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MALAYA'S UPS AND DOWNS

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1850.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS: THE THIRD BOOK

This situatioa braught Rommel buck from Bardia. He fought hir way to Sidi Rezegh, attacked in flank by the rearganised 7th Armoured Division, now muster- ing 120 tanks, He recaptured Sidi Rezegh. He drove back the 6th New Zealand Brigade with crip-

pling loss. They and the 4th

THE GRAND ALLIANCE The battle of Sidi Rezegh

By Winston Churchill

to work to ring up the Speaker, the Whips, and others concerned,

The campaign in Malaya is isolated, held on by a bold decl- ring's direction. The attacks on near my heart. To Mr. de Valera

Innd Division into reserve. ΕΙ

a new peak, I sent the following message:

Now is your chance. Now or never! A nation once again! I will meet you wherever you

wish.

I thought also of struggling

Morning!

Now that we're having to get up an hour earlier; I am deferring

constitutional my morning summerer time.

to:

a remark which Edward Grey had mado' to me more than 30 years before they the United States is like "a zigantic boller. Onco-the Despite austerity, Britons fire is lighted under. It there is no said to be living longer. limit to the power It cun Maybe it only seems langor: generate." satiated with emotion and sensa- Being saturated and Lion, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful,

Cabinet approval

ага

A man in New York says that: he dreams in Teclinicolor.

A pigment of his imagination?" -

Lambast bastion.

"Doca your wife collect heads, processed' into diminutive by Ecundoriun

No.

Sald on opera singer named

Beauchamp,

[The aircraft-carrier Ark Royal had already been sunk, to be followed by the torpedo. ing of the battleship Barhan:.. Time bomba fred by Italian "human torpedoes" disabled the Queen Elizabeth and Vall. ant at Alexandria...In Force "K" based on Malta, the eru leer Neptune was mined and the Aurora and the Penelope all both Houses together next day. I rang the Foreign Ofce to damaged.] Up to the end of November our monent's delay a declaration of

prepare to implement without combined efforts by land, and air had prevailed in the there were some formalities, In sea. war upon Japan, about which Mediterranean. We had now muf- time for fered fearful,naval losses.

the meeting of the

As soon as I woke I decided to

Like a lot of other people here, And House, and to make sure all mem- go over at once to see Roosevelt, I object strongly to British MP's Brigade, except for two battalions now December 6 Iitler, which joined up with the Tobruk realising at last Rommel's mortal called pandant Cabinet were put the maiter to the Cabinet making indefensible statements garrison, were withdrawn South Perl, ordered the transfer of a the Chiefs of Staff and the Service obtaining their approval. I wrote

up and informed, and also when we met ot

noon. On about Hong Kọng.... Eastwards to the frontier, where whole Air Corps from Russia to Ministers, who, I rightly assumed, to the King. the heroic. division re-formed air offensive against Malta was

Sicily and North Africa. A new had had the news. after losing more than 3,000 mich launched under General Kessel at once to what has always lain This done, my thought turned

Sir. I have formed the conviction; shrunken The Tobruk garrison, again

that it is my duty to visit the the island reached

Washington without delay, pro-head-hunters?” vion to all the ground gained. not going well. It has never

vided such a course is agreeable General Ritchie now regrouped and Malta could do no more than

struggle for Ilfo.

to President Roosevelt, as been going well, either for the his Army so as to bring the gar- By the end of the year it was,

have little doubt it will be. Government or for the banditsrison of Tobruk under the XIIth the Luftwaffe who held the mas

The whole plan of the Anglo- themselves, if we assume they Corps and to pass the New Zetlery over the sea routes to Tri-

American defence and attack had any political motive at all Adem, in a valley 15 miles West

has to be concerted in the light of reality. We have also to be beyond merely ruining the of Sid Rezegi, lay also upon the

careful that our share of muni- country. It was entered upon main Easi-to-West

-id-West communica-

tions and other ald which we lightly; and that applies to tions of the enemy, and was now

are receiving from the United both sides. The Communists the objective. Both our

States does not suffer more than were used.

ed. The XIIIth advanced thought it a simple thing to frum Ed Duda, and the XXXth proclaim a Republic, establish a "border Government" here] and there in more remote areas as happened in China after the Japanese invasion, and then merge them. Within a month or two such ideas were knocked out of them, and from then onward there has been nothing but murder, arson and destruction-the most miserably destructive movement known in modern times. And nothing is more certain than that if by some remote chance it did over- throw the existing regime, a ferocious racial war with the Malays would follow.

