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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 28, 1980.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK|

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THE GRAND ALLIANCE "Building of the Ship"

the deadly question: "Surely, Mr. President, here is the point wo have got to settle. Are we going to face it or, nut?” Faced it always was, and, being faced, was conquered.

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Visiting the fleet

By Winston contacts

Churchill

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news

Good Morning!

Contemporary's caption” yester- day described the success of Crufts winner "Tracy Witch of Ware." ending

the up with statement: "Photo shows "Tracey Witch of Ware."" Witch was Witch,

Main difficulty was to know!

Whatever the papers say, the Labour Party declares that there will be no now election JimmediAttlee,

.

Manuel labour.

Recording the birth of triplets a 71-year-old Spaniard, K contemporary, sinted: "It was a problem because the triplets-one at whom died at 89th children born to farmer birth-were the 37th, 30th and Manuel Torres."

I Agree baffling.

problem it's

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As

The extremely close, intimate

which prevalled

be tween the War Cabinet, the Chiefs of Staff, and myself, and the total absence of party feeling in Britain at this time, reduced He was a true leader of men,

minimum. At our first meeting we were; and alike in ardour and in wir- the enemy, to let him see ali ho these discords to

of crisis he has desired of London at bay. Ha in North East Africa continued. While the war with the Italians about three hours together, and I dom in times

His love also came to Chequers for a night, to prosper, and while the Grocka roon comprehended his personal rarely been excelled All news contributions to ba

Very long talic with in Albania had dynamism and the outstanding for the causes of the weak and and I had

good hopes of addressed to Editor-in-Chief.

Importoace of his mission. This poor was matched by his passion this most abic and forcetul man, capturing Valona, all the Advertisementa

Business was the and

London inst-tyranny, especially when whore life was cut short so we got about the German move height of the

tyranny was, for the time, triump-xpoctedly by linesa two years ments

intentionin bombing, and many local-worries hant.

proved contmunications should be ad-

later.

every day more plainly that dressed to the Company CHINA Impased themselves upon LID.

Former Naval Person to Prezident Hitler was about to intervene MAIL LTD.

But it was evident to me that here

Roosevelt. 28 January, 41.

upon - N large scale In the was an envoy from the President

1 received Willklo yesterday. Balkans and the Mediterranean. of supreme importance to our

and was deeply moved by tha life.

German air power With gleaming eye

and In order to clothe the arrival verre of Longfellow's which you quiet, constrained passion he of our new Ambassador, Lord had quoted. I shall have it fram-

From the beginning of January sold:

Halifax, in the United Stated with ed as a souvenir of these tremen- I had apprehended the arrival of "The President is determined every circumstance of import- dous days, and as a mark of our German air-power in Sicily, with that we shall win the war to-ance, I arranged that our newest friendly relations, which have the consequent menace to Malta gether. Make no mintake and strongest battleship, the King been bullt up telegraphically but and to all our hopes of resuming trame through the Mediterrano- an. I also feared they would set up an air station on Pan- tellerin, with all the facilities this would give for a

Remarkably few movement of German troops, presumably armoured, into Tripoll.

They did not, as it turned out, think it necessary occupy Pan- lelierla, but we could not doubt that their plans were progressing to establish a North-and-South passage through "Italy to Africa, and at the same time, and by the same measures, to Interrupt all our movements East and West in the Mediterranean.

BIRTH

CASTILHO-To MARY, wife of TOMMY, on 20th February

1050 at the St. Paul's Hospi- lol, a son.

DEATH

24th.

BURKILL-On February

1950 at "Paradiso" Waltham St-Lawrence, Berkshire, CHARLES REGINALD dear ly loved husband of Marjorie Burkill.

about it. He has sent me here to tell you that at all costs, and means, he will carry you by un

no matter what hap- pens to him-there is nothing that he will not do so far as he has human power." Everyone who came in contact Hopkins in the long with Напу struggle wilt confirm what I have set down about his remarkable perionality. And from this hour began a friendship between which salled serenely over nll. earthquakes and convulsions. He was the most faithful and per- feet channel of communication between the President and me.

