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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST

HOUR

Organisation For The Great Ordeal

NOW at last, the slowly- By Winston Churchill

gathered, long pent-up

fury of the storm broke upon

Good Morning

"Britain is hall for the exploited lasses," according to our printer's version of a Communist commen. tary. Multum In Pravda,

Crown, and all these had to be fifted in like a Jig-saw puzzlo, in

Hong Kong a non sequitorial this case, having regard to the headline wrllers; (1), Serious LIS. Four or five millions of by divisions in contact with the During this time Mr. Attlee claims of three parties,

meat shortage. Britain horrified at enemy became increasingly pre-acted as my deputy and did the It was necessary for me to acestill further cuta in weekly rations, men met each other in the dominant and so continued, mount- dally work. His long experience in not only all the principal figures Bad state of television."

(2). HK$12.00 first shock of the most merci Ing and triumphant till the final Opposition was of great value. I but, for few minutes at least, the "Sydney Letter. Will ban Reds.

less of all the wars of which | victory,"

came down only on the most seri- crowd of 'able men who wore to bo Liberal Party give plodge. Strikes record has been kept. Within British Losses cum occasions. These were, how-choten for important tasks. In again."—Another of these per- a week the front in France,"

Government fidious Albions, (And on the same comparison which Iver, rocurrant, Many Conserva- forming a Coalition behind which we had been have made shows that the British had been alighted. Everyone ad dus walght to the wishes of the tives felt that their party leader the Prime Minister has to attach

PC page, tool) accustomed to dwell through and Empire sacrifice in loss of life

mired his

personal condiret. On party loaders as to whom among the long years of the former was even greater than that of our

vallant Ally. The British

Total im

first entry into the House in their

allotted to the, this was to be irretrievably of thogarmed force amounted to whole of his parly, the

him in

BIRTH

| BAILEY-On January 21, 1049, ughter Bailey, BASC daughter, Shaunne Veronlod.

Another

·

to Elleen, wife of Major A. war and the opening phase of and and missing presumed dead, new capacity (May 13) then followers shall have the of "Value of English in Education.

DARKEST AUSTRALIA

Forgetting their own faults in the same sphere, the have nations of the world

been looking indignantly at Australia during the past few days. Even in Hong Kong,

over

ment

for a

this

By Child Reads Less."—You see what

I mean?

I was party. advice of

of their ven in spite

the

out on wore loft

authorities, or

or even

a volement demon-were

was from the of

for

"What Hong Kong wanted most.

have helped, even if they had had

Latest from Kwangtung: 'I'm

has been fined beat-

broken. Within three weeks 403,240 to which should be added to the ovengono who deserved botts the long-famed French Army over 109,000 from the Dominions,tration of Dympathy and regard,f that advice. I can only express | A debate on offelal red tape fifty-

India, and the Colonies, a total of In the early weeks was to collapse in rout and 412,240. This figure does not bour benches that I was mainly regret. On the whole, however, five years ago."-But would it ruin, and our only British include 60,800 civilians killed in Army to be hurled into the the air raids on the United King-greeted. But Mr. Chamberlain's the difficulties were few

was steadfast, In Clement Attlee I

I had a col. It? with all its equipment dom, nor the losses of our Mer loyalty and support

Port way! sea.

league of wan experience long were to find ourselves alone, chant Navy and fishermen, which and was sure of

-There was considera amounted to about 80,000. Against

pressure versed in the House of Commons. Waists are defined but not lost. Within six weeks we this guro, the United States by elements of the Labour

outlook arty Our only differences In party,

exaggerated and, unlike recent almost disarmed, with trium- mourn the deaths in the Army and and by some of those many able were about Socialism, but these

this, onc shows phant Germany and Italy at Air the Navy, Marines, and and ardent figures who had not wore swamped by a war soon to collections,

322,188, I cite these been our throats, with the whole of Constard,

a purge of the "guilty ordination of the individual to the the equal men" knd whose residents, especially Europe in Hitler's power, and sombre Rolls of Honour in the included in the new Govern- inveise the almost complete sub- little sign of hip emphasis.

We worked together with of Ministers who had State. been

Vernonsible

Munich or perfect case and confidence during such Yuch misquoting me..." have both knowledge of that side of the globe. It was Banctified by so much on the European distaff side. Japan glowering on the other confident daith that

blood will continue to could bo criticised for the many the whole period of the Govern great country and first-hand amid these facts and looming command the reverence and inspire shortcomings in our war prepara-ment. Mr. Arthur Greenwood was experience of Asiatic peoples prospects that I entered upon the conduct of the English-speak- tion. Among these Lord Halifax, a wise counsellor of high courage ing a sheet of iron at 10.30 p.m.

world.

