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SIMPSON-On April 18, 1948,
Queen Mary Hospital, Florence, wife of R. Simpson, a son.
heard
The Third
Instalment
Churchill's Memoirs.
MR. STANLEY BALDWIN
lat, I would not at that
kla:
Was
the
•
ed
I
(Show-one of the most rest} ces at times, were serious, our 11, Downing Street, and nearly had been brought into these Minister at the head of a minority you can put your notes, and pro-
bers of Tories, worked and voted The Conference achieved: Firet, man Navy was non-existent. Theed to carry the mass of the La- for me.. In charge of each of the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee German Air Force was prohibited bour party into his combination. my 34 committee roorus was a between the five Powers: second- and still unborn. Conservative M.P. defying his ly, Arbitration Treaties between On the other hand there lay before Mr Baldwin, always content that leador, Mr. Baldwin, and the Party | Germany and France, Germany | us what I later called "The Econo.*/others should have the function so long as he retained the power, machine. This was unprecedent and Belgium, Germany and Po-mic Blizzard." Knowledge of this was ed. I was defeated only by 43 | land,
to serve under Mr. thony and Czechoslova~ was confined to rare, financial cir-Mer It was an votes out of 20,000 cast.
special agreements cles, and these were cowed into which, though deserving respect, attitude At the General Election I was between France and Feland, and silence by what they foresaw. returned for Epping by a 10,000 France and Czechoslovakia, by
| did not correspond to the facts.
I was not invited to take part majority but as a "Constitutional-which France undertook to afford The General Election of May, in
time
them assistance a breakdown 1929, showed that the "awing of wna politically severed from
the Coalition Government. During the year 1922 a new adopt the name "Conservative" of the Western Pact were follow the pendulum" and the normal Baldwin about India, I was an Mr. leader arose in Britain. Mr. Stan I had had some friendly contacts ed by an unprovoked resort to desire for change were powerful opponent of the policy of Mr. ley Baldwin had been unknown with Mr. Baldwin in the interval; arms,
factors with the British elector-MacDonald's Labour Government. or unnoticed in the world drama but I did not think be would
Thus did the Western European ate. The Conservatives were the Like, many others, I had felt the at and played a modest part in do- survive to Prime Minister,
democracies agree to keep the largest party in the new House need of a national concentration. tomestic affairs. Ile had been Now on the morrow of his vic-
peace among
themselves in all of Commons, but the Liberals, But I was neither surprised nor C. Financial Secretary to the Trea-tory I had no idea how he felt circumstances, and to Stand with 100 scats, held the balance, unhappy when I was left out of
sury during the War and was at towards me.
untled against any one of their and it was plain that under Mr.it. I was surprised, and the Con-number who broke the contract would, at the outset at least, be citing at the time to those engag this time President of the Board
Lloyd George's leadership they Political dramas are very ex- of Trade.
servative Party dumbfounded, and marched in aggression upon He became the ruling force in when he invited me to become n brother land. AB between hostile to the Conservatives. FORTY-PLUS WINKS British politics from October, 1922, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the France and Germany, Great Bri Mr. Baldwin and I were in full of politics, but I can truthfully in the clatter and whirlpool when he ousted Mr. Lloyd George, office which my father had once tain became solemnly pledged to agreement that we should not affirm that I never felt resent- That extra loud snore you until June, 1938, when, loaded held. A year later, with the ap- come to the aid of whichever of seek to hold office in a minority ment, still less pain, at being so
in proval of my constituents, not the other two States
or on precarious Liberal support decisively discarded in a moment have may
lately with honours and enshrined in
having been pressed personally in oble
object of unprovoked aggression. Accordingly, although there were of national stress. came not from Wash-public esteem, he laid down his
heavy task and retired in dignity any way, I formally rejoined the The question whether there was Cabinet and the party about the ventence. For all these years sume differences of opinion in the There was, however, an incon- ington but from the whole and silence to his Worcestershire Conservative Party and the Carl- any obligation on the part of RUTH United States, .It was home.
