Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 11, 1940.
The STORY OF OUR PREMIER
During ten years of exile, from 1929. until 1939, Churchill saw men in office who were far less able than he. For Ramsay MacDonald as Nationalist Prime Minister he had nothing but contempt.
"He has", he said, "more than any other man the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought."
Towards Stanley Baldwin his atticude was polite but regretful. "He used to be wiser," he told the House in 1935, "He used frequently to take nly advice."
As for Mr. Chamberlain, Churchill has been known in private life to wring his hands in despair over the feeble policies of "that undertaker from Birmingham."
One of his gibes in the House cannot exactly have improved the situation. Malcolm MacDonald, the Colonia! Secretary, had occasion to re- mark in the course of a speech, "I cannot remember the time when I was not told stories about Bethlehem, where the Prince of Pence
born." Churchill turned to his neighbour. "I thought," he said, "it was Birming- ham.**
Was
WINSTON CHURCHILL was born on November 30, 1874, in Dublin where his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was secretary to his father, the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1876.
Lord Randolph Churchill was 'n brilliant parliamentarian, who later distinguished himself in many offices, but chiefly, as Chancellor of the Ex- chequer,
It is one of the great regrets of Winston Churchill that he never- really got to know his father Intimately since he was nearly always oc- cupied with public' affairs, and had little time lo devote to his family.
Deep Affection
For Mother
On the other hand, he had a deep affection for.his mother, an Ameri- can Indy, who was one of the outstanding society figures of her day. It was from her that Winston Churchill acquired that cosmopolitan outlook which has characterised his later life.
It was to his nurse, however, Mrs. Everest that he owed the happiness of his childhood. She was his confidente and constant companion. His friendship for her, like most of his friendships was deep and lasting, continu- ing up to her death,
At the age of seven he was des- pateled to St. James preparatu: y sriol, one that modelled itself on Elan, and it was here he acquired that distante-for-study-which lasted for a considerable time.
fnet like Bernard Shaw, he now night very well say "I had a very goodi education, but it was interrupted while [ attended school."
it to
He hated mathematics and Latin and as a consequence, found dimeult when the time corne pass the entrance examination inta Harrow,
However, he did sureved, but never advanced beyond the third form, because of his weakness in the classics and mathematics.
Good Working Arrangement!
He had a good working arrange- ment with a boy in the sixth form, he says, who construed his Latin for him in return for an English essay each week; subject in which the senior boy was very weuk.
This arrangement worked very well until one day the headmaster summoned the sixth form boy tö congratulate
Williams
CHURCHILL'S ILLUSTRIOUS 'AN- CESTOR, the Duke of Marlborough, victor of Blenheim (1704), was Eng- land's greatest general.; His family has given England countless soldiers and statesmen,
array
KAISER WILHELM greeted chuRCHILL at German manoeuvres in 1909, Churchill was à Cabinet member. The Kaiser signed the picture with the Anglicized version of his name which he liked to affect with English visitors.
hirm can his excellent His Experience With Kitchener
essay, which he proveeded tą dis- cuss.The youth did not know what the headmaster was tolking about and was dismissed with the, cum- ment that he was obviously better with his pen than with his tongue. From Harrow, he just succeeded in getting into Sandhurst where his education really began. Here The found congenial subjects, mas- tered them quickly and soon ad- a very high position in vanced to
his year,
When he had completed his military course at Sandhurst, be found that the Spanish war i Cuba in 1895 was the only fighting going on at this time and, as he very much wanted to see what real war was like, he obtained permission lo accompany the Spanish troops. It was a leisurely compaign in which nothing very "serious" happened "and" which "GHE viously was going to take a long time to bring to a conclusion, so he returned to Englund after having and his baptism of fire.
Gazetted to
4th Hussars
He had been gozelled
the
in
4th Hussars, a cavalry regiment,
and proceeded to Bangalore Indla, Hero he continued his studies through the books his mother despatched to him. He read the best of English litera lure, philosophy and history, and nover relaxed his efforts to make himaclf a master of English phrase, but, of course, he was not a book
far from it; owing to his warm. amazing energy, he was seldam fullgued, and was therefore able to spend a good deal of time play- ing polo, a game, of which he was passionately fond, anil at which he was an adept.
He accompanied the Malakand Ficht Force and took part in the Tirah campaign on the aorth west frontier.
vivid
گرفت
the Battle "Nothing like Omdurman," he says, "will ever be seen again. I was the last link in the long chub of those spreta- cular conflicts whose
and majestic splendour has done much to invest
with war
glamour. visible Everything was
to the naked eye. The armies marched and maneuvred on the crisp sur- face of the desert plain through which the Nile wandered in broad bruss. reaches, now steel, now Cavalry charged at full gallop in close order, and infantry or spear- men stood upright ranged in lines Frum or masses to resist them,
and. the rocky hills which here there funked the treat river the whole
revealed Iny
in Scene minule detail, curiously, twisted, blurred frid interspersed with phantom waters by the mirage.
"The collision was · now very near. I saw immediately before me, not ten yards away, the two blue men who lay in my path. They were perhaps a couple yards apart. I rode at the in- terval between them.
of
They both fired. I passed
through the smoke conscious that I was unhurt.