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The Communists took to the jungle on orders from outside, and while they are desperate then fighting for their own lives, what they are doing has no value whatsoever save to create chaos and misery in pursuance of the fanatic de- signs of Red Imperialism. Even in this it is not succeed- ing. All the normal produc- tive activities of Malaya con- Linue. The planiers refuse to be terrorised, the tin miners carry on, output has reached higher levels than before the war, and trade has soared to new high levels. The political aims failed, and so did the economic aims. The jungle jacquerie has become simply _and_solely_a_killing match, în which the bandits have killed more civilians than they have men of the security forces. Meanwhile millions of dollars are going down the drain.

British The

.Communist Party recently issued a mani- festo describing the action against these armed gangs as "an aggressive war against freedom and democracy!" In Malaya the Indian President of an elected Trades Union Council-which has taken the place of the self-imposed Communist Federation — re- torted that the trade unionists in Malaya look upon these terrorists as the enemies of freedom. But for their cam-

paign of murder, arson, and terrorism, he added, Malaya could have achieved greater progress, both economic and social, after the war.

corps

came up from the South. During these preparations Rommel made a final thrust to rescue his frontier was repulsed. The garrisons, general retreat of the Axis army to the Gazals line then began.

It was

Auchinleck's message of the 30th concluded: "Our supply column The Commander of XIIth Corps' reached Tobruk morning of 29th. General Godwin-Austen] birth- day message to you is, 'Corridor to Tobruk clear and

and secure. Tobruk is as relieved as I

as I ain,'" On December Auchinleck went himself to the Advanced Headquarters,

and remained for 10 days with General Ritchie. He did not assume

but closely bordinate. This did

his

the conimand

supervised

noi

UNITED

100 PER CENT WAR BASIS

"ALL PRESENT AND CORRECT, MA'AM

seem to me the best arrangement for either of them. However, the poll, and thus made possible the China, and "telegraphed to Chieng | power of the Eighth Army way refit of Rommel's armies after Hal-shek: now predominant, and on Dec- their defeat. Seldom has the fin ember 10 the Commander-in-teraction of sea, air, and land Chief (could tell me

warfare been so strikingly illus trated as in the events of thes few months.

But now all paled! under the stroke of world events.

to

Full retreat

The British Empire and United States have been attack- ed by Japan. Always we have been friends; now we face a common enemy.

We also sent the following:

It was Sunday evening. Decem- Prime Minister to Mr. Harry

Hopkins.

December 8, 41. Thinking of you much at this historic

moment. Winston, Averell.

•

Greatest joy

L

I fear, inevitable. The fact that Mr. Eden will be in Moscow while I am at Wash-

ington will make the settlement

"These notes ore so high I can't

reauchamp.

They reach such a plich

I develop a stitch,

And the best I can do is to.

screauchamp."

斷

A surveyor In Ebgland..

of large-scale problems between examining a burnt-out church, the three great Allies easier. was buried when part of the

These reasons were accepted building collapsed..

He is suffering

by my colleagues in the Cabinet ananimously today, and I there- arches.

fore ask Your Majesty's

per-

mission to leave the country.

I should propose, to start quile

"Singapore

soon, in a warship, and to be comica,“

absent altogether for about

from

falloo

bang Communist.

I seem to bo aware of

three weeks. I shall, take with contradiction in terms.

me a stall on the same scale as'

I took to the Atlantic mecting

During my absence the Lord

Myrtle's grandfather says the

Privy Seal will act for me, only answers the

assisted by the Lord Fresident

modern child'

of the Council, the Chancellor doesn't seem to know are the

of the Exchequer, and

members of the War Cabinet.

ones in the examination papers.

other I would propose that this period the three Service during

According to ene Investigator;. Ministers

should temporarily the Royal Mint is the only sit with the

Wer

Cabinet. nationalised industry in Britain. While I am away the Foreign

that's making money. Office will report to the Lord President, and the

Defence

It was sald of one boxer that

Committee to the Lord Privy Scal. I shall of course bo con- he met his hefty opponent at the

stantly in touch by wireless

with all that goes on, and can weigh-in, and immediately asked give decisions whenever neces- for the way-out. sary. I should propose to take with me. the First Sea Lord and the Chief of the Air Staff, as the concert of all our arrange ments with the Americans on a high level is all-important.

this

it

I hope I may receive Your Majesty's approval of course, I am, of course, keeping my intention secret.

