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THE CHINA MAIL, MÒN DAY, MAY 17, 1948.

Jonce for all of the Ger- man threat. It can be said confidently that neither France nor the Benelux countries could ever play their full part in joint economic recon- struction if they were still overshadowed by the fear of invasion by a revived German Reich.

DEFENCE AGAINST | West.

AGGRESSION

are

offensive.

during

and

The Twenty-seventh Instalment.

Churchill's Memoirs

PLAN FOR THE BALTIC

and

very

attainments highest

dis-ough to carry all the modern im- 1. deeply regretted that I was tinetion, should come to work at provements in gunnery and es-never able to achieve my con- the Admiralty, with quarters and pecially anti-air-craft defence. ception of a squadron of a nucleus staff, and all informa- tion necessary for exploring and planning the Baltle offensive project.

For this I wns

torpedoes

Problems of construction occupied Mr. Churchill from the moment he returned to the Admiralty, and he was particularly attracted by the idea of converting certain capital ships for a Baltic expedition,

each week

the Japanese fleet which en-

only

Trest on military security and the rest of Europe means of regaining the initiative, would of course have com- several hundreds of ocean-going now installed him at the

with

The command

Navy was no

manded, perfectly

convoy

of the ing of the Royal Sovereigns, daccenting conditions.

be

deadlock.

Frigates.

rest,

I

Ad-

men,

In-

Gur

of

In-

Re-

To the people of Bri- tain, however and still

It is evident that along this heavily deck-armoured ships of more to the people of

line of solid argument a point is no more than is knots, bristling America the main

soon reached where one is no with anti-aircraft guns and cap- longer building a destroyer but a able of withstanding to a degree threat is not felt to be

Both Lord Cork's ideas and small cruiser. The displacement, not enjoyed by any other vessel Germany *but Russia.

In every war in which the mine rested upon the construction approaches or even exceeds 2,000 afloat both air and underwater

of capital ships specially adapted tons, and a crew of more than alta

altacks. There is no convincing Royal Navy has claimed the com-

to withstand air and torpedo al 200 wall the seas in these un- When in 1041 and. 1943 the de- ground for supposing that mand of the seas it has had to

tack. I wished to convert two or armoured ships, themselves an fence and succouring of Malta pay the price of exposing im- the rulers of the Soviet mense torgets to the enemy. The three ships of the Royal Sovereign easy prey to any regular cruiser. became so vital, when we had class for action inshore or in nar-

action

bombard Italian every need to Union want war with the privateer, the raiding croleer, and

above all the U-boat, have in all row waters by giving them super-

The destroyer is the chief weaports and, above all, Tripoli, They

and pon against the U-boot, but as it others felt the need as much as not the varying forms of war exact- bulges, ogulast

Ile-strong arraour-plated decks grows ever larger it becomes it-I. It was then 100 late. ready for it, and its out-ed a heavy tail upon the

selt อ worthwhile target. The Throughout the war the Royal come (unless the West-ines of our commerce and food against air-bombs.

prepared to line is passed where the hunter Sovereigns remained an oxpense supply.

A prime function of defence sperilice one or even two turrats becomes the hunted. We could and on anxiety. They had none In recent months the lern world failed hopeless- has therefore always been im-

of them been rebuilt like

thoir sisters the posed upon us. From this fact

Queen Elizabeths. nations of Western Europe ly to live up to its ideals)

would not be in doubt.the danger rises of our being

and when the possibility of in their dealings with one But Russia is 'today pur-fensive naval strategy and habit driven or subsiding into a de-

bringing them into Retion against | another have been pri-suing a policy, perhaps of mind. Modern developments

tered the Indian Ocean in April, have aggravated this tendency.

1942, presented itself, the with influenced by a mistaken occupied marily

In the two rent wars, dur!

thought of the Admiral on. the economic problems, But conception of her own de- parts of which I was responsible

spot,

the of Admi. Pound and Minister of Defence, was to put if they are to be prosper- fensive needs, which has for the control of the Admiralty,

an many thousands of miles as this defensive obsession by

the possible between them and ous they must also be free already led to the econo-ave always sought to rupture

possibla mic and ideological 'an-searching for forms of counter and seven or eight knots speed, not have too many destroyers, but enemy in the shortest and safe from aggression.

