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THE CHINA MAIL, WED NESDAY, MAY 26, 1948.

The Prime

Minister

The

Thirty-Fifth Churchill's Memoirs

Instalment

BID TO RESCUE NORWAY

matters

of Oscarborg. The Norwegian opened, and, two tor- pedoes fred from the shore at 300 yards scored a decisive strike. The Blusher sank rapidly, taking with her the senior officers of the German Administrativo Staff and detachments of the Gestapo,

were not sufficiently complete drawn up by the secretary in at-Twas already too late. The change jentered the flord, making for the -however, one thing is cer- tendance and checked' by the in chairmanship was announced narrows defended by, the fortress tain: he missed the bus."

three Service Departments to 10 Parliament by the Prime This proved an ill-judged ut- make sure there were no dis- Ministar in reply to a question as batteries terance. Its main

grance,

assumption crepancies.

follows: that we and the French were re- Thus we had arrived at those "I have agreed at the re- latively stronger than at the be- brond, happy uplands/ where quest of the Firal. Lord of the ginning of the war was not ren- everything is settled for tho miralty to take the chair sonable. As has been previously greatest good of the greatest explained,

at the nscotings of the tho Germans were number by the common sense of Co-ordination Committee when now in the fourth year of vehe most after the consultation of matters of exceptional im- ment munition manufacture, all. But in war of the kind we portance relating to the general was so Whereas we were at a'much ear-] were now to feel the conditions

The other German ships, in- conduct of the war ore under cluding the Luetzow, retired. The different. Alas, I must favourable to my views at thisler stage, probably comparable were

discussion." in fruitfulness 10 the second write it: the actual confict' had Loyalty and good will were part in the fighting at sou. Oslo damaged Emden took no further Juncture that we seemed almost in

He asked me to year,

to be more like one ruffian bash- to think as one.

forthcoming from all concerned. Moreover, with every

was ultimately taken, not from month ing the other on the snout with Nevertheless, both the Prime go over to Paris and see what I

that had passed, the

German

the sea, but by troop-carrying a club, a hammer or something Minister and I were acutely con-aleplanes and by landings in the could do to persunde M. Daladier,

FClous of the formlessness of our ford. who was evidently the stumbling Army, now four years old, was botter.

becoming a mature and perfect- and

All this is deplorable, and it is zystem, especially when in con- M. Reynaud block. I met

ed weapon, and of

former ad- one of the many good reasons for his Ministers at

tact with the surprising course of veer on the night of April 4 at vantage of the French Army in avoiding war and having every-events. dinner

training and cohesion was steadily thing settled by agreement in a Embassy, and We the British

passing away. The Prime Minis-friendly manner, with full con- etty good agreement. ter showed no premonition that sideration seemed in pretty

for the rights of Daladier had been invited attend, but professed attend,

a previous arranged It was arre engagement. that I should see him the next do morning. While meaning to my utmost to persuade Dalndier, the from I asked permission Cabinet to make it clear that we would

go forward with "Wilfred" "Royal Marine" were

even

velord.

WONG-The_Management of the visited Daladier at noon on Amoy Canning Corporation the 5th, and had a serious talk Hong Kong, regrets to an-

with him. It was evident to me Hounce that Dr. F. S. Wons that a considerable gulf existed late Chairman of the above

between the new and the former mentioned Company, passed

Premier. away yesterday afternoon at

Daladier argued that in three his residence, No. 13 Leigh-months' time the French avlation ton

flour, Hill Road,

be sufficiently improved by mourned Deeply

his would

for the necessary measures to be widow, three sons and four

taken to meet German reactions daughters.

to "Royal Marine. For this he was prepared to give u firin date in writing. He made a strong case about the defenceless French factorles.

We

The new Reynaud Government in France favoured Mr. Churchill's "Wilfred" plan for mining Norwegian territorial waters, but (like the Dolodier Cabinet) still opposed "Royal Marine" the scheme for mining the Rhine.

Mr. Chamberlain, now inclined to ag- gressive action, suggested-making-one, plan dependent on the acceptance of the other.

Df

n

and two

4

mino-

One was sunk

and

Hitler's plan immediately flash- ed into its full scope. German forces descended at Kristiansand, at Stavanger, and to the North At at Bergen and Trondheim.

German merchant [On April 8, 1940, British Bergen two

some days lain destroyers laid a minefield off ships had for the entrance to West Flard, the alongside the quay, out of whose

holds there now channel to the port of Narvik.

Beveral marched German German warships had already hundred

troops with been scen on their way

to light artillery, who, preceded-by- Narvik, and Denmark was in streets of the town, and, alded by high officers, walked through the vaded the same day.)

effected That night German warships numerous agents ashore,

The outer bat- its bloodless domination. At approached Oslo, terles opened Are, The Nor- numerous points In Southern and of this wegian defending force consisted Central Norway variants of

minolayer, the Olay manoeuvre were successful.

