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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1949.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS, THE SECOND BOOK

THEIR FINEST HOUR

German Invasion Plan

In this instalment Mr.

. Churchill studies the de- velopment of the German

By Winston Churchill

Good Morning!

"B-Ge Flight Spurs Movo for

heading in Dig Fleet."Page fledgling contemporary. Did you get 117 Myrtle and I nro going to work on it tonight, after we've recovered from Ripley,

"Jacked up skirts." This has no connection with bell bottoms,

other, they were emboldened: The responsibility for the safe cross-| ing was not departmentally theirs, and once landed in strength, they' plan for the invasion of Britain be made upon the Germinutive: "Since England in spite of felt that the task was within their Britain - "Operation Sea-Navy. At the same time he asked her militarlly hopeless position power. Indeed, already in August

I see that "Blend now" ear has Ilon."

for a tot of conditions. The first shows no alga of coming to terms, Admiral Raeder felt it necessary: of these was the entire control of I have decided to prepare a land to draw their attention to the dan bner: Iskun off the advertising list. SOON after war broke out

the French, Belginn and Dutching operation against England, gers of the passage, during which on September 3, 1939, the

μέτοις. coast, harbours and river mouths. and, if necessary to carry it out perhaps the whole of the Army! Maybe they found the pixture tod

The preparations for the furces employed might be lost. German Admiralty, as we

entire operation must be completed Once the responsibility for putting Your se .7 have learnt from their cap

by mid-August," Active mea the Arany across was definitoly "We must adopt the revolution- tured archives, began their

sures in every direction ware thrust upon the Navy, the German ary point of view. The sureca, of staff study of the invasion of

already in progress.

Admiralty

becanic consistently any mission depends 90 per cent, Britain Unlike us, they had

German Navy plan of pessimitatie. THE NEW no doubt that the only way

which it ir ciche I had received

On July 21 the trade of the on morale and only 10 per cent on

material-resources? —Chine Cacti- three Services met the Fuehrer.aheki SOUTH EAST ASIA was across the narrow waters

an inkling in June, was

Unker mechanical

the tlally

he The execution of "Sealion." cover of heavy-gra batteries fring

the maid, must be regarded An entirely new approach of the English Channel. They

Our enlightened contemporaries from GirlsNez towards Dover, and most effective means of bringing to international affairs is de-

An

n very strong artillery profection about a rapid conclusion of the gain. "Anastacia Gaylan, who veloping East of Suez.

along the French coast. the war. After his long talks with came almost us pear as anyone to cient aspications towards in-

Strafts, they proposcil to make a Admiral Raeder, Hiller had be having the secrel of longevity, died dependence, spurred on by

011402. narrow corridor across the Chan-gun to realise what the crossing of here on Tuesday at the age of nel on the shortest convenient in the Channel, with its tides and cut- Intransigent Japanese "Asia

and to wall this in by minefields rents, and all the mysteries of the

Let's not quibble. Let's just say, for the Asiatics" propaganda,

she had the secret. lle Involved. against

on either side, with outlying Usen. are now gradually coming to

boat protection. Through this the fulfilment and the end re-

Army was to be ferried over and sult may be good, although

supplied in a large number of sue- cosive waVER, There the Navy the way is long and hazard-flotilla bases and in later times

stoppel, and on this the German | Army chiefs were left to address

themselves in the problem.

ous.

Yesterday in London enior Commonwealth gov ernment official said that a decision to reach an under- standing with genuine nú-- tionalists was the main out- Come of the conference on Burma this week. It was pointed out that both Aus- tralia and New Zealand took part in this and also in the Asian conference. Both con- ferences agreed with claims by Asiatic countries to settle affairs in their own countries, and made it clear that there should be unified Common- wealth policy concerning genuine nationalism as op- posed to Communistic claims.

Such a policy is to be dis-

never considered any other alternative. If we had known this it would have been an important relief. An invasion cruss the Channel came upon our best-defended coast,

the old sea

front

France, where all the ports were fortified and our main

Therefore the project stuinbored. during the Twilight War.

