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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1948:
TALES OF ADVENTURE IN THE WEST
AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS. GET OUR MAN
World Copyright,
My Arrangement with Krening Standard,
Forgotten City Gets The Cocky' Look
T
By WALTER LUCAS
TEL-AVIV,
THE plag of a bullet is never far from the beehive life in Tel-Aviv. But any morning or any eveninst. if you stroll, down "Cream Puff Alley," along Hayarkon Street and on to the sen-front promenade, You might imagine yourself on Brighton front on a sunny August Bank holiday.
For a quarter of a mile, entes, like the inhabitants of Tel-Aviv, lead a check by jowl existence, crowded together that it is well nigh impossible to tell where one ends and the next begins.
The first and lasting Impression of this city today is of crowds clamped together in a space that is far too small for them.
In many ways,on the surface Tel-Aviv looks much as it did four years ago.
There are military and civil police dressed as they used to be, soldiers in British webbing equipment; there and even a smattering of are men in Digger hats,
huxuriant hundic-bar moustaches,
There is still a mess of barbed wire and sandbugs, car parks and Junk heaps.
"THE UNNECESSARY
WAR'
THURCHILL'S story of the pre-war years and the nine months of "Twilight War" will fascinate readers first of all for its revelations of Churchill as Churchill sees him. There he is at his Kent home, Chart- well, a few days before war, without oftleial protection and conselous that 20,000 organised German Nazis are around in Britain.
He tells his former official Melec, tive, now retired, to come along and bring his pistol. He geis out his own weapons, which were good. "While
over.
...
Churchill book throws a challenge: It could have been
stopped-by force
Mr Churchill estranged his assorlates.
sure
no need
2 WIN this trial. ali for
fall, Therefore, should bot would I The House
was although impatient for the morning, "It 101 listen to him.
t slept soundly and had the alat universal view that my political life was at last ended. How for cheering dreams. Facts are bet-
this very House of ter, than dreams." strange that Commons should have been the in- strument which hearkened to my guklance and upheld me through the tong, adverse years of war ull vie- tory over all our foes was gained,"
His moral: "What a proof that one slept the ather watches. Thus the only wise and safe course is to
have had 20 walk- nobody would
act from day to day in accordance one's WIL
conscience On the first air-raid warning with what when Chamberlain had just declar- seems to decree." ed war on that September morn of 1939 he was still a private M. P.
A GESTURE
OF MAGNANIMITY
AND THEN THE 1945 DISMISSAL
calm. Its con- passage of OR Its quiet, its
fidence, this
splendour which literature and his- tory will scarcely equal anywhere.
or
LTE prints a letter from the new says, "all our enemies having sur-
King after the Coronation: rendered unconditionally
"I know been and
and affairs.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
The Churchill
failed argument with the Baldwin and Chamberlain Government,
with it. 100.
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of
is
All you miss are wealthy Arabs floating around in expensive cars: and you regret that prices are often four
with tines what they were, beer at 4s. a bottle,
Reality With A Bump
BUT you come up against, reality
in all sorts of places with a Lump. I met a young girl with a new perm sitting on a verandah of iced the Armon Hotel, sucking
She Grunge Juice through a straw,
wearing an Arab kaffin made blouse, and brightly coloured striped skirt,
Wha Into
Some
days ago she was toting a Sten gun in Jerusalem in the morn- Ings, while she did n ty plog job for a doctor in the afternoons, The blouse, she told me, was made from tho kama of an Arab she had shot In the early days of the fighting in Jerusalem.
Every unmarried girl In Israel between the ages of 18, and 28 is lable for part or whole-time ser- vice in the army. Every able-bodied mon is conscripted up to the age of 45.
In a cafe I met a young boy who did not look more than 16, though he assured me he was 20. He is an artilleryman and an expert dynamiter and was down from the front on leave.
As likely as not the man crowded next to you in a bus, or crushed against you in a bar, was once a terrorist. There still survives the host of the "over the shoulder look."
and large, the
ot terrorists have enrolled themselves in Irgan
tuganah, the Israell regular army.
