Saturday, FEBRUARY 3, 1940,
TELEGRAPH WEEK-END MAGAZINE
By WINSTON CHURCHILL
THE British Empire and
P
the French Republic
ave been at war withi Nazi
Germany for months.
We have not yet come at all 10 the severity of fighting which is to be expected:
I speak, as First Lord of the
Admiralty, with especkl caution. It
would seem that the U-boat attack upon the life of the British Isles not proved successful. It la true that when they sprang out upon us and we were going about
ordinary business, with two thousand ships in constant inove- ment every day upon the sons, Biry mmaged 1+ zio HOHI cerita damage.
proved itself an instrument of na tional will power capable of waging aleny wars. Parliament Is the rhield anti expression of democracy, and Ministers of the Crown bare themselves upon the Parlamentary system.
A large army has nirasdy gone to France, British armiles upon the seal of the effort of the Great War
The British are in preparation. But the Royal Navy has imenye
people to determined to stand in diately attacked the U-boats, and the line with the inthig them night and day- will
splendid briny of
the French
20k Ray witt merry-breative God forbid we should ever part company with that: but at any public and share
with then, as fart
with zeal, and not altogether wild the early as we out relish.
can, whatever may And I looks very much as it is he coming towards the U-boats who are feeling the us both. weather and not the Royal Navy or the world-wide commerce of Britain.
During the first munth of the war we captured by our efficient contra- band control 158,000 toys mpare German merchandise --fouth, oll. ninerals and other commodities-- for our own benefit than we lost by all the U-boat sinkings put together. I hope the day will cotur when the Admiralty will be able to invite the ships of all rustions to juln the British conveya stal insure them on their voyages at a reasonable rate.
WE must, of course, expret that the U-bost attack upon the seaborne commerce of the world will be renewed presently on a greater scale. We hope, by the measures we have taken that om means of putting down 1 pest will grow continually. We are tak- ing great cure about that.
Now I wish to speak about what is happening in our Own island. When a peaceful democracy is muul- denly made to light for a life there must be a lot of trouble and hard- ship in turning over from pence to war. I feel very keenly the reproaches of those who wish 10 throw themselves into the fight, but for whom we cannot Bad full seDJIT at the present time. All this wit elear as we get into our stride.
Government is His Majesty's unitedly_resolved to make the maxi- un effort of which the British dion is empable, and to persevere, whatever may happen, until decisive victory is ined. Meanwhile pat- rielle men and women, and those who, understand the high causes in human fortunes which are at stake, must not only rise above fear, they must also rise above inconvenience and boredom.
going an; now, with the help of God, and with the convletion that we are the defenders at civilisation and freedom, we are going on, and we are going to go on to the end.
After
Great atl,
Erilaita and France together ure 05 millions, even 1r 21 Homelands alone. They are united in their cause and convinced of their duty. Nazidom, with all its tyrannical power, eun- trado no more than that. They too, have these 85 millions, of which
WE ARE THE
may be that great oriends
are coming to us from the
air. We shall do our best to give a out account of ourselves, and we tist alwaya resmember that the command of the seas will enable us to bring the immense resources of Canada and the New World into play as a decisive ultimate nir factor beyond the reach of what we have to give and take over here.
Divertious have been given by the Government to prepare for a w of at least three years. That done not mean that vielory may not be gained in a charter time. How son it will be gained depends upon how long Here Hitler and his group of wieled men, whose bands are ained with blood and soiled with corruption, can keep their grip upon the docile, unhappy German people,
It was for Hitler to say when the www would begin. but it is not for him or his sirveessons to say when it wild. 11 began when he wanted it, and it will end only when we De bas had are convinced that Cab.
The Prime Minister has stated our war aims in terms which cannot be bettered, and which cannot be for ofter repeated; To redeem Europe from the perpetual and recurring Dear
of German aggression, anci nable the peoples of Europe to
their independence preserve
nad That is what the their liberties." British and French nations are fight- Ing for.
H
been
OW often have We
told we are the elfete des mocracies whose day is done, and who must now be replaced by vari- ons. forms of virile dictatorship and totalitarian despotism. No doubt at the beginning we shall hove to suffer because of having to long, wished to lend a peaceful life. Our
and all griev- as cowardice. Our desire to see an ances or muddles or scandals.com be unarmed world was proclaimed as freely ventilated there. In
the proof of our decay, past times the House of Commons has
*
PARLIAMENT will be kept reluctance to fight was mocked at
Now we have begun: now we are
-BUT ARE YOU SURE?
16.
Don't let your knowledge of Latin trick you. A fumitory is
A smoking-room, a fumigat- ing chamber, a plant used in medletne, a pashouse, another name for a tobacco pipe, 17-Here's a spot of spelling for you. They look tough, but they're not, really. Which cre spelt h
rrectly?
Lausquenet, apologue, lant- gerous, ecstasy, marmoreal, ac-
cresce.
18. Since you know what geo- graphy is, you will guess that the selence of phylogeography deals with the distribution over the earth's sur-' fner of
Racra, fossils, languages, lip- ing plants, political ideas, re- ligions.
