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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

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Britain Strives To The Limit

Today's instalment is taken from a chapter on the anxié- ties of Home Defence in June, 1940, which Mr. Churchill in terposer in his narrative of Reporters & General Office 32312 | the Battle of France.

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COLONY DEFENCE In the House of Lords to- morrow the Government will be asked what steps are be ing taken to, meet the Com- munist drive in South East

has

"DEPEND upon it," said Dr. Johnson, "when a man knows he is going to be hanged in a fortnight, сол- centrates his mind wonder- fully." I was always sure we should win, but nevertheless I was highly geared-up by the situation and very thanks ful to be able to make my views effective.

Men and

ma

By Winston Churchill

ter of Defence the experimental establishment formed by Major Jeffries at Whitchurch. While on- gaged upon the fluvial mines in 1039 I had bad useful contacts with this brilliant officer, whose Ingenious, inventive mind proved, as will be soon fruitful during the whole war..

Good Morning

According to a contemporary, President L has arrived in Can- ton "to personally, persuado......... Not only a spilt government, hut worse, a split infinitive.

Headline from Burma: "Fight- ing raging for. Inseln." They must be all crazy,

your very large now force. The had only thres anti-tank guna in word "local" is uninspiring. Mr. his bigade, covering four or five Herbert. Morrison suggested to miles of this highly meṇaced coast-

title "Civic line. to-day "the Guard," but I think "Home He declared that he had only six Guard" would be batter. Don't rounds of ammunition for cach Lindemann [now Lord Cherwell] Myrtle asked a young man if hesitate to change on secount gun, and he asked me with a slight, was in close touch with him and he played tennis, and when he of already having made armlets, air of challenge whether he was me. I used their brains and my answered that be played ‘a. per- áo, if it is thought the title of | Justified in letting his men fire one power, Major Jeffries and others feetly shocking game, the Inquir- Home Guard would be more single round for practice in order connected with him were at worked what it was.

could be

WAS

that

they

other

compulsive.

might at least know how | upon a bomb which In these days my principal fear the weapon worked. I repiled that thrown at a tank, perhaps from a

of German tanks coming we could not afford practice rounde window, and would

the wife of one atick

of our dis- upon it. where in any mind-was-ale and thai-tro-should-be-feld-forts whe-impact-of-stery-highs explex inguished business, men lipppen- tracted to landing tanks on their last moment at the closest range, sive in actual contact with a steel! ed (by pure chance) to open the consts, I naturally thought they

door of her fridge the plate is particularly effective. We Secure This was a time when all might have the same idea.

Quick Action We had the picture in mind that day. Inside was a live rabbit, dovoted soldiers or civilians would looking cold but otherwise quite Britain worked and strove to had hardly any anti-tank guns or ammunition or oven ordinary field

This was therefore no time to thrust the bomb upon it, though its ed lady. Looking round at the. run close up to the tank and even happy. "What on earth are you doing there?" naked the astound- the utmost limit and was unit artillery.

The plight to which we were re-proceed by ordinary, channels in explosion cost them their lives. chilling ed as never-before. women toiled at the lathes and duced in dealing with this danger devising expedients. In order to There were undoubtedly many machines in the factories till may be measured from the follow-secure quick action free frem de- would have done it. I thought also queried politely: "Ion't this a they fell exhausted on the flooring incident. I visited our beaches partmental processes upon any that the bomb fixed on a rod might Westinghouse?" "Yes," said the and had to be dragged away in St. Margaret's Bay near Dover, bright idea or gadget, I decided to be fired with a reduced charge lady. "Well," and ordered home, while their The Brigadier informed me that he keep under my own hand as Minis- from rifles. I pressed the matter "I'm just Westing."

hard. places were occupied by new- The comers ahead of time. one desire of all the males and many women was to have a Cabinet and weapon. The Government were locked to-

CANTONESE BY RADIO

Asia, to cope with the Mala- yan situation and a possible emergency

in Hong Kong. Questioners will ask whether there are sufficient forces in the area to meet with poten- tial disruption in the future.

British Intelligence been busy assessing the Com-gether by bonds the memory of which is still cherished by all. munist campaign in all the The sense of fear seemed en- countries of the Far East. In

tirely lacking in the people, Indo-China, Siam, Burma and their representatives in and Malaya, Red penetration Parliament were not unworthy is well advanced, and reports of their mood. emphasise that almost every-

We had not suffered like France Vocabulary: under the German fall. Nothing 131.

