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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
JURY ROOM
"Everybody laid their bots? The jury's ready to come out!”
This Man
SINCE that last Mon-
day in September when he signalled his. resumption of Front Bench position by announcing the Athonia sinking, Mr. Winston Chur- chill has been one of the three busiest, mon in the land,
His shortest working day has been of 14 hours. The majority have been of 17 hours' duration.
Sundays are spent in his Elizabe- then home at Chartwell, Kent, 45 minutes from his Whitehall desk.
Is News
ing, and this is linked to the Ad- miralty by a connecting door sa that Mr. Churchill only has to take a few paces from his bedroom to hls desk
the Board. He may rend for the Civil Lord and discuss with him the domestic affairs of the Civil Stor Or he may confer with the Parlia- mentary and Financial Secretary who is the other political repre- sentative on the Board. Each of those high officials must keep the First Lord fully informed of im- portant happenings in their exten- sive departments.
It in a daily duty of the First Lord to receive reports relating to the six Divisions of Naval Staff, cach of which has a Sen Lord on the Board. The First Sen Lord is ulso Chief of the Naval Staff and reports to Mr. Churchill an impor- tant quarter-deck offairs.
In the Admiralty building, Mr. Churchill spends almost as much time in the brary as in his office, The library contains 100,000 books An Every Day Job coverlost every phase of Britain's naval efforts, past and present-in- valuable source of information that is consulted hourly by the First Lord or the chiefs of his 4,000 staff.
Also the libra houses thousands of official documents, giving full de- tails of every great naval engage- ment ever fought. -
Sunday is a day of continued work,. Where History Was Made only the desk being different.
Monday morning's newspapers Are Brought to him in bed with a cup of tea at 7 a.m. Two hours later he posses
ses under the famous porilco into the entrance hall of- the Admiralty.
Once the week has begun, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill never leaves Whitehall. A house is provided for every First Lord, at the south- cast corner of the Admiralty Build-
FAMOUS BRITISH REGIMENTS
The
GRENADIER GUARDS
THE British Army has a record
and, traditions equal to any in the world.
Those traditions have been founded and made permanent by the various regiments, of the British Army, and of all those regiments none is better known than the Grenadier Guards.
Later, In 1605, this regiment was amalgamated with the lat. Foot Guards, which had been raised abroad, In 1850, by Lord Went- worth. from Royalists who had accompanied Charles Into exile,
The use of the word Grenadiens however, come into use
did no, unlit some years "läter when, 1677, the first hand greundes were Introduced. One company of grenadiers--or bomb Úrrowers
was attached to each regiment, and every man in the company was specially chosen for his fine stature, sense of discipline and steadiness in netion.
These men, wearing tall painted were always to be found Bercest, where the Bghting was and they established that tradition whereby the Grenadiers, and the other four regiments of Guards. must always be ready to go into action wherever dunger is greatest.
Title Established
YET these originni adler
were not known
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Guards. The hand grenades which had been introduced in 1077 went out of favour by, 1708 and, the tall pointed hats lind been replaced by tall fur caps the forerunners of the now-famous
ous bearskin. In the Game year, the grenade was award- ed as a badge to the regiment, but It was not until after Waterloo that the title of Grenadier Guards permanently established.
Whs
At that historic batile, in 1816, Napoleon launched his Imperial Guard in
a desperate attempt to break the British lines. Much of the attack fell on the Foot Guards who, far from yielding, inflicted heavy Josses on their
rollant
op- reward for ponents. It was as a this that the regiment was given the title of Grenadier Guards; and was granted permission to wear the bearskin cap in commemoration of the victory:
THE way in which the traditions of those carly grenndlers have been maintained in modern times may bo gauged from the records of the battle of Ypres, in October,, 1914. The Grenadier Guards went into that action with 81.officers and, 650 other ranks. They emerged with 4 officers and 150 men,
The regiment, in fort, has been in the thick of every war since ita foundation, and has taken part in come of the most famous battles in history, Among the battle honours which appear on the
Colours are Tangier, 1
and
1805 Blenheim-Corunna Khar- toum and, in the Great War, Marne, 1014--Ypres, 1014 1917-Loos and the Somme, 1910 - and 1910.
