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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE SECOND BOOK

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Room

By Winston Churchill

of an

hour

**20 plus,“ “40 plus" signals were In and

another received, minutes it was evident that

д

In Silence

to

cover

diately went to bed for my after: noon sloop. I must have been tired by the drama of No. 11 Group, for I did not wake till 8. When I rank, John Martin, my Principal Private Secretary, came in with the evening budget of news from all over the warld. It was "epellent. here; that had hoon delayed there;

This had gone wrong

Good Morning!

A news agency reported yester- day that a herd of bulls invaded a canteen and got in among the china. That's a lot of bull.

Looks no if the Israeli Jews are becoming anti-Yemenite.

A "black Chevrolet couple" is offered for sale. Now, now, Mr. Catwell, we weren't thinking of exporting them.

That

UN neutral Impartial

Berlin seems ไป an unsatisfactory answer had been committee..in received from so-and-so; there have been impartial on the wrong

in the side. UNO and

the

we know, but had been bad sinkings Atlantic. "However," said Mar- does he know? Un, as he finished this account, “all Is redeemed by the air. They have shot down 183 for a loss of under

even

"U.S. strategists think Soviets unable to moke Asin war base.

and chivalrous, be nohte Although post-war information termed always has shown that the enemy's losses when atonte. on this day were only 50, Septem-

You are now allowed to take her 15 was the crux of the Battle of Britain. That same night our GY100,000 inte Canton instead of attacked in GY4.000, Why not just limit strength the shipping in the ports passengers to a couple of basket- Bomber Command From Boulogne to Antwerp. At fails, y 20 enttles? | Antwern particularly heavy lossen On September 17 were inflicted.

The Sun has set in Nanking. as we now know, the Fuebrer de Or was a Red down rising? elded to postpone "Senlion"

otinitely. It was not till October

fewer than 25 squadrons covering the whole of Essex, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire, "I don't know," said Park, as ally intervening with some declive

we went down, whether anything order, usually to reinforce and all the approaches across

In a little while At present threatened area, them to London. Air Vice-will happen today.

However, after all our aquadrons were fighting. six all is quiet." Marshal Park had for

the raid- and some had already begun to re- months commanded this plotters began to move about, An turn for fuel. Ail were in the air. fate attack of 40 plus" was reported The lower line af tilbs was out. to be coming from the German There was not one squadron left group. on which largely depended;

From the beginning of Dun-stations in the Dieppe aren. The in reserve,

bulba along the bottom of the wall to glow as dispiny-panel began kirk all the daylight actions in the South of gland had already

various squadrons came to "Stand and apparatus rangements been brought to the highest per

fon Dowding at Stanmore, asking for from No. 12 three squidrous were and I wife fection. My

to the bomb-proof serious battle impended. On both Group to be put at his disposal In taken down

ease of another major attack while below Room 60 feet

aldes the air began to fill. Operations

the ascendancy of

One after another signals came his squadrons were rearming and ground. All the Hurricanes and Spitfires would in, "40 plus," "60 plus"; there was refuelling. This was done. They

this even a plus. On the Door- were specially needed

our fighter nero- have been fruitless but for this

control table below us the movement of London and centres

eubles, all the waves of attack was mark-drones, because No. 11 Group had which had been devised and bulled by pushing dises forward from ready ghat their holt.

The young officer, to whom thin before the war by the Air Ministry minute to suinute along different

Dowling's advice and im lines of approach, while on the seemed a matter of routine, con

In spite of those new resident' Fasting credit is due to all blackboard facing the rising hued to give his arders, in secor-

12 that the fuvasion was formally cards, the taxis still treat per- concerned,

lights showed our fighter squadence with the general directions

called of till the following spring, manents on the same sucker level The Group Operations Room was drous getting into the air, Ull there of his Group Commander, in 1

Arrults, low monstone, and the three In July, 1941, it was postponed as transients. five left

of small theatre, about 60 feet were only fear or like a

Hitler the spring reinforcing squadrons were non

Fay

www deinander neress, and with two storeys. We Readiness."

Extra money absorbed. I became conscious of 1942, "by which time the Russian

will be completed." by dock workers for handling took our seats in the Dress Circles

the anxiety of the Commander, catnpaign Below us was the large-scale map-1

who Buw stood still behind his This was a vain but an important cargo of onions

On February 13, 1942, had burst. IIItherto I table around whieh perhap

Imagining. subordinate's chat, and highly-trained young men

I now Admit Raeder had his final in-

money. These, air battles, on which so had watched in silence.

on "Scation" and got weines, with their telephone assist.

