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By Winston Churchill

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to President Roosevelt on May 15, 1940, had asked for

Believing, as I have always done, the loan of 40 or 50 old U.S. that the survival of Brilala destroyers. This request had bound up with the survival of the been repeated in the follow-United States, it seemed to me and to my colleagues that it was an and was even- ing months

actual advantage to have those tually fulfilled after Britain

bases in American hands. i there- had given the United States fore did not took upon the question

of certain from any narrow British point of the 99-year lease

view. naval bases.

later.

There was another reason, wider and more powerful than efther our

сему

I

Bases

need not tell you how cheeres

Am by your

message

nt once proceeding to seek their consent,

Once again, Mr. President, la rue thank you for your help and encouragement, which means so much to u.

Good Morning!

The Japanese have got several tons of whale from the Antarctic. poisson One man s

is another man's ment,

When Madam Chiang

falled

in her mission it was shek-mate.

B

"What is more enjoyable than a long walk on a Sunday morn- cool ing, finishing up with n

writer. beer" asks a glass of Sounds like subtle propaganda

Deep Feelings The President, having always to consider Congross and also the Navy authorities in the United for the Defence Force. States, was of course increasingly drawn to presen!

Deep feelings

the

it would, according to all standards of history, have fustified the Ger

the idea of leasing Government in declaring war man (overThe

transaction

.

rimskipil Jour you as long as a

lover must,

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At least I will nobly try.... Till all the rock has turned to

dust And all the séns are dry. Til the last long so has died

away

lone crooner's In

Inst the throat. Till the last star fades from

the midnight sky.

lincussion, perhaps on the ove of an invasion, would be injuri- now so ous to public morale, high. Moreover, we must never ket into a position where the United States Government might time has "We think the Any: tome for you to send your Fleet

Inscription on lid of fruit. jar: across the Atlantic in accordance

"Pierce with a pin to release with our understanding or agree- ment when we gave you the des- to his fellow-countrymen as a high vacuuin. Then push off."--Hur-

ly advantageous bargain whereby riedly? troyers." We must refuse any

immense securities wero gained in ALL to Hang di Wishment for the lastesysct or declaration such as is sucrest dagorous times in the

ington a singulerly gifted and

and confine the deal solely to

United States in return for a few had American need for the bases. The Auential Ambassador, 1

transfor to

the Colonial leases Great Britain of 10

flotules of late destroyers. This known Philip Kerr, who had new

American warships was a

a decidedly To the President I telegraphed: was indeed iruo! but not exactly succeeded as Marquess of Lothian,

unneutral act

15. vili, 40. the United States, by

A convenlent ntatoment for me. wero aroused in from the old days of Lloyd George

or how HUNG-On March 6, to Cectila in 1910 and before, and we had

Parliament and the Government at much and oflen from

grateful I feel for your untiring

any part of differed mother Versailles to Munich and

efforts to give va all possible these historic territories, and if to the help. You will, I am sure, send the issue were presented As the tension of events mounted, not only did Lothian develop a

un everything you can, for you British as a naked trading-away broad comprehension of the scene,

know well that tho worth of of British grannysalons for the sake Lut his cyo penetrated deeply.

every destroyer that you сап 01 the 60 destroyers, it would eer-

Till Hong Kong gels a vole... Lothian was worried by the last

spare to

measured in tuinly encounter vehement opposi the Hous

rubles. But words of my speech in

best beach we also need, the tlon. I nought thereforo [in a

Unfortunately the of Commons on June 4, when I

mutor torpedo boats which you speech in the House on August 201, sights cannat be ballotted for. hnd said, "We shall never surren-

mentioned, and as many flying to place the transaction on the Both newspaper reports der, and even if, which I do not

beats and rifle as you can let us highest level, where indeed it had

A man tells us that it is for and letters from Home are for a moment believe, this Island

have. We have t million soon a right to stand, because it ox-hetter to have the boss of the currently describing an apos a large part of it were sub-

waiting for rifles.

pressed and conserved the endur-house find a letter in your pac

of interests The moral value of this fresh nld ing common

the ket that you forgot to post than parent lessening of austerity: jugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the sens, armed

from your Government and poo- English-speaking world.

one you neglected to destroy. gradual abolition of ration-

1940, whs in event which brought

tant Mr. ple at this critlen! time will Lei Lothian now "rabled ing, more goods in the shops, and marded by the British Fleet,

Sumner Welles had told him that would carry on the struggle until,

Notice very great and wirely fell, New the United States definitely nearer good time, the some reductions in price (ind's

to us and to the war, and it was We can meet both the points you the constitutional position made it restaurant: "Please be with all and even above-the-counter world.

