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THE CASE OF THE BAMANGWATO

THE CHINA - MAIL,

MARCH 30, 1950

WINSTON WAR MEMOIRS THE THIRD BOOK||

THE GRAND ALLIANCE Meeting with Roosevelt

Sir John Dill, Chief of the,

States

Nevertheless

the

confidence --

which we felt about Home De- fanen did not ckland to::the Far East. should Japan make war upon us. These anxiotika aleb

Dill. I re disturbed Sir John tained the impression that Singa pore had priority in his "ming over Calro.

to a fifth part of the loss of

By Winston Churchill

་་

"Royalties atari Thapk-America building fund,”.

I wonder who was the author of tha17..z

me: 1

WAR

Which reminds looking up the private address of bloke in the local directory the other day, and found under "Residencies."

The British Government statement on the Sercise Khamo issue might be more appropriately styled a black and white paper. Seventy-five U.S. tanks for Forma

our rendezvous! ý

"

in a

been

the radio.

the

New

der] Cadogan in his diary notes: "Film Lady Hamilton' after din- ner. Excellent. P.M., seeing it for the fifth time, stiil deeply moved. At the close he addressed the company:

Gentlemen, though flm would interest you, cause our enemies concern, make, showing great events similar: to Japan poniter, and cheer our those in which you have been Imperial : General Sia, the Tragic issue

friends,

taking part." The voyage was questioned in May, 1941,

Menace of Japan an agreeable interlude. wiadom of reinforcing the Middle East in view of the con:

There was also much business

We arrived at our tr This was indeed a tragic issue, tinual possibility of the sin vasion of Britain and the in-like having to choose whether to be settled about. American in in Placentia, Bay, Newfoundland security of Singapore. In mid. your son in your daughter should tervention to the Atlagile, al soat 9 n.m. on Saturday, August 1. July Harry Hopkins arrived in be killed. For my part 1 did not Russia, our own supplies, and As soon as the customary navalMany tanks, says the 'mo, England on his second mission polleve that anything limt might all the increasing menate courtesies had been exchanged

went aboard the Augusta

and Becond site? from President Roosevelt and happen in Malaya could amount of Japan

To ensure

the Prest-

Two babies were heard crying secrecy Egynt raised similar questions.

ostensibly on a greeted President Roosevelt,

with all too bitterly received me

birth before honours, The time Hopkins was not the Suez Canal and the Middle dent, who was

transhipped at He stood supported

the off by

Kentucky hospital. nione. There wore in London a East. I would not tolerate the holiday "cruise

-of his son Idea of abandoning the struggle, a to the cruiser Augusto, and

Eiflett while the Na- They had probably might have said of the Seretse/ofcers of the Army and Navy, for Egypt, and was resigned; to left his yacht behind him as a tional Anthems were played, and listening to the news on!

At other times pundits number of high United

me the warmest of from. Well..

btained welcomes.

s': 'in a letter Authorities gave him Khama case that it was shak. | ostensibly concorned with Lend-phy whatever forfeits werd, efic-blind. Meanwhile Harry Hopkins. then gave

Lease, and in particular Admiral led i Malays. This view.also bough

to from the King and presented the Territories. have received. po; working was shared, by my colleagues. Roosevelt's SAPIEN

I felt the reed for repealing in Moscow, a lond, bring and dan members of my party. Convers. ing the Empire to its founda Ghormley,

complaints daily with the Admiralty on the such tions. The days of

Norway. tions were then begun between increases. What has probably Atlantle problem and the Ameri- the Far East the institution of a gorpus journey

**** | Minister of State,' wlio; "in the Sweden, and Finland, In ; order | the; President and Secretary farmery, knowing the cost dramatic licence are over: can share in its solution.

