THE CHINAT MAIL SATURDA
Appeasement: No single word ever caused such bitterness Now a
voice from the past asks .
A
did?
S the shadows begin to lengthon
across the scarred battlefields of the Second World War, a question rises ever more insistently
Was it bound to happen?
Or, perhaps more pertinently
Was it bound to happen in the way it
Now comes a book which sets out to whow that the course of events which lod Britain into war in 1989 was pretty well. inevitable.
It is called "Nine Troubled Yeara," and is written by Viscount Templewood, better known to our generation as Sir Samuel iloare. It is an adroitly argued, well- written, intensely interesting book.
Sir Sam himself, as Secretary of State for India, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Home Secretary, sat in the Cabinets of the various MacDonald, Baldwin, and Chamber- Governmenta Iain
which ruled Britain during these nine
troubled years, 1981-
40.
Sir Sam Wis on close terms with Slan- ley Baldwinor, at any rate, as close
any colleague ever got to that clusive, part- Scot, part-Welsh, af very slightly - English character.
Ho was on even closer per- Konal terms with Neville Chum- berlain, whose routine was 10 walk with hint round the park. litewing the problems which beset him
WERE THE
MEN OF
DOTOBER
William Hickey
DOWN IN THE TEMPLE OF WINE AND WOOD
London." "grower, chipping out the stoves III Landon is no ex- of luy wine barrels.
For wood, like wine, like citing! So unexpect
the bread
... is one of those things that love instinctively,
There is a joy about them. A
their mysterios.
Jitte
Vedl. So full of new, I mysteries! I went to a wine. tasting one morning. On went through the merket of
-I princip I don't like wine-
being wing taster, I took a tastings. I dislike all the glass, I poured my peit houha, all the wino enobbery, wine i sippet it. But I have I just like wine,
passed the singe where I used
try to look wise and penive just say to myself.... "Do you like it?"
to
1
When you have findthed your sip you either pair the remains back into a largo bottles funnel is providedor, if not
for ready
The intvllabis
Sometimes: one can afford a struggle. It.» also gave ... Hielor
good wine. Sometimes it has limo to
overpun the Cadcht been the bottle of elfeny Algerian elovalt bastion, occupy the tortut has set tongues locs, hearts ritory, domobiller the well-
quipped Czechoslovak Anry low and made on evening that or 30 divisions, and add the that has green and
remembered like a sunset Skoda arms factories to Krupps,
gold. Hitler also built up lila own
So when I went to Lobenue's much is left, you drow it into Reichswehr, and
cellars under London Bridge a tough of awdurt that runs für faster than Britain could build or Station I was prepared to bo underneath the counters.
Proud names Army. Ho
ahead annoyed. Prepared to be cynical forge
men quarrolling with his
when I s0W Luftwaffe. Sir Sam offers his readers about growths and years. the astonishing climate that by I noticed is I went in that 1940 Erliate would
Lord Mayor's car was, wait
have had the 0.924 operational aircrafting. against Germany's' 8,070. But,
I noticed that "No Smoking" fact, Germany's rumerical was up at the door. air superiority whe undoubted But I was staggered when I fwent in. All the prejudices dis-
appeared. It was so lovely.
in
at the tims of the Battle
yet
It was a huge tunnel. Not a. cellar. It stretched as far as the eye could see.
Silent ceremony AndIt was.
aglow with candles. Candies in iron brackets banging from the celling.
The barrels of burgundy have glass, measure running into them. In the top is a hole, You Put your finger over it. That seals the measure., You pull. It up and let it pour into your ginas.
1 came across Philip Harben ecupled with this task. Ho wore a preoccupied, philosophic
"It's wonderful nir was all he could bring himself to mutter.
Those burgundies have such,
Richebourg.. noble names...
Chambertin wil
•Corton Grands Echezeaux....
Britain, and came desperately Beat
to being dealsive, Tho "woll-lald
plans" Sir Sam speaks of avere not hatched. “All that they needed was *tims for their fultiment.” con-
tinues our adroit apologist.
"It. was the
French rout of the
Army and
They arc ∙ns proud as the the immobil-
And, although the tunnel was
Dukes-
of Burgundy in their lisation of the full of men, there was a silence, days of
POWET. French Fleet The candles. The silence. S
the Lord ALTOSS that destroyed The brickwork. They nit gave Mayor,. Sir Noel Bowater, and the breathing an atmosphere of mystery.
the French. Ambassador, M #pzec upon This was not a wine-tasting. which we had This was a ceremony in honour Massil, together. always of Bacchus. lied."
MUNICH GUILTY?
iwo
by
FRANK OWEN
altitudes.
That
But
+
I
that half-expected
Carno
They were leaving........" poor the men," said Mr Gay Prinor, who
time...
is always the next appointment that is worrying
If this was so, then all the tunnel would loads to a statue of runs the fem, they have no more reason for laying those the Greek Bo... with vine- admirable plans long before leaves in his the day after Muntch. No; You do not often get that them.?