Outside. Tel-Aviv, behind Barbed wire, with hundreds of Israeli army men guarding them, are the hundred
or so Stern, Gang suspects rounded up after Count Bernadotte's murder.
Crazy Pattern
LTHOUGH
the
crazy pattern
They are words which will in- spire ordinary men faced with their diffeult but humble tasks, spoken nt this fearful moment of perli by one
the chief Who was to wiekd powers of the State for five and a
There was another section quarter years of war.
held that the war He and his wife repaired to the
"At the end of which time," he opinion which
was unnecessary although for very public shelter, "armed with a bottle
from Churchill's. of brandy and other appropriate
being different reasons
the isolationists, who medical comforts," and noted how
how devoted you have about to do so. I was immediately These were everyone was cheerful and Jocular.
still are, to my dear dismissed by the British electorate for a time influenced the Chamber-. **0s 19 the English manner when
brother, and I feel touched beyond from all further conduct of their lain Covernment but finally fafied about to encounter the unknown."
last words by your sympathy Ills recipe for getting the
tific-uft And that's pretty magnumimous,
WHAT WOULD scrap out of the human structure- understanding in the very
What of the controversial part of
GERMANY HAVE DONE? to send himself like a child to bed problems that have arisen since Ite too!
hen
Us. I feel must encouraged for an hour each afternoon,
THOSE two opinions battled you enn work until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. receive your good wishes, as one of the book? Churchill says he does not expect everyone to agree with and be up again at eight if, like him, our great statesmen, and from one
whe has served
to it, the recapitulation from his point vatn for the soul of Chamber- his country you have the
of falling imme-
Yours very sincerely, of view of the melancholy proces lain. If Churchill says that force dlately into deep sleep. He records faithfully.
sion of
have prevented war it 13 of Hitler's advances: militarisa would only one sleepless night in his life, George R. 1."
"Thus Churchill comments:
gestion of the Rhineland, conscription, open to the isolationists to contend when Eden
the resigned Foreign
towards one atr parity, rape of Austria, the that Germany, if left alone, would etched by the mandate and the past few years ture of magnanimity Secretaryship in 1938.
time had Munich agreement, the invasion of have turned against Russia. Nobody bitterness of the
will Pu-
ever know.
Both views are instill linger, there has been a final exclusion from the Baldwin whose influence at that
physical break Government of 1935, leaving him fallen to zero will ever be a cherish Czechoslovakia the assault on
the realm of conjecture. My own psychological and
with the past. What you see in who one
sat through "One day Presi- view, clear of responsibility for Govern- ed experience la my life."
Tel-Aviv today is not really familiar Then there is n
cient
completely ment policy until war was declared:
be a postponed might moving passage of Now one can see how lucky I was.
told me that he wor Over me beat the invisible wings" his feelings on re-
Was asked for averted I was wrong- turning to the Ad-
It was also that we had to learn miralty, after
suggestions about what the var to live in the world with a strong quarter of a cen-
should be called. Germany, although I little liked the tury; the signal to
I said at once The prospect. I don't have that worry the Fleet.
Unnecessary War.' now, and shall not unless we com- ston is back." giv
There
never was init the folly of rebuilding Germany. Ing, news of this
think
Chamberlain was war more easy unparalleled
to stop.
given credit, and does not triding
There you have from Churchilt, for uning years.
the challenge of British people by going to the limit A few feet be-
this volume. Its of patience with Hitler. I can ima- hind him, as he
theme is: How
gine only one condition worse than sut in his old
peoples September 1939, and that is if the English - speaking
nation should be split upon a similar issue.
HE
the
rearmament, he
land,
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A CRITICAL
ANALYSIS
Win-
of
bes- the
by WILLIAM BARKLEY
chair. was the wooden map case he the
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at all. It is something Roosevelt these agonising debates, was that
had Bited in 1911, and in it still the through their unwisdom, careless chart of the North Sea where Ger- ness, and good nature allowed the
been wicked to rearm. man Fleet movemeals had
war
car
never
now.
Nobody bothers his head "any, longer about the rights and wrongs of the Arab and Jewish conflict. No such problem now exists.