Mr. happened is that closest touch with the War to obtain directly from Stalin' the Summer Welles (US, the simile is too mid-Victorian

I: held

a meeting with

Hopkins*

Cabinet, would relieve the Come fullest knowledge of the Soviet and tangible, in the Age of circle and the Chiefs of Staff on Attlee. Now we are reduced the night of July 24 at No. 10. Hopkins brought with him besides to the pedestrian complaint Admiral Chormley, Major-Gen- that it's all a dreadful mess. eral Chancy, who was cailed in Even so, while contemplating speelal observer," and Brigo- with all due seriousness the dier-General. Lee, the American Military Attache. Averell Har- Bechuanaland headache and riman, who had just returned the blundering that produced from his tour Egypt, in which it, it is possible to disentangle by my directie, she had been the issues that are local and shown everything, completed the those that are of much greater significance.

party.

who

Hopkins sald that the "men In the United States who held the principal places and took decl- sions on defence matters" were of the opinion that the Middle Enst was an indefensible Dosje tion for the British Empire, that great sacrifices were being male to maintain it. In their view the Battle of the Atlantic would be the final decisive battle

With the worst will in the world, it would hardly be just to accuse Labour Ministers of devotion to the colour bar. They even deny that they took colour from the environment in which the report of the

of the war, and everything should judicial enquiry was drafted-be concentrated on it. The Tic- amidst loud ncises from sident, he said, was more Incfined Rhodesia and the Africaners. Middle East, because the enemy to support the struggle in the And we believe the Govern- must be fought wherever he was ment when it affirms that it found. decided not to publish the findings of the public judicial enquiry precisely because there were passages in It with which it disagreed.

Empire problems

dom and the Atlantic sea' Innes: the defence of Singapore and the sen Innes to Australis und Now Zealand; the defence of the ocean the defence of the Middle East, routes in general; and, fourth,

All were important, but he placed them in that order. General Genoral Lee agreed with Choney. Admiral Ghormley. was anxious about the supply line to the Middle East I American munitions were to go there In weaken the Atlantic battle ?.... great volume. Might this not not

PHASE I From the Outbreak of War to the Invasion of Norway

September 3rd 1939.

to April 9th 1940

Summary of Losses Cross Tors 339,000 349.000

British Others

Total

688000

authority to

CA LAVA

by

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC - MERCHANT SHIPS SUNK BY U-BOAT IN THE ATLANTIC

I

A

nbout

farm rent

fair-minded

of State and Sir Alexander Uving has gone up for landlords Cadogan, and the Staff officers or too, are only too willing to pay both sides, which proceeded more tge de 10' līmes as much rent as or less continuously for the re- they did last year. maining days our visit some.

of our

times man to man and sometime:

in larger conferences,

On Sunday morning, August

ace the ginmorous Lana now

.ts Turner parte.

wants.

10, Mr. Roosevelt camo aboard The new jet Comet, says a locat HMS Prince of Wales, and with report, is absolutely free from his Staff officers, and several vibration, "due to the use of gar hundred representatives of all furbing engines."

ranks of the United States Navy and Marines, attended Divilit Service on the quarterdeck: This

service was felt by us all to bo a deeply moving expression of the unity of faith of our two peoples, and none who took part in It will forget, the spectacle pro- serited that sunlit morning on the crowded quarterdeck the sym- bolism of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripts draped side by side

In

and

on the pulp the American the sprayers the

British the reading

sharing Chaplains

highest naval, military, and air

officers of Britain and the

Just the opposite, in fact, of

I

turbing.

•

Local prices are far too uppish. bate the girl who niwaya

playa

whose

The role of a nice sister. Give me the type

technique slays, Whose kisses raise a blister.

•

"Money-mad pole sitter starts grind."

Word has percolated out that

ited the man is a regular drip.

