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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK Good Morning

THEIR FINEST HOUR

In reviewing the measures taken in June and July. 1940, to forestall a possible German Invasion, Mr. Churchill recalls that in 1914 he had formally de- clared that the Navy could at that time guarantee Bri- tain against an enemy land-

ing.

BUT now there was the air."

What effect. had this sove- reign development produced upon the invasion problem? Evidently if the enemy could dominate the narrow seas, both, North and West of the

Mastery Of The Air

By Winston Churchill

Another Russian atrocity.

Timber supplies have been short, so the Minister of Forestry. F. Muntovilov, has been fired." mye the London "Daily Mall,”

that my advisers and I deemed. 'the East const MOTO likely to be attacked during July. and August then the South coast. of chance of There was in fact no elther anshult during these two months: As will presently be des- cribed, the German plan was to India may produce penicillin. that any large force of tran- In July there was growing talk invade across the Channel with That should help them deal with

(4,000 to 5,000 the Sikh. sports could be brought to the and anxiety on the subject hoth medium ships

Wo craft, and Channel ports without

British Government tons) and small our inside the being aware of it, or that any and at large. In spite of ceaseless now know that they never hud

reconnaissance and all the ad- any hope or intention of moving, of bombs from Mains to Mon- system of mining would pre-

the Baltic vent our sweepers from clear- vantage of air photography, no an army from

attention

How-

It la now possible of By 10,000 in large tran- cow in five hours. The figure from

And

invasion from

mean that

In

Straits of Dover, by superior Any Womp the Straitsintoniha:Chygnal-bad-targetere thinking rently bumang

ing a way for attack on such evidence had yet reached us of North Sea por aid they make Moscow to Maino is not available. transports on passage.

Jarge assembiles of transport in sports; still less ever, it would be well if the the Baltle or the Rhine or Scholdt any plans for an

You Inny know how to post Chiefs of the Staff gave their harbours, and we were sure that the Biscay ports. This does not to this rumour. no movement either of shipping the

wont lodgar muscle in out here... of a or self-propelled barges through choosing the South const as their books through the post, but they

pro- and WAR

The East coast. place. Nevertheless pre-

was invasion was by for, the ΠΟΙΟ air power, the losses of our bable though it was at that time taken

had to be most closely examined. paration to resist invasion flotillas would be very heavy was not entirely satisfied with the supreme task before us all, formidable if the enemy had had HARDQON-At St. Theresa's

Hospital, Kowloon, on March and might eventually be fatal. the military dispositions. It was and intense thought was devoted ince No one would wish, except imperative that the Army should to it throughout our war circle 3, 1940, to Rosalind Eliezer). wife of Charles on a supreme occasion, to know the exact task assigned to and Home Command.

all should not

No Sign Isaac Hardoon, the gift of

bring heavy battleships or it, and above

fritter away strength in a scden-

noted {from will be It son, brother to Rebecca Sally; large cruisers into

Minute on "Invasion" exhaust the lengthly (Shanghai and liombay papers commanded by the German tary dispersion along the threa-

to the please copy).

Mr. Churchill national resources by manning sont by

GIGS and others on July 101 unduly all the coasts.

PEACE TALKS

waters

not, in bombers. We did fact, station any capital ships South of the Forth or East of Har- Plymouth. But from

a

According to yesterday's wich, the Nore, Dover, Forts- reports from Nanking, the mouth and Portland we main-i

tireless, vigilant Communists will

announce tained their

delegates in patrol of light fighting vessels pence about

10 days' time, and which steadily increased in negotiations will take place number. By September they exceeded 800, which only a hostile air power could des. troy and then only by de- grees.

to

tened

consta

40

CANTONESE BY RADIO

Vocabulary:

BY SK LEE.

Lesson 27.

147. (t'oi) toy (or) loy 148.. (i) yee? 149. (muk),mook Useful phrases: (17) Gah' see1 (18) Haam baang laang Combinations:

in due course.

The Nationalist delegation from Shanghai returned home after talks with Mao

But who had the power in the Tse-tung, saying that their air? In the Battle of France we work was completed, and it had fought the Germans at two inflicted and three tone and was up to the government to

losses in similar proportion. Over This Dunkirk, where we had to main- carry on discussions.

cover tain continuous patrol dropping of the baby into

the escape of the Army, we had their own leaders' laps may mean either a currying

fought at four or five to one with of

our own success and proat. Over favour with the Reds or an waters and

exposed coasts and Marshal Chief Alr honest admission that the counties

Dowding contemplated profitable current Communist terms are Dowd no more than fair in the cir-fighting at seven or eight to one. The strength of the German

1. Seh2 dzee toy". cumstances. It is reported Air Force at this time, taken as that the victors have. claim- whole, so far as we knew-and 2. Tsaan1 toy

we were well-informed-apart ed the liquidation of Na-

from particular

Mook toy1 concentrations. 3, tionalist troops in the Pei-

was about three to one. Although ping area along classic Chin-

these were heavy odds at which Conversation: ese lines. calling this a pat-to fight the brave and efficient) I rested upon the German toe. tern for the entire nation.conclusion that in our own air.