19.--How many of you know that a blaho Is
A pame-bird hunted in Eng- land, land owned by the Church, a disease common to horaes, an edible root.
20-lateyon days-days of peace. happiness
and
prosperity-derive
Their name from the' halcyon, which Is quite a common bird. We know
It as the
Hawk, kestrel, starting, king- fisher, dove, sparrow, canary.
21A gentleman is a gentleman
In any country, but in Spain they call him a
Senor, don, hidalgo, vaquero, hacienda, manans.
22. The astrological sign for the former part of the month of Decem- ber Is
The Lion, the Scorpion, the Scales, the Archer, the Water- carrier, the Ram.
23-Finkelstelu is the name by. which a Soviet leader was known In the old days. In Die sphere of modern International polities lie called.
Stalin, Vorashilov, Litvinov, Molotov, Ordenokidzhe, Kame- nev, Kornilov.
Сал
24The law Lex Tallonis best be summarised by the quota-
tion-
Turning the other check; an cue for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; an Englishman's home is his castle; what's yours is nitne, what's mine is my own; Arst up, best dressed, ・・
25. Those land areas in Hollan which have been reclaimed from the sea are, known as-
Dikes, Cantons, polders, dunes, Sces.
provinces,
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TEASERS
AN ANAGRYME
guard
KEEPERS
OF ALL
FREEDOM
at least 16 milkons, newly Co-
garred Czechs, Slovakians and Aus- trious, ate writhing under thele entred yoke and have fo be held down by main force.
We have the agents.
the arrasee that we can bring the vast latent power of the British and French Kinpires to, bear upon the decisive points. We have the freely tven, ardent support of the 20 inlions of British citizens in the self-governing Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We have the heart and moral convictions of India on our site. We believe we are entitled to the respect and good will of the world, and particularly k the United States.
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was in battle against 125. Then the brave, warlike Turks were about to join our enemies. Then we had to be ready night and day to fight a decisive ren battle with a formid- able German Fleet almost in many respects the equal to our own.
We faced those adverse condi- tions then we have nothing worse to tare now. In those days or 1914 also taly was neutral," but we did not know the reason for her neutrality. I was only after that we learned that, by a secret clause In the original treaty of the Triple Alliance, Italy had expressly re- served to herself the right to stond aside from any war which brought her to conillet with Great Britain. Much has happened since them; misunderstanding and disputes have arisen, but all the moro do we appreciate in England the reasons why this rent and friendly nation of Italy, with whom we have never been at war, kid not seen (1 to enter the struggle.
I do not underrate what Hes before ust but I must say this: 1 cannot doubt we have the strength to carry a good cause forward, and to break down the barriers which tand between the waze-carning muisses of every land and a free and more abundant daily life.
O all the wars that men have
fought in their hard p- grimage, none was more nable than the great Civil War in America nearly 8 years ago. Both sides fought with the high conviction, and the war was long and hurd, All the hevolym of the South could not redeem their entse from the stain of slavery, just as all The emrage and skill which the Ger mans always show in war will not free them from the reproach of Nazism with its Intolerance and beutality.
We may remember the words of old John Bright about the American Civil War, when he said 10 audience of English working-folk: "At last after the smoke of the battlefeld had cleared any, the horrid shape which had cast its
The "Tele-
graph"
picked this
the
out
Here I am in the same post as I was 25 years ago. Rough times lie ahend: but how different i scene from that of 1914
Then the French front with the small British Army seemed to be about to break under the terrible
of impact
German imperialism. Then Russia had been fuld low at Tannenberg. Then the whole might
by Andre Maurois EVER since dawn the rain has been falling. A som- bre panoply hangs over the topmost branches of 'lenfless trees.
Green and brown lorries, with their loads of khaki-chid soldiers, are filing endlessly to
wards a niya- terious front,
Around us in this country lane, the
Aadow over the whole Continent had yonished and was gone för- ever,"
Everything seems easter than in 1914. There was then, in the benth- ning at any rate, a faint mutual dig- trust. The British soldier had a feeling that he was there to defend France, and that everything was his right: the Frenchman was a little surprised to find him there.
Nowadays, the Briton knows that it is his own country that he is de- lending thi out frontiers: the Frenchunan is beginning to know this "hereditary friend."
The geneal of 1939 shows the Military Cross he won at Vimy, at Fileval: the twenty-years-old sol- dier is the son of a veteran of 1914, and seeks out the little wood where his father was wounded.
The whole countryside is peopled with the shades of Britons, and I sometimes have a feeling when I come #eross Lome high personage whom I knew as a captain and some lieutenant who is a grandson of my general of ather days, that I my- self am a hust.
THE PITY OF IT
April 15,
I walked in loamy Wessex lancs, afar From rail-track and from highony, and I heard in field and farmstead maup an ancient word Of local lineage like Thu bist, "Er wur,' Ich woll 'Er sholl,' and by-talk shuilar.
Nigh as they speak who in this month's moon gird At England's very loins, thereunto
spurred
Dy gangs whose glory threats and slaughters are, Then seemed a Heart crying: 'Whasučner they be 4t root and bottom of this, who flung this fame Between kin golic tongued even as are tee, Sluister, ngly, lurid be their fame; May their familiars prow to shun their same, And their brood perish everlastingly.'