(chul) jue where in the area the move-

moves an Englishman so much as ment is exclusively under the threat of invasion, the reality. Vast Chinese control. In Malaya, unknown for 1000

132 (fong) fong resolved the Communists form one-

numbers of people were third of the total Chinese to conquer or die. There was no 133. ``(tsal),daaye population of 2,600,000, white need to rouse their spirit by ora- in Indo-China the Commun- tory. They were glad to hear me 134. (sai) sait

express their sentiments and give ist factions are believed to them good reasons for what they 135. (ke) geh number 3,000,000.

meant to do, or try to do. The only possible divergence was from poo-Combinations: ple who wished to do even more than

years,

BY S.K. LEE

was possible, and had the 1. Tai jue. idea that frenzy, might sharpen

2. Yut gaanfong.

action.

Defend The Island

3. Gong daaye wah.

A: Ngaw geh3.

5.

The Japanese occupation of this part of the world gave Red organisers the chance of a lifetime to train their men and sharpen their strategy. Keen and ruthless leaders, many of them fanatic for

Our decision to send our only "the cause" even more than

two well-armed divisions back to personal power, formed dead- France made it all the

more ly bands of guerillas ready necessary to take every possible

Island 7. to fight to the death for what measure to defend the they believed was independ- imminent dangers at home scomed &

against direct assault. Our most ence. They are now a virul-wo be parachute descents; or, ent thorn in the side of all

even worse, the landing of com- mobile constituted government. But paratively smalores which would that was only part of Mos rip up and disorganise our defence,

German tank cow's plan for domination of

as they had done when they got the entire Far East.

loose in France. In close contact with the new Secretary of State for Wa- [Mr. Eden), my thoughts B. and directions were Increasingly concerned with Home defence. Prime Minister to General Ismay. 18. vi, 40.

The main power springs and the real menace are the suave, academic gentlemen, super-trained in Marxist theory,-who-direct affairs from a safe distance. Such vultures have one of their main headquarters in Hong Kong, whose administration has taken no action against them. The names of many top Communists in the Colony are known to the police: also their where- abouts. Up to the present there is no law to deport them unless it can be proved that they are indulging in "subversive. activities," but this is a potential emergency, and the authorities know full well that the whole gang le engaged in subversive acti- vities, although maybe 'not provably. Is it wise to allow them to remain at their avowed task of undermining the structure of stable gov- ernment and driving, out the Western powers?

Been gaw' geh3?

Lesson 24

To reside. An

To live in.

Prime Minister to Gen. Ismay.

machine, the

who

rabbit

ho .came back,

•

All El Auja is to be demili-

21.v1.40.tarised. Alleiulia!

I understand that the trials were not entirely successful and the bomb falled to stick on tanka

A ile ECA for Japan will no which were covered with dust doubt make things little and mud, No doubt some more casier. sticky mixture can be devined. and Major Jeffries should per-

arvere.

1

#

That Dracula ship swooped on

hotel

Any chorlling by officials, who have Hong Kong taster than

been alothful in pushing this manager after A Shanghai bomb, over the fact that at pre-transient. sent it has not succeeded will be viewed with great disfavour

by me. auxiliary indicating con-

tinuance.

A room.

Big. Large. Great.

Small,

A sign of possessive.

One (that) which.

To keep looking at. To start al, To watch.

*One room.

To tell a lie.

My. Minc.

Whose?

Today's, A big one. Big ones. A small one, Small ones.

Jeung' seen' shaang' geh'. Mr. Jeung's. Gumyut geh3, Daaye geh3. Sal3 geh3. Conversation: A.

I should like to be informed upon A.

(1) the coastal watch and coastal batteries; (2) the gorg- ing of the harbours and defend. ed inlata [be the making of B. the landward defences]; (3) the troops held in immediate support of the foregoing; (4) A. the mobile columns and brigade

General Re groups; (5) the

serve....

cause

Neel gaan ook1 hai been' gaw" geh"? Gau shee hai geh'.

1

ngaw

Yee gahi „hrikut geh. Nay bay jaw? kui meh1?

Mhai, ngaw maaye jaw bay kui.

Whose house is this?

Formerly it was mine.

Now it is his.

Have you given ̄it (tó ̃him?”

No, I have sold it to him.

himt

Deem gaaye nay yeeoo Why did you have to sell it 1p „maaye bay1„kui neh1? Yun1 waingaw dungt tseen" shai,

Because I was in need of

money.

