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The

Thirty-Third Churchill's Memoirs

Instalment

SEIZURE OF THE ALTMARK

that the destruction of Finland would be a major defeat for the Allies.

mark to Bergen with a joint ber 14, and the staff work wrs, Anglo-Norwegian guard

The on proceeding under Keitel. board, and a joint escort, you incident of the Altmark no doubt should board Alimark, liberate gave a spur to action. At Keltel's the prisoners, and take posses-Ruggestion on February 20 Hitler pton of the ship pending further summoned urgently tu Berlin instructions. If

If Norwegian

General tor-

von Falkenhorst, who pedo-boat interferes, you should was at that time in command of warn her to stand of. If she an Army Corps at Coblenz.

I was therefore necessary to send allied troops either through Petsamo or through Narvlic and/ or other Norwegian ports. The

through Narvik wa operation preferred, as it would enable the Allies "to kill two birds with one stone" (.e. help Finland and cut off the iron ore). Two British divisions due to start for France in early February, 1940, Mr. in February should be retained in Sumner Welles looked in upon England and prepared for lght-

cessing flro when she desista. Vian did the rest. us after a trip to both sides Ing in Norway.

That night trials, Meanwhile every effort should in the Cosmek, with searchlights | on which he had been sent by

the Mr. Chamber- be made to procure

assent burning. he entered the flord BROWN-At Kowloon Hospital the President.

Ho first to lain asked me to meet him at and if possible the co-operation through the ice floes. on May 23rd, 1948,

board the Norwegian Dinah and R. Brown n Downing Street after dinner. of the Norwegians and Swedea. went on

Kjell, and requested daughter-Caroline Linda. Lord Halifax and some others The issue of what to do if Nor-kun-boat

BIRTH

were there.

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ing to the Supreme War Council In Paris, he invited me for the first time to should go by sea,

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I sug

and to break the backbone of our two fronts,

"In the second and third place the conquest of Norway will ensure the liberty of movement of our Fleet in the Boy of Wil- helmshaven

and will protect imports of Swedish ore." Finally he said to me: appoint you to the command

of

the expedition,"

That afternoon-Falkenhorst was

fires upon you, you should not Falkenhorst hail taken port in reply unless attack is serious, the German campaign in Finland In which case you should de- in 1918, and upon this sublect the fend yourself, using no more interview with the Fuehrer open-summoned again to the Charcel- force than Ta necessary, and ed. The General described the lery to discuss with Hitler, Keltel

the conversation at

Nuremberg and Jodl the detailed operational plans for the Norwegian expedi- Hitler reminded me of my tion. The question of priorities experience in Finland, and said was of

supreme

Importance. to me: "Sit down and tell me Would Hitler commit himself in what you did."

After a mo- Norway before or after the exe- ment, the Fuehrer interrupted cution of "Case Yellow"--the at- me. He led me to a table tack on France? On March i he covered with

"I have a made his decision. Norway was maps. similar thing in mind." he said, to come first.

on

The celebrated seizure of the Altmark, with nearly 300 British prisoners of wor board, was (as Mr. Churchill here reveals) due to his personal intervention.

which I could arrange; so we all Balled from Dover in destroyer way and Sweden refused as reem-1that the Altmark should be taken. and reached Paris in time for aed probable, was never faced, to Bergen under a joint escort,

for inquiry according_to_Inter meeting in the evening.

national Law.

given to the

The

OF FREE PEOPLES On one day every year, May 24, the peoples of the British Commonwealth Nations celebrate Empire Day. On this day the mem-

On the way over-Mr-Chamber- A vivid episode how sharpened bers of this unique associo-

The Norwegian captain repeated tion of free peoples of every lain showed me the reply he had everything in Scandinavia.

suggestions Altmark, peace

the auxillary of the his assurance that the Altmark race, colour and creed, testify which Mr. Summer Welles had Spee, was also a floating prison had been twice searched, that she FROM HANOI VIA HAIPHONG in their varying ways to their gathered. This struck me favour for the crews of our sunk mer-was unarmed, and that no British belief in a common way of ably, and when I had read it in chant-ships. British captives reprisoners had been found. Vian said to him: lensed by Captain Langsdorf (of then stated that he was going to Hife. It is a way of life based his presence,

on a practical application of am proud to serve in your Gov- the Graf Speel according to in-board her and invited the Nor- ernment." He seemed pleased at ternational Law in Montevideo weglan officer to join him. This the Four Freedoms, and a this.

harbour told us that nearly 300 ofer was eventually declined. sincere desire to live at peace

February

British merchant

Meanwhile, the Altmark got ant seamen were on not only

with each other, was all about "Aid to Finland," board the Altmark.

under way, and. In trying to rami This vessel hid in and plans were approved to send but with the rest of the three or four divisions into Nor-Atiantic for nearly two months. The Cossack forced her

the South the Cossack ran herself

aground. way world. In no phase of its way, in order to persuade Sweden and then, hoping that the search alongside and a boarding purly existence does this Common- to let us send supplies and re- had died down, her caplain made sprang across, after grappling the wealth represent a

the Finns, and a bid to return to Germany. Luck two menace inforcements to

A ships together.