To

make the enemy Quite apart from the Baltic, this their perpetual Improvement and time. nexation' of half a dozen wonder where he is going to be would give us facilities for offen-growth imposed severe limitation One of the first steps I took FROM, HANOI VIA HAIPHONG Economic co-operation is European countries. If hit next may bring immeasurable sive action, both off the enemy's on the numbers the yards could on

of the taking charge

At- rellef the process of shepherd- North Sea the May 17th

and even more build, and deadly delay in com-miralty and becoming a member coast, Monday

side positive

of the Kremlin had its waying hundreds of convoys

in the Mediterranean,

pletion.

of the War Cabinet was to form FOR PARIS VIA SAIGON

On the 26th Lord Cork present-

my healthy international re- other European countries, thousands of merchantmen safely

On the other hand there are a statistient department of e port.

ed his preliminary

thup 2,000 appreciation, seldum less

rolled British own. For this purpose I France! lations. But if it is to too-Italy and May 28th

Lindemann [now In the First World War and tary study of the problem. Hei soilings, in and out of our home Lord Cherwells, my friend and

thelon Professor based of course on a purely mili-merchant ships at sea. and shore the led to And in the Dardanelles, first--would yield its results it must

which operation.

to confidant of so many years. • 1 fate of Czechoslovakia later in an attack upon Borkum consittered the

hich ports amounted und other Frisian Islands, the he would Therefore in the last few would in due course fol-Power to study his own problems gin of at least 30 per cent. over

fensible but vessels and several thousands of miralty with half-a-dozen statis- forcing the weaker naval hazardous. He asked for a mar-coastwise traders.

ticians and economists whom we To bring the

attention weeks, with the wonder low them into totalitarian rather than ours. Called to the the German Flect on account of into play, to patrol the narrow to anything but realities.

system could trust to pay no fully successful conclu- slavery.

Admiralty again in 1939, 1 could

Hey expected losses in the pagange.

This group of very able sens, to guard the hundreds of not rest content with the sion of the meetings of

policy

Access to all official If we were to act in 1940 the ports of the British Isles, to serve with Russian strategy in the of

blockade." "convoy and

assembly of the the 16 Marshall

Fleet and all our bases all over the world, to formation, was able, under Lin- coun-first instance pins its sought earnestly for a way of sell

necessary

training must be com- protect the mine-sweepers in their demann's guidance, to present me tries in Paris, attention hopes

attacking

navales Germany by

plete by the middle of February. ceaseless task, all required an im-continually with tables and dia- on coups from

meana, inevitably turns to the within on the accession

Time did not therefore permit the mense

multiplication

of small grams, Illustrating the whole war vessels. Numbers and so for as it came within norrower, more negative to power of the Commun-Baltic.

First and foremosi gleamed the deck armouring and side blister-armed

of construction

the knowledge. were

At this time there was no gen- but not less vital field of ists by ostensibly fair Baltic by a British Fleet carried other deadlocked. Here was on- common defence.

Here means.

prescribed that all work like-eral Government Statistical Or- it possibly decisive gains. This

Each Department ete with essential con-ganisation. strategy Scandinavia. freed from the

ly to compete

its tale on its Own also good progress is be- worked all too well in menace of

One of my first duties at the struction should be German invasion,

stopped on presented Admiralty was to examine the} large vessels which could not gures and data. The Air Minis- thereby ing made.

naturally The U.S.A. Czechoslovakia. It has would

War try counted one way, the our system drawn into

existing programmes of new con- come into service before the end of war has made it clear that it not worked in Italy and trade, if not indeed into.

actual struction and war expansion of 1940, and that the multiplica- Office another. The Ministry will back Western Europe thanks to the Marshall co-belligerency A British Fleet which had come into force on the tion of our anti-submarine fleets Supply and the Board of Trade, must be effected by types capable though meaning the same thing, with all its inexhaustible Plon it will not work else- hold out a hand to Russia in a In 1930 in mastery of the Baltic would outbreak.

and 1937 five new of being bullt within 12 months, talked different dialects.