its power and the first of a long succession of in- conshier necessary to help you "etterly impossible" for the Presi- with the automatic waitresses in This might, steps forth to the rescue creasingly unneutral acts in the

this establishment. One wrong with Congress and with others dent to send the destroyers as a piles of cigarettes.

with frequently and the libertion of the Old." Atlantic which were of the utmost coincides

concerned, but I am sure that spontaneous gift; they could come word from the customers thought theng words had given

You will not misunderstand ma' only as a quid pro quo. Under the hey blow up." garbled accounts that Britaincouragement "to those who be has balanced her overseas lieved that, even though Creat Fleet trade, and that the country Britain went under, the will soon be able to stand on its own feet.

U.K. RECOVERY

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would somehow cross the Atlantic Lo them."

"The reader is aware of the different language I had

had explained my position at the time to the Foreign Secretary

and to the Ambassador,

It is indeed good news fa:been using behind the scenes. those of us in opulent Hong Kong to know that friends at Home are enjoying a lessening in the iron-hard round of scarcity and restric tion they have been tied to for 10 years. Not that very much has changed: it is more an augury of things that may

come.

Visitors to Belgium, France, Italy etc. since the war have often said that while the British system of stringent controls cannot but be admired, a little more of

of Paris the freedom Rome would have provided much-needed incentive.

or

Next month sweets come. off the ratión. and for the first time in their lives most children will be able to buy

bull's

and all the

eyes lollipops their hearts desire. Clothes rationing is coming to an end. Shops are full of most

goods. consumer looks fine at-a-casual-glance. is the but just how sure foundation of optimism is an- other matter.

It

"Prime Minister to Lord Lothing:

9.vi.40. My last words in my speech were of course addressed primarily to Germany and Italy, to whom the iden d war of continents und a long war are at present obnoxious; also to [the] Domin- lons, for whom we are trustees. I have nevertheless always had in mind your polat and have raised it in various telegrams to President.as well n to Mackenzie King.

In Awe

If Great Britain broke under Invasion, a pro-German Govern- ment might obtain far cenier terms from Germany by wur rendering the Fleet, thus making Germany and Japan masters of the New World,

This dastard

deed would not be done by I Majesty's present advisers, but, if some Quisling Government were set up, it is exactly what they would do, and perhaps the could do, and only thing they

President should bear this very clearly in mind.

part

that there was no danger, and upon them. The President judget felt there wha no hope, of this, simple solution of many difoulties, It was Hitler's interest and methoxi to strike ha upponents down one by one. The last thing he wished was to be drawn into war with the

United

States before he had

finished with Britain,

Was Anxious Nevertheless, the transfer of the destroyers to Britain in August,

service to us. It marked the pass-

BRITISH

BASE

For all these reasons the War

APSZEVELT.” YOURS, I THINK" CHUREHIKI.” YOURS. I BELIEVE " BOTH: "OURS, I'M SURE."

US

DESTROYER

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neither

say that our willingness to existing legislation

the

do so must be conditional on our Chief of the Staff nor the General being assured that there will be Board of the Navy were able to no delay in letting us have the ships and flying bouts.

Buy Peace

age of the United Statos from You should talk to him in this being neutral to being non-belli- sense and thus discourage any gerent. Although Hitler could not complacent assumption on United afford to resent it, all the world States that they will pick understood the significance of the up the debris of the British Em-gesture. pire by their present polley. On the contrary, they run the ter-Cabinet and Parliament approved rible risk that their sea power the policy of leasing the bases to will be completely over-matched, obtain the destroyers, provided we Moreover, islands and naval could persuade the West Indian bases to hold the United States island Governments concerned to in awe would certainly be claim- make what was to them a serious

ever buy peace by surrendering the Nazis. If we go down, by Hitler has a very good chance of conquering the world.....

ed

sacrifice and disturbance of their

life for the sake of the Empire. On August 6 Lothian cabled that the Nearly a month passed before President was anxious for an Im- any result emerged. Then came an mediate reply about the future of encouraging telogram from the the Fleet. Ho wished to be assured Ambassador. He said (July 5-8) that if Britain were overrun, the that informed American opinion Fleet would continue to fight for was at last beginning to realise the Empire oversens and would not that they were in danger of losing either to surrendered or sunk. This the British Fleet altogether, if was, it was said. the argument the war went against as and which would have the most effect they remained neutral. It would an Congress in the question of the however be extremely difficult to destroyers. The prospects of log- islative action, he thought, were Ret American

it could be steadily improving. con assured that in the event of the expressed my own feelings to United States entering the war the Foreign Secretary: the British Fleet, or such of it as wa afloat, would cross the Atlantic Great Britain were overrun.

consider this unlesOpinion

to

Some of the hard facts are disturbing. Overseas trade is balanced-up to a point. In the sterling area it is in our favour, but with the American continent Britain will for years to come have an adverse balance of hun- dreds of millions of dollars. A sudden cessation of Mar- shall aid would mean com- plete chaos. Nor has any

a single likely one offered solution to this grim problem, apart from long-term plan- ners who advocate expansion of raw material resources within the Empire.