By
D. J.
MURPHY
The regiment also played a not- able part in the capture, in 1704, of Gibraltar, and they did vallant service in defending the fortress when it was later besieged.
Men of the regiment have even fought at sea aboard British naval vessels, and they took part in the desperate, yard-arm to yard-trin struggle with the Dutch at Sole- bay,
Regimental March ⚫
The Grenadier Guards have, aptly enough, adopted as their regimental march that famous old tune "The British Greundlers", which begins with the words "Some of talk of Alexander and some Hercules."
The regimental uniform consista of senriet tunles and blue trousers with a broad red stripe. The Grenadiers are, of course, world- famous for their black bearskin caps, and they can be distinguished from the other Guards regiments by the fact that they wear nine buttons, all equally spaced, on the front of their tunics..
Yet there is something typleally British about the fact that this proud regiment should have
the
nickname of "The Coalheavers", Not that the Grenadiers object. On the contrary, during many of their famous netions in the Great War they used, as a battle-cry, the slógun "On, the Coalies",
This nickname originates from the days when men the regiment were regularly hired out to cont merchants, and often to other traders, for the heavy work in- volved, the money earned on such work going to the regimental funds! Visitors to London will frequent- ly see men of the Grenadiers on guard at Buckingham Palace when the King is in residence, or a small company of them marching, with traditional right, through the City of London, on their way to the night guard of the Bank of Eng- Tond.
The Grenadier Guards have # magnificent history. To-day they are us steadfast and reliable. us were their forerunners of nearly three centuries ago.
MUCH of Mr. Churchill's day is spent in the Admiralty Board Room, the nerve centre of Britain's naval operations ever since, in that came room, orders were handed to a courier to take to Nelson which resulted in the Trafalgar epic. It was at the long table that runs the whole length of the Board Room that Churchill met his Board six days before the last war broke out and ordered the despatch of coded messages which called the entire British Navy to the "ready"
Mr. Churchill's day at the Ad- miralty desk usually commences with reading the special reports that his chief officers have sub- mitted, lle rapidly maltes pencil- ed notes for his own guidance and future action. Later in the day he will refer to them when he pre- sides over the Board of the Ad- miralty at their daily session.
From these reports he makes careful deductions which enable him to move the vari-coloured fings on the huge wall maps Indicating the hour-to-hour position of every ship in the British Navy.
As early as necessary, the First Lord communicates with his Com-
anders-in-Chief. He never al tempts to interfere with or in- struct them in matters of naval procedure, but he keeps them con- stantly formed of general policy principles and gives them advice or information whenever they request
1. Apart from that he trusts the men on the spot to exercize their own sound judgment.
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Keeping in Touch
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CONSULTATIONS with members of the Admiralty pre constant. We speak gilbly of "the Admiralty" without knowing of whom or what It is that Mr. Churchill is First Lord. There are ten members of Board
the
of the
the Admiralty; their
their Meinl tille Is "Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral," so designated by Charles I after his Lord High Admiral, the Rifated Duke of Buckingham, had been more literally executed,
Mr Churchill is never out of touch with some or all of the members of
A Thought for To-day
AND the stars of Heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in
Heaven shall he shaken,
And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
told
the west of Europe there is a glow of light. In Berlin stands Hitler. For to the East the light casts a shadow of Hitler-a Big. gloomy nebulous Hitler. That is Stalin.
ler raises his fist to strike. The great shadow fat strikes, too. The Reichstag fire, the Nuzi Porty and German Army purges, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland.
