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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950.

"THE HINGE OF FATE"

Pneumonia

Trip

In February, 1942, while the Tunisian campaign was being fought, Mr Churchill had

nevero pneumonia,

a

attack The Speaker, Capt. Filzroy, was taken ill on almost the same day and President did not recover. Roosevelt, as the article in- dicates later, was also tall up about this time.

WAS more tired by my journeying than I at the har realised

have time, and must caught a chill. A few days later, a cold and sore throat obliged me to lie up. In the evening of the 16th, when I was alone with Mrs Chur- chill, my temperature sud- denly rose, and Lord Moran, who had been watching me, took a decided view and told me that I had inflammation of the base of n lung. His pre- diagnosis led him to scribe a drug called M and

B.

The

elaborate

and

day next photographs were taken

Confirmed the diagnosis,

To

36 CHAPTER

Follows My Africa

North

By Winston Churchill

the two French sides together?

como

that from the Now I hear

American point of view the clate of "Husicy" (the land- ta ing in Sicily] will have be postponed to the

will

our

later one, whereas we can plan for the earlier one, which be an aggravation of dimeullies in preparing the operation. This fact will throw out our careful calculations convoys and escorts, and will upset our import programme ngain. I should not think of bothering you questions at

all

for

with these this moment, hent, about

Their own bread and butter

depends upon their good be- luviour, and possibly

lives as well.

The irruption of de Gaulle

the

I had n cinema installed near my bedroom and was able to go from my bed to see it about Feb. 29, I was able in re-

to to send Stalin, against turn

President,

and to the Dominion Governments Majesty just completed, of the Your suppose realises that these two corps of the Eighth Army, prising together 000 men, are

USD them.

htm strength

their

I

Or

his agents into this field, ea- pecially

forcibly introduced

by us, would cause nothing

trouble.

is entirely but

It his fault that

ar- a good

be- rangement was not made

fac- tween the two French tions.

with The roughness which he refused the Presi dent's Invitation (and mine) to come and make a friend- ly settlement at Casablanca put him and his French Na- practically tional Committee out of court with the Ameri-

an

cans

As

but I do feel worried

m, and I would like them, Assurance from you that they are being carefully watched. vital I cannot discuss matters with yourself.

these anyone

but

Believe me, Yours very sincerely,

GEORGE R.I.

Not disturbed

I replied forthwith, and once seemed dicialing it 'I began and Geoffrey Marshall of Guy's easy to cover the ground. Hospital was called in

consul-

me Sir,

at the An-

February 22, 1943.

tation. All my work had come It is very good of Your Majes

ty to write with your own hand to me.

to me hour by aintained my

nexe and I had

usual output far from well. But now I be- I do not feel seriously disturb-

came aware of duction papers which reached me.

naturally there much about both aspects which I would rather have different.

though

feeling

a marked re-

number in the

ed by the course of

events

of

in North Africa, either poli-

When I protested, the tors, supported by my

doc-

tical or even military, though

Rt- is

the_

wife, argued that I ought to quit my

I would

not work entirely. agree to this. What should have done all day? They then said I had pneumonia, to which I replied, "Well, surely we con deal with that. Don't you be- lieve in your new drug?" Doc- he called tor Marshall

oki man's pricumonia

I

tion

sold

friend." "Why?" I asked. "Be-

cause it takes

quietly,"

we

Week

them oft

of fever

So

on

I made a sultable reply, but

renched an agreement the following lines. I was only to have the most important and DBA interesting papers sent me, and to read a novel, I chose "Moll Flanders." about which I had heard excellent accounts, time to had not found them. On this basis 1 passed

the next week

discomfort.

and

lever In

but

test

I sometimes

felt very ill. There is a blank

in my flow of minutes from the,

19th to the 25th.

For me the days passed very slowly, but not without some enlivening diversions. A gentle- Thomson, kindly

with a

a lion, who presented sent me beautiful photo- graph of himself, with

man,

Mr

me

vishes for my recovery. "Rot75"

Was the lion's name, and I had to invoke the aid of the Duke of Devonshire, who was Pre- sident of the Zoo and who had

Mr Themron's been

inter-

have been rending all the atten- telegrams with key

up till two days ago, have when I must admit I fullen a little behind. I am sure

that

Eisen- [Gen.

political ad- hower's

U.S. viser Murphy's nim is to up- hald Gl. and to procure a quiet. tranquil Government for the people Ilving in French North Africa. In this way alone would he gain any credit.

