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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

French Encouraged To Fight On

Both Mr. Churchill and M. Reynaud' attached great im- portance to the message (re- corded in the last article) which the letter had received from President Roosevelt on June 13, 1940 encouraging tlie French to continue the fight, 11.K.$18.00

Mr. Churchill had appealed HK$30.00 to the President to allow the immediate, publication of HK$72,00 this message, saying: "It will, I am sure, decide the French to deny Hitler a patched-up I peace with Frynce,

THE next day arrived a tele-

TRON CURTAIN

JUSTICE"

of his senses.

Coated 60****

المر

By Winston Churchill

our now construction comes in

It crime doesn't pay, it doesn't matter. Few things, fo; these days,

continue, it could,

The Helona May Wun treated dbo only in the Brest poninsula and In wooded to a lecture on "The Man on or tonataingus reigns. like the the Blat" Ah, these untiring Vosges. The alternative for the Glenn Miller fans.. Fronch was surrender. Let -nimo,

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the

Marshalloid.

And if the Aflantje Pact werd General Brooke, after his fall streamlings like the Marshall with the French commanders, ndinti, it might help to get over having measured from his own the windy resistance. headquarters a scene which was ** getting, worse every hour, reported.

sonally convinced that America wil in the end, go to all lengths, at the and pt-tho-ypan. Here therefore, mock at the conception

for Suggested anthem definite practical and possibly of a, bridgehead, in Brittany. The but this moment is supremely critical for France, A declara declivo stop which can be Allied armles under Eisenhower, Western Union nations: tion that the United Stafen will,

taken at once, and 1 urge, most then an unknown American ir, riscossary, enter the war earnestly that you will weigh my colonel, bought it back for us later

Falling words. might save France.

The vast disorganlaod battle at high price, that, in a few days French resistance may have crumplext drow to its conclusion, all along the find we shall be left alone... Frunch front. It remains only to though the present Government recount the leader part which And I personally would never the British were able to play to send the Fleet across the General Brooks had won distinc

to the War Office and by telephone The Chinese Commos would resistan

beater

Foen euro Sun Fe's high-blockl In the referat to Dunkisk, and to Mr. Eden that the

roached in the struggle where opened by the Belgian surrender tents should be stopped, and

grandfather says, hồ the present Ministers no longer We had therefore chason him to remainder of the Briish-Expedi-Myrt have control of affairs and when command, the British troops, which tionary Force, how amounting to keeps n-parrot/boonuse he likes very easy, terms could be obtain remained In and all in 150,000 men, should be re-embark the way it talks. He suggests that ed for the

British Island by forcements until they should reached at once. On the night of June the parrot is the only living their becoming a masal State of sufficient numbers to require the 14, as I was thought to be obdurate rennire, Elted with the power

telephone Hitler Empire. A pro- presence of Lord Gort as an Army | he rang me up a

of speech that content to German, Government would. cor- Commandered on the 14th and preanid this view upon me. I trying to make a long story out which by luck and affort was opon, peat, just what it hears without. tainly be called Into being to make prace, and might present tho met Generala Weygand and could hear quite well, and after of it to a shaltered or nation.an

Nazi will,

a starving Georges,

almost irresistibia | Frenck and stated that the ten minutes I was convinced that t

The Dutch do not want a com-

case for entiro.rubmission to the ables were, no longer cap-} he was right and we must plate, break, will the U.N. Just a

The

Fate Of Fleet fate of the British Eject, as I have already mentioned to you, would be decisive.on the future of the United States, because it) it were joined to the Fleets of Japan, France and Italy and the

LEGEND

British French Armier Belgians Germans

SEVENTH ARMY:

