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world's largest elty. In these new purposes the enemy did not succeed. The victory of the Royal Air Force had been gained by the skill and daring of our pilots, by the excellence of our machines, and by their wonderful organisation. Other been at

by atenders term updendicho aske less indispensable of

By Winston Churchill

ish

man,

and threa

A eat bit a pet motise in Eng- land, reports en agency. That's

inmys.

ם

According to Gracie Allen, "My husband will never cluse another woman. He's too fine, too devcut, too old...

tex-

here," they said, and drew me to the centre of the ruins. There was an enormous crater, perhaps

{ 40 yards across and 20 reet deep. Below them were the War Room and splinters across the room, and Cocked-up at au angle on the

"London willow willing to you, bunb would of course have cut

very Enge war ท Anderson marry for £750." That's higher and a cerinin umount of proof sleeping accommodation, occupants, if there had been any, shelter, and we were greeted at than normal union rates. The bomba at this time were of to

plecas But my fortunate Its twisted doorway by a young. course smaller than thuse of the inspiration, which I might to ensly

late wile

You can't kiss girl later phases, St, in the interval have neglected, had come in the children, quite unharmed but pectedly-only sconer than sho before the new apartments were nick of time. The underground obviously shell-jarred. They had thought you would. ready, life at Downing-street was Treasury shelter across the court

A circulation munnger on one could give no

BLITE exciting. One might as well have had been blown to pieces by a been there at the moment of the

our contemporaries battalion headquarters in direct hit, and the three Civil Ser- explosion: They

vants who were doing Home Guard account of their experiences. But

wondering what to do about a My dick note we get there killed fileshare that were and proud of it. Britain, pensable to the life evening Cabinets in the War Room however, were buried under tons Their neighbors Fire the les pareisend. Deng

To.ge of brick. rubble.. In the Annexe basement. played by millions of ordinary there from Downing-street It Was lenow who was inlaring. humble people, who proved to necessary to walk thruvzo the the world the strength of a Foreign Oce quadrangle and community nursed in freedom. then clamber through the work

who were pouri

ring ing-parties

In these

From September 7 to November in the concrete to make the was the scene from the top of the

T

than

ni

In Harness

the

Haggard Crowd

and we did not as enviable curiosities. At the raid continued and scem- ed to grow in intensity we put on our tin hats and went out to view Hugs. Before doing so. Annexe buildings. however,

could not resist taking Mrs. Lindemaro and the others from the shelter to 300 their kit- chen, They were upset at the sight account of the general untidlness, In Flames

earrled

"Motors hard hit by oil news.**

Morris I had before the war... Now, that reminds me of an old

The Indonesians do not hunker To be detained by Dutch n

Banka,

was not you stated that If I salisfied at the end of the year, I could have my money bacit. Well, I would like to have back. On second thoughts, to When we got back into the car harsher mood swept over this save you trouble, you may apply It on my next year's subscription." "Give it 'em 3 an average of 200 German bon-

Room and basement offices enfer.

garderowd.

supplement According to our bers attacked London every night.

the Queen did Text realise what a trini the

buck," dey cried, and "Let them The various preflutnary valds was to Mk. Chamberlain, with all

have it too." I undertook forth- printer yesterday, which had been made upon our the consequences of

major

with to see that their wishes wore. Victoria statue was removed "as Nothing

out: and this promise a minor profile hurdle." Believe, him. provincial cities in the previous"

uton operation three weeks had led to a consider deterred him, and he was never of the wreck, but principally on

was certainly kept. The dont was me, the minor profile who, let ropad tenfold, twentyfold in the that through isn't going to have INDIA GOING able dispersion of our anti-aircraft more spick and span or cool and

frightful routine combardment of any honour in this country. Inst artillery, and when London fira determined Yesterday's news that

Germain cities, which grew in became the main target there were Cabinets which he attended. India will sever her Com-

but 12 guns in pasillon, it was

Archie and I went up to the intensity as our alr power deve- monwealth ties and become thought better to leave the air free

cupola of the Annexe, building. loped, is the bomba became far independent

working republic for our nightfighters,

The night was clear and there heavier and the explosives more under within a few months, did not

No. 11 Group. Of there i

One evetting In late September 1

wan a wide view of London. It powerful. Certainly the enomy go

good HCAsure, there

Mix squadrons of were Many come as a surprise.

