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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1940, ..

|WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

AT the end of June, 1940, the Chiefs of Staff, through General Ismay, had suggested to me at the Cabinet that I should visit the threatened sectors of the East and South coasts. Accordingly I devot- ed a day or two every week to this agreeable task, sieëp- ing when necessary in my I had every train, where facility for carrying on my regular work and was in con- stant contact with Whitehall:

A

Round Of

Visits

By Winston Churchill

fewer than 12 tanks (!) able to participate.

New Forces

were)

All the afternoon I drove with General Brooke, who commanded this front. His record stood high. Not only had he fought the deel- sive flank-battle near Xpres dur."

9th. Yoa.can scertain the the hour from the Admiralty. was so glad to hear that you wure making all preparations for the unloading, reception and distribution of these rifles. At least 100,000 ought to reach the troops that very night, or in the sina!! hours of the following

the

bidding the Straits to our warallips

commanding but also of shortest roule across them.

Good Morning

A correspondent. ciltleises the Inadequate bus services in Kow- loon, In his opinion, it could at least have been arranged for them, to sweep past the stops tu pairs.

•

The orders which I had given In June for arming the Dover pro- mantory with guns that uld fire across the Channel had borne

the SAMA The low someone is trying to ftult, though not on

ban personal in- introduce In Amserlen to scale. I look n terest in the whole of this busi-public-spinion polls will prob→ I visited Dover several ably bb deeinred unconstitutional. thies in these duxious summer On the other hand, it might be months. In the Citadel, of. the all right for Congress to enact Castle Inge underground galleries an excess-prophets tax.

the and chambers had been out th chalk, and there was a wide bal: copy from which, on clear days the shops or France, now in the hands

speed the dose had ejuftled himself with an-Special trains our of the chewy,

the Humber and many sible landing places. The

ho

ular Arminess and dexterity, in o! unimaginable and confusion, when in

circumstances

Canadian Division, soon to be difficulty the new forces we liud !

sent to France during the three weaks of June.

First

life. These connee-

reinforced to a corps by the division sent to Iceland, did an exercise for me in Kent. I As was to be expreted, examined the landward de- Hong Kong, traders and busi-fences of Harwich and Dover. One of my earliest visits was to ness men in other parts of the world are starting to deal the 3rd Division, commanded by officer General Montgomery, an with the Chinese Commun-

whom I had not met before. My The 3rd it was reported yester-wife came with me. ists.

Division day that there are trictions on ships which wish Brighton. It had been given the my unbroken wartime association

no res

in clear the colony for ports held by the Reds, and no ban n exports other than gen- rally prohibited articles.

Also, in arcupled territory, foreign capitalists are finding that their holdings have beer spared from confiscation, and that they are being allowed to continue operations, with a certain number of restric- tons which they believe are temporary.

in fact, the word is going round that the Chinese Com- munists are proving the ex- ception to the rule. They do not seem to be dominated by Moscow. After taking over, they have not massacred and They burned and purged.

see the importance of trad ing with countries overseas, and protect the foreigner's property. China is so differ- individualistic. It ent, so

not couldn't happen here, when they saw what happen- ed to Shanghai. And so on. Well, perhaps it is all true, but it would be most unwise to take these indications at their face value. Certainly the Communists must have trade with other countries, and probably always will, but sooner or later this will be conducted solely by gov. os in ernment monopolies, Russia, and so will internal industry and commerce. When that time comes, for eign business men need not expect to retain their hold- ings.

It is of course possible that a number of years may pass before the new rulers of China feel themselves cap able of conducting their economy alone, and overseas interests may therefore be protected for some time come. It is obvious, how ever, that this will be only a

to

Wits

stationed

near

priority in re-equipment, and hurt been about to sull for France when the French resis tance ended.

General

Montgomery's head- quarters were at Laneing College: near which ho showed me a small exercise of which feature was a flanking movement of Brengun-carriers, of which he could at that moment only muster After this we seven or eight,

I also had personal. link with Alan Brooke through his two gal- ant brothers--the friends of my carly military tions and memories did not de- cide my opinion on the grave mat- selection; by they formed a personal foundation upon which with Alan Brooke was inaintatved and ripened.

ters of

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distribute them aid the amul- tton According to a plan worke out beforehand exactly. directed from the tanding-part

A Child

again. com-

Our errant printers Welsh Colony's "Toe munity..." The heel of Achilles?

And then-GY-EI "mortal memory of St: Dayk. Loks as if our days are m- bered.

"Hord buil

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Admiral Humpay, who command. by some high officer thoroughlygil, was a friend of mine. He was w the sun af a colonet of the 4th It would acquainted with it.

Hussars under whom I had served arem likely that you would em- In my youth, and I had often seen coaxially distribution to the him as a chill on the Barrarki against the door to crack

phasing

districts, so that all

tho

Home Guard in the danger areas Square at Aldershot. When three the should be the first served. Per-years before the war he had re-

Chler of Staff to the Home

as many RES you need. Bounce them lightly ahells."-Advice in feature.

