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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST

By June 11, 1940, when Mr. Churchill was asked 'to meet M. Reynaud at Briare, near Orleans, the Battle of France was in its final phase. The British 51st (Highland) Divi- alan was encircled at $1. Valery, The 82nd (Low- land) Division had landed in Normandy and the Canadian First Division was, due to land at Brest. Material to equly the B.E.F. after Dun

being packed in the

HOUR

The Fall Of France

By Winston Churchill

Britlah Fifth Army disaster in 1018, and how he, as I put it, 'not; mentioning Marshal Foch, kad restored the situation. I also re- minded him how, Clemenceau had said: "I will fight in front of Paris, In Paris, and behind Paria," The Marshal replied very quietly

There were a few Frenchmen lavatory. It was kept very busy, and with dignity that in those about, and soon a colonel arrived with long delays and endless days he had a mass of mahmouvro of upwards of 60 divisions; now

Good Morning

They tried to charge me 50 cents for a Sunday Herald" in "Aber- doen yesterday, Scottish InЛu- encet

Properly "sitting on the fence,” Mr. Bialr-Kerr remarked that ré- ceivers are worse than thieves, But then, we have always know!! It is more blessed to give than to receive.

General Papagon". Greek victory looks to me very much like papa-

in a motor-cur. I. displayed the shouted repetitions. smiling countenance and confident At 7 o'clock we entered into there was none. He mentioned when things are very bad, but the record. I merely reproduce my arts int ale which are thought suitable conference, General Ismay kept that there were then 70 British In the line, Making United States.

Frenchman was dull and unres lasting impressionis, which in ne Paris into a ruin would not affect gunda.

I realised immediately way ponsive

disagree with

avent it..

the There were final THIS was my fourth Journey oven alnce we were in Paris

how

very far things had fallen no reproaches or recriminations.

General Weygand expune-l We were all

the bruta aguinat up

llary position, so far as he to France; and since military week before. After an interval facts. We British did not know knew it, in the fluid battle pro- conditions evidently .... H.K.$72.00 dominated, I asked the Secre- where we found M. Reynaud, and certainly there was sy wose of the Branch-trg Here pre-we wore conducted to the chateau, where exactly the front line lay: he said a high tribute to the pro- ceeding 20 or 40 miles away, and

H.K.$18.00

H.K.130.00

RUSSIA'S OFFER

In effect quested that

Doar ANXIOUS, I note from your latter that you cannot bring yourself to tell your beloved that

and your only brother by home, your mother keeps a divan, your father is now in a mental

of course Ismay. The Germany Junior General De Gaulin (who | I urged the French Gov-ahould, immediately be thrown your you. truly. I do, however,

to I cm-

"tary of State for "War, Vir: "Eden," "pufferin retair Günföral Wayguka, about" "Since "art" "By"the" Cormar

to come with me as well as the Air General Vuillumin and armour-even upon us.

avery reinforcement armed robber in Stanley. Frank- General Dill, the C.I.G.S., and some others, including the relative the discussion ran on the following should be sent, above all, that ly, I do not think that canceling

lines:

every British fighter air aquadron

these trifles from her will mar aircraft were now reaching far had just been appointed un- TO NORWAY

marital happiness - if aho for Wotional Daphanendo defend Paris, or into the battle, Hore," he said: der-Secretary The Soviet Government down Into the Channel, and we tones in the

had to make a still wider sweep ment).

Reynaud Govern- power of the house-to-lioung de- is the decisive point. Now is the think it is only fair to your in- Hard by on made a very unwise move

the As before, the Flamingo had was the

railway fence of a great city upon an indecisive moment. It is therefore tended that you inform her imme- hoadquarters when it offered Norway a

wrong to keep any squadrons i diately about your having mado train invading army. an escort of 12 Hurricanes. which some of our party were 20-1 non-aggression pact if she After couple of hours we alight-commodated.

I recalled to Marshal Pétain the back in England.

millions out of hotels. The chatean pos- nights we had spent together in But in accordance with the would refuse to Join an At-ed at a small landing-ground. Reased but one telephone, In the his train at Beauvais after the Cabinet decision taken in the pre

sunce of Air Marshal, Dowding. whom I had brought specially to A Cabinet meeting. replied: This is not the doin've point and this is not the decisive

lantic union. For the imme- diate effect-and that not only in Norway-was to re- call the unhappy experience of such pacts in the years be- Iween the wars. The offer of individual non aggression pacts had been one of Hitler's favourite devices for prevent- ing the formation of defen- sive security groups which might thwart his plans. And}· not only that. There were the Soviet Union's own famous series of non-aggression pacts with all her immediate neighbours-Finland, Estonia. Latvia, Lithuania and Poland were invaded.