This Ied sometimes to misun- resources in case of a where in Western Europe. manner likely to be decisive upon battleships had been laid down or, if possible, eight.

the whole Soviet policy and which would come into service in major threat from out- Can we be sure Russia

For the first type we revived derstandings and waste of time 1040 and 1941. Four more battle- the name Corvette, Orders for when some point or other came strategy. side. And beyond that, will accept her defeat as The command

of the

Baltic ships had been authorised by Par-58 of these had been placed.short to a crunch in the Cabinet, I had, five of the main countries final?

Is it not possible was the obvious supreme prize, arent in 1938 and 1839, which ly before the outbreak of war, but however, from the beginning, my

none were yet laid down. Later own sure, steady source of not only for the Royal Navy but could not be finished for Ave or

formation, every part of which of Western Europe-Bri-that political and ideo- for Britain.

six years from the date of order.and improved vessels of similar Could it be won? Nineteen cruisers were in various type ordered in 1940 were called was integrally related to all the tain, France and

German n war the the logical methods having in this new Benelux group

obstacle, Our stages of construction.

(To Be Continued) have be- failed the Kremlin may superiority in heavy ships mate I greatly desired to build a few Besides this, a great number of gun to discuss their joint decide to resort to force us eager to engage them wherever 14.000-ton cruisers carrying. 0.2 small craft of many kinds, partl-World Copyright reserved,

and whenever there was oppor-Inch guns, with

with good armour cularly trawlers, had to be con-production, even partially, in any military problems on the of arms? Clearly it is

against 8-inch. projectiles, wide verted with the utmost dispatch language, strictly prohibited. assumption that if there possible-which is not to

Minehelds could be swept by radius of action and superior and fitted with guns, depth the stronger naval power. The speed to any existing Deutschland charges and Asdies: motor laun- were to be yet another say that it is certain or U-boats imposed no veto, upon a or other German cruiser. Hither-ches of new Admiralty

design world war they would act

even likely. But

the fleet guarded by emclent flotillas, to the treaty restrictions had pre- were also together and not allow military threat is there But now, instead of the powerful vented such a policy. Now that bers for coastal work,e num-

German Navy of themselves to be disposed and can only be met, by there was the 1914 and 1915, we were free from them, 'the haraj

Air Arm, formid-priorities of wur interposed an Eventually my view about Bal- of one by one.

able, unmeasured, and certainly equally decisive

such If the military means.

tic strategy and battleship recon- Increasing in importance with long-term plans.

struction prevailed in the pro- At first sight this news Western world is ready to every month that passed.

Destroyers were our most ur- tracted discussions. The designs If two or three years earlier it gent need, and also though in one sense en- meet any attacks from and been possible-to-make-en feature--None-had been included given. However, one reason-after- our worst were made and the orders were couraging is yet far from the East then not merely alliance with Soviet Russia, this in the 1938 programme, but 18 another was advanced, some of cheerful. Is it really can it be certain of being might have been implemented by had been ordered in 1930. In all, them well-founded, for not put-

a British battle squadron joined 32 of these indispensable craft the work in

work in hand. necessary that less than able to repel it should it to the Russian Fleet and based on were in the yards, and only nine

wart ting

The Hoyal Sovereigns, it was three years after the end materialise, it can also Cronstadt. I commended this to could be delivered before the end said, might be needed for con- of 1940. The Irresistibla ten- voy in case the German pocket war in history the victor hoping that the threat Russia was an adverse neutral, Cotilla an improvement upon the cruisers broke loose.

balancing

It was re- the guillotine as a means of between antagonism

the last had lengthened the time of presented that countries of the West itself will gradually eva-

scheme in- actual

war. Sweden had should be thinking about |porate. The

building to nearer three than two volved unacceptable interference execution may cost France's harbours theorists several suitable

with other vital work, and a plau- official executioner, nick- defence against a yet fur of the Kremlin, we know, based. But Sweden could not be have vessels capable of riding out ternative priorities for our labour his job.

which a British Fleet could be Naturally the Navy liked to sible case could be shown for al named "Monsieur de Paris," ther possible aggressor? are convinced that before expected to expose herself It is necessary, for a num-long the Western world invasion by Germany.