Blenheim and Defiants. Night looked out of the Downing-street seemed that the greater part of it all back in of us continued to hope, how-

fighting was in its infancy, and front door and saw workmen - Pail Mall was in flames. At least pressed down and running over

fierce

fires were burning Alas far poor humanity! to the twelfth

very few enzualties were infileted ing sandbags in front of the low

basement windows of the Foreign there, and others in St. James's Aunther time I visited Margate. hour, that something would

ut the enemy.

ily. Farther Offer opposite.

and Piccadilly.

her An air raid came upon us, and 1 develop to keep her within Our batteries therefore remain-

were doing. I was told that after strest ed silent for three nights in suc

his operation Mr. Neville Cham. back over the river in the oppo-was conducted into their big tun- the comity of nations.

directing there were many net where quite large numbers of Whon cession. Their own technique wanberlain had to have special period conf

B. Pall Mall was conflagrations. at this time woefully imperfeet, ical treatment, and that, it was the vivid flame-picture. Gradually we came out, after a quarter of

People lived permanently. Newerthless, in glow of the weak-embarrassing to carry this out in the attack died down pre ness of our nightlighter, and of the shelter of No. 11, where

We smoking damage. A small restau- their unsolved

ft least 20 pouple were gathered nontly the All-Clear sounded, lea-an hour, we looked at the stil.

ving only the blazing fires. decided that the anti-aircraft gun- during the constant raids: so n ners should be given a free hand small private place was being pre-

went downstairs to my new apart-rant had been hit. Nobody ha ments on the first floor of the been hirt, but the place had been

thedured 10 a litter of to fire at unseen targets, using pared over there for him. Every Annexe and there found Captain

utensils and splintered fukery. any methods of control they liked day he kept all his appointments David Margenson, the Chie: Whip: The proprietor; dils wife and

faultlessly efficient, In 48 hours Gen. Pile, conman reserved.

accustomed live it

were in ding the Air Defence Artillery, nitr But here was the back-the Carlton Club. He told us the

attired.

Where Was their home? too much. ground. It was

pver.

PYUN

Panchit Nehru has shatter- ed any such ideas. India, he said, will not commit herself 151 anv future military ar political alliances, but will pursue the role of world peacemaker. He believes his country is best fitted to play its part in the avoidance of war as the meeting ground of the East and the West. India, he added, would resist all interference in her own internal affairs. Nothing could be more definite. The once "brightest jewel in the British crown" is getting out for good, and cutting all ties.

asked what they

uen.

at

who

Was

to

cooks

ก

waitre-nes

drawals from the provincini eities through the passage between No. Indeed we had thought, by the Where was the livelihood?

had more than doubled the number with- of guns in the capital by Our own aircraft were kept out of the way, and the batteries were given their chance,

Those of us who are Bri. tish cannot view this except with profound dismay, and not because of any selfish personal toss. After all, India's complete indepen-lights dence was effected as soon after the war as possible, but until now she has co-ordin- ated defence and some other matters with the Common- wealth. There has been vast activity in the great sub

Exciting Tales

I used my authority. I walked club had been blown to bits, and tears.

Fres that it 10, and S. 11 and found Ave. situation of the

་་་

the

the

And would prefer that, for a

starter.

They be sent back to Jogjakarta. Which simply is, 'twixt me and

you, What U.N. told the Dutch to

do.

The world condemns

folded hands)

(with

Those very naughty Nether-

Jands.

But after all, Batavia's far, 'And well you know what

those things are,

When we ourselves are out of

it, Why should we really care a

bit?

Let's all pretiond

myopia,

WC bava

Like when the wops took

Ethiopia,

And Adolph went in to annex

The territories of the Czechs... And other men one long-gone

dity

In coplex on the Pall Mall side had

Went in to make Manchuria "He fallen into the street, obliterating upon the State and compensation paid in full and at once. Thus This motor-car.

car, which was parked

pay. burden would not fall alone Bark the door. The smoking on those whose

Why should we go and malte a homes or busines near the front

fuss. To U.N--when it isn't us.