16m.

I

told Your Majesty the last time we met, I tried all could to bring the operation "Husky" forward to June, In this. I was splendidly second- ed by the Chiefs of Staff and

a

June

all concerned. Gen. Elsen- hower, however, expressed decided opinion that a operation would be "unlikely to succeed," and was for July at the earliest, Our Chiefs of Staff

therefore

sent their paper to the Coin- bined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, and I also tele- graphed to Hopkins

asking

him to put this through, with the result that, according to the my latest information.

Staff Combined Chiefs of who are

and the

supreme official body through which command is exercised-have Eisenhower to ordered Gen. prepare for the June opera- tion with the utmost zeal, and to report to them by has April 10 what progress been made. Thus you see the American Chiefs of Staff took the same view as burs did, and, if I may say so, as I did. That is how the mat- ter stands now.

Best troops

our own

Alm, Battle "Desert

com- of Alamein, called

Victory," These photographs, about 100,-

like tho Russian, perhaps

the inken by the operators best troops in the world,

Therefore I look

The

were

under

Was sacrifice

and

ΠΟΙ

"Any appropriate senti- ment you wish to have enclosed with it, sir ?"

London Exprake Sercion.

Let's Clear

confidently heavy fire and at some loss of

into te. forward to their entry

have made in vain, for the fruits of action. Moreover, we

their work excited the greatest enthusiast Gen. Alexander under Elsen- admiration

world hower to concert and com- throughout the Allled bine the entire movements.

all closer 20- the und brought us well It may

be that

task. our common enemy is wasting strength on gether in

false assumption and

n

give Montgomery

chance.

I

need scarcely

til all the

Our Minds

About The

will The President replied; Scientists

The best thing

an earlier

By James Dow

17 March 43THERE is a great deal

Dear Winston, That new film Desert Victory

poppycock

being

is about the best thing that talked abut Professor Pan- Though it is na- has been done about the war tecorvo, on either side. Everyone here tural that his disappearance is enthusiastic. . . .

from Harwell should arouse

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that ro word of mine is intended in disparagement of the Ameri

are brave but cans. They not reasoned troops, who will from not hesitate to learn defeat, and who will improve by suffering un- themselves

their strongest mar- tial qualities have come the front. What a providen- tial thing it was that 1

per- petually

for pressed Gen. Eisenhower to take the com- mand, as the defeat of Americax 'sdios if it been under

a British eral, would have given enemles in the United States a good chance to blaspheme.

Confidence

the

of

had

gen-

our

may

four days in bed-then a lot most of us, at first-have been deeply shocked when which sulphadiathole, cured the fever and left me "top-grade" scientists chose feeling like wet rag. I was to go over to the Commu- no good after 2 pm, and mist side of the world. On after standing it for a week its face value, it is a slap

in the face for democracy.

After all, we may here scientists are clever, think- Can there be ing men. something beyond our or- knowledge

or so I went to Hyde Park for five days; got full health in

glorious weather-came

ZATO

back last woek, and have been a Aghting cock feeling like con-

ever since. Anthony

three evenings with me.

Generally I feel that we awalt with reasonable fidence the development of the situation in North Afri- ca, and I look forward to an improvement before lang. Although I have

been ham- pered by a high fever from reading all the telegrams, I think I have the

picture and mind,

I my truly in

that wish indeed

could I have given this account Your Majesty

verbally

[Eden] has

spent dinary

He attracts

say,

which these scientists

is a grand fellow, and we and allows them to see Red are talking everything, from

Ruthenia to production and like it, secret police,

the

of peanuts! It is an interest-labour camps and all?

ing fact

that we

agree on

of all the

scon

to

about 95 percent. 庭 subjects-not

bad average... to

nt

luncheon. I send this instead.

With my humble duty,

Winston S. Churchill.

As to the battle, I suspend Stalin at this time. sent me a Judgment till we hear from film of the Stalingrad victory. Alexander. The 2nd Ameri- with all its desperate fighting and portrayed, can Army Corps sustained a wonderfully

heavy

defeat, and apparently with the final

surrender

of

Model patient

This, of course, is bun-

kum. With all due respect,

I'd sooner have a common

man's opinion of Russia

Please, please, for the sake of than a professor's. The fact

the world, don't overdo these is that the scientist, in front days.