One

us

the

absolutely glowing with refined he sat, slim, frail, ill, but comprehension of the Cause. It was to be the defeat, ruin, ant slaughter of Hiller, to the exclu

AFTER THE POLL

But for more than that, he was The General Election in for several years the main prop Britain may have resulted in and animator of Roosevelt him- self. Together these two men, a stalemate in Parliament, the

a subordinate

without but certain vexed issues were publie office, the other command- settled at the polls. Coming the mighty Republic, were was rejected with capable of taking decisions of the munism scorn and contempt, and so whole area of the English-speak-

highest

consequence were Left Wing rebels who ing wo

world. were just as much in the Fifth }ut his personal influence with Hopkins was, of course, jealous Column. The considerables Chief and dirt not encourage and mostly wasted-vote for American competitors. He there- the Liberals was a vote for a fore in some ways bore out the suspension of further nation- poet Gray's line, "A favourite has alisation. That Party made no friend." But this was not my its position clear alike to

uffair its supporters and to the country on the eve of the polls. It called for a halt to further nationalisation for the next five years, and said that if the Labour Party were un- able to form a Government without Liberal support, that Harry Hopkins always went to I have been support would be strictly de- the root of the matter.

present at several great confer- pendent on this undertaking.onces, where 20 or more of the Another election soon to set- most important executive per- tle this issue seems unneces-sonages were gathered together, sary.

And what if it didn't When the discussion flagged and

all seemed baffled, it was settle it, but produced another these occasions he would rap out stalemate, with half the Liberal votes going to Labour and the other half to the Con- Labour crutch and a Tory servatives?

crutch with each trying to Nobody seems to have call-outmanoeuvre the other and ed for a Coalition, in spite of with no thought but of the the immense amount of com- next election. Some time-ago mon-ground-before-and-dur-a-thoughtful writer advanced ing the election. The Welfare | the idea that the old

of all other purposes, loyal. ties, or alms. In the history of the United States few brighter flames have burned.

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State has come to stay. Even party politics were out of on foreign policy there, is not date, and with it the old much between the major Party system. It may be true, parties. Britain doesn't like but what is to replace it? Coalitions except in wartime, Certainly it would be better and then she demands, them. to contain it within a Coall- We may not be at war, tion rather than risk it alto- but quite definitely the Uimes are out of joint,

effective an

Coali- tion would help us both at Home and abroad as much as the present deadlock hinders

and

us.

gether by the chance of an- other stalemate, which is by no means impossible.

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The issue was put on higher plane still, a few weeks ago, by Mr. Lionel Curtis, whose influence be- hind the scenes on British policy was for many years quite exceptional. He is

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the ocean. | Tutor:

The White House,

Washington. January 20, 1941.

Wendell Willkio will give you this. He is truly helping to keep polities out over here,

Dear Churchill.

A compromise has been put forward, in the call for close consultation between the two major parties on all the prin- political prophet and phila-George V. with a proper escort also telepathically under all the cipal issues of public finance, sopher without political am of destroyers, should carry him stresses...Here is the President's defence, and foreign rela-bitions, and though he is now and his wife neruss tions. This is the minimum one of the last survivors of accompanied them North In necessity, but it will be of lit the famous Milner Kindergar- tle help psychologically, and ten, he has not allowed time that seems to us a matter of to pass him by, but keeps his no small importance just now. mind projected on more dis- Of course, Britain has been tant horizons. In a pamphlet This atted in with my plans governed by Administrations he circulated to electors, he tor making much closer acquain which were

We actually in a compared the petty issues on went together to

Fleet, minority. Under a system of which the General Election inspecting ships and defences. close consultation even the was being fought with the My wife

came with me, and excelled all others in nimbancas of skipping and scrambling from one destroyer to another, Hopkins

present Labour Party could crisis confronting humanity carry on for quite a time, in as a whole.

来

my train and saw them off from Scapa Flow. I took advantage of occasion to visit the Fleet which I I had not seen since I Jeft the Admiralty.

tance with Harry Hopkins.

the

spite of posable pressure "We are literally living in nearly fell into the jsea.

I returned in my train to Glas-

I think this verse applies to your people as it does to us "Sail on, O ship of State!

Sall ou, O Union, strong and

'great!

Humanity with all its fears, à With all the hopes of futura

years, Is hanging breathless on thy

fatol

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ever yours.

Franklin D. Roosevelt,

from the Left Wingers. But a City of Destruction more row, I was welcomed by very is that all that is required? threatening than Bunyan de- large crowds, saw all the local

Even before the General picts in the Pilgrim's Pro authorities, walked through These splendid lines from Long- Election a group of men, gress," he wrote. "Twice in number of workshops, Inspected fellow's "Building of the Ship headed by Lord Halley and this century we have hardly the Defence, Fire, and Al Hald were an inspiration. For Lord Hankey who have given escaped, with infinite loss of

and made a number ofIt is not possible in a major exceptionally distinguished lives and treasure. In this went on to Tyneside, where he was to divide military from poll- service to the State and the atomic age we now have be.I am the tinte I get to know thisers should regard the military affairs. At the summit they thing happened. BA

are ono. It is natural that soldie Empire, wrote to "The Times" fore us the valley of the man-and to know about his aspect as single and supreme, and