Lord Simon, and Sir Samuel Hoare and a good and helpful friend. on February 1. After the deathly protesting comments have my duties as Prime Ministering

Sir Archibald Sinclair, as The Conservatives had a majority wore the principal targets. But and Minister of Defence and lot more than 120 over all other this was po time for proscriptions leader of the Liberat 4 offelal bush of Chinese New Year. It must

party, found been voiced.

Latest manifestation of the addressed myself to the first parties in the House combined. Mr. of able patriotic men of long ex- it embarrassing to accept the office have sounded simply car-rending.

their chosen perience in high office. I tho❘ of Air Minister

his follow- because

Maybe Mandrake could locate "White Australia" policy has task of forming a Govern- Chamberlain

era felt he should Instead have a one of these sunken ships around been the victimisation of ment of all Parties to conduct

In the War Cabinet. But this here that could be used to house business at Mrs. Annie O'Keefe, the In- his Majesty's donesian wife of an Austra home and abroad by what- lian, ordered to leave the ever means might be deemed Dominion with her eight best suited to the national In- children by a former mar- terest. riage. Mr. Arthur Calwell, the Immigration Minister, conclusively dismissed the subject by declaring firmly

and Mussolini slain. that Asiatics who were Bri- tish subjects by birth would The mighty. German Army sur- still be barred from settling rendered unconditionally. Hit- ler had committed suicide. In in Australia-even if they addition to the immense cap- married fully-privileged tures by General Eisenhower, citizen.

nearly three million German the soldiers were taken prisoner in Stating that while great majority of wartime twenty-four hours by General evacuees had voluntarily re- Alexander in Italy and General in Germany. turned to their own coun-Montgomery

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4

Five years later almost to a day it was possible to take a of our more favourable view

con- circumstances. Italy was quered

Mr. Calwell revealed France was liberated, rallied and tries, that some Aslatics had "re- rivived. Hand in hand with sisted, and were forcibly de-our Allies, the two mightiest empires in the world, we ad- ported."

This freedom and demo-vanced to the swift annihilation The of Japanese resistance. cracy business is all very

contrast was certainly remark- difficult to uriderstand.

able. The road across these Soviet Russia, the self-styled five years was long, hard and only genuine leader in this perilous. Those who perished field, has up to 10,000,000 upon it did not give their lives wretches rotting to troubled in vain. Those who marched deaths in forced labour forward to the end will always camps and thinks nothing of be proud to have trodden it purging hundreds of suspect- with honour.

and

R

WES

Mr. Churchill photographed in the South of France, during lotauro hour stolen from the memoirs, which will not ap- pear in book form for some several months,

culminating in the regu became the CommonChancellor of the Exchequer. After} akte.

unpunished lynchings.

and

the

Reat

ran contrary to the principle of a "permanente." small War, Cabinet. therefore

proposed that he should join the

•

Subduing the guerillas in War Cabinet whon any mattor Malaya is costing a colossal affecting fundamental political in amount daily. It might, in fact. sues or party union was involved. be cheaper just to offer each of He was my friend, and had been them luxury hotel accommodation, my second-in-command when in with board, in Hong Kong. 1010 I commanded the 6th Royal

Scots Fusiliers ab Ploegsteert If half a ton of fireworks stored ("Plug Street"), and personally without a permit caught firo "the longed to enter upon the great consequences would be unimagin aphere of action I had reserved fornbla," declared a Fire Brigade him. After no little intercourse prosecutor, With a permit, of this had been amicably settled. course. they could easily be

Imagined. Worth If

Mr. Bovin, with whom I had

made acquaintanco

N

Ships navigated and fought at the begin entirely by electronic devices are

ning of the war, in trying to foreseen by British naval strateg mitigate the sevaro Admiralty lata; demands for trawlers, had to con- ault the Transport

and General teral Werkers Union, of which bo was secretary,

before he could join the

team in the most important affice This took

of Minister of Labour.

two or three days, but it was

The robot on the redhot deck Stood. (in some human's stead) As A-bombs burit about the

wreck

Before controls went dead.

aro

The Communist armies, worth it. The union, the largest described as remarkably mobile. of all in Britala, said unanimously The sequence presumably goes that he was to do it and stuck solid that the Nationalists are immobile fur Sve years' ull we won.