Very Glad stee Labour colleagues facetiously re

after The Tronxury went through

-continent since the war, and the shoot that it may lighten loud explosions occurred around, is-own:"-Mir.-Quintin-Degg-bad; Yarious emotions

no

years

of

power, Here I n

renoire. dinte i formed on

On the way back in my train I Chamberlain. I said: "Ife ought must have been hit.

He was in the club with about

down the net is be here ly this condition.

laying of the Exchequer. You must take him away till he 250 members and stuff. It had dictated a letter to the Chancellor is well again. I will set the whole of the facade and massive fire of the enemy must be a' charge

sel all the been struck by a heavy bob. The principle that all damage from telegrams to him eark lay" She For three nights Londoners had went off to see her husband. an hour she sent me word. sat in their houses or inadequate will do what you wish. We are leaving tonight."I never saw him elters enduring what seemed be an utterly unresisted attack.

un sure he and the whole celling had coehorne evenly on the shoulders of on September 14, the ngain. In less than two months room has been full of men, promises were fill, but would be Suddenly,

he was no inere.

looked

Ook the nation. Kingsley Wood was whole barrage opened accum-

This down upon them. When wanted to die in harness.

he met his at the ruins next day it seemed naturally a little worried by

tho panied by a blaze of search-

WAK Tt to be

incredible that most of

hindefinite character of this obliga- This roaring cannonade] death with stofcal philosophy;

should not have been killed, How-tinn. But I pressed hard, and did not du much harm

being quite sure we should carry shou

dovised in ever, by what seemed a miracle insurance scheme was the enemy,

but gave enamouşun,

which fortnight satisfaction

afterwards to the populatioif. Another evening (October 14) they had all crawled out of the

sinoke and rubble and player substantial part in our Everyone was cheered by the stands out in my mind. We were

though many

were injured,

Brot affairs, feeling that we were hitting back dining in the garden-room of Nbzle life was lost, When is

Uxus) night From that time onwards the bat 10 when the

came to clue

course these facts My terles fired regularly, and of began.

companions were

were the teri

notice of the Cabinet, our course practice, ingenuity and Are

Archie Sinclair, Oliver Lyttelton grinding need steadily improved and Moore-Brabazon. The Bleel

veral marked, "The devil looks shutters had been closed. Several

about this 'in numerous laws passed in an

In the hope

and carried his father, a former Lord strance scheme. First they thought endeavour to

the the hard course of this narrative us at

great distance, remove

Chancellor (Lord Hailsham), on it was going to be their ruin a few age-old caste distinctions, im- I record personal notes presently a bomb fell, perhaps a

recensioners, wits after

fair prove production and so on. about the Blitz, well knowing how hundred yards away, on the Harte his shoulders from the wreck, is when after May, 1941, the

far more Guards Parade, making a great marty thousands have

from the ruins of Troy.

They began to make a great' Just how much radical im-

exciting tales to tell.

deal of noise. Suddenly I had a

ut inuney, and considered the plun provement has been made is

When the bombardment Brst providential impulse. The kitchen.

prevident and stateamantike. limwe

the ever, later on in

when war another matter.

began the idea was to treat it with at No. 10,; Downlmg-street, tu lofty

looks anu

"doodle-bugg", and rockets began, One thing is quite obvious, disdain. In the West End every- and spacious,

the account swung the other way, and that is-India is quite body went about their business and through a large plate-glass win-

pleasure and dined and slept as dow about 25 feet square.

and 2830m, has in fact already. incapable of defending her- they usually did. The theatres butler and parlourmaid continued

been paid out. I am very glad it self against a powerful ag- were full, and the darkened streets to serve the dinner with complete Chancellor gressor. Yet the British were crowded with casual leaffic. detachment, but I became acutely Kingsley Wood, came to see me Navy is to be banished from All this was perhaps a healthy re- aware of this big window behind on business at No. 10, and we very heavy explosion action from the frightful aquawk which Mrs. Landonare, the cook, heard a

take place across the river her shores, and American which the defeatist elements in and Nellie, the kitchen-rald, never

South London. I took him 10 military protection is un-Paris and put up on the occasion turning a hair, were at work.

see what had happened. The Exclusine rights in Hong Kong wanted. The government's when they were first seriously