ton Club, which I had left twenty France or Britain to disarm, or course to be taken, Mr. Baldwm since 1905 I had sat on one or the
tendered My relations with this states- years before.
to disarm to
his resignation to the other of the front benches, and that country's contented res-
any particular level,
King. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald always had the part are a definite
of the Far almost five years I lived was not affected.
advantage of ponse to the National Sleep man
became for the second tiras Prime speaking from the box on which tale I have to tell. Our diferen- next door to Mr. Baldwin at No.
nattern as Chancellor of the Ex- ful periods ever superimposed a these years and later I never eve
every morning
Government chequer at an early stage. My Liberal votes. way
depending upon tend with more or less success to upon the public by American had an unpleasant personal in- through his house to the Trea-Gwn
own v view about this two-way
be making it up as you go plong. terview or contact with him, and sury I looked in upon him for a guarantee was that while France wished his new Labour Govern-dificulty a seat below the ging- The Socialist Prime Minister Now I had to find with some advertising.
arted and Germany ment to As I was one of his lead- disarmed,
distinguish itself by way on the Government alde, Bedding Manufacturers not talk together in good faith Room,
to ing colleagues, I take my share tack her: and that on the other tar-reaching constitutional change my hand whenever I spoke, and dreamed up the idea of getman.
of responsibility for all that hap-hand France could never attack in India, and by a renewed ef-take my chance in debato with ting every man, woman, and At the crucial moment (when pened.
Germany if that automatically
ally tort for world, or at any in child
October, fell
(Mr. Churchill pos
rate other to Involved
well-known ex-Cabinet sleep-the Coalition
Britain becoming Ger- British, thoroughly
disarmament. describe Bovere
the negotiations
These Ministers. However, from time inį many's ally. Britain and the conscious between March 11922) I was prostrated by a
1926 starting with an exchange League of Nations, which Gor-count upon Liberal ald, and for
were aims in which he could to time I get called. operation for appendicitis, and in and 20. What better prepara- the morning when
I recovered of Notes between Germany and many joined as part of the Agree-which he therefore commanded a tion could there be for adver-consciousness I learned that the
France,
which led up to the ment offered a real protection to Parliamentary majority.
'I returned from abroad to find tising the comforts of new Lloyd George Government had Locarno Treaty of 1936).
the German people. The British Dominions
Here began my differences with everything unsettled in the ad- Mr. Baldwin, and thereafter the vent of an inevitable General beds, mattresses, and pillows resigned, and that I had lost not
Govern- and taking orders from the only my appendix but my Office not enthusiastic about a Western
relationship in which we had Election. A National
under Mr. Hamsay for ment formed ho chose sleepy-eyed citizenry? You as Secretary of State for the Do- Pact. General Smuts was anxious
minions and Colonies, in which to avoid regional
me MacDonald, the founder of the don't catch the bedding manu- conceived myself to have had The Canadians were lukewarm, in in which Britain, whose mator Chancellor of the Exchequers for Labour-Socialist party, proposed
interest was the cessation of the years before became sensibly to the facturers napping-they are a some Parliamentary and adminis- and only New Zealand was un- quarrel wide-awake group.
conditionally prepared to accept The National Sleep Show Mr. Bonar Law, who had left the view of the British Govern France, war to a large
To me the aim of ending us a year before for serious rea- ment. begins in Egypt, where someons of health, reluctantly became the thousand-year strife between body first slept on a solid table Prime Minister. He formed a France and Germany seemed elevated above the ground, Government of what one might supreme object.
Mr. If we could only weave Gaul runs through the braided lea- call "The Second Eleven."
together ther thongs early Greeks used Baldwin, the outstanding figure, and Teuton so closely
was Chancellor of the Exch
economically, and morally as to as springs and the reed, hay
Early in the year 1023
on my
The National Association oflat no time did I feel we could few minutes' chat in the Cabinet remnines Germany could not at-large concessions to Egypt, by a❘ where I had to hold my notes in
wood.
and understanding as mar
trative success.