You must remember of whom we are too prone that it takes about a month to stand in awe, is quite of occasional let-ups to get likely to be more ignorant back your full strength.

was deprived of about half Field-Marshal Paulus and his Tell Mrs Churchill that when than you and I about world-

11 is quite true that we have for this purpose and to safe- guard our vital communica- with a mass tions to work of French officials who were

but I Vichy; appointed by without them I really do not know how the country could be governed. Even in Syria we have done this to

some

extent. I do not anyself see officials any danger of these changing their sides or ob- structing our operations.

two

to

Soviet Russian

its important weapons with- appearance before the

The out indicting any serious loss court-martial.

im- Government treated this upon the enemy..... look forward

both the portant German war chlet 10th and 30th Corps being with the greatest considera- in action in Tunisia by the tion, and he has been in their

since. middle of March, or it may service ever

A less fate

the awaited Nevertheless, agreeable earlier. matters may not wolf

German pri- so endless lines of

the film shows long, because if Montgomery soners, whom feels the enemy is wilting on marching wearily forward ever

certainly the limitless wastes of snow.

គ.

be

his front

he will

THE SCIENTIST'S

IN TROPICAL

the British TODAY

colonies are broadly speaking, with

main problems. The how to introduce

mediary, to provide him with a home. He was a male lion of first is

father of

I

I

was laid up was aly matters.

and

live

thoroughly model patient, A scientist, and particularly

that I hope you

will an atom scientist, is a specialist: down the reputation in He has had to devote to study our Press of having been and research in one particular the "world's worst patient."

God bless you,

branch of science, the time and energy which ordinary mortals: spend in reading, talking and

World Copyright reserved. Repro- sometimes even thinking about| duction, even partially, in any tanguage, strictly prohibited.

(MORE TOMORROW)

PROBLEMS REGIONS

life.

Moreover, if he is a physics whose student, he is a man

mind and whole outlook is trained and focussed upon solv- ing all problems in physical terms.

ms. He must find an equation

or a formula for everything.

Such man (and there was

proof of this before) is apt to forget or

or even to discard the old

There .is spiritual values.

for no formula for God or Freedom. And his mental ar- mour against the false allure of is not this Ay, the carrier of try success that before World War the totalitarian system panosomiasis, deadly to cattle. I the Gold Coast alone was as strong as the ordinary British In spite of strenuous efforts in producing over half the world's working man's.

estimated

to be infested with trom

Accra, proved such

faced, ******** By

every territory, the fly is prob- supply ELSPETH

fine quality, and in eight years modern forms of democratic became the children,

in

a

came

peasant

On

cocoa.

Ιπ 1930

reported

and

ita

of

was ably spreading, or at best being a new disease

swollen

It held in check.

shoot. Drugs which

spread We are too often inclined to Are. To

check HUXLEY

a bush immunise against the disease like

neck make this old mistake of con- into many government

cocoa farmers were re- offer hope, but have not come it,

fusing knowledge with wisdom. to dif-

cut

down societies shaped by a

Wisdom is gained by living not writer and up to their early promise. Until quired

Infected trees, mediately without well-known The assistant secretary, who ferent

and all-round tradition

fly can be conquered,

by book-learning. the middle of 1950 more had been with me in the aero-

colonial this the whole broadcaster

wisdom is, by all reckoning, a with disrupting

millions of people must continue by

nine milion trees had

rare thing among scientists and plane at Algiers.

and creating a subjects, and author of to live on a diet lacking in than some papers. Ife was a charm-society

even among intellectuals, whe- number of books on anima! protein, and mixed been cut, for which the United

Government had ther they are political or not. ing mon, highly competent, but series of weak, chaotic and a

essential step Kingdom side.

has husbandry, an The Kenya, where she unbalanced

A man, in fact, may be very states. physically on the small

more than £774,000 to soll improvement, must be pald chaff, I now

lived for many years.

But compensation.

even this clever and highly educated and Indulging

ruled out. him magnificent second is how to control showed

halted the disease, yet have no sense. hand

the often .................................................................

be has not develop

Discuses of plants can

So it is just as well that Sir photograph of Roth with

Gold

Percy Sillitoe should take a and mono- Fifty million out of the mouth open, saying, "If there limited resources of these

Coast's 400 million trees closer look at Harwell. For satisfied if the natural resources equally pernicious; are any shortcarnings in your

as to feed and of these regions are made to culture, the concentration on a

gives reckoned to be infected, and it work shall send you to him. colonies so

He provide for the needs of yield for more.