Nay yes gah hai' been1 Where are you living now? shucjue ah?

What are the ideas of C-in-C., B.

H.F., about Storm Troops? We baye always set our against this idea, but the GerA. nane certainly gained in the last war by adopting it, and this time it has been s Leading of their victory. There ought B. Ngaw yee gahi,moh to be at least 20,000

Storm Leven-

ook' jue. Troops or "Leopards" tumily called "Commandos drawn from existing units, ready to spring at the throat of any erall landings These officers and men should A. be armed with the latest equip ment, tommy guns, grenades, &t, and should be given great B. facilities in

motor-cycles and.

armoured fars,

descants.

My Principal Fear-

Over smug dinner tables the answer to that question||||| Is that as things are, "an eye can be kept on them," and 3r. Eden's plan of raising Local mass arrests made at any Defence Volunteers, which he had time when danger threatens. proposed to the Cabinet on May an immediate 13 met with One can hear the Malayan response in all parts of the coun authorities blandly saying try. I had always hankered for

Ngaw seung maaye yut gaan ook1, Gaw2 gåan1 hoh1‚m hoh' nch1?

Gaw* gaan gom” sai", Ngawm jung` jee*. Ngaw yecco daaye geh'

I have no house to five in now.

I want to buy a house.

Is that one all right?

That is so small.

I don't like it.

I want a big one.

Gaw

gaan ook you gay", daw1 gaan1

fong neh1?

How many rooms are there in

that house?

four small ones,

the same thing a year ago, the name "Home Guard." I had A. Saam gaan daaye gch Three big ones (and) although in face of today's indeed suggested it in October, murderous terror, they would Prime Minister to Secretary of prefer not to be reminded of State for War.

their self-assurance.

1039.

26.v1.40,

There can be no doubt in I don't think much of the nama anyone's mind that RussiaLocal Defence Volunteers" for has, a carefully worked out

say' gaan1 sai" goh".

"

plan for the annexation of about, or the public. Ad DO YOU

the entire Far East, and the mittedly it is almost impos

time is over-ripe for hitting sible to keep out malcontents KNOW back-before it is too late. who wish to enter Hong

HONG

KONG?

It does seem rather fronte Kong, and difficult to elect YOUR that the Colony is organis. those under strong suspicion, ing a defence force, with even if they could be appre- special constabulary, with hended. But in view of the the main purpose of putting spreading anxiety about the down carefully organised. In future, and the wives and ternal troubles-riots and in families who have already surrection which are, kping left for Home while the go- planned by persons alreadying, is good, it might be a Inside the Colony. It is of good plan if public statements course, easy to oversimplify were made without pre- "Dikend, Tharan- the problem facing the au Judicing security--to assure thorides, and they may in the rest of us regarding what savers. fact be doing more than they is being done about the rot deign to inform the Press tenness in our midst.

Can you re cognise whers

this, plature, was)

Proved Its Value

In the end

1

the "sticky" bombi was accepted as one of our besti

In China they Bettle a striko by settling the striker. Our friend at Po On should look into this.

Or as a keen observer said, in emergency weapons. We never Shanghai they seem to be adept- had to use it at home; but in Syria, ing a "Fire" or "Fire!" polley in where equally primitive conditions dealing with the unionists, prevailed, it proved its value.

Primo Minister to Minister of

Information.

20.vi.40

Although you mightn't think

It, there's a Welzmann at the

The Press and broadcast should be top in Jerusalem.

asked to handio air raids in a

cool way and on a diminishing The Dutch say they have the one of public interest. The facts same alm as the Security Coun- should be chronicled without un- cil. Only difference is, they're due prominance or headlines.

The people should be accustom- ed to treat air raids as a matter of ordinary routine. Localities affected should not be mentioned with

precision.

showing shattered houses

not be published unless there is something very peculiar about them, or to illustrate how well the Anderson shelters work. It must be clear that the

vnst

majority of people are not at all affected by any single air raid, and would hardly sustain any avil impression if it were not thrust before them. Everyone! should learn to take air raids

and air-raid alarms as if they were no more.. than thunder- storm... The Press should be complimented on their work so far in this matter.

As rumours grow of peace pro- posals and a message was sent to us from the Vatican through Berne I thought it right to send the following Minute, to the, For- elgn Secretary;

28.vi.40.

I hope it will be made clear to the Nundio that we do not desire to make any inquiries, as to terms of peace with Hitler, and that all ́our agents are strictly forbidden to entertain any such sug- gestions.

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