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OR This meeting

the

ing British prisoners of war to It was also found that the Alt- Germany. Surely another mark carried two pom-poms and cruiser or two should be sent to four machine-guns, and that des- rummage the Skagerrak to-

having been boarded twice night? The Altmark must be by the Norwegians, she had not regarded as art invaluable tro-been searched, The Norwegian phy.

or Pile"

The

"the occupation of Norway: be- There can be no doubt that the cause I am informed that the quality of the French Army was English intend to land there, allowed to deteriorate, during the and I want to be there before winter, and that they would have them."

fought better in the autumn than Then, marching up and down, in the spring. Soon they were to he expounded to me his reasons, be stunned by the swiftness and the Ration of Norway by violence of the for

DESQUIL would be a strategic It was not until the last phase of turning movement which would that brief campaign that the true lead them into the Baltic, where fighting qualities of the French we have neither troopa nor soldier rosa uppermost in defence coastal fortifications. The auc-of his country against the age- cess which we have gained in long enemy: But then it was too the east and which wo are go- late. ing to win in the west would

_To__Be... Continued). be annihilated because the World Copyright reserved. "nemy would and himself in a production, aven partially, in any position to advance on Berlin language, striptly prohibited.

A

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Mere Million Doesn't Count

By. JAMES BROUGH

500 AN INCH

Re-

Paris,

a barrel, wheat from 4s. 91, to a recent record 15s.-odd a bushel. In one year of grazing a yearling calf can put an 3301b. in weight. AND MORE TO COME

With cattle prices now at 2s. 28. a pound, a herd of 1,000 will make a rancher £21,000 and more.

to any other country, but on /incidentally to get control of the and the weather favoured her, hand-to-hand fight followed, In two occasions within a single expected re-feld. As might be and not until February 14, after which four Germans were killed!

Swedes did not agree passing between Iceland and the and five wounded; part of the crew Contented natives call it the flash fortunes of London, generation, its rallying to to this and, though extensive pre- Faroes. was she sighted by our fled ashore and the rest surren-Land of the Big Rich, on oasis and Berlin which today may be the cause of freedom prevent-parations were made, the whole aircraft in Norwegian territorial dered.

of free-wheeling free enterprise the foundations of a fresh class ed civilisation falling a vic-chamberlain conducted the First Lord to First Sea Lord.

the ground.

waters.

in a hamstrung, hungry world. Mr.

of European rich. tim to either an eastern or proceedings himself on our be-

The search began for the Bri- This is the happy habitat tor "Quite simply," the big busi- 16.2.40.tish prisoner. They were soon a new western world

of generation domination. half, and

and only minor interventions

On the position as reported to found in their hundreds, battened wealthy. It is the only charted ing a current survey, "the South- super-ness magazine Fortune found dur- There are still a large num-were made by the various British me this morning. It would seem down, locked in store-rooms, and corner left on earth where a man, west has grown rich on the en- ber of people who cannot Ministers attending. I am not re-

that the cruiser and destroyers even in an empty oll-tank. Then with little more than a change ormous world demand for its believe that these countries corded as having said a word.

should sweep northward during camo the cry, "The Navy's here." of shirts, can make a million. products." The next day, when we came the day up the coast of Nor-The doors were broken in and the are absolutely free or, that to recross the Channel, an amus-

mere million makes .him Since 1040 the price of crude way, not hesitating to arrest captives rushed on deck. Al-only "flash boy." He needs oil has risen from Os. to 11s. 3d. being free there could stilling incident occurred. We slight-- Altmark in territorial waters together 299 prisoners were re- remain a sufficient bond. be-ed a floating mine. So I said to

should she be found. This ship¡leaser) and transferred to our des- tween them to cause them the Captain: "Let's blow it up by

is violating neutrality in

troyers. carry I burst with a good gunfire." to join together to resist a

bong, and Jarge plece of wreck- common enemy. The reason, age sailed over towards us and however, is not far to seck; seemed for an instant as

if it where there is real freedom were going to settle on the bridge, where all the politicians and some for peoples to make a choice,

of the other swells were cluster- a common philosophy or way ed."