and their leaders automoblie,

The

•

xreatest difficulty was with Lord Beaverbrook. I belloved bo So whales whoop, porpoisos had services to render of a very snap.....the answer to what noise whistle and giggle and shrimps high quality. I had resolved, as

the result of my experience in the annoys an oyster? previous war, to remove the eup. ply and design of aircraft from

ster

And

tain is guilty of inexcusable nations. I do this with no desire that I had been for many years upon the Government of the time. vibrant energy, and I persisted in

poverty and misery in some of the Colonial possessions directly under her rule. So

to mai

to make invidious

of Genghis Khan: they are making effort should be known and i characteristic of the Cone mind and available in detall. No one only, the Ft The

were

leader. I could not but realise that censorious people could have had the Air Ministry, and I wished ed opponents of her regime The Coalition White his supersession by me must be their way at least a third of the him to become the Minister of at a time. The United In giving an account of my very unpleasant to many of them Conservative Ministers would have Aircraft Production. He seemed

after all my long years of criticism been forced to resign. the lavishly-bally-stewardship and in telling the tale and often Berce reproach. Besides States,

reluctant-to -undertake at-fast- Considering that Mr. Chamber the task, and, of hooed land of the free, has of the famous National Conlit this it must be evident to the lain was the Leader of the Con- Ministry did not like

course, the Afr duty to

having their its Ku Klux Klans. its Tal- Government it is my first

make plain the scale and force of majority of them how my life had servative Party, It was plain that Supply Branch separated from madge administrations, its

the

iive of strife with the Conservative Party, "restricted" hotels and clubs, e contribution which Great Britain been passed in friction or actual this movement would be destrue-them. There were other resist-i

her Empire, whom danger

national unity. More-ance

ances to his appointment. I felt and its treatment of negroes more tofistry, made to what that 1 had left them on Free Trade over, I had no need to ask myself sure, however, that our life de and had later returned to them as whether all the blame lay on one pended upon the flow of new air-

Official responsibility rested craft

craft; needed his vital Bri- Cause of 80 many States

or their leading opponent on India, But moral comparisons or

responsibilities were my

my view. more widely spread. A route purposeless rivalries with our on foreign policy and on the lack

Jong In deference to .prevailing of greatest Ally, the United States, to preparations for war.

formidable list of quotations from opinions expressed in Parilament accept me as Prime Minister speeches and votes recorded by and the Press it was necessary whom we owe immeasurable and are France, Belgium and enduring gratitude. But it is to was to them very difficult It caused Labour, and not leas by Liberal that the War Cabinet should be

which had beon email. the pain to many honorable men. Ministers all of the combined interest of

therefore began by hav- Moreover, Holland. None of them have English-speaking world that the Mercer the party is the prime sunt on a bit was in my ing only five members, of whom the honest, brutal power lust magnitude of the British war-

the Foreign Secretary, one had more right than I to pass had a Department. If

they had

short of their duty to the fore restated these disruptive ten-ticians of the day. For the con-

on some questions a

a aponage across the past all, in fact, pious lip-servers Up till July, 1944, Britain and nation in the years before the war, deneles. 414 the present" I said a ventant conduct of business it was there naturally the leading party poli of liberty, equality and

her Empire had a substantially fraternity,

larger number of divisions in it was because of this sense of few weeks later, "iries to sit in

that the Chancellor of The self-governing British contact with the enemy than the None of these considerations caus- the futuro." This argument and

loyalty to their appointed chief. Judgment

| necessary от the it will lose of the Exchequer and the leader States. This dominions are' as vociferous. United

general od mo

the slightest anxiety, the awful wolght of the hour usually be present, and as time of the Liberal Party should in this field as any. The figure includes not only the Epro-d

the would-be heresy passed the number of constant racial problems in South pean and African schemes, but knew they were all drowned by the quelled

cannonade.

hunters. all the war in Asia against

attenders" grew. But all the Africa, or rather the attitude Japan. Up till the arrival in Nor

Living The Battle

responsibility wes laid upon the of successive governments mandy in the autumn of 1944 of ed to Mr. Chamberlain, and he had

My experiences in those first.

(Continued on Page 9) thereto, is, undoubtedly an the great mass of the American, accepted, the Leadership of the optical illusion. In the same Army, we had always the right to House of Commons, as well as the days were peculiar, One lived with Presidency. Nothing had the battle, upon which all thoughts way as Australia's attitude speak at least as an equal and been published. Mr. Attlee in- were centred and about which usually as the predominant part formed me that the Labour Party nothing could be done. All tho to immigrants must be abner in every theatre of war except would not work easily under this time there was the Government to solutely justified.

the Pacific and the Australasian; arrangement. In a Coalition the form and the gentlemen to see, Those who have lived as and this remains also true up to leadership of the House must be and the party balances to be ad- a minority among Asiatic or the time mentioned, of the aggre African peoples who out-gation of all divisions in all thea-generally acceptable, I put this Justed. I cannot remember nor

point to Mr. From

Chamberlain and, do my records show, how all the tres for any given month.

A British numbered the European July 1944, the fighting front of with his ready agreement, I took hours were spent. population many times, can the United States as represented the Leadership myself and held 1 Ministry at that time contained

till February, 1942.

| beween 80 and 50 Ministers of the understand, if not sym- pathise with, the fear that

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