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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

CONVULSIONS IN

WE must now quit the field

FRANCE

By Winston Churchill

of military disaster for 24354the convulsions in the French

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refused with indignation the 808 reation of a military surrender, "He would never accept the cast ing of this ahama upon the banners of the French Army." The Act of Surrender, which he doemod

and

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a soldier to dominate the duty. constituted Government of the Re public, and thus to bring the whole resistance not only of France but of her Empire to an ond, contrary to the decision of his political and lawful Chief,

Apart from those formalitica and talic about the honour of the

Good Morning

Pesce delegate Professor Wu wasn't able to meet the Communist lenders in Hong Kong, but when he loft, his face was of the right ideological colour.

"American' Ties with the World:" Let's hope they tone down those naming sunsets a bit.

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It is not easy to establish

The former, American club at the exact sequence of events. The British War Cabinet sat

of the State, to which leal point. An armistico formally become a milk bar. There is no the French Gov- truth in the report that all the H.K.930.00 almost continuously, and mes-tween the Premier and the Gon-Perative, must be that of the Gov- French Army there stood a pract Rainbow Corner in London has

interview the army he commanded would entered into by sages were sent off from time cralissime at a stormy

before the Council meeting. Roy dutifully conform In eo acting crament would mean the end of the ladies who used to throng the war for France. By negotiation pavements there have yolunteered as decisions

were naud offered. Weygand written General Weygand, to time taken. As they took two brauthority from the Government to sincere and unselfish man, behaved part of the country might be left as milkmaids,

and part of the Army unoccupied, and three hours to transmit in order the "Coase Fire, Waygand wrongly. He asserted the right of free; whereas, if the war

H.K.$73.00

MARRIAGE AARON-HARVEY The wedding of Ellen Elizabeth Aaron to Edwin James Harvey will take

place on Saturday, 20th February 1940, at St. Theresa's Church Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, at 10 un with Nuptial Mass. Reception will be held immediately after wards at the Parochial Hall, St. Theresa's Church (aldo).

all friends Issued but cordially invited.

No invitations have been

PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE

cipher, and probably another hour to deliver the telephone: was freely used by the of- ficials of the Foreign Office to convey the substance to our Ambassador; and he also used the telephone frequently in reply. Therefore there are overlaps and short-circuits which are confusing. Events were moving at such a speed on both sides of the Channel

that it would be misleading are to present the tale as if it

though a

CANTONESE BY RADIO

Vocabulary:

BY S.KLEE

were an orderly flow of argu- 138. (hoi) hoy

137. (shaan) shaan1 ment and decision.

the new

M. Reynaud reached seat of Government from Tours on 138. (moon),moon the evening of June 14.

He re-

ceived the British Ambassador 139. (to),doh Probably a greater degree bell informed him

o'clock, Sir Ronald Camp- that hin Ma-

abo

of honest individual opinionjesty's Government intended to 140. /(yup) „yúp

was voiced at the Legislative insist on the terms of the Agree- Council's discussion of the ment of March 28, binding both 141.

Hotels Ordinance Bill

parties not to make than

any ferma

Lesson 25

To open.

To start

To begin.

To shut.

A door.

(ch'ut) choot ("oot" as in "foot")

with the enemy. He also offered to provide all the necessary ship- ping in the event of the French Combinations: Government resolving to move to 1. Moon hau. North Africa.

un

de.

4.

Yup lai.

Yup hui

is usually heard at meetings of that august body. The impact of public opinion had. however slightly, shaken

On the morning of the 15th 2. Hoy,moon. members out of their usual take-it-or-leave-it attitude. Reynaud again received the Am- The distinguished figure of bassador, and told him that he had

<Joelded to divide the 3. Shaani moon. definitely Mr. P. S. Cassidy, honour-

half, Government In

and to centre of authority able and confirmed exponent establish

would of private enterprise, was in yond the sen. Such a polley

with it tho removal obviously His adrils-obv the forefront.

of the French Fleet to ports be- 5. sion: "I ought to be stand-yond German power. Later that ing here in a white sheet mo President Roosevelt's re- confessing that I have sin-ply to Reynaud's appeal of June

13 was received. Material aid, ned against the light. I am

Congress approved, was offered; all for freedom in business but there was no question of any as in other walks, of life.... American entry into the war. The Yet I find myself partly res- Ministers having now all reached a bill which Bordeaux, the Council was sum- ponsible for seeks to deprive the hotel moned for the afternoon. owner of his right to charge what the business will bear."

morning

Lifelong Dislike

5. Choot lai.

7. Choot' hut3. 8. Choot P.

Conversation:

A.. Been1 gaw dah2,moon

h?