Suddenly all these conditions were murprisingly fulfilled, and it must have been with some mis- givings, but, also satisfaction, that the inorrow or Duakirk und that French surrender he could pre- Kent himself to the Fuehrer with a plan, On May 21, 1940 and in nguin on June 20 he

#poke litier on the subject, not with a vlow to proposing an invasion, but in order to make sure that If were ordered the planning in de tall should not he rushed. Hitler The was repiten, saying that fully appreciated the exceptional difficulties of such an undertak- Ing." He also nursed the hope that England would sue for pence, Strong Artillery

It was not until the last week

quasters turned to this idea, nor

most of our airfields and air- control stations for the de-

lished. There was no part of July 2 that the first directive fence of London were estab-Jone that the Supreme Hond

the island where we could

was issued for planning the in- a possible come into action quicker or vasion of Britain as In such great strength with event, The Fahrer has decided

that under certain condilloos all three Services.

the most important of which Admiral Harder was, however, schleving air superiority—a land- anxious not to be found wanting the in England may take place." should the demand to invadel. On July 16 Hitler issued his direc-

B

In Strength

In

con-

The German Army Command! had from the first regarded the Invasion of England with siderable qualma. They had made. no plans or preparations for it: and there had been no training. As the weeks of prodigious, de lirious victory succeeded one an-

DON IDDON'S DIARY

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST

business has been hurt, but no secret switch, operated by the one is getting panicky.

Colonel from his desk, slide, open Chicago has grown too big too a panel for visitors. fast to be worried about a levelling-off in prices.

McCormick's attitude toward the A brink 10 minutes' walk away

British is a muddle and a mix-up, arc the offices of the world's

One hundred and twenty years His accent in in the cultured greates newspaper, the Chiengo ago there were only 50 people | English manner; his clothes, aud Tribune.

British pune.

here struggling in a Uny village some of his cars, are of Nearby are the world's biggest set on the mud. Today there are make, urad

hoxpiality to printing plant and the world'a | 5,000,000—all chasing dollars British guests generous,

shopping thoroughfare strenuously, talking and thinking crowded with the world's

mos! | success, and generally achieving autiful women and the world's it. handsomest men.

Unable to get a room a the cussed and probably crystal-world's largest hotel (the Stevens) lised at another gathering I accured one at the world's tallest

(the Morrison). later this year. It is under stood that the British Gov- emment is desirous of bring- ing these

into measures fruition, and there is tile doubt that the Dominions and Colonies, including those not directly affected, would be strongly behind the move. One spokesman yesterday declared that the projected decisions could prove more important

China's than change to Communism. In- deed, the possibilities are United for defence vast. and foreign policy, the enor- mous congregations of people still free from the Red yoke might elect a single repre- sentative to the United Na- tions, and speak with almost as much weight as America or Russia. It means that newly-independent countries, as well as freely-associating members of the Common- wealth, realise that now the -world is split between Com- munism and the Best, be- tween really stringent for- eign domination and the chance to fulfil their own Mestinies. Questions of in- ternal politics, human rights, defence and international ap- proach must all be expected

At least, that's what Chicagoans

teli"

For this is a city of superlatives. Everything is biggest, best, richest, strongest, newest-not just in the United States but in the great Ing wide world itself.

The Strong-Heart-

it

He Looks English

He looks rather like an Engish- sounds like man and sometimes oue,

ILA

describen

дя "an exceptionally Senior"

According to our errant printers, held and daring undertaking

30 three British officers swam "Even if the way is short, this is not just a river crossing, but yards in an air temperature of the crossing of a son which is 200 degrees of front. Bilgewater. dominated by the enemy. This in Hot air.

a case of a single-crossing There's a man outside with a operation as in Norway: oper: white beard," said Mystle to her

ποι

ational surprise cannot be ex

ww

Red

"Tell him I've got one," grunted

Very few actressess succeed in marrying happily, though it isn't t for want of trying.

pected; a defensively prepared grandfather.

and utterly determined onemy faces us and dominates the and the old man. aren which we must use. For the 40 divisions Any operation

the be required;

ነብዩ difficult part will be the male- rial reinforcements and atores; we cannot count on supplies of any kind being avaliable, to us In England."

Heavy Weapons The prerequisites were complete mastery of the air the operational use of powerful artillery in the Dover straits, and protection by mineflolds..