-Thomas Hardy, Moments of Vision.
Reprinted from "The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy" (Macmillan and Co.)
the famous French novelist in a new sket- che about the B.E.F, in France, from the "Sun- day Chronicle.”
MADAME
enter- pillors of the tractors and the as a edasi-
boots of the soldiers
.un
I would like to...
And explore alt our
bays:
for smugglers whe work at night, But are during the days.
And
In the above terse, the four missing words are composed of the same six letters, but in different orders. Can you cam- plete the rhytne?
LETTER ADDITION
Add one letter to carh word in capitals, re-arrange.
make the words described.
Add one letter fo:
met
REPAIR and make "urned
uside."
are
creating that prodigious « Inud, thick and clinging Juexorably, that one sees only in time of war.
So alike are the scenes that I could almost be- Heve myself borne back by some evil dream to that day of 1915 when, on the Bethune rond, I watched the divisions that were going to fight the Battle of Loos mov- ing up the line.
Almost. I say, for a few detalls date the pie- tore.
1.
2.
APRICOT and make "re-
sembling musicnt drama."
3.
INSERT und make "keeps."
is
4. STEAMY and make "dig-
*.
6.
FINGER and make "allen.". RECEIPT and make
"calle."
Fill in the letters to make the words described. When this is donc, the two diagonals, repre- sented by noughts, will make the names of a famous English and
a famous Australian batsman,
xxxxx x D
XX 0
x x x
x x x
x x 0
x
X X X
Broken pieces.
Very merry.
Satisfcd.
Fungus killer. Xmas decoration. Mishaps. Turned nalile. Kindness.
Proven the rule.
x
x x
Answers on Page 8.
AND
TOMMY
side, mingle Indistinguishably with the woods and the
the stacks, farms, drape themselves with nets,
sea-weed and brunches and then
They have a great affection for Tonimy,
divisional documents: the
of
NOW, the British troops wear for work and fighting what called their battle-dress, which is a combination garment of khaki cloth, broken by In- dificult by the stretness of the his numerable pockets.
disperse so ingeniously that finding them becomes a game, made more
and
sporting padre who plays cricket for
and. County:
course,
orders and the soldier's inevitable Madame, who is the proprietress answer to any question: "I don't of the house, be it estaminet, furm ur chatenu, in which the Mens has been installed.
It reminds one of the costume of know." a acier, or of an airman, of a mechanic's overalls even.
In 1914, if you wanted to visit the headquarters of the Nth Division,
A colonel's clothes are almost the you rang up one of its officers and same us his men's.
it Is he would tell you: "We're at P..." And possible that even the Scollist,
In 1039 you can call up no when on active service, will swap
formation unless you know its their kilt for the new battle dress.
codo name. You will be told, The pleturesque has been drum- for instance, that the Nth Divi- med out of the armies.
sion is called "Curtain.” And mys- tery envelops them in its place.
too
Mary secrets in 1914 were not
well guarded. The drawing-
rooms of Lention and Paris discussed BUT when, with miraculous-
the plans for the uffensivos.
In 1939, the British Army has brought the art of camouflage almost to Invisibility.
patience you have at length discovered the unit you are looking for, you will find that the atmosphere is just as it was before.
The Colonel, a good soldier, sori- Thousands of men, wakong, guna ous and a little frigid; his adjutant and cars, vanish into the country- major submerged beneath brigade
"Mindume is very generous... She doesn't even wait to be asked for things, she just offers them...
She She thinks of everything”. has helped our cook get the dinner Our own mothers' couldn't look after us better."
Yes, madame míd mademoiselle, too, have an old and a new war- Lime affection for the Drillsh Tommy.
UCH eulogien 1 heard on all
sides.
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Nurses Hear A Tough "Guy" Quietly Pray
AS the lights are lowered cach night in King George Hospital, Ilford, nurses hear "Tough Guy Freddie" Gillett pray.
"Piense, God," he says, “send í my arm and leg soon." Freddie is ten years old. People in the district, including the hospital authorities, are trying to raise £250 to answer the prayer the best way they can.
Run Ovar
Although he has suffered cvrside:- able puki since the operation, not word of complaint nor a tear has, been seen or heard by his nurses. That's why they call him “Tuuste Guy Freddie."
He talks only of his friend Brian Cole, aged eight, who saved his life.
·Quick Thinking
"There was a truck standing still It will coat this aum to provide in front of the one which ran Freddle furtificial loba,
down." Belan sold:
“I pushed a shunter's pole into Ha The boy's arm and jeg-were amwheels and prevented the other one putates at the hospital after he had
Freddie's head was only running on. been run over by a truck in a call-about three inches from the wheet way goods yard.
when the truck stopped.
It is quito impossible to
When he arrived at the hospital he was still unconscious. Seven doctors, exaggerate the excellence of the relations between our country-standing by for air raid casualties,
were called to the operating theatral folk and the British soldiers.
to rolleve his suffering.
"After running för a policeman and
telling Freddie's mother, I went home and was sent upstairs because I had dirty face through messing about
with the trucks.”