Further, they have not denied com rumours that they are casing up in their war criminal de- mands for long an insur- mountable obstacle to senior KMT members. The only reported exceptions are said

to

CA.

Chen.

A.

Ngaw yau gaan seh dzee lau, daan hai

and 11s

5

>

ง

moh gah1 see1.

2

own country over our waters, we could best the Ger- man Air Force. And if this were true, our naval pt wer would con-- tinue to rule the seas and oceans, and would destroy all enemies who set their course towards us. Secretly Prepared

:

A table.

A chair.

Wood.

Wooden.

Furniture.

All,

A desk.

A dining table.

A wooden table.

I have an office, but I have no

furniture.

Where is a good place to buy?

Shall I go with you to buy it?

Ngaw seung maay deel I want to buy some (furniture). gah' see'. Hai been1 shue" maaye

hoh neh1?

Ngaw,tung „nay hub maaye, hoh mah"? Nay dukhaan mah1? Ngaw yee gah' 'duk hoan. Yee gah1 huf, hoh mah"? Shall we go now? B. Hob huj lah1.

be the four powerful

There was, of course, a third Soong, potential factor, Had families Chiang,

the Ger- B. with their T. V. mans,

renowned Kung and

foresight, Soong is now in Hong Kong,secretly prepared a vast armada

thoroughness

and

A. and H. H. Kung is in Ameri; of special landing-eraft, which

Others may follow, and but could land tanks, cannon and B. various persons are believed motor vehicles-anywhere-on-the

beaches

which thereafter to be trying to make Chiang Kai-shek follow their exam

Such ideas had risen in my mind ple. Such departures would

ago in 1917, and were now almost certainly pave the way to peace,

one

and

to

.

A.

Seen' shaang yecoo' mut'

ych gah! see' ah?

You are not busy, eh?

I'm not busy now.

Yes, let's go. What kind of furniture do you

want, sir?

Leung jeung' seh',dzec Two desks and six chairs, toy tung look jeungi

1

vee*.

S.

Neet dee' hoh2.,m hoh2 neh1?

Are these all right?

Ngaw,m jungi yee neel dee',mook.

Yecoo3 gay daw1 tseen? ah"?

being actually developed as the S. result

of my directions. We had, however, no reason to bellove The adoption of National-

anything of this kind existed in

A. is always ist troops into the Red army, Germany, though it and the offer to defeated best, when counting the cost, not officers either to return home to exclude the worst. It took us four years of intense effort and or join the new flag, has also

experiment and immense mater- been instrumental in easing lal aid from the United States to equipment on a the tension. Apparently no provide such

senie equal the Normandy

A. is being punished for senic

landing. Much less would have fighting on the "wrong" side, sufficed

the Germans at this the treatment of the moment. But they and

had only fow Siebel ferries. formed soldiery has both

Thus the invasion of England A. goodwill towards the Com→ munists and relieved, their in the summer and nuturan of 1940 required from Germany and bir opponents of an enormous local naval superiority

S. Haam buang laang yut! special social and economic problem. superiority and immense

But it tseen! yee baak' mun', But to the Western mind dects and landing-craft

was wo who had the naval

A. Deem gaaye2 gom3 gwai the peace negotiations are superiority. It was we who con-

ah? exceedingly hard to under-quered the mastery in the air. stand. It would admittedly and finally we believed, as we S. M hai gwai' lok3. be difficult for the successful now know rightly, that they had

not bullt or conceived any armies from the North

toft These were the found cross the Yangtse, but by no of my thought about invasion in means impossible, and the 1940, from which I gave from A.

day the instructions and opposition they could expect day to from there on would be for directives.

of June S. As early as the end from formidable. The Com- some reports indicated that the munists could lay down their enemy's plans might include the own terms, and to omit the Channel, and I immediately call-

ed for inquiry. war criminal clause is going Prime Minister to General Is- completely against character. may.

A study of the Chinese newspapers hardly clarifies It

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27.vl.40.

seems difficult to bellove

Shanghai and Nanking-and willing to waive the two un- in Hong Kong, the pro-KMT acceptable ones. Press has gradually veered

1

Yee gah,,mook gwal,

yun gung kwal3. Deem2 gaaye yun gung! gom3 gwai' neh1? Yun1 wai'

¡yee gaht yeung young yeh doh1 gwat

round with the prevailing

Other organs are even now claiming that the peace ap-

DO YOU KNOW

YOUR

they are nearly ready now

the Nationalists to gain time.

to start cheering for Mao.

