to it, London Univer- alty scientist Hans Keimus har discovered.
by
moon will find any animals alive
►
When he played tape-record-
there. The moon's atmosphero MODERN MISS
is virtually a vacuum and could grows so fast that sho
of not support life as we know it, reaches her full womanly height ings of buzzing bees through a the but it may once have been by the time she is 16-two years loudspeaker he found that fly- form of crumbling craters and strong enough for animals to earlier than her groat ing bees paid no attention colossal landslides. New cracks breathe.
are appearing in the ash-dry
crust. Volcanoes may still be active.
I woke suddenly with a sharp In it he expressed his gratitudo stab of almost physical pain. Å for the aupport and kindness fatherto subconscious conviction which the British people had that we were beaten broke forth shown to "their servant.” and dominated my mind....I A happy thought that the last was discontented...and turned word of all should be "servant," EDITOR'S NOTE:-"Triumph and Tragedy" wis published as a serial in the China Mall in November, 1958.
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When a few bees bad crawled full eyes whole craters have been tures, so strange and unexpect- stature three and a half years over an empty glass dish suddenly obscured us though ed that they may entirely before he is al-the age to only 20 seconds they left enough by clouds of dust belched out change
the which growth is commonly be odour behind to make other from underground cavorTLE,
loved to continue, The man who has scen most
Mothers whose gangling daughters seem to be already Even more attractive waɛ a outsize, even at 14, need not dish
containing decoy to Dr Edmund roughly cut out of dark paper. Clements, of
of these events is Mr. Fergy Wilking, a British civil servant who has spent much time in the last 4 years watching the moon through telescopes.
11ving
our
ideas ΟΙ
universo..
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whether one can pick up
bees cluster on it for a long time afterwards.
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Kalmus found
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live boys and girls, One in bargain Wilking is now Internationally
every Ave girls measured had like fim-star posters they recognised as the
His verdict: The chances of infimed growing by, 16, authority about the. moon
contracting any complaint from Taq-yunr-olds are now Inches Ho is already immortal, for m' telephone,.... whether it is taller than...... their: Victorian - also. attracted by · mirrors has been officially named after are endremely small. one of the moon's big, craters frequently "diainfected of [not," shoestors (ware at the same which is perhaps not surprising, path age, but the earlier stoppage of considering that the worker WINAMA
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