"The trooper, immediately bc- hind ne was killed at this place and at this moment, whether by these shots or not I do not know.
"I checked my pony ከብ the ground began to fall away beneath his feet. The clever animal drop- ped like a cat four or five feet down on the sandy bed of the watercourse, and in this sandy bed I found myself surrounded by what seemed to be dozens of men. They were not thickly packed enough at this point for me to experience Any actual collision with them,
and also for his couruge battle of Omdurman.
121 the
It was after this battle, when he was returning up the Nile enjoying the peace that follows victory that an irish doctor claimed portion of his skin to cover the wound of soldier whose life depended on sucli sacrifice. He cheerfully went through the ordeal which, he said, was ke being skinned alive and to this day he bears the scars, but he helped to save the soldier's life.
In 1869, he entered polities, but was defeated as a Conservative in his first election at Oldham.
Boer
War Correspondent
The Boer war broke out, and he promptly went out as a war cor
respondent for the "Morning Post
at a salary of £250 per month with expenses paid.
Just before he embarked 'fur South Africa, several cases of the fluest champagne. were presented at a forewell dinner to his friend Lord Gerrard, who was told that he had to share them with him, In order to make sure that there would be no delay at the base, he labelled them "Castor Oil" When he and Lord Gerrard hud been at Durban some days they sent u telegram of enquiry only to be told that, owing to shortage supplies, the castor oil had been distributed among the base hos- pitals, but fresh supplies of the and arrived medicine had now
in would be despatched due course to take the place of that which had been appropriated.
of
In Natal he joined an armoured train which was making a recon- nainsanos into the country and which was ambushed by the Boors, He worked vallantly under are for two hours to remove the wrecked wagons, and succceded, but instead
safety" he remained with the com- pany of soldiers, and, afterwards was confronted by a Boor on horzo back who levelled his gun at him. As he had no weapon of any sort upon him he had to surrender. His captor was none other than General Louis Botha who after- wards became one of his greatest friends. This is what he nbout
Whereas Grenfelly-trops-next-of-proceeding with the "englus_to_ but one on my left was brought to a complete standstill and suffered very heavy losses, we seemed to push our way through as one has sometimes seen mounted policemen break up' a crowd.
About the former he wrote an excellent book which won the commendation of Lord Salisbury and the approval of all the crifles,
After considerable difficulty hen less time than it takes to re- managed to get commission late, my pony had scrambled up: which enabled him to join Kit- the other side of the ditch." cheners army, in the Sudan which
at that time, was with the Saved Life of
Dervishes.
At the battle Omdurman he
gale port in the famous cath Brother Officer
charge which describes in
vivid manner -which'- naturally followed from his mastery of En- glish and his actual experiences "in" The charge,
lie was mentioned in despatches for saving the life of a brother officer on the north west of India"
a lie autobiography: in 1918, when i
ha, General Bothn, returned from Д vislt to Germany.
where he had tunned me
waters for cure, he warned most camestly of the dangerous. mood prevailing there; “Mind you, are ready" he said. "Do not truit those prople. I know they are
His
The
friends and keeping them.
As a prisoner then he was intern- ed in a camp in Pretoria, bul, of merely. course, tose of liberty stimulated his power of invention and so he escaped by literally walk-
[ ing past the sentry after climbing
fence.
a
'He boarded trains by night and finally arrived exhausted at a house which, by luck, was owned by an Englishman, who hid him in it coul mine for three days and then smuggled him into another goods train which carried him into Portuguese East Africa.
This exploit made him the most discussed person in Africa and Eng- land, and paved the way for his Дисссая in a
A second attempt to enter Parliament for Oldham after- the war was over,
In 1800, he married the daughter of Sir H, M. Hozier, a colonel of Dragoons, and their wedding was the outstanding event of the 1008 London season.
Liice so many episodes of Wins- ton Churchill's career, his wedding did not pass without stormy in- eldent, BCore of militant suf- fragettes, agilating for the vote, chained themselves to the railings of the church while the marringe was being solemnised.
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His Warnings went heedless
went over to the Liberal Party and won a seat by a good majority in the election. In North West Man-
formation He was made President of chester.
in 1010 the Board of Trade, and Home Secretary, in which
remembering his own miserable ex
In South perience as a prisoner Africa, he did a great deal to im-
in England, by prove prison life.
and enter- providing literature, tainment to relieve the deadly monotony which weighed so heavily upon the more intelligent prisoners.
Work at
Admiralty
In 1911, he was made First Lord of the Admiralty and it was due to his untiring exertions in the office that the fleet was ready for its great task in 1914, and was able to bring about the final and complete sur- render of the whole German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1918.
He sponsored the naval expedition to Antwerp and, As he said, and, as many Gerinan experts admitted, he delayed the capture of the elty by five days and so goved Catula: In spite of that, however, a section of the Cabinet disapproved of this expedition.
Again later he conceived that idea of forcing the ardanelles, but the Expeditionary force had finally to withdrawn. The enterprise falled not because, as zune huve claimed, the iden was wrong, but because those responsible for executing it failed to not on the scale he had recommended.