He

7 DIVS.

the

Ghent

Brussels

gram from the President When an eminent Roman explaining that he could not Catholic ecclesiastic, with agree to the publication of his long record of courageous message to Reynaud. He him- Mr. action on behalf of his faith, self,

according to indulges in puerile confes Kennedy, had wisfied to do sions before # so-called

so, but the State Department, "People's Court", and admits while in fuil sympathy with to "cranes" which it would him, saw the gravest dangers. have been virtually impos- The President thanked me sible for him to commit, one for my account of the meet- is justified in assuming that ing at Tours, and compliment- he is not in full possessioned the British and French Governments on the courage This belief is strengthened of their troops. He renewed by the warning Cardinal the assurances about furnish- Mindszenty issued some ing all possible material and weeks previous to his arrest supplies; but he then said he that any alleged confession had told Ambassador Ken- from him should be dis-nedy to inform me that his regarded. The spectacle of message of the 14th was in prisoners engaging in mass no sense intended to commit self-incriminating confessions and did not commit the Gov- is peculiar to countries be-ernment of the United States hind the "Iron Curtain" to military participation. Nowhere else in the world There was no authority under does one find accused per- the American Constitution except sons arraigned upon fantas-Congress which could make any tic charges, and whose trial commitment of that nature. bore particularly in mind has been prejudiced in ad-question of the French Fleet had at his desire, vance by all the publicity

for the dollars, and other machinery at the disposal of the State, meek-purpose of supplying food and refugees in TRANS-ASIATIC AIRLINES (SIAM) LTD ly and in considerable detail, France. Finally he assured me

confessing to the charges that he appreciated the sign made against them, and, in ificance and weight or wint I had many instances actually com- set forth in my message. peting with one another to Abuse Of Authority establish their own guilt.

This

was a disappointing tele

our table wo all This phenomenon was ob-gram: Around served in successive purges fully understood the risks the of leading Communists with- President ran of Being charged

with in the Soviet Union, in the with exceeding his constitutional authority. and consequently of of Cardinal being defeated on this issue at the recent trial Mindszenty and his co-accus- approaching, election on which our ed, in Budapest, and, within fate, and much more, depended. was convinced that he would the past few days, in the give up life itself, to say nothing trial of 15 leaders of the Pro- of public office, for the cause of Sofla world freedom, now in such awful testant Church, in Human nature being much peril. But what would have been the same the world over, and the good of that? numerous Russians, Poles, Czechs and Bulgars having successfully registered at tempts to extort confessions especially confessions im- WITHplicating their families and friends by known methods of torture, it must be assum-I ed that some technique un- known to the civilised West- ern World, is employed by Soviet or Communist-con- trolled tribunals.

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Some light is thrown upon the methods of torture.em- ployed by the M.V.D. in. Kravchenko's book, "I Chose Freedom" which now forms the subject of a libel action in à Paris Court. Savage TEL. 26051 beatings, long periods with-

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In my reply, I tried to arm the President with suma arguinants which he could use to others about the danger to the United States if This was no matter of sentiment, Europe fell and Britain,„„foiled but of life and, Former Naval Person to Prosl

President 14-15,YL40. Hoosevelt.

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THE OPPOSING FORCES 13 May

Loading Started i

Orders were given accordingly.. He was repleased from French command. The back-leading of great quantities of sides, equip

ment and men began. The leading elements of the Canadian Division which had landed got back inte their ships, and: the 62nd Division, which apart from its 167th Bri- gade

had not yet

been committed

to action, retrested on Brest. No British troops operating under the

[-w]th; }

Monks fined for oplum smok- ing., Poppy-buddhis197

Swirled in the tide which

sweeps all things away, Nations, and actors. but a few

lines, say

The curtain falls...and thero

is no more play.

Their future? But a dream of

yesterday!

Tenth French Army word Popular feeling with regard to drawn, but all else of ours took the hotels: never have so many

to the ships at Brost, Cherbourg,

St. Male and St. Nazaire. On June owed so much to go few.

.16.our troops; were relansed-frum

the orders of the Tenth French

Doc's mystery Was anyway.

Army, and next day, when Rafferty lines any way carried out a further withdrawal

preity,

Good time girls are 'having a

to the South, they moved towards bad time, in Lancashire, Yet wo

Cherbourg. The 167th Brigade,

after heavy fighting, was ex are, fold that miscegenations is the tricated that night, and retiring in hope of the world.

their lorries, embarked during the

night of the 17th-18th. On June 17

It was announced

Government

that: tho had asked for

Pothin armistice, ordering all French

to cause fighting, without eyes communicating this information to our troops operating with them,

