1950-11-03 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL," "FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950.

BRAATHENS

Two Wartime Ministers whom Mr Chur- chill discusses

of the

in this chapter

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS

LORD BEAVERBROOK

IN THE

CHANGES IN

WAR CABINET

S my plans for the ever wider and more

Ministry

of Pro- melled

without

duction approached heart that relief from burdens

And anxletles which many lions to give Beaverbrook only attended on matters of they States or individuals, aro

any

"The most pleasant route to Europe!

face calamity .ram- fields of those bygone but still port of Leader of the House of who

Commons. Mr Attice had done wincing, and who offer the most powers, sought in his living days.

I had completed the prepara- all the dally work, and I had energetic resistance, these bo completion I ob- others of my colleagues also new tremendous sphere, where consequence, which would have the truest heroes. served

But now that with pain that desired.

his gifts would have their fall been necessity in any case. It

all appeared People who did not know Lord Beaverbrook's phy-

scope and when the Irritation seemed to me that Sir Stafford settled Lord Beaverbrook re- the services he had rendered which

kind of obstruc- had every quality for leading signed. His health had Com- Nicul health was rapidly during his tenure of office, or tion raised in him would be at the House, He was a Parlla pletely broken down, and he breaking down. He began his force, driving power, and its minimum.

On February 4, mont man and one of its best did not feel he could face the

Ministry

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new and great debators. Such

appoint- ne acutely from Judgment as I did often won 1942, the creation of a

responsibilities to suffer

deced why his asthma, which often de me stood so high. They over- ment of Lord Beaverbrook to bership of the War

with of Production and the appoint- mont, carrying with it Influence

mem- he had assumed. I did my ut- Cabinet, most to dissuade him, but the prived him of sleep, that keda los perrelation in this office and of Sir

Andrew

whose exponent he would be, long and harassing discussions all. One night red its aftermath. healer of

The even's of the First dem to succeed him as would give him the wide and which took place in my pre- Azart Minister et Supply had been general scope which he sought sence between him and other after my return from rom Lord Simon the Ford unnounced to Parliament, But and now facitly demanded. principal Ministers convinced chancellor, with whom, though some important totalls had still I discussed the project with me that it was better to prosa greally respected him. I had le be settled behind the scenes, Mr Attlee, whose simple, stead him no further, I therefore never been intimate. Beaver- At Beaverbrook's desire, and fast loyally amid such

agreed to straina

hi rock was the only colleague I with Lord Leathers full con- was invaluable. I proposed to Cabinet and

quitting the War going on some had who had lived through the sent, I had added to the pro- fim that he should hand over vaguely defined mission to the Braathens S.A.F.E. Airtransport A/S shocks and strains of the pre- posed

of Production the Privy Seal and the Leader- United States, where he could We the Ministry tous struggle with me.

of War Transport. ship of the House of Commons exert his influence

in the Pre- belonged to an older political. Every point of detall in

Cripps, and that he himself sidential circle In a helpful to Generation.

ing the various responsibilities should fake the Dominions sense and also find in a West had, however, to be tought for Offer and should be styled, Indian Island

the rest and

Washington, when we were

in conference at the An- nexe, I was vexed by a per- sistent noise, and said

abrutly, "Let someone go out and stop that cat mew- ing." A silence fell upon the company, and I realised that this was the asthma of my poor friend.

altitude.

the

Lo

Different sides

as in a battle. At last I reach though no constitutional change peace which he sorely needed. ed the end of my patience, would be made, Deputy Prime which may

con- Minister. Here again Was ព siderable,

ge in form rather than in

Ofton

be deemed we had been on dif- Ierent eldes in the crials und quarrels of those former days; had even been sumetinies we

yet on the

White paper

Colonial

I

from

I

Acute loss

Or

you. a proof of the harshin in the House of But I felt his los acutely. His)

Shocks & strains in these new years of storm to its final form.

their troubles

over

and to

my

been

and most

Other changes

while in one mood demanding young Heutenants on the battle- your best to make a success of other changes at the same time. to be shot at by a

which

in

I expressed my regrets and the incident ended, but I re- count it because It shows the

Mr Attlee agreed, arid

Many who did not appreciate strain of those exhausting times

therefore had to

know of his ercely opposed,

Lord his qualities nsk and it is one of the keys to

whole a relationship had been Mr Churchill to Lord Beaver Cranborne 10 move to The contribution to our war effort, Beaverbrook's actions. Indeed, he seriously contemplated fly intained which was a part of brook.

the Dominions and sore with whom he had nt m3 public

coupled this with the quarrelled, were well content, 10 Feb., '42. ing for three or four hours at the continuity night above ten thousand feet life, and this was cemented by