A.

A degree. A unit.

Classiller for doors, windows,

bridges.

To enter,

In.

To issue. To exert.

Out.

Doorway. Entrance.

To open the door.

To shut the door.

To

come in.

To go in.

To come out.

To go out.

To go in and out.

Who is knocking at the door?

,nay moon lah1. Seen! shaang" wun' been! Whom do you want, sir? gaw" ah"?

Mun seen1 shaang1 hai? shue" mah"?

Mun seen shaang' ~choot1·jawa hui3 ̈ ̈

Tsingyuplai tsaw hah lah1

Is Mr. Mun in?

Mr. Mun has gone out.

Please come in and take a scat.

Ngawm duk1‚haan tsaw lok!.

I haven't time to sit down.

Kui faan1 lai gaw2jun When he comes back. shee,,

He added that hotel own-

General Waygand had been for B. Ngaw. M goyl ers might protest that the some days convinced that ali

hoy! He bill would drive them to further resistance was vair

force the ruin, but the facts were that therefore wished to "in many cases they have French Government to ask for an A. taken unfair advantage of armilles while the French Army

retained enough discipline and B. those residents who have strength to

to maintain internal or had no possibility of obtain-der on the morrow of defeat. Hel ing housing accommodation." had a profound, lifelong me

dislike the Parliamentary regime Opposing the passage of of th

the Third Republic. As an ardently the bill, Sir Man-kam Lo religious Catholic, he saw in the nevertheless granted the rula which had overwhelmed his post-war principle of price country the chastisement of Cod control: "that a few cannot for its abandonment of the Chris- be allowed unduly to enrichtian faith. He therefore used the

Power of his

B. supreme military themselves at the expense of position far beyond the limits the community by taking an which his professional

responal. great unfair advantage of a short-bilties,

they 46

were or required. He cont age in the community....The justified

fronted the Prime Minister with important question is what declarations that the French an is the minimum price which les would fight no more, and that would give the seller a rea- į It time stop a horrible and

Was sonable return: not what is useless massacre before general the minimum price which a anarchy supervened.

on the other buyer can afford."

hand, realised that the battle in Despite this speaker's op- France was over, but still hoped position to some main pas-to carry on the war from Africa sages in the new ordinance, and the French Empire and with A.

the French Fleet. None of the that is the crux of the mat- eight other States overrun by ter. No system of economy Hitler had withdrawn

from the

the B. can be static and reactionary war, Physically, in their Own and expect to survive-least lands, they were gripped, but from of all capitalism. Modern overseas their Governments had industrialists and leaders of

the flag flying and the alive. commerce

themselves.

"Paul Reynaud,

Ketonal

спие

This, while it left the Army, whose chiefs had refused to fight any longer, free to lay down its arms wherever it was in contact with

m goy!,nay geeoo,kui Please tell him to pay wun?

ngaw lahi, Ngaw,you deel yeh tung kui gong,

Huis been1 shue3 wun*

nay ah?

me a

visit,

I have something to talk to him

about.

Where will he fad you?

No. 7, the next street.

1

Ngaw hul loks.

I'm going.

M goyinay shaant moon lab1.

Picaso shut the door.

Dai,yee teeoo gaaye), tsut1 hoh

M yum lok. M goy1

accept without wished to follow their exampl thinking (in the Western and with much more solid re- world, if not here) restric sources. He sought a solution on tions, employment conditions he lines of the Dutch capitulation. A. Tsing yum bool'čha and taxation that their

'seen' Jah1.. fathers would explosively have refused even to con- sider. However much one

lok.... may hate Government con- breathe, a word about the Tsing taing?. trol of business, the fact re tragedy until then, unless a A. Hoh haang. mains that the ruin and brief statement is issued to shortages of the post-war them. world have inevitably result This occurred again yester- ed. in controls which few if day when a Cathay Pacific any private enterprises Airways Dakota crashed, on would ever have imposed on a hillside near Shaukdwan. DO YOU

There is still A police officer endeavoured much left to be desired in to prevent reporters and the current bill, but at least it is a step in the right direcproaching the site, and de from p- photographers

manded that one camera be handed over to him, Dakota Tragedy. The matter has been air- Every time a serious acclsed in these columns before, dent occurs in Hong Kong, and this is to give fair warn some over-officious indiving once again to all con- dual, armed with what he cerned that accredited em believes is complete author ployees of this newspaper ity, endeavours to banish the will continue the practice of oognise where Press from the scene "until observing and recording all this picture: the authorities have come such matters, in the public takent The pleted their enquiries.""":"This, interest, until some emer- awar la In Paga

Daven. may take several days or gency measure is even weeks, and, presumably Legislative Council to pre- the newspapers are not to vent it.

tion..