gun-bonts remained passive ob- £7,000,000 at least to be recor- The Marshall Plan has hand- In the words of an Admiralty servers throughout.

as real "big rich" today ed of life will strengthen rather

By midnight nised

the ham-strung, hungry However, it landed on the fore-communique, "certain of His Ma- Vian was clear of the ford and down where Texas spreads her world a stful of dollars, which, than weaken the bonds of castle, which was happily bare,jesty's ships which were con-making for the Forth.

crop of dollars over neighbour-

governed by the unchanging law friendship. The urge for and no one was hurt. Thus very-veniently disposed were set in Adil, Pound and I sat up to-ing New Mexico and Oklahoma, of supply and demand, must And freedom which so adequate this time onwards I was invited der the command of Capt. Philip Admiralty War Room, 1.had put

thing-passed-of-pleasantly. From motion A destroyer-flotilia un gather in-some anxiety in the Kansas-and-Colorado.

"their way back to une souren, the ly finds expression in the by the Prime Minister to accom- Vian, of H.M.S.

country that can furnish its Near the city of Dallas lives allies with the goods they need. Cossack, Inter- good screw оп Commonwealth

the Foreign is derived pany him, with others, to the

.cepted the Altmark but did not Office, and was fully aware of the wealthiest single individual

That means more money in the from a common source, the meetings of the Supreme War Immediately moles

molest her. She took the technical gravity of the mea- in this wealthfest of single coun-Land of the Big Rich. There's United Kingdom, where over

Council. But I could not provide refuge in Josing Flord, narrow sures taken. To judge them fair. tries. Haralson Hunt, curly-hair- room for a few more millionaires centuries the great barriers an equal-entertainment each time. Inlet about half a mile long sur-ly it must be remembered that up ed, cameru-shy-ollman-has-un down there, the expectation of

rounded by high snow-clad cliffs. to that date Germany hud sur week; £250,000;

estimated which restrict man's freedom

income of $1,000,000 a some inore fat years to come. The Council decided that it was Two British destroyers were told! 218,000 tons of Scandinavian ship- £1,584 ah hour. more than been removed, often of first importance that Pinland to board her for examination. ping, with a loss of 555 Scandinn- after the most bitter struggle. should be saved; that she could the entrance to the

to the ford vlan lives.

Leo Corrigan, who first arrived Brick Not only as emigrants to the without reinforcements of 30,000 gunboats, who informed them in the Cabinet was whether Bri-

not hold out after the spring they were met by two Norweginn But what mattered at home and with nothing but a cheap suit-

runs an Dominions did

assortment of men and to 40,000 trained men; that the that the ship was unarmed, had tish prisoners were

shopping centres, blocks of flats women from Britain take present stream of heterogeneous been examined the previous day, board or not. We were delighted

on and office buildings, valued at this love of freedom with volunteers was not sufficient; and and harl received permission to when at three o'clock in the £25,000,000. them, but generations of ad- ministrators too introduced Welfare Act, 1945, and the Our destroyers thereupon with- was a dominating fact.

of Norwegian territorial waters. been found and rescued. This in 17 all companies several bus into the territories for which Overseas Resources Develop drow.

Their rescue and Capt. Vian'snes, and a New York book A brick was thrown through- they were responsible the ment Act, 1948. These funds

a window of No. 10 Downing traditions on which they had amounting to over £250 When this Information reached thusiasm In Britain almost equal

In Surpassing. Dallas dollar | Street, carly-today-breaking- been nurtured in the United million are to be employed with the concurrence of the For-ing of the Graf Spec. Both these single inch of space on a main leather bag.

the Admirally I Intervened, and to that which followed the sink- metropolis of Houston, where

avoirdupois

boom-two panes of glass. The brick Kingdom.

was encased in an imitation in extending the scope of eign Secretary, ordered our ships events strengthened my hand and National freedom of these social services, communica- to enter the flord. I did not often the prestige of the Admin shopping street sells at £500. The police immediately arrested

Here sovereign states within the tions and

lives Glenn

McCarthy, other public act so directly; but I now sent "The Navy's here" WOS passed former dry cleaner, who at 40 kington, 43, of no fixed address, a man identified as Robert Pil- Commonwealth includes utilities, and in developing Capt. Viun the following order:

from lip to lip. complete

is spending more than £5,000, He was charged fiscal autonomy, the natural resources of the

at the police 000 on a community centre that station with causing wilful dam- each country having the right dependent territories so that

Norwegian torpedo- Hitler's decision to invade Nor- (which it freely exercises) a high standard of life may

boot undertakes to convoy Alt-way had been taken on Decem-ncludes a garage for 1,100 cars. age and scheduled to appear at

Old-time millionaire Roy Cul-Bow Street court this morning. to draw up its own tariffs be

len, who is 65, brought a cascade guaranteed by greater CARNIVAL

Pilkington was held for medical without reference to the productivity. This great United Kingdom, and equal-venture has been embarked ly to regulate the exploita- upon on a basis of partner. tion of its own resources. ship, and the inhabitants of

have

found

Thrown

proceed to Germany, making use morning news came that 300 had 000 housing project, big interests

Clint Murchison owns a £250,- No.