I send

Onal letter, written few days In order o obtain

Both these offices were later, shows the terms on which personal relief warm

friendship. While Paper which I have un- from asthma which comes from all the vicissitudes of the past. in a few hours from now. So highest regard, His

which had subsisted through ertaken to give to Parliament

by Lord Moyne, man; and u friend for whom had the

the we parted: comfort to me far as I am concerned, it is in from the Government was was often

emission

26 Feb., '42. My dear Winston, of I have lavished

I am leaving this office today and my time and strength during course, a heavy blow to him,

arenger This physical affliction was a problems,

compare the last week in trying to make in the long sequence of events about

which it distressed me to inflict and going to the place I came now I must tell them with what we source of what I can only en a

had sur-angements which are catis- nervous breakdown in Beaver- mounted or undergone already, factory to you and to the public it was to cost him his life at you about 21 months of high

who had been interest and to brook. had already brushed with

allay the au

the hands of an Israelite assas- adventure, the like of has never been known. astde an Impulsive resignation throughout in a station, if not weties of the departments with sin in Cairo.

All the time everything that during our visit to Washington, of official, often of commanding hom you will be brought in

power. All

other But he now developed an un-

has been done by me has been col

contact. I can do no more.

ma up: affected

due to your holding and profound

had veari- leagues

unknown

Em sure it is your duty to

You took a of

chanco great ness and distaste for office, and figures,

them wi

tierlake this work ond try

I resolved to make certain puiting my In, and you stood il, and ther you

section have ample Captain Margesson ceased to be Members for keeping me here. powers for the purpose. I Think there

Scerotary of State for War, and It was little enough I gave is great force in Leathers argument

about the his stead

the oppointment in you compared with what you Ministry of War Transport hav

of his Permanent gave me. I owe my reputation effective say

Under-Secretary, Sir James to you. The confidence of the in the types of merchant vessels, us

Grige

public really comes from you. they are the only authorities on the highest reputation for eff- by you. These benefits give me Grigg was a Civil Servant of And my courage was sustained he subject and have the know- ledge.

chancy and w-power. He a right to a place in your If after all clse has been. zetiled, you break on this poin or indeed on any other in con- nection with the treat offen ! have shaped for you I feel bound to say that you will be harshly judged by the nation and in the United States, hav- regard to the extreme emergency in which we stand and the immonse scale of the Interests which are involved. therefore hope that you will not fall below the high level of Lvonts and strike so wounding

New Deal In

Garden Of

was

A

BY L.W.

waterless uninhabited desert.

mountain

of

The Eden

PHELPS-ORION

中

of trucks.

Equally, there

and tan

of Label

at the

Over 1,200 small flourishing farmsteads yielding good crops wheat, millet and barley.

dren now go to school in Aden Their prosperity is the first

where only 100 privileged indication that, during the

whites went before. Young Arab mothers became annoyed,.. to solid 1950's, a new deal may

The first food harvegla cx- find that their children knew yet reclaim the arid Arab ceeded 10,000 tons his year, more than they did. Now they territories frm their in addition, the hilinde farms too ditch in in evening classes, centuries-old curse of par- are yielding a £250,000 cotton ́ched soil erosion.

ing

ind

White the

advised

CHAPTER THREE

OF

THE

st

of lieutenants who served you when you brought salvation to our people in the hour of disas

In leaving, then, I send this letter of gratitude and devotion to the leader of the nation, thơ saviour of our people, and the the symbol of resistance in tree world.

Yours affectionately.

Max.

I always meant to have hun back when he was restored to health and poise, but this inten-

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are employed scorching territories choked.

Thousands of Arabs quaysides, and 50 ships a week were set to the task of clearing put into harbour, bringing fresh that fringe the Red them and restoring the ancient wealth and fortune.

a blow at your country, at your sea, the sun-baked earth of silt to the soil. Hundreds of

friend, Unskilled labour seems cheap

and above

all at your . the back-country of Aden camels were deployed to bring

The Ministry of Production. and other supplies. at 2s. 6d a day. So low is the reputation... and up food

Lord Beaverbrook accepted

with all the consequences at- Hartley struck snag when cost of living that this supports Primi-

this

tached to and the decision,

свел

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I exactly defining

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vacant of Paper the because

Aden folk like to tell the superstitious

Ministry of Production was

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First presented by me to Parliament

Lyttelton I had a man of wide incense trees in the gullies, other evil spirits who were sup- town as a boy goatherd.

be lurking in

the

business experience and great he set up in Business selling on February 10.