A second tunnel run parallel Chamberlain cannot escape the feeling about wine in there
And there was the ultimate responsibility, nor islands. It is generally only to the other.
in
i have the finest cold tablo Baldwin, för that day some landscape of Provence....
in some white Greek seen since before the wor. 1940 when Britain stood alone, in Sicily...
against the isla that you begin to ap- Great joints of beef. Game ord half armed, mightiest military Power in preciate wine. Not as a luxury pies decorated with the feathers of the birds... It looked like of a special occasion.
But as something elemental. the old Mrs Berton's cookery- whose Something
fundamental to book come to life.
.can
suppose, on the
Russia, and more
other
the world.
OL So,
eli
Sir Sam admired both Hald- THIRD were the far larger would have been fit to challenge wila and Chamberlain, and number of these who combined anyone else today. Who knows? in his book he stoutly defends certain elements of both the theso two Prime Ministers, who other ir: thela
enjoyed day
wide is, they denounced the die story popularity and respect, bul to "Fascist brasts”—and they denied the Government arms to curb these beasts. In this cute- gory came the vast majority of the Labour Party.
whom
the years since
relinquished power increasingly unkind
they have been
Too risky
50
50
03
HOTE those
who
those
hand, that Germany had swift- then 10 years ago had made opinions were tested by aclupi civilisation. Bread and wine. There was another table that |
Asin?
Impracticable
It caresses......
I
was sorry that I couldn't to Junah.
Just simple English fore," I wanted just to look at the
said Mr Prince with the Lottles zhining in the soft light, - modesty of an emperor
ly overrun herself the supreme Power of events (as against the might-The sus
of life. sustenance
was a symphony of "scarlet' and the hugo heartland of Europe- have-brens of history), Chur- There was a red-coated toast white. The scarlet of jobsters
chill comes
out es being nearest master to take my name, He did and giant prawns. The white' of to the facts..
It with gravity, C
linen. But he too was hopelessly
And in another But I was eager to pass down,
(urine! FOURTH
and almost fatally wrong in his the line of bottles and casks, stretched. the tables, each really baileved that it was 'pos-
estimate of the fighting power Not to drink. I didn't feel in candie-it. Both Baldwin and Chamber- sible to come to terms with the The purely Facilat polity, of
of the
French Army and of the the mood. Inin have been blamed for diciators, and to have the bar-
alas, we must reject as being defensive value of that master- their respective ports, not
Impracticable. Neither Illusion known as the Maginot gain kopt. This camp included utterly
Stalin would have inc. As big a "bloomer," that, much in bringing us to A all the Cabinet (except Duft Hitler nor
which Second World War but for Cooper, who walked out, rather respected any country
as over Chamberlain had made bringing us to it half-prepared. Inte in the day, after Munich) had disarmed itself.
about the staying power of the Baldwin realised that rearma- and almost all the Tory Parlin-
Certainly, too, Chamberlain Red Army, or Stalin himself of and middle mentary Party.
was wrong. That you could do
the enduring ment in the early
no worthwhile business
worth of the thirties would be very Un-
Royal Navy.
light." It Batters. It caresses, It included Mr Anthony Eden, such a ruffian as Hitler popular and he was determined
$40 the great I wanted to You put Sir Sam's beoic down. by the contemptuous not to risk the fortunes of his who left the Cabinet not so shown
March 1939 he with this thought it the barrels of burgundy, that in but be way over Mussolini
1 affection for wine Government on such an issue.
I have d hla
into decisive years between the first on use Prime
legions Minister Cham- marched
ever siner reading the two World Wars were so preg-barrels dealing him- Prague, not even taking
to head trouble to tell Chamberlain nant with opportunities missed Charles Morgan's "The Voyage," as it appears they were, 'then. Apart from thinking it ong paper ho Foreign Secretary Included Sir Walter Lay. and signed at Munich.
the repeats the old Tory tale that, sicps to avert the onset of the this century, I love to remeste ber Harbet, that saintly, vine. who had Munich gave us time to make third one.. found him
much
Chamberlain sought to con- berisin insisted on
with
wis
***
I love candlelight. No wonder apologising that this pointe had that old saying runs, "Never
choost woman or cloth by candle only 400 rooms,
that "simple" English
cillate Mussolini (in order to self with 1 Duse over the tear up the crap of Pair Sam we had better take some syrer - 0 120. great books, weliten in
detach him from Hitler) and of to appease Hitler himself by It the so-called Settlement Munich "selfiement** lasted less than six months.
Eden.
of
of ton,
then chairman
Chronicle, which News
visited Riler and ready to accept "any form of ormaments control that was applied to all alike."
Since that fateful day. just over 16 years ago, Munich has come to be a word of reproach
even obloquy-and "sppease- ment" a word of contempl, like cowardice.
Sir Sam Lokes up the cudgels for Munich. Those who still belleve, as I do, that Chamber- lain was utterly wrong all the way may think that Sir Sam offers in "Nine Troubled Years" the best defence for it that has yet been made.