The very words non-aggression pact have been a salutary (though from the Soviet point of view, deplorable) reminder of Russian aggressions of 1939 and of Stalin's entente with

Hitler. It may, of course, be that the Soviet leaders had

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

So This Is New Orleans

The Street car Named Desire is- now a brand-new cream and crimson motor-bus.

Old, sinful City of New Orloahs has become a bustling, modern, mechanised town.

GERTIE GOODWILL

·

Now that a brilliant financial brain has conceived the idea of stabilining China's currency by

legalising silver dollars without.

窳 moment,

That moment will como hen Hitler hurls his Luftwaffe against Great Britain. If we can keep command of the air, and if we can keep the seas open, as we certainly shall keep them open, wo WIR win It all back for u." Twenty-five

issuing any, how about

(unissued) gold moldores with them?

Ko

fow

to

"Displaced Pets." No, not you, Myrtle. I still luva yer.

Wealthy Malayans arrested for Thoy paying protection money, licked the hand that bled them.

The Japs are sold to ho leading the wizard of Wall Street up the garden path. Or maybe the gold

brick trailt

fighter .squadrons must be maintained at all costs for In charge, and apparently there is. 3d. for 20 cigarettes. I told Channel, and nothing would make the defence of Britain and the to atay for ever, was

Robert them about British prices, but they us give up there. We intended to Maestri, millionaire politician, did not seem very interested. hand-picked by the late dictator, Long and Morrison are engaged continue the war whatever hop Kingfish Huey Long.

in a duel which has not yet been pened, and we believed we could This was a Long town, still resolved. My money is on Morri to give up these squadrons would do so for an indefinite time, but hot day, and as my taxi rolled after his death.

I arrived on a wet, suffocatingly stronghold of the demagogue years son,

Earl Long locks the

destroy

our chance of life. At colour this stage I asked down Canal-street Baid: "This Chep Morrison went into battle ruthlessness, the dazzling Georges, the Commander-in-Chief Weather forecast in Sunday paper. that General "Further outlook None." can't be. This is Tottenham with a slim purse, giant enthe-magnetism of Huay. Court-road; this is the Angol, elnam, and crusading idealism,

Without the Long name his of the North Western Front, who

Oh, come on, Jave a'bashí', Islington,

And against every sort of rating would be low.

was In Curiously, be sent for, and this was accord- the neighbourhood, should Birmingham."

erookery and all odds he won. Be the name still casts

a radiance inzly done. has made a wonderful mayor... whenever it is mentioned among

His slogan and his policy are the lower-income groups. "Clean up, not close ep."

He knew that New Orleans was

and Corporation-street,

This is, in fact, any main street in any town anywhere,

and

realised the impression which } French Parkets and swung into the feet Ally and a straight flush, and girls, and they all said much the

the "offer" would create in the. Western world and had realis- ed also that there was no charice of luring Norway into acceptance: but that they thought the gesture necessary for other reasons.

New Orleans should not be judge from Arst glance or by a anap impression.

gras.

trimmed.

Own Bodyguard

"I am obliged to General Ismay]

од

the German nere-

ΟΙ

planes, and of the wholesale fight of vast numbers

of inhabitants. and the increasing breakdown of

I mentioned that

and

SORRY

VIRGINIA ONLY

! But then we rolled past the

I talked to walters, clerks, taxi- for his recollection of these words. furniture shopa, the cheap

drivers, soda jerkers, cigarette clothiers, jewellers', drug stores, a gladtime gadabout which loved a girls, oyster pedlars, and flower Weygand's Pessimism French quarter.

that he could not clamp down too same thing: knew then that the raffish, hard. I

Presently General Georges are "Huey was a great and good rived. After being apprised of gaudy, lunty port had not sur. Instead, he compromised with man; he was for the workers; he what had passed, ho con front rendered completely to

The worst brothels werg wanted to make every man civilisation.

ghut, crooked gambling houses put king." This faith, has made him which had been given by Weygand,

the account of the French out of business, and rackets a martyr among the poor.