"The time of year (he said) is an important factor, sincé the weather in the North Sea and and in the Channel during the

half of September very bad, and the fogs begin in the middle of October. The main

яссоли

be complete must thereforá

by Sopt, 35, for after .that dalo co-operation between the Luftwaffe, and the heavy weapons becomes too unsi reliable. But as air co-operation is decisivo,

It must be rogarded un, the principal factor in Axing the unte."

con-

his. West of Portland,

A vehement controversy, publicises, manipulates, but

New York talks, sells, promotes,

ducted with no little asperity, arose Chi- caga manufactures.

Yet he has never trusted us and in the German Staff about the width of the front and, the nu- Here are the glant industries has done everything to his newa

ber of points to be attacked. Tho fron and steel, machinery, print papers to wound and hurt us.

One of his moat bizarre projects

a series of land- Army demanded ing and publishing, textiles, bak

Wales Ings along the whole English brewing, butchery--the is to lure Scotland and

United Kingdom and Southern coast from Dover to Jatockyards, are, of course, the Tram the 1 discovered that as soon as i world's biggest-furniture, chenti- make them separate States in the arrived in the city, and see na

desired aa American union.

aiso eals, and most everything else.

ancillary renson to change Chicago's mind

Night life is still wide open in landing North of Dover at

Ramn The city is probably depression- 'after soverai days here.

Chicago.

Noval The German proof if curbs its gambling

gate.

Staff After_Memphis___It__is_almost how stated that the most_aŭitable spirit.

The Mayor of Chicago is Mar. licentious. It is a great town fur area for the safe crossing of the Chicago is the strong heart of th Henry Kennelly, un honest booze and burlesque. It is giddy English Channel way between the America. It jumps the blond man who has inkon on the Elgaand bawdy, and its neon Jungle is North Foreland and the Western finest with a sure, powerful beat. through the arteries of the comic job of making the city huncat, a bright and brilliant us New end of the Isle of Wight. On this

York's Broadway.

the Army It never slags or Butters.

sta doveloped a plan It with Buttons Polished

Like all great elties, Chiengo is for a landing of 100,000 man, nover stop.

He is an internationalist, a re-a place of stark contrasts.

followed almost immediately by If you

du not like violence, former, a crusader who has mau- Its Outor Driveway is one of the | 100,000 more

various points giant energy. noise, speed, Jual aged in less than two years to put handsomext in the world, and it from Dover Westward to. Lyme for life, struggle, strife, and the city's involved finances Dл great houses on the Gold Coast by Bay. Col. Gen. Haider, Chler of Himitless confusion and turmoil, cash-and-carry basis, polish up the Lake Michigan areas fine and the Army Staff, declared that Chicago is not for you. Chicagu tarnished buttons of the Folier spacious as some of England's was necessary to land at least is not your kind of town.

four divisions in the Brighton Department, demalish some of the best. Compared

State-treat is

ore robust area. to it, most other city's frightful siuma, and win the

He h

also required Landings in cities

scem fragile.

confidence of the big, raw, gusty Fifth-avenue; La-Salle-street com- the area Deal-Ramsgate; at Even New York, which ไม

pares favourably with Wall-street. 13 divisions must be

as twice the population—10,000,000.

"The Governor of Illinois, over

Yet not far away, and close to

a as against Chicago's five-la

which

Chicago lords itself, is the fabulous Loop, which the brittle, fussy placu by Chicago Adlai Stevenson, another progres. elevated railway encircles clan standards,

sive and identisi, sensitive or the grously, is Skid-row-Wost Mudi- State and city's reputation,

Ron-street, the home of the hood Most people in Chicago will tell lum and the panhandler, The bu you that Kennelly and Stevenson the tramp, and the deadbent, are doing all right. They are not drove along this street "a!}

they are working?

The down-and-outs litered the Poles, 86,000 foreign-born Ger

Watching them and occasionally pavement in the doorways mans, 70,000 Italians, 60,000 Russ applying the spur and the whip folied in the cheap bars (öd, for sians, 40,000 Swedes, 34,000 in Chicago's greatest personality. a shot of whisky, 3d, for a bear). Czeclis, 20,000 Austrians, and Robert, Rutherford MeCornick,

All Nationalities Chicago, every American will tell you,

is the real America. I it is.