Right. Give

one

the

syndiculed of those

hapa you would be good enough signed his position red through eggs, honey, and stand clear,

to let me know beforehand what you decide.

A difference with its Commander- In-Chief, it was to me that he had

ter we settled Мел

reason

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for

It seems definite that the 0.9. the to reduce will contine strength of her armed forces in

An American has won # wager with to impe Horhet's Nest

come to seek advice. I had long by hanging on

To particular When the ships from America | talk with sim, and together with one hand for two hans. There

the Dover Fortress Commander was approached our shores with their We were four hours together in

priceless arms, special train were visited our rapidly improving de-this; he just found blouself at a

loose end. the motor-car on this July after.

waiting in all the ports to receive fauces.

and As the months of July we seemed to be in their cargoes. 1940,

The Home Guard noon.

and

of the methods agreement

in every county, in every town, in i August passed without any dinos- ourselves down every village, sat up all through the nights to receive them.

with increasing assurance that we and women worked night and day could make a long and hard fight. Chinn, Wot, no Marines Lo Me were borne in protect him from the Com- making them fit for use. By the Our gains of strength,

The munists? to day. an armed upon us from day rees end of July we wers

the entire population laboured to nation, so far as parachute of air-

red lust limit of its alrength, and felt borné landings were concerned.

rewarded when they fell asleep We had become a "hornet's nest.

after their toll or vigil by a grow Anyhow, if we had to go down fighting (which I did not antici ing sense that we should have tinte and that we should win. All the pale), a lot of our men and some

had Brooke wombi wounds in their beaches now bristled with defences

of various kinds. Tav whole "Have country was organised in defen-

Home Defence. After the neces sary consultations with others, The central

approved the Secretary of State for War's proposal to place Brooke in command of the Home Forces in succession to General Ironside, Ironside accepted his retirement with the soldierly dignity which on all occasions characterised his actions.

drove together along the coast through Shoreham and Hove ti we came to the familiar Brighton front, of which 1 had so many schoolboy memories.

During the invasion menace for

year and half

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LEOPOLDTM“SORRY, SIR, THIS IS, AS FAR AS I CAN GUIDE YOU,SIR"

VICTORY BY AUG 18 430 m

OR BUST

Hotel, walch stands opposite the Home Armies, We dined in the Royal Albion arganised and

In

Copyright in a cranizar

Uno

Conjugation of the verb "UNO."

Elveti

Bulle They won't Vacu Ungamous

An attractive girl and a plain. middle nged spinster were wall-

1

ing for a taxi the other evening. a cigarette," said the girl. "What, smoke in public

EX-

Five localities. The factories cialmed the woman. "Why, I'd

poured out their weapons. By

sooner kiss the first man who "SD strect." the end of each month we had nvd

down the cano 200 new tanist The fruils of the would I said the girl, "but have Anterican "Act of Faith" kad boch cigarette while you're gathered.

Ing."

Live Or Die

The whole trained professional British Army and its Territorial comrades drifted and exerelved from morn til night, and longed to meet the for. The Home Guard over-topped the million mark, and when rifles were lacking grasped lustily the shotgun, the sporting rifle, the private. pistel, or, when there was no firearm, he pike and the club, No Fifth Column exist- ed in Britain, though a few spica were carefully rounded up and examined. What few Communists there were lay low. Everyone elke gave all they had to give.

When Ribbentrop visited Rome in September he said fo Cinno: The English territorial defence ja non-existent. A single German division will suffice to bring about a complete collapse." This merely shows his Ignorance. I have often wondered, however, what would have happened ir 200,000 German storm.Gronpa had actually` ́estub= flated themselves, ashore,

wait-

to put Mérely for Bob Hope in an appearance at the Lundon Palladium. huge sums have been offered. Money for old hope?

it wig

The massacre would have been on both sides grim and great. commanded the hands. The arrival of the Best There world have been nether

and theritifloriristalment of the 300,000. 300

merey nor quarter. They would end of the pier. The hotel was when he had become C.I.G.S. we rifles for the Home Guard (albeit have used Terror, and we ware entirely empty, a great deal of continued together for three and a with only about 60 cartridges prepared to go all lengths. evacuation having taken place; half years until victory was won. apicer, of which wo ared only tended to use the slogan "You can but there were still a number of I shall presently narrate the bene-issue 10, and no factories yet set always take one with you."

derived from his in motion) enabled us to transfer even calculated that the horrors to

"This Yankee power' stuff fɔr people airing themselves on the fits which

advice in the decisive changes of 300,000 303 British-tyne rifles to such a scene would in the last 1 ...