Only the more educated, more The German Army

I again urged my guerilla plan New Orleans is still wanton, afluent, and more cynical nee Huoy strong as might appear at their

was not s It is a city which wins you perhaps wicked-bars are never Long for what he was. gradually, Insidiously wonder- closed and debauchery would shock They are plainly trying to ful, sprawling, good-time town most British provincial towns New Orleans rejects the world-fought the troops on their frant points of impact. If all the French Incidentally, the entire city of

armies, every division and brigade, create both in Russia and in which offers most things.

but at least corruption has been accepted version that Huey Long with the utmost vigour a general satellite states the picture I've been here several days largely wiped out and the Rod was assassinated,

Stalin of

making

I do not want to leave.

standstill might be achieved.- Light district now only glows a pence and

Everyone, including the staff was answered by statements of offer after

The rambling French quarter, pale pink, offer

the New Orleans Times- the frightful conditions men peace

with

the Its lace ironwork, Its faded There is an energetic clean-up: Picapune, insists that the full and of each offer being green-and-scarlet

its drive on at the moment against story was never told; that mystery ried by unresisted

crowded roads, shutters,

with refugees bar- rejected by the Western balconies and courts, its superbi cabarets in Vieux Carre. I arriv. shrouds the true detalls of Huey's fire from the machine-gun "war-mongers."

death, That may restaurants and anèlent taverns, is ed in time to see it at work. be in order to counter a cer- a place to linger in, to savour and Clubs' Street tain uneasiness and disquiet enjoy,

At the moment all the town and

Along the narrow, malodorous at home. It may be intend-all the people whites, Creoles, Bourton-street night clubs stand The most widely held theory is the machinery of government - MONG-KONG-TO-MANILA- ....................... 22nd February.-TUESDAYed to reconcile Czechs and French, Spanish, Negross, mulat cheek to check. It is a thorough that Long died from the ballots of military control.

Poles (and probably Hun-toes, quadroons, actoreens, brickdes fare of honky tonks, burlesque of his own bodyguard and not from one point Gou, Weygand

the revolver shots of Dr. Weiss,

the French might garians) to new purges and are actively preparing for Mardi shows, and strip-tease joints.

Signs outside shout:

"Girls, I am not spending all my time have to ask for an armistice. as you want to see here probing politics or watching Reynaud at once

snapped at him: control on the plea that fron year on March 1, but already them."

political affkir." discipline is essential in the masks and costumes are being sold, airable, no cover charge."

I am also investigating the food According to Ismay I said; face of danger from without. bunting is being strung along the dropped into some of these altuation and every tribute you it is thought best for France in her

is to Now agony that her Army should capl a very good 'anti-tank, obstasic.” It is, by the way, notable that streets, and glant floats primped places. In each of them lounged have over board paid

and painted.

pouce lieutenant or captain, Orleans food is true.

tulate, let there be no hesitation These were the last striking words the Soviet press now talks of

There is a ball every night, and smoking a cigar and toying with Restaurants Antoines, Arnon our account, because whatever I remember to have heard from endeavours to "encircle will be until Rex, Lord of Misrule, a beer.

aude, Broussarda, The Vloux you may do we shall fight on for him. Russia"

- another phrase ih 1.

of Carnival, takes the city! The shows were an. proper and Carre, Ls Louisiane. Le Patic over and over and

When Haunting Grief which is unfortunately re- on,

as dull as a school dramatic society Royale, The Court of the Two I said the French Army fighting In all this miserable discussion The

mammoth calebration is, of performance.

on, wherever it might be, could miniscent of Hitler and Goeb-course, good business, and

Sisters Barva magullicent food. Now

The masters of ceremonies There is everything so much hold or wear out a hundred Ger- it must be borne in mind that I bels. But it is also possible Orioans knows it.

was haunted and undermined by apologised for the occasional Blue that it would make your heart and man divisions, Gen. Weygand

the grief I felt that Britain, with that all this parade of "peace Many of its merchants, hotel. Joke, and said: "When the polics your stomach ache,

replied: "Even if that wore 20,

hor 48,000,000 population, had not offers" is a prelude to a more their hired help live by the tourist come

koopers, restaurant owners, and captain goer out, naked WOMEN There are superb. turtle soups they would still have another han.