From the confusion, only one clear development seems

wind in typical fashion until 'proaches are only a trick by

And the Communist sheets,

HONG

Can you can' Dognise where

perhaps because this is visible that at long lust KONG? China, are far from speaking peace is in sight. As victory with the single united voice for the Communists was in- so, famillar in other parts of evitable, a compromise end- the world. The local "Ta ing to the struggle is in- Kung Pao" was yesterday finitely better than the ex- still demanding the imple-penditure of further blood taken? The an- nichtation of the original and--treasure The world wer in In Page eight points of Mao's peace joins with most of China inven programme, although that hoping it will all be over Individual is now sald to be soon.

this picture" wan,

I don't like this wood.

This a good wood. How much will they cost?

Altogether $1,200.00,

Why are they so expensive?

J

They are not expensive. At present, wood is dear (and)

labour is dear.

Why is labour so expensive?

.

Because everything is expen-

sive nowadays.

a

could or

mcons to attempt it. There of course be no South coast invasion unless or unul the

had necessary shipping

passed Southward through the Straits of dssembled Dover and had been In the French Channel ports. Of this, during July, there was no

We had none the less to pre- pare against all variants, and yet at the same time avoid the dis- persion of our mobile forces, and to gather reserves. This nice and only be diflicult problem could

to the solved in relation

news and events from weak to The British coastline,

Another of our wayward con- temporaries: "Marjorie Evans wa slightly bruised when a car struck her in front of the bank. George Baker, the driver, picked her up, and feeling her all over to make suro no bones were broken, in- sisted on taking her home where he could make a closer examina- tion."

Restaurant sign: "Customers who think our waitresses uncivil ought to see the manager."

One of our artist friends who speaks Cantonese fairly well saw good model. Ho offered the man

And an aged cooke who looked like a with Innumerable inlets, is over $10 if you will let me paint you."

in circumference, ing Ireland.

2.000

2,000 miles

without including

Tho

The coolle hesitated, and the artist

"Yes," said the only way of defending sa vast urged that it was an easy way of

or parts of perimeter, any part

01

with the object

of delaying an

making money.

·

*

Examiner: "Name two ancient

which may be simultaneously or old man, "but how can I get the Successively attacted, is by lines paint off afterwarda?" ni observation and resistance around the coast frontiers sporta."

or fron

creating enemy and meanwhile

reserves at the largest possible highly-trained mobile troops so disposed as to be able to reach any point assalled in the shortest time for strong counter-attack.

Spider's Web

en-

When in the last phases of the war Hitler found himself circled and confronted with a similar problem he made, as we shall see, the gravest possible mistakes in handling it. He had created a spider's web of com- munications, but he forgot the spider. With the axample of the unsound French dispositions for ity. had! which such fatal penalty. just been exacted fresh in our memories, we did not forget the "mass

and I manoeuvre";

this policy ceaselessly Inculcated to the utmost extent that our

rees would allow. growing resources

The views in my paper of July 10 were in general harmony with Admiralty thought, and two days later Admiral Pound sent me a full and careful statement which Stett had he and the Naval

of it. pursuance drawn up Naturally and properly, the dan- gers we had to meet were force- fully stated.

In

But in summing

Pound-Fald:

up, Admiral

that

0

It appears probable total of some 100,000 men might reach these shores without being Intercepted by naval forces. but the maintenance of their line of supply, unless the German Air Force had overcome both our Air Force and our Navy, seems prac- tically impossible...If the enemy undertook this operation he would do so in the hope that he could make a quick rush on

London, living on the country as he went,! and forec the Government to capitulate.

the

Was content with this estimate. As the enemy could not bring heavy weapons with them, and would speedily have supply lines of any lodgements cut, the invading strength Bremed even in July to be well within the capacity of our rapidly im-| proving army. I remitted the twoj documents to the Stalls and Home Command,

Student: "Anthony and Cleo- patra."

Adant and Eve were naming tho animals of the earth when along "What shall came a rhinoceros. we call this one?" asked Adam. "Let's call it a rhinoceros." "Because it looks more like a anything we've rhinoceros than named yet.".

| MOSCOM CONFERENCE

HARDY SWITH

"He brake it talking!"* ་་

Minute By The Prime Minister

15.vli.40.

The Chiefs of Staff and Home Defence should consider these papers. The First Sea Lord's Memorandum may be taken as working basis, and although I personally believe that the bo Admiralty will

In fact better than their word, and ⚫ that the

in Invaders losses transit would further reduco the scale of attack, yet the pro-

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