Introduces
the tank
He resigned his office and proceeded to France, froin which place he urged the introduction of the new weapon the lank which was to play, such an important part in the war.
He was recalled to England by Mr. Lloyd George now Prime Minister, who ninde hlin Minister of Munt- tions and later Secretary for War and for the Air.
very dangerous. They mean" "you" mischief I hear things you would not hear. Mind you have all your I can feel that there strips ready.
comes,
is danger in the air. And what is more, he added, when the day I am going to be ready too. When they attack you, I am going to attack German South West Africa and clear them out once and for all. I will be there, to do my duty when the time comes. But you, with the Navy, mind you are not caught by surprise."
Again Inter in 1919, he writes: "Many high personeges visited mu at the War Omer, but there was only one whom I myself conducted down the great stafreese and put with my own hands into his wait- ing car, and that was Leuls Bolba.**
Escape from
Internment
Winston Churchill has always hind a great capnelly for making
Later, if 1924, he becare Chri- cellor of the Exchequer, a post he held with conspicuous success till defeated in the government was 1928.
As a speaker and debator, Wins- -ton Churchill has no equal in the
House of Commons,
When Joynson Hicks was .de- tending a certain measure and Winston Churchill was disagreeing
his with him by shaking
head, Joynson Hicks suk: "but I am only expressing my own opinion," "And 1," sald Winston Churchill, "om unly wagging my own head."
When Wedgewood Benn lost his Winston temper at some remark Churchill had made, be said "The Honourable member should no1 generate
ate more anger than he can contain contain.'
he can also be incisive as And he
example when he said "When The Flonotirable member is about toTM get up to address the Hoш2, he doesn't know what he is going to say, when he is standing up he does not know what he is saying and
for
CHURCHILL WAS CAPTURED by Boers during the Boer War when they derailed a British- troop train. He was taken to Pretoria as a prisoner (above), but escaped alone over a prison wall. He was then a war correspondent at £250 month.
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Since 1933, Winston Churchill repeatedly drew attention secret rearmament of Germany about which he seemed to get In- from very special sources. It was largely owing to his finally warnings that the nation woke up to the danger and begun to put its house in order.
When the present war broke out, he was invited by the Prime Minis ter to assume the post of First Lord of the Admiralty, the same office he held in the beginning of the lust war, and in that capacity he back- ed up the Navy in its grim allent U-bont struggle to overcome the
menace.
Outside politics, Mr. Churchill's Interests are mainly in the literary feld in which he has achieved con siderable fame, especially with his outstanding work: "The Life of Marlborough" and "The World Crisis,"
At an earlier date, he wrote novels but found that he had a aamesake in the United States, who was doing exactly the same thing, so he wrote a letter to him saying that in future to avold confusion he proposed to call himself Winston Spencer Churchill.
As recreations he has two main hobbies, painting in water colours and brick laying his skill in which was recognised by the Bricklayers Unlun which corolled him 06 a member.
the
It is against Mr. Churchill that German direct their most violent attacks, because they fear him most.
Commentary
on modern war
Yet on reading his autobiography and his thoughts and adventures it is difcult to see why it should be
This-is-his-commentary... on.
modern war:
"The obliteration of the personal factor in war, the stripping from high commanders of all the drama of the boftiefeld, the reducing of their highest function to pure office work, will have profound effegis upon sentiment and opinion.
"Hitherio the great captain hes been right revered as the genius who by the rnness of his charac ter. and
the by"
mysterious harmonies and inspirations of his nature could rule the storm.
"He did it himself; and no one else could do it so well. He con- quered there and then. Often he -fell beneath the bolts and the balls,
saviour of his native land.
"Now, however. illogical as it may seem and even unjust, his glamour and honours will not our calculat-
readily descend. lephone." ing friend at the
This worthy must assuredly be rewarded as a useful citizen, and s faithful perspleacious public ser- vant; but not as a hero,
"The heroes of modern war Be out
in the cratered feld, mangled, stifled scarred; and there are 100 many of them for exceptional honours.
"It JE thass suffering, moss sacrifice, mass victory. The glory which plays upon the immenso scenes of carnage is diffused,
"No more the blaze of triumpli irradiates the helmets of the chiefs. There is only the pale Ught of a rainy dawn by which forty miles of batteries recommence their fire, and another store of divisions founder to their death in mud, and polson Kos,"
His philosophy with regard to war is best expressed in his own words:
"In
defeat war resolution; in defiance, in victory magnanimity, in peace goodwill, and lastly with regard to his religious views hera ogain are his own words: "Many centuries were to pass before the God that spoke in the Burning Bush Wal to manifest Himself in a' "now""revelation, which nevertheless- was the oldest of all the inspirations of the Hebrew people-es, the God not only of larael, but of all man- kind who wished to serve Him; a God not only of justice, but of merey; God not only of neit preservation and survival, but of pity, self-sacrifice and ineffable Jove
"Let the men of science and off learning expand their knowledge and probe with: their researcitês every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from * these dim ager," All they will do je to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded Trulls which have lighted so far the pilgrimage pt mari,
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