With my humble duty,

.. I

remain Your Majesty's most devoted, faithful ser- vant and subject.

Enemy is apparently in fuit retreut towards the West. Elber 7, 1941. Winont the Ameri- Adem is taken. South Africar can Ambassador] and Averell and Indian troops joined hand Harriman (Mr. Ro

Roosevelt's special there with British from: Tobruk, envoy] were

alone

with me at the and I think it now permissible table at Chequers.

I turned on claim that the siege of my small wireless set shortly Tobruk has been raised. We after the nine o'clock news had are

pursuing vigorously ir started. There were a number of fullest co-operation with the items about the 9ghting on the Royal Air Force.

Russian front and on the British front in

No American will think Libya, at

the end of wrong of me if I proclaim that to which some few sentences were, have the United States at our side the Japanese on American ship- could not foretell the course of spoken regarding an attack by was to me the greatest joy. ping at Hawaii,

and also Japanese attacks on British vessels in the do not pretend to have lowed a statement that after the very moment I knew the United Dutch East Indies.

measured There fol- might of Japan, but now at this accurately the martial news Mr. Somebody would make States was in the war,-up-to-the

and -that-the- commentary,

the neck and in to the death. So we Brains Trust then begin, or something like this.

programme would had won after all!

Yes, after Dunkirk; after the I did not personally sustain any fall of France; after the horrible direct impression, but said there was something about episode of Oran; after the threat

Averell the Јарадеве

of invasion, when, apart from tha Americans, and, in spite of being almost unarmed people; after the upon, Japan, for which all formal

attacking

The Wor Cabinet authorised the Air and the Navy, we were an the immediate declaration of war tired and resting, we all sat up deadly struggle of the U-boat arrangements had been made. By now the butler, Sawyers, who war-the And again on December 4: had heard what had passed, came

the

Here then we reached a no- ment of relief, und indeca of re- jacing, ubout

Desert war The gloom that descended on military German records show the circles in Borac.

2 December, 41 The situation in North Arlen demands the utmost efforts to supply the German forces, to replenish the considerable losses and to bring up first-rate re- inforcements. With the present air transport al sen, position

must be the malu carrier across the Mediterraneon.

first Battle of

WINSTON B, CHURCHILL, P.S.-I

expecting that Germany and Italy will both declare war on the United - Slates,--as--they-- have -bound themselves by treaty to do so. I shall defer proposing my visiti to the President until this situn- tion is more clear.

The King gave his Assent.

Bizert. Duce speaks of freeing into the room, saying. "It's quite breadth; after IT months hand's his journey to Moscow and I was

fighting dside. The Japanese have attack-responsibility in dire stress. We Japanese Ambassador

Foreign Office, December 8.

Sir,

On the evening of December 7 His Majesty's Government in

the As Eden had already started on as the only means of true. We heard it ourselves cut- nahi

17 of lonely in charge of the Foreign Offee overcoming 'transport

and 10 months of my sent the following letter to the culties. The Occupation of ed the Americans." Malta is not possible. He does, There was a silence.

had won the war. England would not believe that

At the live; Britain would Bye; the Com- Libya can be Mansion House -held much longer without sup- November 11 I had said that if Empire would live.

luncheon on

on monwealth of Nations and the ply through Tunisa. The stu-Japan attacked the United States ation for the Axis In the Medi-

How long the war would last or British declaration of war u terranean and North Africa is would follow, within the hour" in what fashion

would end no critical because the supply

man could tell, nor did I at this I got up from the table and walk- routes were not kept,open ined through the hall to the omico, moment care. Once again in our time. Past decisions have been whi

long island history we should the which was always at work. strongly influenced by asked for a call to the President. mutilated, sale

emerge, however mauled or campaign against Russia, The Ambassador followed me out. We should not be

and victorious, crucial moment aur and, imagining I was about to

wiped out:

die as individuals. Our history would not come to an end. We might not even have to Hitler's fato was sealed. Mussolini's fato was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. All rest was merely the proper

At this

naval power in the Eastern Medi- take some irrevocable step, said, terranean was virtually destroyed "Don't you think you'd better get by a series of disasters,

Departments with the style of Ministers.

confirmation first?”