And the coil, single crop for export,

As oppor is denred that the whole in- diseases Meat is very short now."

in dustry may be wiped out if no took a serious view of this re- populations which have sud- the water and the forests do not

disease tunity. Panama narit. He reported to the office denly started to multiply increase. On the contrary, they

provides a good ex- remedy con be found. Today's

first bananas are shrinking.

the West Jamaica in at a startling rate.

It is easy enough to under- task is therefore to reverse this ample.

built up its prosperity on tho

single stand these population increases, process, or else all hopes of Indies

export at a

Meanwhile a West African The colonies lile almost wholly progress will be doomed,

Both the dimculties and the variety, the Gros Michel. The I now received a letter from in the tropics. Tropical peoples

appeared in the Cocon Research Institute has followed the King, who

in 1011. the have suffered for centuries from favourable signs are set forth disease first

In spite of been set up and scientists are with the diseases and disasters which in a brief plthy book: "A Short island course of the war

History

of Agriculture in the drastic steps to curb the infec- striving hard to and a way of closest attention, and was not have kept their numbers almost

destruction checking the plant virus which British Colonica" by G.B. tion, such as the anxiety on without

stationary.

all banana plants round destroys the troos. Whether or has often been as high as 80 or press). A lecturer at Oxford, cach aspects of it.

Masefield (Oxford Univery of

infected one, the disense not they will succeed is Buckingham Palace.

70 percent. On the one hand

Mr Mascheld WAS senior spread so rapidly that by 1942 yet an open question. February 22, 1943.

moral of this malarla, hookworm. yellow agricultural officer in Uganda, a more than one-third of all planta...

many

Mr others in on the laland had been and of fever, sleeping sickness, dongus, country that has been intensively tions

Masefield's book, is surely that

that I was in a

delirium.

King's letter

My dear Winston,

some

Infant

mortality

their

Remedy Sought

I am very sorry to hear that

you are ill. and I hope that a doza avered them; on developed, over the last 30 years, abandoned.

fections have ravaged you will soon be well again the other, such calamities g

on- But do please take this

hurricanes. Invasions, Y locust A rest, and portunity for

and outbreaks of epidemies forget will not trust

you

one periodle famines have taken a carned that you have after your last tour, and you heavy toll of life, must get back your strength

the for

strenuous coming Now Millions months. I missed being able

last

to have a talk to you Tuesday, and

to

you

Y

The

Striving Hard

05

absent-minded professors аге apt to take things away with them as they are to forget their hats.

Have no doubts then about any man who goes willingly to live in Russia. Rather he needs your pity.

He has reduced the freedom

of his wife and children to the square root of X, and if X equals find that power may equal evil. power, he will sooner or later

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A police matron bared a by the menace of soil exhaus

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Scientists had meanwhile

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one of the 1004, proved an best hope seemed to lle in

to untangle what and how, and grown instantaneous success. By 1930 breeding a variety immune to

tallest stories of the year. exports had reached $70,000 the disease. To that end thou dangers, are to be expected.

Tearful, hard-up bales annually and the growers, sands of varieties werd col- Today

there is much talk Farrie Bell, separated from her all pensant producers, lected and the most promising of raising the standards of husband, had gone to Selence has today conquered nearly

richest

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There is some-Edward Hartman had her baby. very difficult business, ward areas". day either, so I am writing for example, is for the first time 100,000 men and women trekked sinco this variety is normally times a tendency to talk as if and wouldn't give it back.

claimed the Instead.

Belgian territory to without in its history, tree from malaria. In from

is merely a question of The Hartmana 1032 the this I do not feel at all happy infant mortality is falling fast. work on African farme, But

acedlings spending money. But money in baby's mother was an unmarried about the present political Forethought and transport have, this Intensivo mono-culture

the woman who had agreed to bear situation in North Africa. I for the time being, circumvented soon began to toll on the soll, and breeding stocks was de Itself will not discover

as the child by Hartman. to such problems and stroyed

But know we had to leave the

Scientists

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persuade the peasants to carry

Bell's. we were able to keep Spain of and Portugal friendly during perished now survive, and use out anti-crosion methods and but the scientists work is not habits of centuries as they the baby was definitely Mis Durgin said she remembered the time the operation

was very success of selenco and ad- where possible, to adopt mixed ended, since they have not yet must do, dor instance, in such going on. I know we had to ministration is creating problems farming, keeping a few cows managed to breed a variety An matters as the culling out of Mrs. Bell's baby had a red birth

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