been able to make flavoured with sherry, and oysters dred to invade and conquer you. tribution to the land war against # greater. con- menacing diplomacy. There trade, but the great fete has re I do not know how long thin | fried la Rockefeller all the year What would you do then?" have been signs for some sisted complete commercialisation latest clean-up campaign will last, round, whether there is an B. in On this I said that I was not a tenths of the slaughter and ninety- Germany, and that so far "nine- weeks past of a propaganda Today New Orleans, a city of but local newspaper men tell me the month or not.

military expert, but that my techn Portions ical advisers were of opinion that had fallen upen France and upon

nine-hundredths of offensive against Finland. It 400,000 people, a third of them that Chep forrison means buel-

the suffering has become more intense dur-coloured, in packed tight, and you c

served are my big

and the best method of dealing with Franco alone, There is no drive against drink- sated customers have their plates a German invasion of the Island ing the past few days. The have to battle for an hotel room.

But by the end of Februarying that is left to a man's con- taken away one-third full.

of Britain was to drown as many Finnish elections last summer another 200,000 will have squeezed

science.

There is Also every drink you as possible on the way over and over board of.

knock

the

others on the head an By far the most attractive street they crawled ashore, Weygand it is thronged with antique and any rate I must admit you have. perfume shops, picture galleries, in New Orleans is Rue Royale, answered with a sad smile: "A

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a tightening of Communist "The great carnival falls this thing baths, daring, de-cabarots being laundered.

were a deep disappointment themselves in and housed them has other lights on his hands.

In any event, Mayor Morrison to Moscow. But there has selves somehow,

I wrote about the brisk business Louisiana is Earl Long, brother been no attempt to stage a in Miami, but here there is of fabled Huey, and an ambitious The Governor of the State of coup in Helsinki on the lines,

sunerboom.

'Chep' Is Boss

of that in Prague. For one New Orleans is, in fact, enjoy thing the Soviet Intelligence ing the best trade In its history, Service has probably reported making 10 per cent more money that, the Finns would fight and doing 10 par ceat, more busi- would face civil war rather ness than last year. than meekly accept a Com- munist dictatorship. For an

Its huge port, 11 miles of stool other such a coup or attempt-in volume of shipping handied.

shods, In second only to New York ed coup might swing Sweden The Misalssippi has become overnight into the "Western river of gold, bu camp.".

man in his own right.

Tax And Elect

Earl Long would like to see Now Oricans resting, as snugly in the Long pocket as it did when Huey | strodo the State like a colosaILE.

He wants to tax and tax and plect and clock,

Wasta is

On Rue Royals it is” onny toj forget the world's troubles.

New

is easy to forget also Orleans'. troubles—the cancerous slums, the colour bar, the withered. plantations on the outskirts, the Huey Long, record

Just now there is a 8d. tax on Footnote: New Orleans proves cigarettes, and smokers are out- that the Louisiana Purchase - was All this is due not to fuck, or raged because they have to pay the greatest bargain in history, to the new aggressive leadership fortunate geography. It is dus and clinically clepni government.

The boss of New Orleans fa handsome 36-year-old Colonel d DO YOU Leasops, Morrison, mayor and 'all-1 koand wonder boy.

Most people call him "C

Chep

KNOW

YOUR

HONG

KONG?

So for the past six months Moscow has blown hot and cold towards Helsinki, seek ing to keep both Finns and Swedes anxious, yet, hopeful that if they give no offence they will have no trouble, It was Chap who, seeing the old,gay But now the pressure be bawdy, corrupt, wide-open town comes stronger. Almost a rotting into apathy, decided to run year ago the Soviet Union two years ago on his reform ticket.

New Orleans laughod, water "proposed" to FinlandĀC "trenty of mutual assistance" analogous to the Hungarian-only agree to a carefully Soviet and Rumaniop-Soviet | limited partnership. "Russian treaties. It was contained in military help would only bo'

'personal letter from Stalin | given If Finland were actual- Candyoung which is in the Soviet eyes aly attacked." "Consultation" cable when this picture was "royal command," But the would only be if there were Finns though they agreed to a threat of an armed attack on wer

treaty stubbornly and suc- Finland. The Rusalana were dev cossfully declined the sug-not satisfied but they took gested terms. They would what they could get, a

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After another hour or so we got up and washed our hands while a meal was brought to the comfor ence table. In this Interval I talk- at to General Georges privately, (Continued on Page 9)

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