Exchequer.
Minister,
on
wero
rels, and make old antagonisms
Thus there was a balance creat- worked since
between
•
Germany and altered. We still, of course, ra-
people programme of extent ained in easy personal contact severe austerity and sacrifice. It of "Blood, umpire and arbiler. One hoped but we knew we did not mean was an carlier version
sweat,
without the same thing.
toll and tears," the stimulus or the requirements My Idea
was that the Con-
[of war and mortal peril. servative Opposition should The mass of the people were asked to vote for regime of self- strongly confront the Labour denial. They responded as they Government on all great Imperial always do when caught in the
national issues,
should identify itself with the majesty
Goebbels' Diary will be found in Page Eight
financial burdens.
and
aeroic temper.
Although contrary to their de- of Britain as under Lord Beacons clarations, the Government aban- field and Lord Salisbury, and doned the Gold Standard, and al- should not hesitate to face con- though Mr. Baldwin was obliged troversy, even though that might to suspend, as it proved for ever; from the natu
erican Debt which he had forced оц
Bonar Law -Cabinet of
It was evident that danger party lay in accor
accommodation with or eight members of his own
and wool-stuffed mattresses Bonar Low resigned the Premier prevent the occasion of new quar-[ employed by the Romans, ship and retired to die of his die in the realisation of mutual takes in the probable inven- fell affliction. Mr. Baldwin suc prosperity and interdependence. rise again. It ter, Europe would tion of the innerspring in 1871, ceeded him as Prime and ends up with the censor and Lord Curzon reconciled him seemed to me that the supreme] that this equilibrium might have not immediately evoke a response those very payments on the Am-
self to the office of Foreign Sec-interest of the British people in lasted twenty years, during which ing of the footboard in Holly-retary in the new Administrat Pranco-German feud, and dually and naturally have dwind- win felt that the times were too 1823, confidence and credit were Europe lay in the assuagement of the Allied armaments would gr
far as could see, Mr. Bald-on the tion.
the
по Thus began that period of thirthat they had Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years. The NABM concentrat-] teen years which may well be comparable or comer interests| led, under the infuence of a long far gone for any robust, assertion | restored AWGATORER PAR ANGA
to that. peace, growing confidence, and of British Imperial greatness, and Mr. MacDonald as Prime Min- called "The Baldwin-MacDonald This is still my view, today.
that the hope of the Conservative leter was only followed by seven Ted on 20 nights.
regime." As Mr. MacDonald never Mr. Auston Chamberl
rlain, as obtained an independent majority, Foreign Secretary, had an outlook would arise if ever Germany be- Liberal and Labour forces, and in party; but barely 100 of his Le- Mr. Baldwin, whether in office or which was respected by all par- came more or
less equal with adroit, well-timed manoeuvres to opposition. was the ruling polities, and the whole Cabinet was France, still more if she became detach powerful moods of public or opponents and former fol- lowers were returned to Parla- mailed Agure in Britain.
in his support. In July stronger
than
France. But all opinion and large blocks of voters ment. His health and powers At first in alternation but even the Germans replied to the French, this seemed excluded by solemn from them. He certainly was were falling fast, and he reigned
very successful. He was the in increasing decrepitude at draw invidious distinctions these two statesmen governed the a Western Pact with the entry The Foreign
into the League ao amcial
asked me to servatives had ever had.
nearly five fateful years. And among our fellow inhabitants country. Nominally the repre- of Germany sentatives of
of of Nations, but stating the prior lend my dining-room at No. 11 He fought, as their leader, five very soon opposing parties, of the world of nature, we contrary doctrines, of antagonis need for agreement upon general Downing Street for his intimate General Elections, of which he came Hitler. could not help noticing that tic interests, they proved in fact disarmament.
friendly luncheon-with--Herr won three, and in the other two bees in Corning, Calif., are to be more nearly akin in out- In August the French, with the Stresemann. We all met together sill remained at the head of the
in free!
amity producing honey in flavours of look, temperament and
method full
and thought what largest party. History alone can replied
lied offcially to Germany. strawberry, maple, chocolate, than any other two men who had agreement of Great Britain,onderful future would await Judge these general issues.