KNOW

YOUR

HONG KONG?

Can you

Please have a cup of tea first.

No. Thank you.

Good bye.

sand coollo

wero

Thoro is as yet nothing con- continued from overseas, all who shad-tintes ucpod-from France erete as to why that

would be controlled, directly, was kidnapped, the Germa and millions Frenchmen would be carried off

to Germany as prisoners of war without the protection of any

*****, This was a substantial i

·

Mao to meet Shao. Hao, haol

Monty on tour: Thorn'll always

but it belonged to the boa Switzerland-providing the Government of the Republic and Swiss watches, of course.

not to the Commander-in-Chies of

the Army to decide upon it.

Sinister Figure

-

Sovle!mình?

Simple Simon seems to be after

•

*

Woygand's position that because the "ple" man once again. the army under his orders would in his opinion fight no more, the and French Republle must give in order its armed forces to oboy, an order which he was certainly

to carry

out, finds no

to

So those hotel tolograms Nanking wore, after all, only hul..

Lo, our Legislative Counell hath

ation in the law and practice spoken, and that yardstick tha

of

elvilised States or in the pro-hotels kept talking about can be. fessional honour of a soldier. In used to measure

had his remedy, He could have re-

theory at least the Prime Ministar

DABpace.

plied: "You are affronting the

Constitution of the Republic. You

up the

floor

Jockey Club un- the law gets ra-

Break a law and you get fined. are dismissed from this moment But when the from your command. I will obtain witting doos 90, the necessary sanction from the defined. President."

Unfortunately M. Reynaud was

not sufficiently sure of his position.

The Defence Force now num-

Behind the presumptuous General bere more than 1,600. Well, at loomed the illustrious Marshal Balaclava a mere 000 made the

the centre of the band of world wonder.

Fetalinistors whom Reynaud (

had so recently and so improvi- dently brought into the French Government and Council, and who Gover were all resolved to stop the war. Behind

these again loomed the

sinister figure of Laval, who had Installed himself at Bordeaux City Hall, surrounded by a clique of

agitated Senators and Deputies

Laval's

merit of

not

had the forca

France must

Ger-

only make peace with many, she must change sides; she

the сол must become. the ally of queror, and by her loyalty and services against the common- foe her in- the Channel, envo scross tereats and her provinces and finish up

On

the victorious "alde. Evidently M Reynaud, exhausted

by the ordeals through which he had passed, had mot the life or strength for so

have

would indeed

sonal Ordeal, arching a per-

taxed the resources

resources of an Oliver Cromwell or of a Clemen- ceau, of Stalin or of Hitler.

In the discussions on the after noon of the 15th, at which-the President the Republie wan present, Reynaud, having explain- od the situation to his colleagues, |

Marshal

Petala to persuado General Weygand to the

appealed

Aly Khan soon.....

"Heck!—Corned best again???1";

Cabinet view. He could not have conditions of armistice would be, chosen a worse envoy. The Mar- remaining entirely free to reject ahal loft the room, There was an them. It was not, of course, possi

en thig slippery interval. After a while he return-ble to embark ed with Weygand, whose position slope and stop. The maro ho now supported."

Slippery Slope

"that the French Gor- nouncement Government were asking the Gor- mans on

on what terms an armilatic would be 'granted ·

was sufficient In Itself to destroy what remained of

the morale of the French Army. However, combined with the

At this serious Juncture M. Chautemps, an important Minister, slid in an insidious proposal which wore the aspect of a compromiss demonstration which they and was attractive to the waverers, nessed from Petain and Weygand, He stated

the Chautemps suggestion had a the In name of the Left- ist elements of the Cabinet that deadly effect on the majority. It Reynard was right in affirming Government how they would view

was agrood to ask is Majesty's. that an agreement with the enemy

was 'impossible, but that it would such a step, informing them at elances would the surrender of

4

be prudent to make gesture the same time that in no eleeum- which would units France,

They should ask the Germans what the

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