United

States grouped in one body be The troubles in Belgium leave hind the President and me the

eloise-packed ranks of British and hardly a single Leopold of hope American sailors, completely in that the manorchy

restored.

cảnh bo

termingled. sharing the Bamo books and joining fervently to-To the statement that women In gether in the prayers and hymns America control 80 per cent of fagilliar to both,

the nation's... wealth, DUS

1

myself-

aggrandisement, territorial of

I chose the hynins "For Those in Peril on the Sea" husband adds the comment the and "Onward Christian Soldiers bachelors.

balance is probably held We ended with "O.Goll, Our Heip in Ages Past," which Macaulay reminds un the Ironsides had chanted as they bore John Hamp- den's body to the grave. Every word seemed to slir. the heart. It was a great hour to live. Nearly half those who sadly were soon to die.

one

President Roosevelt told me at of .. qur first conversations [during the Atlantic Conference] that he thought it would be well Kiwe could draw up a joint de- claration laying down certain broad principles, which should

our policies along the same

road. Wishing to follow up this

General Chaney then placed the four problems of the British Empire in the following order? The nature of these observa-the defence of the United King- tions can readily be inferred They have strong feelings about mixed marriages in South Africa. No doubt there was a danger that if the report were published critics would say the Government had acted on them, and not on the other issues, much more "local," that arose. The report ought to be published nevertheless, for it is the usual thing to do. I then asked the Brilisby Chiefs The Government asserts, in of Staff to express their views the White Paper, that the The First Sea Lord explained why he fell even more confident mixed marriage was almost

of destroying on invading arroy beside the point. It is not this year than last. The Chief keeping Seretse In exile-be-of-the-Air Staff showed - how | manders-in-Chief- and local position and needs.--He-was--to cause he happened to marry Force compared with the German dens and help them, to solve the Scapa Flow

much stronger was the Royal Air Governors of some of their bur join the Prince of Wales a white woman, but solely for than in the previous September, grave political problems which

The long special train which lows: reasons of peace and order. and spoke of our nowly Increased gathered swiftly In Mr. Duff carried our whole company, in- On that basis, the only ques-power to batter the Invasion Choper then Minister of Inform gluding large ciphering staff, tion that arises is whether parts. The Chief of the Imperial ation, I had a friend and collied-blcked me up at the station ricar General Staff also spokes in a que who it his central point Chequers: 3 We boirded the the tribe really want Seretse reassuring sense, and said that of view knew the whole scene. Prince of Wales from a destroyer as their ruler. He is not the the Army was immeasurably Hits Armness of character which

8 Senpa

representing his Majesty's Gay- ernment tin spacious quarters over the

United King- first, incidentally, to marry stronger now than in the previous had led him to resign his office

September.

dom, being mat together to re- a First Lords of the Admiralty propellers, which are most.com- without tribal consent. His Interposed to explain the after the Munich Agreement in fertile in harbour become al

solve and concert the means of famous grandfather, Khama special measures we had taken 1938, his personal site of speech most uninhabitable through Vibra-

providing for the safety of their the Third, took to

the of

respective countries in face of hereafter the lessons of Crete. I then and, writing, his militar pecord ion in heavy weather at sea, to

Admiral's

German aggression Sunday School teacher of asked Dul to speak about the Guards during the 1914-18war cabin on the

the dangers to all and plebeian blood. He was a Middle East. Without express-combined to give him the highest and

took a great

peoples arising therefrom, deom masterful man who ruled for ng any opinion. contrary, to his qualifications Early In August, king our

it right to make known certain principles which they (man, and half a century and ranked portion of be gave a powerful

Diana, he left f62: the Far East that a British sailor, should accept for guidance in the with Celywayo.

which made it necessary for us via the United States

Alas within four months framing of their policy and on to stay there. My feeling of the For several months the British he and many of his comrades which they base their hopes for end of our discussion

a better future for the world."" was that and American Governments: had vine merican. friends were can been acting towards Japan in and his splendid ship were sunk vinced by our statements and close accord. At the end of

Inscrutable over

moved to the'

at

leeping Bridge for working |

accompanied by his wife, Eady charming and of some of the reasons

most helpful suggestion, I gave him the next day, August 10, a tentativo outline of such a de- claration. My text was as fol-

Joint Anglo-American

The President

Declara- the

tion of Principles: kadÃƏN

States

Prime

of America and the Minister, Mr. Churchill,

the

both

other

Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely express- ed wishes of the peoples cor cerned.