WOR on India that cur de- lemon, pineapple, and mint.been Prime Ministers since that Germany must enter the League Europe If its greatest nations be-anite breach occurred. The Prime language, strictly prohibited.
Minister, strongly supported and her even spurred by the Conserva- tive Viceroy, Lord Irwin, after-
Cows And Progress
Uical
the
While we do not wish to tually in political brotherhood, Note, accepting the linking-up off treaty sidoneretary, having greatest party manager the Con- summit of the British system for
say
in force
in these ave years
(To Be Continued)
World Copyright reserved. Re- production, even partially, in any
Formal Solution In Indonesia
י
office was known to the Consti- without reservations as the first came truly united and felt them- and coloured to match, and tution.
and indispensable step. The Ger- selves secure. that birds in Newark, Ohio, Curiously enough, the sympo-man Government accepted this The new Germany took are building nests of Fiber-thles of each extended far into stipulation. This meant that the place in the truncated League of wards Lord Halifax, pressed for- the territory of the other. Ram- conditions of the Treaties were to Nations. Under the genial in- glass.
y MacDonald nursed meny of continue force unless or until fluence of
of ward with his plan of Indian self- £2,000,000,000 Many birds, meanwhile, go the sentiments of the old Tory. modified by mutual arrangement, American and British loans she Government.
Mr Baldwin seemed quite con- was reviving right on making their homes Stanley Baldwin, apart from a and that no specific pledge for a was
rapidly. Her new tent with these developments. from such antiquated mater- manufacturer's ingrained approval reduction of Allied armaments ocean liners gained the Blue Rib-felt sure we should lose India in
bon of the Atlantic. Her trade lals as twigs, bark, rags, paper, of Protection, was by disposition had been obtained.
advanced by leaps and bounds, the final result and that measure-
Batavia, Apr. 17.. less disasters would come upon and old shoelaces. Daubers go a truer representative of mild
On this basis the Conference and internal prosperity ripened. so far as to continue building Socialism than many to be found
the Indian peoples. I therefore A formal solution to the dispute In the Labour ranks.
France at Locarno was formally opened
and her
system of al- after a while resigned from the between the Dutch and the Indo- their abodes of dirt. What's
Mr. Baldwin
also seemed was by no means on October 4. By the waters of llances
In secure Shadow Cabinet upon this late. nesian Republicans over the Jog wrong with cellophane and dazzled by his suddenly-acquired this calm lake the delegates of Europe. The disarmament clauses
jakarta railway station incident gold leaf, for instance? If more political eminence. "Give me your Britain, France, Germany, Bel- of the Treaty of Versailles were In October, 1929, a sudden and can be expected shortly, reliable not openly violated. The Ger-violent tempest swept over Wall sources sald here tonight, after a would keep up with prayers," he said when congra-gium and Italy assembled..
Street. The intervention of the meeting of the Indonesian Pro- those birds in Newark, Ohio, tulations were offered. He was.
most powerful agencies failed to vistonal Federal Government, stem the tide of panie sales. The
The meeting heard further re
birds
however, soon disquioted by the
it wouldn't be a term of dero-feat that Mr. Lloyd George would gation to say that something rally, upon the cry of Protection. CARNIVAL looked like a last year's bird's the numerous dissentient Conser-
vative Icaders who had gone out / nest.