"Quite true"

about

The wonder is, indeed, that so much has been done in this!

The formation of a Trades In two or three minutes · Mr. | application Of overwhelming way when huge sums

of Union Council in Malaya, is President,, what's this

Roosevelt came through, "Mr. force.

The British Empire, the Soviet money have to be diverted to one of the latest moves. It Japan?"

"It'

quite true," he Union, and now the United States. the fighting of this monace, Į was an action not without replied. "They have attacked us bound together with overy scrap How much more could have courage, for the Communists at Pearl Harbour. We are all in of their life and strength, wera, been done is shown by the in the jungle are hostile to it,

according to my lights, twice the same boat now." example of Singapore. That as they are everywhere to all some interchanges took place, the antagonists. No doubt it would I put Winant on to the line and even thrice: the force of their 95

Colony is one of the most ad- freely elected bodies, whether Ambassador at first saying: tako

a long time. I expected vanced anywhere in the com- of trade unions or of political "Good" "Good" and then, terrible forteils in the East; but prehensive nature of its social representation. This Council apparently graver. "Ah!" I got on all this would be merely a pass- services. Both Malaya and is formed along the lines of implies things.

United we again and said: "This certainly ing phase.

could God be with|subdue everybody also in the Singapore have long-term the Trades Union Congress in you, or words to effect.

that

world. Many disasters, Immca- plans for a tremendous de- Britain, and its objects are hall and tried to adjust, our ahead, but there was no

We then went back into the surable cost and tribulation lay velopment of educational similar. There are more than thoughts to the supreme, world doubt about the end.

more facilities, and if the Federa-160 separate trade unions in event which had occurred, which Silly people, and there were tion's pace is slower, the Malaya-for rubber workers, was of so startling a nature as many, not only in enemy coun- Colony of Singapore is rapidly miners, shopkeepers, tele to make oven those who were tries, might discount the force of implementing its plans.

phonists, busmen, labourers, American friends took the shock they were. soft, others that they | near the contro guap. My two the United States. Some said Nor bus there been any civil servants and so on. The with admirable fortitude. We would never be united. They stackening in the develop- Council will not dictate policy: had no idea that any serious losses would fool around at a distanco, ment of democratic instituit will do what the delegates had been infileted on the United They would never come to grips, tions. In both the Legislative from the various unions deus lament that their country was letting. Their democracy and States Navy. They did not wall: They would never stand blood- Councils, there is a majority cide to have done. It is not at war. They wanted no words system recurrent elections of unofficial_representatives, another unionit la simply an in reproach or sorrow, In fact, would paralyse their war effort and in Singapore this majority instrument whereby organize one might almost have thought They would be just a varus blur is elected by the ratepayers, ed labour in Malaya can carry long they

*had been delivered from a on the hortion to friend, or 10s. Talks are now going on with on a constitutional and legallons pain. Now we should see the Weskus of this "numerous but remote, the idea of including: Astal struggle by democratis means Parliament would not haya mat wealthy, and talkative people, li political leaders in Malaya in to Improve the lot of the Turday and the Members. But i had studied the American the Executive Council, and to workers, and speak with one were scattered about the fand Civil War, fought out to the list (the scisting dlmculties as desperate inch, American blood fout them in charge of certain volée -disciplined "voles, excommnin

the office nowed in my veins. I thought

the United Kingdom learned that Japanese forces without previous warning either in the form of a declaration of war or of an ultimatum with a condi- tional declaration of war had attempted a landing on the

You

never know, whether it's the real

. Love is like a mushroom. thing until it's too late.

coast of Malaya and bombed Singapore and Hong Kong.

In view of these wanton acts of unprovoked aggression com- mitted in flagrant violation of International Law and parti- cularly of Article 1 of the Third Hague Convention relative to the opening of hostilities, to which both Japan and the Unit- ed Kingdom_ure.

partics His has been instructed to Toky Inform the Imperial Japanese Government in the name of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that a state of war exists between

countries

-ambassador

our

at

two

I have the honour to be, with high_considerailon, Sir,

Your obedient servant, WINSTONS. CHURCHILL. Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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