I

a more

to be aired at the forthcom-up aro 120,000 foreign-born working miracles, but, at least, broken hopes and shattered dreams.

ing conference, and if genuine agreement is reach- ed, the freedom-loving world can heave a deep sigh of re- lief.

about 15,000 each of British, Jun- owner of the Tribune and the City Unashamed ·

or

The question is--will this garlans, Norwegipus, and Yugo Prince of Print,

Skid-row Ja the end of the conference, and any others | plaves.

He is the Duke of Chicago-an toboggan slidea shoddy, shabby There are also 350,000 Negroes exceptional man.

collection or dosshousch, chilli which may follow. prove They all get along

Exceptionally very well wrong-headed, more fruitful than the obor- together.

coffee apoplectic, and fonts, bars,

shops, and hideous salons. It is the anhean of grandioso. live International gatherings The Chicago of Al Capone, Big

Chiengo. hix pubilention "The CBITS we have been used to in re- Bill Thompson, Sum Inaut Is world's

nowspaper," But the greatest

the city does not hide it. It is

is proud of its handsome pro cent. decades"?

though some think if the world's Will these gone.

There is still a great deal of worst, and thure is no doubt that file, exultant in its riches and many races, of différent-back-

crime hereabout one murder he considers himself the world's powers, but not ashamed of is ground, ideas, aspirations and day, but no masa gangster killings greatest newspapermen.

black sheap. They form A very mentality, be able to find a

and massaéros, no complete, city.

small number in the fold, anyway. common denominator, even wide corruption, no all-powerful courage, he has 45 armed guards Footnota: The Windy City re in face of the growing ment- crooked. syndicale.

fuses to

to get the wind-up about

| A man of considerable physical

in the Tribuno building.

bably one of the the friendliest DO YOU

The city has the reputation ef McCormick's office itself has a any possible depression--or any- ace seeping implacably from being the citadel of anti-British door with no knob. Instead, a thing else. Moscow? However keenly feeling, the enemy Isolationist. sympathetic one may be, it camp, the castle of reaction. would be unwise to jump to It is not not now. It h is pro- too optimistic conclusions.

And from a purely prac tical, short term "point of view, it is obvious that de fonce arrangements in the Pacific are far from reassur

places on earth,

Peoplo terms and everyone I have asked for information, guidanco, and put me right.

turned handspringa toi helpt have

I had never met until

this week ere all on first-name

Ing. The British fleet is be-Chicago loves to help. It is as low its pre-war strength, and affectionate as a mastif puppy despite conflicting reports of and g mischievous, unpredictable, American polley; fow believe 10050-mannered, and uninhibited,

| It Igimoža, worrying city. ** that MacArthur's intended ¡defences extend further than

Never A Jitter. the Philippines...

New York and Washington may have the Jillers 'about wheat prices collapsing on the grain market here, but Chicago Itzelt shrig laughs, and says: "What the hell it was broke we'll make lank all later, and worate not "gulag: broke, anyways,"

Now is the time to act, and If the South East Asian coun tries can achieve a pact in amity, it is up to London and Washington to back them up with an enthusiasm..not ex- hibited since-tho-war; n

There is no defeatint-spirit-hore, Trade is off a bit and the luxury i

KNOW

YOUR

HONG

KONG?

Can you to.. cognise whore: this picture was taken? The an swer is in Page Baven.

If it begins to knock-and It's a car-it's no opportunity to buy.

•

Western nations want a Euro- pean power grid. Russians nuspoet; that something is cooking.

An the moneylender said. “I am a man of principle, and find o full of principle."

'couldn's look another lace in

the teeth!"

however, made it clear that nothing like so lurge or rapid a movement was possible. He could not physically undertake to escort a landing-ficct areoss the whole

| ba

he had meant was that within these limits the Army should pick points along the whole front. In the best place. The Navy had nop addition, the Luftwaffe demanded

enough strength, even with alr shipping to transport 62 A.A. bat- supremacy, to protect more than teries with the first wave. one passage at a time, and they

The Chief of the Naval Staff} | 5. (Continued, On Page 11)

far as possible simultaneye width of the sten mentioned. All

Good Scotch Whisky

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BORN 1820.

STILL GOING

STRONG

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