personal energy, which have and relied for water chiefly d to

caves. To appease water by the glass; then he

had not only bean reared in the proved themselves in the test Had a message had won the cons on barrels of condensed sea- the labourers, persuasive lee- bought a camel to turn a wheel water carried inland by tures and explanatory movie to crush sesame seeds for cook-

Dearly five years been my prin- dence of all parties at While all this was camel. Today, thanks to demonstrations clearly showed ing oll; next he turned oil mer-

in pro- cipal private secretary when 1 Board of Trade, and

as Minic what was being done and why,, chant, and now he owns a fleet gress the position and attitude was Chancellor of the Excheter of

ter of State in Cairo for the the skill and lone enterprise and work continued.

of Sir Stafford Cripps became quer, but he had served in best the parallel increasingly

part of a year he bad faced of a young administrative

more important. India as Financial Member of

the brunt of military raja- A dam was built to conserve success story of the poor Arab He bors himself as though he the officer, the region has

Viceroy's Council and fortunes in the Middle East rainfall, with weirs carrying labourer who not only learned hod blossomed into a green and the torrent by

message to deliver, had

Jert

mark behind and had initiated easy stages to to read and write in Aden but Encouraged by the reception of him there.

Or carried He had the whole through many great improve- fertile garden.

sea-level, From each wair won

scholarship to Khartoum this canals were cut to distribute College and is now the right-refure from Moscowered on his business of the War Office at ments in the administrativa and

Moscow, he press his angers' ends, and

com- railway but the water. Today, 00,000 desert hand man of the powerful Sul- ed the Minister of Information manded the confidence of all front. are acres have been irrigated

for further opportunities to the generals and officials. of brought under cultivation.

Taught in English, Arabic, speak on the radio. To a ques- He did not wish to go to the Political tension Hebrew and Uriu, 14,000 chil-tion from his constituents of the House of Com

of Lords; he had no ex- Bristol about his joining the Government he replied, ασκού

mons; he had to find, and if The reconstruction of the War had hotter ask Mr Churchill, necessary fight, a constituency Cabinet was announced on Feb. wrote to him on Feb. 9 as fol- wider and more varied sphere reduced mom eight to seven,

and to adapt himself

19. Although it now.. embraced two now personalities, It was lowe

and more flexible methods im- I see that you replied to question at Bristol about purposed on a political chief. His In direct contrariety to a strong

of

current of "elect". I had cow faining the Government

hla had botter asic Mr. Churchill"

courage, and 'given fill.

Ford that add his obstinacy, worg by words to that effect. To

-all -ramirkable. In: advancing

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had not written or personal introduction of a member, sich manber so be newly-balit

seemed to be affected in all this responsible for 122 visitnge introduced by him, and for payment power ed down. In their stejich has the wordé “If the Minister of that the initial

factories, houses, Floon white maidsbric own-avisbrook did not of course Ministry of Aircraft Production, change was too much des sale at Lo-RACE COURSE, task plants, new

word added." Lord

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diving boys or drove ashore terland was considered too un- than make my original meaning numbers of the Wax Cabinet. I suffer from any desire to Until recently the empty hin- these words, which do no more regret. -- In "order" to reduce the old no man's land amid the shobo's water

to sta the Queen

tanke. Today,

day, settled and dangerous for dove-

plain. sand dunes began with an the

the Independence of

India, the Hadhramaut

din lopment. Over 1,300 tribes unexpected demonstration Puhlatan and Palestine have

region had of water loss. During a trip enhanced rather than under waged folds against each other time Emmemorial. The inland which Hartley made mined Aden's vital trading im- from

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The man why has proved a sequel of swift prepreke in that it can be done-modest, a boom carried to Adon fuelf.

tice.

new

found 'Britain's Gibaultar of the Red Sea' litlle more thin

ship's

radis,

watching

or words

that

effect.

1

to

terestedneter his

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to me ylew Cabinos

would it him to a Ministerial position from no sides ardy

.

Good advice

in the War Cabinet in virtue substituting Colonel Llewellyn,

GG

mero

colleagues. or

New expedient formally member Lasily

had to ask the Chancellor of relieved of my responsiblütles the Exchequer to care to be All wasted was compliance

with

wishes after reason3- among the important

discussion. changes

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and the Coys widely welcomed. feuding Mortim

It was not haved with the utmost patrio enco. The that thus

widely

known the water rushing in

Yemani.

the same time to comply with During the process of

the most torrents down the wadis to

young Araba

Then another young adequally strong desires express- romaking Lord Deaverbrook

conditions and travel barefoot, across the hot flow uncontrolled to waste sands

ministrator, Harold". Williams, ed in many lauential quartern given much good advice. He was many well-meant ausgestions of from tho

adjoining wont up-country with his wife, that this War Callet should able to take a coolly detached committes and other forms of In the sea.

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