Third,

they

respect the right peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live. They are only concerned to defend tho rights of freedom of speech and thought, without which puch cholce must be illusory

Fourth, they will strive to bring about a fair and equi- table-distribution of essential produce, not only within their territorial boundaries, but "bo

"the nations of the 'world: Fifth, they secká peace which will not only cast down forover the Nazi tyranny, but

effective by

International organisation will afford to all States and peoples the means of dwelling In security within their own bounds and ot traversing the

and

without fear of ces QARLI

bel the need of indinisihing burdensome armaments.

(To be continued)! World-Capuright reserved Ros production even partially in any language, strictly pro= hibited.

Exclusive rights in Hong

by the solidarity | July the Japaneso had completed on the waves,Į⠀ First, their countries.seck no! by the "China Mall"

די

escort

receive mès- could

'It is not clear that the tribe took either the Chief or the little teacher to their hearts, but it doesn't seem to have ¦ impressed mattered much. And in the among us.

their military occupation Let On the second day the seas present case the feelings of | L

Indo-China By this hated art were so heavy that we had to of aggression thelgi.forces were the tribe seemed to be very} |_

poised to strike at the British in choose between slowing down and mixed anyway, At the first "Imperialism." The decision alarm at the Americas if the dropping our destroyer tribal conference, the people can hardly be squared with Philippines, and at the Dutch, in Admiral Found, First Ben Lord, were against Seretse almost the Government's

ins the East Indies, saya the decision. Thenceforward On July 24 the President asked we went on at high speed-alone. unanimously and they decided tence that peace and order

the Japanese Government that, There were several U-boats to ban his wife from entering the sole consideration. The prelude to a general sotilo ported which wa-made-zigzags

should be and wide diversions to avold, the Reserve. Then they began offspring of the judicial en- ment, Indo-China

FA Abrolata?

ta: wireless silence wa and the to get uncasy about the strong quiry is likely to be Just as

qeutralised

withdrawn, Tomson { sought.” West

****inges, that if Seretse were turned } the expected child of Seretse, cutivo: 6.2220 proposals an ex not speak except at intervals.} but unpopular Regent, fearing much a source of trouble as ps

point to

was issued freezing down, the Regent would be- The Bamangwato swallowed a Japanese assets in the United Thus there was a full in my daily

routine and dome permanent ruler. At Khama morganatic tatag:h-

Shop, known the third tribal meeting the match they finally accepted emment, 22 Tooks

LAGUED VACHK, 77280:sensa,cot|| to a standstill. The

The war bogen Jah Ho clear decision was taken as Seretse's indiscrétionis action, and two between Seretse and his wife, not a matter of whether in Dutch followed. The adherence mother could end a hook for picimure, Oliver Lyttelton, Minise. And the Regent. The Regent, direct rule is obsolete or lends of the Patch meant that her of State in Cairo, had given

deprived at a stroke, Redout they decided, was the worst itself to endless feuding and

vital oll supplies.

July [Ondi "pricon: In of two evils, and so Seretse splits Those issues of policy

pkins: camej and his wife went back Then should be considered in their Harry?" game the revolt of the Re- own context, not da that of sarden of Dawning. gent, and the judicial enquiry, the present dilemma.f with its recommendation | Perhaps the best solution side against the recognition of now would be to establish a Seretse, and in favour of representative Council of direct British rule in place of | leadingstr the existing indirect rule Re

through the Chiefs/ay "it

In short the tribe decided, | Vit however grudgingly, that it] Wante da Beretsey back. It

Cortainly didn't aske forydirect him the Tule Bu that is what, has felt so L. If the Con- coulds Been pro

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