The most daring stroke was at Tryggvason, sweepers. After dawn two Ger- Narvik. For a week supposedly man minesweepors ontored the empty German Gre-ships return- mouth of the ford to disembarking to that port in the ordinary were on the eve of great minorities events, whereas it seemed almost cording of dissentient opinions.

and the faithful ro-unops in the neigbourhood of the course had been moving up the

there batteries.

sanctified by Norwegian certain to me that the land war

by the Olav Tryggvason, but the neutrality, filled with supplies and The Defence Committee of the German troops were landed and was about to begin. Above all,

ammunition. the expression "Hitler missed the War Cabinet sal almost every day batteries taken.

Ten German destroyers, ench bug was unlucky

to discuss the reports of the Mili- The gallant minelayer, how-carrying 200 soldiers, :" and rup-

Co-ordination All lay in suspense. Complete tary

Committee lever.

eeever, held off two German des ported by the Scharnhorst immobility and silence reigned and those of the Chiefs of Staff;troyers at the mouth of the ford Gneisenau, had left Kiel some behind the German front. Suid- and their conclusions or diver- und damaged the cruiser Emden, days before, and reached Narvik LORDS REFORM

were again referred to An armed denty, the passive or small-scale gencies

on early the 9th. The lack of Norwegian whaler any local defence and the trea- The British all-Party can- Finally he assured me that the

Cabinets. All had to mounting a single gun also went chory of iny of the Allies was swept frequent of

crises period

political

away by a cataract of violent be explained and re-explained,

the Norwegian ference on the reform of the

that he surprises. France was

We over, and

to learn and by the time this process was action at once and withoutmander made its capture easy. It

orders against the in- composition and powers of

would work in harmony with M. what total war means.

completed the whole scene had special

was a stratogle key-forever to vaders. Her gun was smashed the House of Lords has fail-Reynaud. On this we paried.

often changed.

be denied us. the commander and

had, both ed to produce the agreement

Lord Chatfield's office as Minis- At the Admiralty, which is of legs shot off. To avoid unnerv- The same day the Prime Min-ter for the Co-ordination of De- necessity ir war-lime a Battle ing his men, he rolled himself that seemed possible a few months ago after the Gov-ister addressed the Central Co-fence had become redundant, and Headquarters, decisions affecting overboard and died nobly.

ell for the National Union of on April 3 Mr. Chamberlein ac- the Fleet were taken on the in- The main German force, led by crnment introduced their

Conservative and Unionist Assocepted his resignation, which hestant, and only in the gravest the heavy cruiser Blucher, now Bill simply ta curtail further clations in a spirit of unusual proffered freely. statement cases referred to the Prime Min- was issued from No. 10, Down- ister, who supported us on every

it was not

Where propus- occasion.

the action of feel 10 times as confident of ed to fill the vacant post, but the other Services was involved victory as I did at the begin that arrangements were being the procedure could not possibly ning...I feel that during the made for the First Lord of the keep pace with events. How- seven months our relative posi- Admiralty, as the senior Service ever, at the beginning of the Nor- tion towards the enemy has be-Minister concerned, to preside way campaign the Admiralty in come

น great deal stronger over the "Military Co-ordination the nature of things had three- than it was

Committee."

-quarters of the executive busi- "German preparations were Accordingly I took the chair atness in its own hands. for ahead of our own, and it its meetings, which were hold I do not pretend that, whatever was natural then to expect that daily, and sometimes twice daily, my powers, I should have been the enemy would take advan-from-the-6th to 15th of April. 1 able to take better decisions or tage of his initial superiority to had, therefore, an exceptions! reach good solutions of the prob-

measure of responsibility but no

lems with which we were now power of effective directon.

*

the powers of the House, cutter seven months of war Ing-street that.

Thus yet another attempt to find a logical solution of this long standing constitutional anomaly has come to nought.

The Government are cer- tain to press through their Bill willy nilly and so be able to ensure the passage of any controversial measures they may have in mind (in particular the nationalisation of the iron and steet-indus- try) up to a period of about six months before the next General Election hasta...be held. That is a result which the Conservatives, watching the electoral tido gradually turning in their favour, have been trying to prevent.

final-disagree-- Hence, the

ment after the gap between

make an endeavour to over- whelm us and France before we had time to make good our deficiencies. Is it not a very no

extraordinary thing that

such attempt-was-made?

"Whatever may be the rea- son-whether it was that Hitler thought he might get away with what he had got without aght- ing for it, or whether it was that after all the preparations

years to one.

were

A

Among the other Service Min- isters, who were also members of the War Cabinet, 1 was "first among equals, I had, however, no power to take or to enforce decisions. I

had

to carry with me both the Service Ministers and their professional chiers.

by

at

tee.

Don Iddon

is at present on holiday in England. His Diary will be re- sumed shortly..

into

Com-

(To Be Continued)

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Sokolovsky To Consult Moscow

Re

Berlin, May 24. Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, Soviet Commander-in- Chief in Germany, will fly to Moscow with his. principal advisers as soon as the results of the present six-power London talks on Germany are known, German political circles in close touch with the Russian Administration said to day.