Opposite much depended. Insted little more asked, "What other reserves have torview

to a complete kets, were assembled.

than an hour from the first en-we? There are none," said Air Fler to agree wan

Thus "stand-down."

perished The enemy had ample Vice-Marshal Park,

operation "Scolion," And Septem- strength to send out new waves of attack, and our squadrons, having

her 15 may stand as the date of gone all out to gain the upper air, would have to refuel after 70 or 80 minutes, or land to rearm after a

system off

and

20-

Busy Plotters

to us, rovering the entire At the annual meeting of where the theatre curtain counter,

VILM gigantic blackboard a Hong Kong company yeshe, error, the chairman had to divided into six columns with elee

Kix for the tric bulbs,

fighter stations, ench of their squadrons announce "an unsatisfactory report." The present au-having a sub-column of its own, thorised capital is $3,000,000. and last year's profit was less. than a quarter of a million. To the unfortunate possessor of no stocks and shares, this might not seem too bad, but it certainly does not measure up to the current average of local profits.

As the chairman said, it is practically unknown these days to present an unsatis- factory report to sharehold- ers. The proẞts are pouring in, bigger and higher, and in spite of unsettled inter- national conditions, parti- cularly in the Far East, those with a fair amount of capital invested may relax in an at- mosphere of comfort and security. Interest is oblain- ed almost intact, after a mini- mum of taxation as compar- ed with the Western world.

In an account which he wrote

Well I about it afterwards, he said that at this 1 "looked grave." might, What losses should we not suffer if our refuelling planea were

SEPTEMBER 3o 1939

SEPTEMBER 1940

THE SIREN! LOOK CUT!

Coppright in all courte

row Thus the lowest

Serious Battle

or

Then

con-

its demise.

Supreme Target

1-

The German air assault on Bri-

.

in bags which So now it's lachri-

The sale of bathing shelters on our beaches is going on for all in tents and purposes.

Indionensler

Australia is said to need more production--And reproduction..

Drunken driver's altbl: "I

tain is a tale of divided counsels, didn't know I was loader,"

conflicting purposes and never fully accomplished plans. Three

or four times in these months the

A political writer says

the

enemy abandoned u method of average man believes only hall of what he reads in the newa- attack which Wang

to papers. The rest will be believ-

severe stress,

Someth

something

causing

and turned

But all new

stages over-lapped one

110 153

these cd by his better half. another.

and cannot be readily distinguish-

"The worst type of

caller."

ed by precise dates. Each one says a secretary, "Is the Indivi- dual who ignores your presence merged into the next.

and walks straight into the host's private

office."Often without The early operations sought to engage our air forces in battle

even saying who he thinks he is. over the Channel and the South. next the struggle was con- coast;

At.n formal party the other tinued over our Southern countles, evening a pretty girl was wear- principally Kent and Sussex, the

the Ing a necklet from which hung a enemy aiming to destroy our air-

A tiny golden airplane. One young then nearer

power organisation; then London man stared at it so much that the

to and over

don girl finally asked him, "Do you became the supreme target; and like my little airplane?" finally, when London triumphed, "As a matter of fact," he re- there was a renewed dispersion to plied, "I wasn't looking at it. I the provincial cities and to the sale was really admiring the landing life-line by the Mersey and the field."

Clyde.

Was

the

air

no ono could measure

ed to such bombardment or Во

We have seen how very hard The Government may in-

they had run us in the attack on the South Coast airfields In deed waste money, but it on

last week of August and the first its own chosen people, for

week of September. But on Sep- whom it provides flats and

publicly tenber 7, 1040,

1040, Goering holidays with pay and. pen-

command of the assumed sions. The non-elected legis-

battle, and turned from daylight

and la night attack

from the lature decided, apparently a century ago, that this was to

If, at caught on the ground by further fighter airfields of Kent and Sun- be a hard-bitten commercial centre, on the lines which and also divided by lateral lines. five-minute engagement.

of bulbs this moment of refuelling or realds of "40 plus" or "60 plus" sex to the vast built-up areas of were frequent,. Indeed constant, then existed in

England. showed as they were lighted the arming, the enemy were able to The odds were great; our margins London. Minor raids by daylight. and one great daylight attack was fresh unchallenged email; the stakes infinite. minutes Another Bve

равнес Wages were to be the low-squadrons which were "Standing arrive with

the squadrons, some of our fighters

squadrons had to come: but in the main the the German est the workers would ac-By" at two minutes roundness, could be destroyed on the ground, and most of our

next row those at "Readiness," cept: profits were to be the minutes, then at "Available." It was therefore one of our princi- now descended to refuel. In many wheneveral stere

For 67 nights the bombing of highest the customer would 20 minutes. Then those which pal objects to direct our squadrons cases our resources could not give offensive was altered.