February 16, 1040, 5.25 p.m. Unless

conduct aroused a wave of en-

publishers.'

Is the rival

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a

10

At

London, May 22.

By Dick Turner of pathetic, appealing letters in examination after which he told to the Daily Mall's New York the police that the brick throwing bureau from patients in Britain "was my protest." He said he when he .sct up the Cullen had been robbed-United Press. Medical Foundation with £40,- 000,000 worth of oil properties,

Houston has more than 100 300 millionaires. One of them bought £2,000 worth of clothes during

The countries of the Br- the dependent territories are tish Colonial Empire are so consulted and called upon to varied in both area and de- co-operate in all schemes velopment, that it is impos-that are set afoot. Finally, sible to describe each in any the essential framework of detail. They comprise security within which deve- peoples of many races,lopment may be orderly and colours and creeds, but, in peaceful is provided by the 240.-respect of all, the declared defensive resources of the

alm of Britain's policy is the whole Commonwealth. 320. achievement of democratic Obviously, in 0 world

This may where there are 350,- self-government.

so many well take the form of elements which make for Dominion status, as in the disunity and thereby sow cases of India, Pakistan, and the seeds of future wars. the Ceylon, sovereign states free-existence of the British Com- 1v associated in the British monwealth of Free Peoples Commonwealth. Meanwhile, must have 2. stabilising in the dependent territories (effect. It means, in effect, of Africa, the Carribean, and that being free themselves the Far East, the ground is they respect with equal fer- being prepared by the devevour the freedom of other lopment of local government, peoples. But, if their free- and by the increasing parti- dom is threatened by a cipation of the local Infiabit- would-be aggressor then, as ants in the conduct of cen- in 1914, and 1939, they will tral........ government. At the again-find-a common fellow-' same time, a sound social ship in resistance to an at- and economic foundation for tack upon their way of lllë. self-government is being pre- This, then, is the message to pared by the considerable the whole world from the funds provided by the Unit- British Commonwealth on "Dawgonnit, Mabell. If he don't show more signs of in- " ed Kingdom" under the Empire Day"Peace on Colònial Development and earth to all men of goodwill."

DOPR. 10EVUD KA EELVICE, MERIT, M, SEO. SA D

telligence, I'm gonna enter him. In-school-under an das sumed name!""'

SEAMAN GETS

shopping expedition re-

Another store offered After four_sable-skin women's hats at

@

lone cently.

£375 cach

OFF

Georgetown, British

Gulana, May 22. re-trial lasting three....

and they were Warren Youtzy one of the crew. all days, a court here acquitted Italph

sold the first day."

SEEDS OF FORTUNES

of the Alcon steamship J. Jack- Beef, oll, and wheat make the son, (7,176 tons) accused of kill- dollars in this never-never coun-ing Thomas Moriah, a Negro tug

October. of dusty plains and stack captain, last derricks. But a single crop of At the first trial in February, water-melon seeds carned. 234 when another seaman

try!

Was

aç-

000 for Clara Lee Wilhite, of quitted, the jury could not agrés Weatherford, Texas, and she ex-on their verdict against Zoutzy.. pects on extra £7,000 this and ho was remanded.

harvest.

The tug captain was drowned The boom bears no stigmata of when he fell overboard after a black, grey, or chooker-board fight-Reuter. markets no graft, none of the trading in misery that mark the

BRITISH SUBS'

CRUISE

London; 'May 22.

NEW GASPERI

CABINET ·

Rome May 22. Premier Aleido de Gasperi said tonight he had completed the post-election reshume of his Co- The second submarine dolilla binet. He did this by finally set- consisting of the depot ship HMS tting differences among minor Maldstone and four submarties, political parties over the use of. were due to leave Portland today Amexican loans and cants to on a summer cruise to Scandina-toly

vlan waters.

A spokesman said Premier do The-Botills, accompanied by Gasperi probably would take the the destroyer HMS Onslaught, is Cabinet list to President· Luigi to make on informal visit to Einaudi for approval on Sunday, President› Einaudi approvės; as The submarines will carry out he is expected to do, the now training including night exeretsen Cabingt will be svern, in op. Mon- between ports-Amociated Press, day--Associated Peu.

Oslo.