The murder of Kirov, the killing of the Bolshevik Old Guard and Red Generals, Finland
This shadowgraph impression is heightened by a book published to- day, "I Was Stalin's Agent." by W. G. Krivitsky (Hamlah Hamilton, 105. ed.).
a
Krivitsky, for many years member of the Soviet Military In- telligence Department, and finally chief of Military Intelligence in Western, Europe, broke with.....the Soviet two years ago and fled to Amorica. Here are some of the gtories he has to fell and opinions he expresses
The alleged conspiracy of Tuk- hachováky and the Fed Army Generals with the German Gealapa was actually a conspiracy of Sta- lin's against the Red Army Generola., To "frame" them ho used faked avidence, manufactured by the Gestapo and fed to the Russlan Ogpu
To remove the only man outside Russla or Germany who knew of this, Stalin ordered the kidnapping
-St. Mark 13.
Verses 25, 26.
THE Second Sea Lord is in con- stant touch with Mr. Churchill on all matters of noval personnel; while the Third Sea Lord is Con- troller and Mr. Churchill's expert in the business side.
Not a day is allowed to PREB without a consultation with
the Fourth Sea Lord, because that officer la responsible to Mr. Chur- chill for all naval supplies and transport. Another oficial with whom Mr. Churchill is in almost unbroken contact is the Fifth Sea Lord, who is chief of the naval air services. The ninth member of the Board is the Deputy Chief of Naval Staff whom Mr. Churchill sum- mons from the famous Room 40 to report on naval intelligence.
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Controls Six Divisions
CHURCHILLIAN wisdom is re- quired when the tenth member of the Board is considered. He is the Permanent Secretary, a position which Samuel Pepys, the diarist, was the Arst to hold.
The strange thing about that posl- tion is that it is held by a Civil Servant, and the Secretarint of the Admiralty is staffed entirely by elvillons. It deals with nothing but naval motters, yet the official title of the Permanent Secretary is "Chief of the Military Division."
It is to these nine men that Mr. Churchill turns, almost hourly, for information and expert advice. They are the collecting-points of the work of 25 separate Admiralty departments, each of which deals with speclulised matters.
WINSTON CHURCHILL as the car- toonists saw him in 1914.
you so.
By General Krivitsky The Man Who Was Stalin's Agent
in Paris of Generni Eugene Miller, chief of the Federation of Tsarist Army veterans.
At the time he executed Tuk- linchevsky and his associates, Stalin wos conducting secret negotiations with Hitler Through a personul emissary in Berlin. He believed himself on the verge of closing a tical with Hitler. But that was not to come until later.
In the
spring of 1931 Sergei Kirov, head of the Leningrad So. vict, successfully opposed an at- tempt by Stalin to reverse Lenin's policy of exempting Bolshevik from the death penalty. In 1934 Kirov was assassinated.
The Kirov case proved as useful to. Stalin as the. Reichstag. Are to Hitler. Both marked the onset of tidal waves uf, terror..
Why did. Stalin remove all the old leaders and hla Army Generals? Old differences ΟΙ opinion with the High Command of the Red Army remained in his memory ая opposition." This "opposition," when dragged into the meshes of his Ogpu machine; be- came a "conspiracy."
On the corpsen of his former comrades and fellow revolutionists, creators and builders of the Soviet State, Stalln has mounted step by. step to solliary control over the
peoples of Russia,
Krivitsky reminds his rendera of what he wrote several months be- fore the Nazi-Soviet part of August this year which gave Hiler the signal to start the war. It bears repeating. The theme In this:--
Stalin favoured co-operation with Germany, from the moment of Len- in's death.
The idea of Hitler and Stalin as mortal enemies was a myth-a
camouflage created by propagando, The true picture of their relations was that of persistent sultor who would not be discouraged by ro- bua. Stalin, was, the suitor.
Ile whole fnternational policy of the past six years has been a series of manoeuvres designed to pinco him in a favourable position for t deal with Hitler,
When he joined the League of Nations, when he proposed the system of collective security, sought the hand of France, flirted with Paland, courted Great Bri- tain, Intervened in Spain, he was calculating every move with an eye on Berlin. Ha hope was to get into such a position that Hiller would end it advantageous to meet his advances.
In the end he succeeded. The pact of August 23 was the result. The Baute in Berlin atretched out its hand and met the hand of the grent shadow, chuckling to Itself in the Edst.
-W. M. 'T.
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