the navy may be the goods- beaches or the parade. amused to see a platoon of the command in Egypt and the Middle the rapidly-expanding formation

resort turn the scale in the United

but give me grog any day? Stater. Grenadier

East in August, 1942, and also of the Rogulur Army. Guards making a sund- the heavy disappointment which I At the seventy-fives" 175 min

But none of these emotions was bag machine-gun post in one of had to inflict upon him about the guns), with their 1,000 rounds put to the proof, Far out on the This was a time when the kiosks of the pier, he often command of the cross-Channel in- aptece,

like those

fastidious experts grey waters of the North Seit and equally good to live or die. where in my childhood

preacutly turned their nosos up. the Channel coursed and patroller World Copyright reserved. Re- temporary reprieve, the localidnilyed the antics of the perform vision "Operation Overlord

There were no limbers and no the faithful, eager flotillas peering, production, even partially, in any Communists having learned

immediate means of procuring through the night. High in the language, strictly prohibited. more ammunition. Mixed callbes) air soared the fighter pilots or Exclusive rights in Hong Kong 1 long tenure as chairman of complicats operatland.

But

waited

surenta at a moment's notice bý ""China Mail". the Chiefs of Staff Committee would have none of this, and around their excellent machines. To Be Continued TomprroW){ during the greater part of the war düting åll 1940 and 1941 these 300 and his work as G.I.G.S, enabled | "Seventy-fives", were a great addi- him to render services of the tion to our military strength för highest order, not only to the Home Defence. British Empire, but also to the Allied Cause. Theno volumes will record occasional differentes he tween us, but also an overwhelm- of agreement, and ing mensura

will witness to a friendship which I

I cherish.

ing leas. It was lovely weather. from the lessons of early hail very good talks with the Bolshevist mistakes. After Centrot anil enjoyed my ouling 1917 in Russia the elimina thoroughly. However: tion of private enterprise (Action this Day.) was carried out with ruth- Fully Mobile

less zeal. Production fell:

come

back to stay, but as soon as served its exponents had

seriously, and it was decid-Prime Minister to Secretary of ed to revive capitaliam par- Btate for War."

3.vit.40 tially. Many people thought I was disturbed to find the 3rd the old system had

Division spread along 30 miles of coast, Instead of being, ma had imagined, held back cancon- irated. in reserve, ready to move ainst any serious head of in- against vasion. But much

more astonlihing was the fact that the Infantry of this division, which is otherwise fully mobile, are not provided with the busen reces Bary to mure them, to the point of

This action. •provision of buscs, walling always real and close at han to-casential to all

their purpose a few years later, they were liquidated.

China

indeed be may "different," but it is impos sible for any student of Com- munism to believe that it. ever deviates from its pur- pose for very long. It will modify and improvise and pretend not to exist, but it never loses sight of its goal. If China tried to put into practice ¤ basically nonTM Marxist form of Communism, cari anyone believe that Moscow would permit the regime to continue?

Certainly we should tradé with North China, but it Jai well to know the type people with whom we have to deal.

CUBAN BREAK WITH RUSSIAP

of

mobile units, and to none more than the 3rd Division while. apread about the coast.

Con

I heard the same complaint from Portsmouth that the troops thora had not got their transport ready and clone at

band sidering the rest meanes

.of. transport,

and bath lorries, which

are in this, there are country, and the large numbers

1944.

Rifle Convoys

Anxious Summer Arrangements were devised and men were drilled to run them p on planks into lorries for move- mont. When you are lighting for Daring this month of July existence any cannon is better than no gakhon at all, and; the American weapons in considerable

were safely brought French "seventy-five," dilhough quantilles

cross the Atlantic. Thin secinted out-thated by the Briush_26-

vital to mo. 10

that I

pounilor and the Germani-Bald gun-|| Isnutd reliurated, injunctions for care in howlizer, was still 4 splendid their transportation and reemption, weapon.

Wo had watched with attention Prime Minister to Secretary of ***

Stato for War.

7.VI1:40. the growth of the German heavy have asked the arrangements during August and September. batteries along the Channel const

I

make very special

for bringing, in your rifle con- by far the strangest concentration VOYB. They are sending four of this artillery was around Calain destroyers far out to meet them; and Cape "Cris-Nez, with and all should arrivo during the apparent purpose not only of for

DO YOU

of drivers bright back from KNOW

the BFF, it

It should bo possible

to remedy these deficiencies at YOUR

onge. I hope at any inty that

the G.D.C. dru nulstön will told today to fake up, as he would like to do, the large num-, ber of buses which are even now .........plying.....

„for "pleasure... traillé, up and down the aca front At

HONG KONG?

the Necretary off #linynna; March 1.

Stato for War recommended that Sedator Antonio Martinez Ear General Brooke should replacegognise wher gydsterally petition at the Curandinoral frenside th commind of this picture.v Senate to recommend the sever our Home Fatter. On July 10, ji taken? The anes of Cubady relations, within the course of my conubúðar vous: la ati a

Jaspection of the Invasion sectors,, | Geven.“

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