In striking contrast with the of omce with the War Cabinci,
He therefore resolved, in the bees of Corning, Calif., cows autumn of 1923, to forestall his have made no improvement rivals by raising the Protectionist jin the flavour or colour of issue himself. Parliament was on milk for at least the last 40- his advice, dissolved in October. odd years to our certain and a second General Election knowledge. People have even was held within barely a twelve-
month. been put to the inconvenience The Liboral party rallying of adding chocolate, vanilla, round the standard of Free Trade, etc., to it. If as small a crea- to which I also adhered, gained ture as a bee can produce mint a balancing position at the polls, and. though in a minority might honey in a smart shade of well have taken office had Mr. green, it ought to be a cinch Asquith wished to do so,
so. In view for a big, skulking animal like of his disinclination, Mr. Ramsay a cow to turn out milk in some MacDonald, at the head of little really attractive shade like more than two-fifths of the House, chartreuse, and flavoured, of became the. Brst Socialist Prime Minister of Great Britain, and course, chartreuse. '-'
lived in offled for a year by the Please don't misunderstand pufferance and on the quarrels us. Some of our best friends the two older parties are cows, and we like milk- in its place. But there is such a thing as progress, and we Just thought we'd speak of it.
The nation was extremely res tive under minority Socialist rule, arid the
the political weather became so favourable that the two Op- positions-Liberal and Conserva tive-picked an 'occasion · to de- feat the Socialist Government en a major issue: There was un- Rame, Apr. 17.
other General Election-the third Italy has recognised: tho now in less than two years. The Con- Government of the Arab state of servallves were returned by Yement. The Emir Self El Islam majority of 222 over all other Ahrined proclaimed himself king Parties combined. Kajakker last month after defeating "Abdul- " At this time I stood fairly high lah El Wazir who had murdered in Tory, popularity). Af the West- the previous" king and seized the minster by election sizga mon tha | Uhund";" "Emir Ahmed was the el- beform: Approved my hold Ɛ-upon destaan of 7 the mindend king-Confervativo forrón Although, Router
l'stood: na,a Liberal-trentinum
By Dick Turner whole wealth so swiftly gather-ports from the deputy Lieutenant
ed in the paper values of pre-Governor-General of the
"Okay, I'll match your position on the
J'll raise you the rebate d'orpe:
vious years vanished.
the
Dutch
In the wake of the collapse of Kadir Wirdfostmodio, and the Fast4 Indies, Radan Abdul
deputy leader of the Netherlands delegation," Jonkheer
stock market came during the years between 1929 and 1832 an unrelenting fall in prices and negotiating
consequent cuts in production,
causing widespread unemploy- nient; The
van Vredenburgh, Masters
They are both returning to the
of this Republican capital, Jogjakarta,
of economic life be- by air tomorrow,
Reliable
sources sald
dislocation consequences came world-wide.
that it was Mr. MacDonald's Government, expected that the political nego with all their promises behind tiations, sponsored by the Security them.
saw unemployment during
good offices committee, 1980 and 1931 bound up in their would
probably begin on Monday. facce from 1,000,000 to
The Sultan of Pontianak, from nearly 3,000,000, Consequential disasters West Borneo, and a representative
fell upon Germany and other of the new state of Madura, are
founded
countries.
European
However, also going to Jogjakarta to make nobody starved in the English contract with the Republic
Henna. speaking world.
The
good offices.committee: ta❤ It is always dificult for an ad-day called on the Dutch and Re ministration or party which is publicans for nearly eltition
upon-attacking capital of the Jogjakarta, Tallway station to preserve the confidence and incident, in which the Dutch en- credit so important to the highly voye were mantiandled-Beuter, artificial economy' of uni ::island Jike Britain. Mr. MacDonald's Labour Socialist. Government were utterly unable to cope with the problems which confronted them. They could not command the party discipline or produce the vigour necessary even brug
even to bal ance the Budget.
DE VALERA DOWN UNDER
Mr. Eamon de Valera Premier of Eire, hope next Wednesday for
In such conditions a Govern to seek Australien: mm ment already in a minority and zirea campaign to ens deprived," of all financial com
Alderice could not virvive on from North seemad – that only, a Government 11" Mr. Wohn Co
of all partion was capable of cop-
ing with the "crislá,
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