This stand; social services

rearming it appeared the enemy were going London were had taken off, the next row those so as not to have too many on the them overhead protection,

unceasing, The shifting of the dis constituted an home

ordeal for the almost unheard-of, anyway. which had reported having seen ground refuelling

the enemy, the next-with red simultaneously-during daylight. But whereas conditions in

Presently the red bulbs showed on the table below showed a lights those which were in action, the Homeland changed with and the top row those which were that the majority of our squadrons tinuous Eastward movement of world's largest city, the results of A subdued hum German bombers and fightera. Na beforehand. Never before was no were engaged. the passing decades, Hong returning home.

arose from the door where the new attack appeared. In another Kong has remained as it was.

busy plotters pushed their discs to 10 minutes the action was ended. wide an expanse of houses aubject- the We climbed again the stairways many families required to face its Profits have continued to

and fro in accordance with

the surface, and swiftly-changing

Air which led to

problems and its terrors. "All soar (apart from the add de- pression) and wages have re- On the left-hand side, in a kind Vice-Marshal Park gave general almost as we emerged the mained at the bare existence of glass stage-box, were the four directions for the disposition of his Clear" sounded.

trans- or five officers whose duty it was fighter force, which were level. This is one of the few to weigh and measure the informa Inted into detailed orders to cach remaining places on earth tion received from our Observer Fighter Station by a youngish

I asked whether any results had where well-fed citizens can | Corps, which at this time number officer in the centre of the Dross

sat. Some come to hand, and remarked that say to each other: "Maybe ed upwards of 50,000 men, women Circle, at whose skie

Ho and youths. Radar was still in its years after I asked his name.

repelled satisfactorily. Park they can't live on $150 anfancy, but it gave warning of was Lord Willoughby de Broke the attack appeared to have been! month-but even

that is ralds approaching our coast, and I met him next in 1947, when the plied that he was not satisfied that

had intercepted as more than they're worth." the observers, with fold-glasses Jockey Club, of which he was a WO

me to see the raiders as he had hoped we should. The provision of public portable telephones, were our steward, invited baths. and swimming pools. main source of information about Derby. He was surprised that I It was evident that the enemy

raiders flying overland.

remembered the occasion). He everywhere pierced our defences. free medical clinics and hos-

On the right hand was another now gave the orders for the In- Many scores of German bombers, pitals, sufficient schools, un-glass stage-box containing Army dividual squadrons to ascend and with their fighter escort, had been sickness officers who reported the action of patrol as the result of the final in- reported over London. About a employment and

of formation which appeared on the doxon had been brought down grants, etc., etc., have all our anti-aircraft batteries,

while I was below, but no picture been dismissed as impractic- which at this time in the Com-map-table

mand there were 200. At night it The Air Marshal himself walked of the results of the battle or of could be able in our "special" situa was of vital importance to stop up and down behind, watching the damago or losses tion. It is a comforting these batteries firing over certain with vigilant eye every move in obtained.

It was 4.30 pm, before I got theory for those who receive areas in which our fighters would the game, supervising his junior

imme. executive hand and only occasion-i back to Chequers, and I dividends. But if this is an be closing with the enemy. honest objection-that the

constant influx of the penni- food cap be had cheaply, and less from China makes social so on,

the

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services out of the question In an age which justifiably why should shareholders inveighs against the foul in- not institute such benefits vasion of Communism, solely for employees of firms privileged stiil forget that in which they are interested? such creeds are not born Enormous profits are being from nothing, but from a shared out to the privileged deep sense of injustice, from minority, who apparently the belief of ordinary people subscribe to the views of that they are being swindled Czar Nicholas and Louis out of a fair share of what XIV. Wages must not be they produce. Will the hold- increased, however high div!-ers of 'capital never learn?

Can you co dends come. Very well. Do the lessons of history There is still an unanswer mean nothing, and do the cognias whare this picture' WRE

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situation.

Bad Sinkings

many

had

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