NEW POSSESSION

A

FOR BRITAIN

Aden, February, 22,

The British adminisration of the

General Brooke was told to come Aden Protectorate today 18- ¡sued a notice declaring the away with all the meri he could cabaran Islands, off the coast of emburk and any, equipment could save.

the Yemen, a British passession. For many years the Islands We repeated now on *.

consider

[havo-beeng,under British, civil ablo scale, though with, derger rule, But, their sovereignty ho

Vessela, the Dunkirk óvacuation repeat been contested by. Forty-two thousand Polish troops Britain and the Yemen.

repeatedly

British who refused to capitulate cut their quarters said the Yemen relin-

quarters way to the sen and were carried) our ships to-Britain. The Gerra qulated: ber cision to the Islands persued our forces at all together with her claim to Aden points Protectorate, following the they Anglo Yemenite treaty, of, 1934.--- Brearguard United Press. ten miles south of the harbour on

the th

word, in

were within the when the e

The LASE

the morning of the: 18th. ship, left at,s

three millen o

of the bart

wards of 3,000, men perished. The Very few prisoners were caugair attack by the devotion of the

all there were evacuated from

all

#total

rest were rescued under continued

troops and 310. guns total When this news came to me in with the Poles, of 178,000 men, the quiet Cabinet, Room during the This reflects grea

embarkation star, saying, a

The newspapers have got

eral Arbat credit on Gen-afternoon d forbade its publication,

of whom the chief, General de Tite enough dlanster for to-day at

British

fish officer, died as I had futended to release as the theshows.a. few days later, but ovents crowded upon us so black

Fanbhomieward voyago as ·

result of his exertions. great resources of German in-""

In-, edn the Brittany ponins

peninsula, to, bd- At Brent and the Western ports and so quickly that I forgot to lift am sure to disappointed.

a non-dustry, overwhelming. san power held jointly by the French and the evacuations were numerous, the bun and, atives some years

would be in Hiller's hands, lie. British troops on a ling ruining The German

your

will, Almerican public.

azki Congreep, but events, are moving dowaward at wadze they all pass Pace

American beyond the control of poblic opinion when af last it La ripened. Have you considered what offors Hitler may choose to make to France? He may pay Sur redder the Fleet Intact and will leave you Alsace,Lorraine. or alternatively: If you do not give me your ships, I will destroy your towns." I am per-

and them by used to make him write of

I

Boir

might, of course, use it with a

right or becama public. Ona merciful, moderation. On the Rennes. He ordered, him to deploy Eul incident occurred on the 17th other hand, ho might not

at St. -Nazairé, "Tha 20,003-10

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trical-prohibited. Inoar de on-board, was bombed and set of rajusige sights in Hong Kong happen

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out that this

this line of de: states would be able to prepata

divisions. He at, Jeant 15.

roughly North and South through ansporte was her attack on the before the knowledge, of this hors

men

Long before the 2000, WAS 150 kilometres long and fire just as she was about to leave.bo China Mall"

agains: it. If we go down, you may have a United States, of Was Extrope under the Naal com-

A m1283 of flaming oll spread over

told that the instructions lid the water round the ship, and dp.. (To Be Continued Tomorrow)

mand for batter armed than the calving met bo regarded us

New World.

rue, that on Juno f1 at

know well, Mr. President, that Briar Raynaud and. I. had agreed your eye will already have dras Line" across

-to-draw-a-kind of Torrca the foot of searched these depths, but I foel I have the right to place on thing, however, was

the Brittany peninsula, Every- record the vital manner the damo

dinolving which American interests are at what it was worth, never

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for reached

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tors desire? That seerns to I It may be doubted whether be almost the only explana- any such tortures would have tion of these fantastic "con- reduced Cardinal Mindszenty fessions before the “People's to the craven mentality he ¿ybunalska, in counters, be- displayed before the Buda-hind the Iron Curtain" pest tribunal. There is left; A Aboast an [these trials, the suspicion that the "con- prominent: American or Bri- fessions" have been obtained fish diplomats have been by the "we of some insidious mentioned as co-conspiratorp drug. During the war new in fantastid plots to over. forms of hypnotic drugs throw the Govémments, of were employed for the treat foster spionages: black ment of individuals suffering marketing and treason... from war neurosis or psy-: It should be possible for

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