'A good thing'
ap-
The Newa Chronicle itself had declared of Hitler's pointment as Chancellor that it wan "on the whole, a food and necessary thing."
A
DANGER UNDER WATER KEEPS HIM HAPPY
BIG Tiger shark or a Grey Nurse can be a
By NOEL CRAIG
The pearler said New Guinen is now booming, with rubber, coffee, cocon and copra planta tians being developed on a large
It even included, as late as fairly dangerous creature, told me that there was plenty 1936, Lloyd George, who had but for W. (Bill) Tebb of of shell at the 40 fathoms (240-cale. also paid a personal
call
on Port Moresby, New Guinea, feet) level and below. The Fuchrer at his mountain
"That is beyond the German battleship trallan divers' depth and that yrle above Berchtesgaden and the Zad come
write home to
a Tirpitz was &
when the lugger owners started reminding" no of a suggestion when the hunger-marchers were panegyrie of this "born loader formidable enemy. massing in Trafalgar Square, of men, a magnetle, dynamic For over 200 years the Tebbs I had made, a year or and Mussolini was showering personality in the Dally Ex-have been divors, so that when en-ller, but they, has it too good poison 29. on the wretched Dress. It is true that the honey-wa
moon did not last, but for
What was the real situation in Britain in those Angry "Thirties,
Abyasinian villages, when Spain
far more
broke out London-born Bill joined the Royal Navy and Hitler decidedly took in
Later he was torn with savage civil war, the Welsh Wizard.
Jocaine a frogmon,
towards the deadly and Hitler's stormtroope werd
gravitated stamping into, the demilitarised Rhinoland, into Austria, and into Czechoslovakin?.
Five groups
- Against
FIFTH: There were those, task of tiding torpedoes, and liko Beaverbrockt, who held took part in the attack
Trondhiom,“ in 1942.
captured by
that you did not have to deal the with the dictators at all, either Tirpitz at peacefully or forcefully: that It was during this attack that:
WILS
(the
you could go ahead with your he own business of developing the Germans, but a year later ho It is very enty-and it has British Empire, building up lismanaged, to escape and walked been frequently done to otherwise, and let Hitler anner latent strength, aimed and
ACTORS country to wederk that (pubilo opisilon in Britain.
Austria,
Czechoslovakia, was then roughly divided into Poland too if he chose. the "Progressive
nifu-Farelat Left" who wanted to Hall Tricse tooner or later ho would come
up against Russia, and
FUCK
For back
From theme I made my way to England," he said. "Later on I was assigned to the Army
and took part in the tha Normandy landings.
the
Dictators Now, and the "Rose Brown Dictatorship and tionary anti-Rod (and anti- Red Dictatorship would, diaw Russian) Right," who wanted to each other to death. Da & Deal with them.
But this is to simplify and · V Cat-fights
falsify---blatory.
Britain, kaid Beaverbrook,
- OFF NEW GUINEA
The ex-frogman, who was ini Hongkong during the, work, sald that he gave evidence at the Nureenberg war crimes trials.
Civil to was dull after the
lity of he took
For, in fact, there were at thould keep out of these Conoscitement of war and the least five sections, or factions inental cat-fights. For all the Pacific, of public optaton. They were massive sule and strength of adventure, lay open
with the pos FIRST; Thove Facifists of the the Beaver rook Press, no vector for Australies
host followed the No More War movement, and powerful
"On other boules who wanted to Empire Crusader.
"Well, who was right? Let juu | 2009 abollits call "armaments, and all wemed forced Their, most dire lake o swift, walk through there
painotia chinape.
Could we have kepb niin Party!), from 1991 tol we had been able to, mbt today, be
But
and those wines da fare well, it's a combination that is the basis of Anglo-French friendship.
"
Feed 'em
MET a cat food manufactures from New York-on Im pressive, young man, William. Shay by name. He was sitting in his hotel suite surrounded by flowers and financial, news papers, He fold me that in his factory 75 cats of every breed are kept under constant obser. vation. A hundred men in research division try out new products on them.
of those
And the reactione cats are watched more carefully than the reactions of a wealthy
customer to a new digh in an exclusive restaurant. ownery than wealthy clients of
You see, there are moro cat-
exclusive restaurants.
Mr Shay explained to me that ollis niso Prospecting, for
a well-fed cat, was a better going on, the possibility of
#hungry Ho uranium being found Is In-mouse-killer than
was destroying creasing gold mining continues one. unabated, and a big plywood the argument that if you feed
"The cat," he told me, like Like duction.! factory has just started pro- cat he loses his practical use:
the human, hunts just for sport, "The Australian Government You go out to hunt administration "authorities are equip yourself well. doing a good job in opening up the same for a cat. He needs the country, preventing the physical build-up- for: lle ploitation of the native people job.
1
It's just
and providing them with food, "Without that build-up, he'll medicines and other amenities, run up against a rat and he Bill concluded.
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