On May 15 the State of Israel that. came into being, and that's There only remains puzzlement and get itvance that everyone else, every- not world, does the where in the
recognize the fact.
This new mental attitude produces a most noticeable feature in all this
bustling crowd seurrying.
streets a Tel-Aviv's
pervading sense of cheerful optimism.
No soldier I have met has the beat Churchill faintest doubt that he could
of the Arab pants off any urmies, if only he were allowed to get at them.
HE PRE-VIEWED THE SECRET OF RADAR
tells how all these four years, while he was pubilely attacking In dilatoriness Government's
Baldwin's was at
the Invitation sitting in secretly al birth of
radar on a Government research committee.
The Chamberlains to dinner at Admiralty House one night after a month of war. An officer entering to announce the sinking of one U boat with the soup, a second with third with the the sweet, and a
savs in his preface: "It is my the coffee.
marked. "Mrs Chamberlain with a
AT MUNICH
earnest hope that, pondering upon He visits the Fleet, "An entirely naive and charming glance: *Did
different generation filled the uni-
THE CHANCE WENT the past may give guidance in days you arrange all this on purpose?
to come," It was like assured her that if she would come forms and the posts.
So be 11. Churchill earns our THE Churchill produce a similar suddenly resuming a previous In-
Argument for the again we would
11 result."
carnation. It seemed that I was (Then an asterisk and a
unnecessary war is that at any gratitude all over again by his Im- footnote: "Alas, these hopeful re- that survived in the same position
But time, certainly up to 1937. and pos- mense labours in setting forth his long held so
ago.
sibly for six months more. France account. ports are not confirmed by the post- had
His future
unfold volumes will no, the dangers had survived, too
By force. How?
France and the melancholy tale until we come words
of diclated. No one had ever been over and Britain could have stopped 1.
together hat!
to where we are now. Poland, sufficient calls an the sine terrible course twice with what he
Should Britain
the whom we gave guarantees which we influence until day-to-day such an interval between.
could never carry oui, in worse I have once again to endure the strength and
Munich agreement to stop Hitler.
plight than before. One tyranny pangs of dismissal?"
war analysis."}
ills 1,000,000
memoranda nte
unequalled record of
conduct of war.
THERE_are
8ft. high, and could cut in learn
half a mile an hour.
to
fr
This product of the Churchill in ventiveness, originally called White Itabbit No. 6. was to scrape through the Siegfried Line. It never got a change.
by
clear that
What of the future?
10
of the truth of this we can say thrown down and another erected,
and
Britain impoverished
In
in
on
a very
from
I have only a guess at the Oght- ing strength of Haganah, but from
seen it is
now what I have
proposition different what it was when the war started.
Streams of supplies of all shapes and sizes have flowed in, and though no one will admit it, Haganah's prezent ability is largely due to the training which hundreds of its at one time or members received another in the British Army. Most engrossing is his account of SIEGFRIED MOLE
This optimism carries the majority the Cablet discussion from which, WAS NEVER TESTED
1940, he emerged Prime wo shall never know. To my mind more widespread and more menace of people along over nountin
It is at least a doubtful argument ing. in May
difßeulles. The average economic examples: they vary
leaning on Minister. Chamberlain's inclination
whether the use of force stops or treasure
foreign price level is up three and a half from an Imperious order
stay and, second, to
financial aid. frat, to
times over 1939. was, matches for provide enndles and
It costs the average We have to build up slowly again,
family man recommend Lord Halifax. A long starts a war. emergencles at the Admiralty (he
The most favourable moment was
to knit
our Empire resources to- from £60 to £80 a month just to It certainly seemed longer than 1930, when Hitler militarised
to the gether. had seen this precaution installed pause followed,
trade with develop
live. He can only just mage to at the Air Ministry) to the discus- the two minutes which one observes Rhineland. We in Britain saw no Russin, to
do it, because his wages are high- seek perseveringly
lo those pold in sion of Cultivator.