All on this subject. They declared shadow of death." He saw Chief. Hopkins was about 10 days even that they should speak of their opinion that before long Britain given up to petty with me, and in this time he put political considerations with a the gravity of the economk domestic, issues in the teeth me into i harmonious mutal re, curtain amount of disdain..

lations with the newly re-chosen Alia, the word " politics"

of the

been confused, and oven tarnished,

crisis at Home, and also, it of world anarchy, when colabelt ge association with part

may be, of the diplomatic mon action under British crisis abroad, would compel Initiative was essential to Later on in the same month politics Thus much of the all but the most obdurato parereate a supra-national au- ...afrived; in (Angland, Mirigature of this tragic cent tisans, to realise that tem-thority which no aggressor opponent in the recent election only military on

President

biased by the ldens hat porary political unity is ez would dare to assails The He too brought recommendations and that soldier sential.

view may be too far above the at the highest character from the in the To the world as a whole Party battle but the current Pamalden Jendarthe war is the brithe Britain now looks as though view of the political deadlock par

Recepted loader of the Republiemes she is moving on cru

seems much too narrow, anade by us, with the assistance of l'battle,

On top of this now cano the menace to the Balkan States, in- cluding Greece and Turkey, of being enticed or coerced into the Hitler empire, or conquered 11 they did not comply. Was the same hideous

process witnessed in Norway,

we had rk Denmark,

The Nationallats are going to use girls in their fight against the Commos. No, Myrtle, I wouldn't advise volunteering. They aren't using the old-fashioned methods,

Jop suicides are using the traditional hara-kiri method these days. If there's u steel shortage, I do think it's up to the rest of us to hasten forward

and remedy. 1.

Newsance.

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Don't think there is any need to worry yet about this reporter held across the border, Indoctri- nailon does take a little time, as Moo himself can testify.

"Street Siccpers' Shelter Society appeal."

Sans'n very good cause.

seems

not his face.

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that Chiang's supporters are anxious for Li Holland, Belgium, and France to Tsung-jen to lose his place but be reproduced in South East Europe? Were all the Balkan States, including herole. Greece, to be subjugated one by one, and Turkey, isolated, to be compelled to open for the German, légions the road to Palestine, Egypt, Irak, and Perzia ↑

Was there no chance of creat- Ing a Balkan unity and Balkan front which would make this new German aggression too costly to be worth while? Might not the fact of Balkan resistance to Ger- many produce serious and helpful reactions in Boviet Russia? Cer- tainly this was a sphere in which the Balkan States were affected by interest, and even, so far as they allowed it to influence their calculations, by sentiment,

in

North East

It is reported from Hollywood that Jane Russell's football-player husband does the cooking himself because he doesn't want Jane to tean over a stove and endanger her career.

Myrtle's face is her fortune, and it runs into a nice figure,

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Charleston will return to favour, Ginger Rogers, hoping the is quoted as saying, "It's a lot of

fund."

Of course, with taxation at its present level in the States, a girl has to shake up an honest dollar

she can. whenever

Curtain. call.

So yo've gone at last, Sir Harry.

Could we from our strained but growing resources find the extro outside contribution which might galvanise all these States, whose interests were largely the But ye kept right on to the same, into action for a common end o' the road, lad, and we'll be cause t Or ought we, on the thinkin' o' ye there, roamin' in other hand, to mind our own the gloamin', business and make a success of our campaign Africa, let Greece, the Balkans, and postponed his ultimate, in- and it might be Turkey and all evitable quarrel with them to a else in the Middle East, slide later part of his programme ? to ruin ?

Or, as is more likely, would he There would have been much not have been able to attack mental relief in such a cloar-cut Russia in greater strength at an decision and it has found its earlier date? adherents in the books of various

The main question which the officers

subordinate ensuing chapters will probe and occupying positions who have given us their expose is whether his Majesty's views. These writers certainly Government by their action in«

even in have the advantage, of pointing fluenced in a decisive,

(To be Continued)

to the misfortunes which are sus- an appreciable manner, Hitler's tained, but they had not the movements in South East Europe, knowledge to consider sufficiently and moreover whether that action what the results of the opposite did not produco consequences first upon the behaviour of "Russia policy might have been.

Hitler had been able with and next upon her fortunes. hardly any fighting, to bring Greece to her knees and the whole of the Balkans into his system and then farce Turkey to allow the passage of the armies to the South and East might he not have made terms with the Soviets upon the conquest and partition of

these wait regions i

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