GODSE IN DELHI

the long evolution of the tions of revising Bills sent Co-ordinating Committee, practically every one of our sub-four-power co-operation is im- sination," was flown to Delhi to-

ported by

Marshal Sokolovsky is in the Russians will, for instance, constant touch with the Krem-request all commercial air trafe The Chiefs of Staff sat daily to-

lin as day-to-day news of the in the Berlin area to use Russian- gether after discussing the whole

London discussions is releas- controlled airfields. situation with their respective

ed-these-clrcies-said.

The British-and-Americans Ministers. They then arrived at

Informed Germans In touch would almost certainly refuse to their own decisions, which ob- confronted. The impact of the with Russian opinion expect that comply-Router. the parties had apparently second session from two viously became of dominant im-events about to be described was a new wave of Soviet pressure in been made so narrow,

portance. I learned about these so violent and the conditions so Berlin would be the inevitable The substantial measure of All three Parties' repre-elther from the First Sea Lord, chaotic that I soon perceived that agreement reached by the sentatives were united in who kept nothing from me, or only the authority lived that result if the London talks com- conference provisionally on wishing to see the House of alde-memoires which the Chiefs Military Co-ordination Commit-cation that a

the various memoranda or Minister could reign byer me munique, awalled at the end of week, contains a clear indi- Western German the composition of a reformed Lords "continue to play its of Staff Committee issued.

state is to be set up. House of Lords may never proper part in the legisla If-I-wished--to-question any of Accordingly, on the 16th 1-re- Such an Indication, it was be-

Bombay, May (24. ture" theless turn out to be a re-

Nathuram Vinayak Godes, who and in particular to these opinions, I could of course quested Mr. Chamberlain to take lieved. would convince the Rus

False.. them

in the first 1

instance the chair, and he presided at. sions-that-any-pretence of further is-charged-with Gondit's assas markable step forward in exercise the "valuable func-

where the Chiefs of Staff,

sup- sequent meetings during the cam- possible.

day under a heavy police escort their Departmental and in close agreement, and sult British constitution. The up by the Commons and

in Norway. He

and 1 con- The Russians would as a

to stand trial, starting on May 25 negotiators agreed as follows: Initiating discussion on public carried along with them, were he gave his supreme authority

Ministers whom they had wvalt

press ahead with plans for at Redfort, First, that the Second laffairs"."

rival stata in the establishing all present as individual mem-to the views which I expressed. East and take new steps to force and also flown in the same

Others charged with complicity Chamber should be comple- They regard it as essen-

bers. There was a coplous flow I was most intimately involved the British, Americans and French included V.D. Savarkar, Mand- montary to the Lower House tial, moreover, that "there of polite conversation, at the end In the conduct of the unhappy to evacuate Berlini, which would lari Karsmeril, Gopal and, therefore, not elected. should be available to the of

Vinayak tactful report was effort to rescue Norway when it then appear as the capital of, a Godac Narayan Duttaoys, Secondly, that no Party country a legislative body

"German People's republic." Vishni Ramchandra Karkare, should have a permanent composed of men of mature

If the London meeting decided Digambar Ramchandra majority in it.

judgment and experience CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner definitely to set up a West Ger- Sankar Kistiyye and D.S, Para-

man state, it was believed that chere,United Press. Thirdly, that heredity gained in many spheres of alone should по longer public life" (in other words, Qualify for admission to the that there should not be a House of Lords.

single Chamber govern- Fourthly, that future Lords ment).

their

of Parliament should be ap- The breakdown occurred pointed for personal distinc-because on the one hand the tion or public service and Government regard could be either hereditary Bill as allowing enough de or life Peers. 200.-

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BRITISH PLANES FOR EGYPT

London, May 24.

planc

Badge,

The Board of Trade tonight catogorically denied-

prose reports that Britain had rofused or can- celled licences for the export of British planes, including jet fighters, to Egypt.

The report had created some Any such Intention on the part excitement in "Arab quarters of the British Government, "ex- ́ in London, where it had beeri cept on the direct instructions of assumed that the report, the United Nations, is considered rue, meant a repudiation of here to be out of the question.- the carller official

Reuter. British statement that military obliga- tions under the British treatles, with Egypt, Iraq and Trans-† Jordan would be honoured un- foss and until they tvoro-de- clared illegal by the United Nations.

EMPIRE DAY ACCIDENTS

Sydney, May 24.. Britain to continuing to supply Sydney was tonight ringed by Egypt and <the other Arab, alates Empire Day bonfires, 60 of which treaties of got out of control and had to be alliance are in existence with all fought by firemen.

with whom valld

the arms and equipment to which they are entlifed under those treaties.

In

No damago was done. Firemen

took three hours to put out one

These arms represent the only fire. British "war" materia; now renché una the Middle East, so that a

A girl was killed, meanwhile, declion to cancel export licancer when mbting explosives, for the for alseraft...ordered.... by Egypt calebrations, and a youth was in-- could only mean a breach of the jured by firgorackers exploding' ta; * 1998 Treaty of Alliance.

his pocket.Reuter,