This "mammoth mole" weighed in the commemorations of Armistice
'occupy' German soll. The for good will, and a solid pulpit Amerien.
the more than 100 tons, was 75ft. lone. Day." Then Halifax spoke of the reason why German soldiers should economic development a foundation second only In spite of would
appearance of difficulties of being Prime Minister not
Baldwin Government
not for the highly moral discourses with
there are It became peer. as 4
which we seek to deafen the world plenty in shop windows
shortages now, and they are in- trench 5ft. deep. 74 feet wide at the duty would fall upon Churchill, encourage them to risk war.
"The prospect neither excited for
"Clemenceau - or Poincare would that does not listen to us,
creasing as factories wind down and A REMINDER
conscription takes inore and more slarmed me. I thought it would be have left Air Baldwin no option.". were dead.
men from the land. Anys Churchill. They
FOR OUR ENEMIES
This same opilmism Is tem- and it was Floridin for the best pinn."
'solving Vie Provisional Churchill's bellet that the Ger. How to make the voice of Britain porarily
difficulties. heard? To me, the most terrible Government's political never wanted
at any rale til The ups and downs of R com-
they because
would revelation In the Churchill book is For the moment, presumably manding figure, even in the House LTE saw the King nguin, who look man Kenerals
and quizzically lose it. His theory, and he had that nolther Hitler nor Stalin be- the general elections in November, there is a more Dr less united of Commons, where, as a rule, he is Ted searchingly unbeatable. He records how the for some moments, and then said: many sources of information, Is that loved we would go to war, as we
If Poland was political front. why on a show of force from our side pledged we would, Abdication raised Baldwin from the "I suppose you don't know
have attacked. the German generals would
Israeli Sentiment · depths to the pinnacle; while the I have sent for you?"
Adopting his mood, Churchill re- stopped Hitlor in 1938 and onwards. ich this hurried guarantee was When I recall the solemnity with same event destroyed the whole of
the simply could not Certainly in their captivity
THE embryonle civil war has been to endorsed
Westminister, his own influence in the "Arms and piled: "Str. I
and now only a The King laughed German generals have had time to the Covenant" movement he was Imagino why."
of terrorists defy the Jeading.
and said: "I want to ask you to
Government from behind barbed seriously. All summer of 1930, although he form a Government Churchill re amplify this notion General Hul- shocking to think that the persons
Goering, Goebbels, and fimmler honourable members
wire, or from underground bilde- had been made fully aware of what plled that he would certainly do so. der, Chief-of-Staff, teils how Hitler, most concerned did not take the handful
to be
at arrested
Hitler postponed his attack for a eight
outs. Overwhelming disaster had fallen. were all по he had going forward."
sweeping o'clock on September 14, 1030, but week to give of mind. Stalin that there is not the faintest hope Britain time to an- The inevitable result of this in communication with the
Germans former The
four o'clock word came that nounce n chango King Edward.
through France and the Netherlands. at
acceptance of Count "Presently, In hls distress, he What were Churchill's thoughts on Chamberlain was flying to Berchica- told Churchill at the Kremlin in of Israel's
proposnis. August 1942: "Our Impression was Bernadotte's to power in such a gaden. So netlon was deferred. asked the Prime Minister for per- being called
If I may use a phrase which I that the British and French Govern-oven little chance of a compromise mission to consult me. Mr Baldwin moment?
Churchill employ In ments were not resolved to go to based on those recommendations. gave formal consent and, ba this bo- "I was conscious of a profound have, licard
"What we have got we will hold," Ing conveyed to me, I went to the sense of relief. At last I had the debate with great effect: "If you war It Poland were attacked."
over bellove that you will belleve any. They ken noo, as the Scotsman says the man in the street. give directions King at Fort Belvedere. I remain authority to
all what wo Iesson which
we could haven't got ed in contact with him till his the whole sceno. I felt as if I were thing." Churchill, does not believe myn. It is abdication, and. did my utmost to walking with destiny, and that all this porticular yarn. "Such is the foreigners will remember to their easily take and maybe we will," Eays, "which historians advantage. Our past proclaims ourThis sentiment is echoed in higher plead both to the King and to the my past life had been but a pre- tale," ho
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