The sudden appearance of cigarettes in the shops is un- likely to mean more than the desire of dealers to unload their stocks before the April budget, when Sir Stafford Cripps may reduce the tax slightly. The increase in consumer goods is sald by some experts to be the omin- ous result of loss of foreign

In the first week of August the markets rather than a super-suggestion was made to us through abundance of production... Lord Lothian that the 50 old butj There is no doubt, too, that reconditioned American destroyers money is tighter. Luxury which lay in the East coast Navy trades are suffering a set-rards might be traded off to us in back. Barkeepers stand idle exchange for the cession of a series of bases in the West Indian islands, behind the beer handles. including expocially Bermuda The catering Industry, which There was, of course, no compari- has been reaping a lush har sou between the intrinsic value of

antiquated and inefficient DO YOU vest for years, finds itself these

craft and the immenso permanent with empty rooms and a

strategic security afforded to the noticeable slowness of book United States by the enjoyment of ings for the summer season. the island bases. But the threston- Even the budget is unlikely ed invasion, the Importance of to offer any relief to harass our need clamant. Moreover, the in the Narrow Seas mada aumbers ed salary carners, apart from strategic value of these lands

Traded Off

a penny or two off beer and counted only against the United cigarettes.

States.

In Rubies

7. vii 40. The position is, I think, quite clear. We have no intention of murren- doring the British Fleet, or of sinking it voluntarily, Indeed, such a fate is more likely to overtake the German Fisst-or what is left of it. The nation would not tolerate any discussion of what wo should do it our Island were

Such

KNOW

OVAITUTI.

YOUR

HONG KONG?

Can you

Socialist schemes march on, and they all need money. The newly nationalised in truth, but eventually facts dustries monotonously pro will have to be admitted, teed at a loss, and it has not unless the standard of living cognise whare. occurred to the working in Britain is to decline to that this ploture was masses what will happen of Russia, KOREAN FUaken? The an

'awar." In. În' Pagé when they are bli taken over, Britain has truly done a and all running at a loss. remarkable job since the Baven. So far, bitter taxation of the war, but she is far from be- middle class has velled the ing out of the wood as yet. 1

give the certificate that the ships were not essential to national de- fence, without which the transfer could not be legally made, except in As regards an assurance about the return for a definite consideration British Fleet, I am, of course, which they would certify added to ready to reiterate to you what the security of the United States. told Parliament on June 4. We The President had tried to find intend to fight this out here to another way out, but there was the end, and none of us would none

or scuttling the Fleet. But, in

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Exclusive rights in Hong Kong please bear in mind the disast by "China_Malj," rous effect from our point of (To Be Continued Tomorrow) view, and perhaps also from yours, of allowing any impres sion to grow that we regard the conquest of the British Islands and its naval bases as any other than an impossible contingency. The spirit of our people is splendid. Never have they been so deter- the mined. Their confidenco in ianus has been enormously and legitimately strengthened by the severe air fighting in the past week. As regarda naval and air bases, I readily agree to your proposals for 99-year leases, which are far easier for us than the method of purchase. I have no doubt that once the principle In agreed between us the detailsi can be adjusted and we can dis- cuss them at leisure.

It will be necessary for us to con

sult the Governments of New-" foundland and Canada about the Newfoundland base, in which Canada has an interest. We are

In

on

ultra-modern

careful

and

"Good home wanted for twin grey male kittens. Five months. One a persian." What's the other - Mede?

Marshall

ald keeps

America exporting and British shipping employed. Maybe we can make a living too, paying ourselves for carrying gifts to charitable in- long Or is there a stitutions,

team fallacy in 117

A naturalist declares that some people who call themselves bird- lovers cannot tell the difference гоги- partridges and between crakes. Perhaps they have never tasted cornerakes.

The little kangaroo kept hop- ping out of its mama's pouch. Every time the papa kangaroo put it back, out the baby would pop again.

Papi

annoyed, he to

became quite

10th Jump-out and on the spatched Junior and began

spank him gingerly.

Interceded

Mama Kongaroo. "He can't help

"Don't

do that.

*

It if I have hiccups."

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