Without the command of ber of different reasons. will be overwhelmed by a Baltic we could not ask for a Germany is at the mo- catastrophic economic Swedish harbour. Without

Swedish harbour we could not CARNIVAL ment incapable of any collapse. Then, they be- have the command of the Baltic. further major act of lieve, their chance will Here was a deadlock in strategic

possible Even if she come.

thought. Was. It aggression.

But if the nations break it? It is always right to politically united of Western Europe prove probe. she is economically help that prognosis false while

day after 1 less and will remain so remaining firm and calm reached the Admiralty I asked for many years to come, in the face of Russian that a plan for forcing a passage Into the Baltic should be pre- The But it is not to be sup-threats and provocations, pured by the Naval Staff. posed that the desire for then the theorists of the that Italy and Japan must

Plans Division replied quickly be aggression has been for Kremlin will have to think neutral; that the threat of air ever killed in the mind of again. Thus the com- attack appeared prohibitive; but the German nationalist.mon defence measures tion justified detailed planning No long term plan for now being concerted in and should, if judged practic

be carried out in European economic re- London and Washington 1940, or earlier, vival

be can realistic against possible aggres- Meanwhile I had long which does not face this sion are a doubly neces-with the Director of Navel Con- struction, Sir Staning Goodall, straight issue: either Ger-sory complement to the one of my friends from 1911-12 many must be kept per joint work of economic who was immediately captivated manently in a state of reconstruction. They. "Catherine, after Catherine the economic subjection, or are designed to ally fears Great, because Russia lay in the

background of my thought. else if she is to be allow of attack which, whether sept. 12 1 was able to write ed to recover and play or not justified, are bound detailed Minute to the authori

ties concerned. Ther part in European re- to hold up full economic Admiral Found replied on the vival as a whole, her past co-operation. And. be-20th that success would depend on Russia not joining Germany victims .must

guard yond that they are cal- and on the assurance of co-opera- against her becoming culated to discourage the tion by Norway and Sweden; and once again a menace to potential aggressor from that we must be able to win the war against any probable com- their security. There-outside--just as econo- |bination of Powers without fore, the first object of mic recovery itself with counting upon whatever foreg was sent Into the BalticHo the military discussions dissolve the threat of was all for the exploration. among the Western de- Communism and revolu- Imocracies is to disposetion from within.

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Monsieur De Paris Out Of A Job?

Paris, May 15.

of the most destructive have good grounds for my circle of friends at the time of

Now in the autuma of 1839 dency to make each successive battleships or eight-inch gun Renewed agitation against

were

and

fourth On the

on

years.

to

the Atlantic swell and large en- end armour,

the

to

that apart from this the Opera-

able, be

March,

talks

by the idea. I named the plan

On

は

On Sept. 21 he agreed that Admiral of the Floof the Earl ofi Cork and Orrery, an apicer of the

Yakorner

In private life he is 70-year- old Jules Destourneaux, who took over the job from his uncle, and now lives quietly with his wife,

By Dick Turner who is a midwife, on the banks

so I'm a little squirt-you big drip!"

of the Seine.

Burly and bowler-hatted, Des- fourneaux recently struck work for an increase on his 1938 wage, Nine victims were temporarily "reprieved", until he got a 20 per

raise

during the

Like his predecessor, Deslour- neaux has a reputation for kind- rum Was short liness. When

German occupation, he gave his customers their tra- ditional "last tot" from his per sonal stocks.

But his trade is dying,

of

Already the provinces use a firing squad on grounds of econo- iny, instead

Importing "the daughter," a smaller version of the "widow," the official guillo- tine at the Sante Prison, from Park-Reuter.”

'SUNNY WHITSUN

IN LONDON.

London, May 15. London was cheered by blue skles, sunshine and every pros- poct of a perfect week-end today. Those going by rail travelled in comfort, thanks to the 2,000 extra trains being run by British Rail- ways for their first big holiday rush since nationalization,

* There were large queues at railway stations, however, and at Waterloo, the queue for South- ampton and Bolirnemouth v WAK ten deep from the platform bar- rier to the station main entranos.

-Reuter,

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