Loud Crash

bomb had fallen in Peckham. It by "China Meir", attitude seems to be that aided in May.

remember dining in

was a very big one-probably a neutrality will turn. Back the company, when very

Com (To Be Continued Tomorrow). parachute-minic. It had 'lively and I got up abruptly, went into the pletely destroyed or gutted 20 or: swirling tides of Communism continuous ralds were going on. kitchen, told the butler to put the 40 small three-storey Houses and now sweeping steadily to- The Jarge widows of Stompway dinner on the hot plate In the cleared a con

considerable open space wards her shores. Nehru is House opened upon the Green dining-room, and ordered the cook

this in, Park, which flickered with the and the other servants no lover of Marxism, but it hashes of the guns and was occa- shelter, such as it wash

very poor district. into the ready litle pathetic Valon Jacks I had had been stuck up amid the ruins, seems incredible that he locally: It by the glare of an been Boafod again at table only should be so much a mystic exploding bomb. I felt that we about three minutes when a really When my car was recognised

wing from as to believe that the real-were taking unnecessary risks very loud erash, close at hand, and quarters, and a crowd of mors

the people come risining ist Joseph Stalin will remove Alfter dinner we went to the Ima violent shock showed that the than a thousand wan

perial Chemical his lusting eyes from the the Embankment

building over house had been struck My deed. All these folk were in

high From tocilve came into the room and state of enthusiasm. They crowd- riches of India because of a these high stone balconies there sold much damage had been done. ed round us, cheering and man declaration of neutrality was a splendid view of the river. The kitchen, the pantry, and the festing every sign of lively af that exploded safeguard. At At least a dozen fires were burn offices on the Treasury alde were 'fection, wanting to touch and, a time when even the Scan-ing on the South side, and while shattered.

stoke my clothes. One would have

The devastation fine substantial benefit which

king

a small

aut

The

Heavy Explosion

One day after luncheon the of the Exchequer,

is so.

tho

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dinavian nations are decid-bomba fell, one near enough for view the scene,

We word there, several heavy We went into the kitchen to thought I had brought them: soine

ing to abandon their age-old my friends to pull me back behind was complete. The bomb hid would improve their lot in life. stand of impartiality, India a substantial stone pillar. This fallen 60 yards away on the Trea- -1 was completely undermined stems determined, in her certainly confirmed my opinion sury, and the blast had smilton and wept, Instay, who was will bitterness against the West,

that we should have to necept the large tidy kitchen, with all its ine, records that he heard, an old

restrictions upon imperil to

the recently ordinary amenities of life.

the bright saucepans and crockery woman say, "You see, he really Into a heap of black dust and cares. He's crying” They were launched ship rather than

rubble. The big 'plate-klass, Win- tonry not of sorrow but of wonder join the convoy.

Blown D

Down Ldow had been hurled in. fragments and admiration. “But see, Tobk

Should India be swallowed up. by Communism ns' Chlinut is being, the rest of the world might as well start propar ing immediately for total war-with not much chance of winning it.

NEW APOSTOLIC DELEGATE Vatican Cliy, March.D. „Pope Pius XII. That'

AMU

The group of Government bulld Ings around Whitehall were re

hit.

consists of houses 250 years old, peatedly Downing-street thaky and lightly built by the pro fiteering contractor who hame

they bear. At the time of the „Mainich ulazım, Ahelters

ars had been constructed for the occupants of No. 10 nr.No. 11, and the rooms on the garden level, had had their celllins propped up with a wooden under calling and ptrong Umbers.

DO YOU

KNOW.

YOUR

KONG

ppointed. It was believed this world support KONG?

TEL, 20661

Was bietlathodic priest in 1931-

The Milby If the building (wai Blown towns,but of course, neither tha Prooms, nor the rehalters were

muainst all rtnight

1910,

Can you-rox.

of niso here preparations this picture was Fanside Jury ·Minis: "taken? THE SAME the more awer 14 in Page Jovertoont Bayan.

Qatolieko, 40-

"quarters "Wa spalled · "The “Ahoxe."

TRADS

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Look how Britain treats her transients-even gives them free dentures. Here we do our best to take even the fillings out of their,

teeth.

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