1950-12-18 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1950.

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Concluding "The Hinge of Fate," Mr Churchill's fourth book of memoirs of the Second World War

SENSE OF VICTORY

FILLS

At the third Washington Coll- ference ("Trident") no decision was faken whether Sardinia or mainland Italy should be the next goal after Sielly.

SEFTON DELMER ·

files to

WASHINGTON

to be where he always is

whoo big news is breaking→

alongside the world'á top-love) policy makers

Truman,

DESPITE NOISY PACIFIC-FIRSTERS'

orders a

BRAATHENS

the SAFE

WAY

'soft pedal' to Europe!

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.

and Aght-while they stay USED to think that if I back in dear old London.”

were in charge of So- The O'Donnells, though viet political warfare against the West the first thing I would do would be to establish two undercover agencies.

One would work in Bri- tain, the other in the United States. Their job would be to cause disharmony and suspicion between the two most powerful adversaries of the Kremlin's ambition

highly vociferous, are still a mall minority. Even so, they form a harassing pressure group whose influence Truman and Acheson cannot neglect.

MORE

Stampedo

dangerous still-and again all I have consulted are agreed on this-it a Dun-

kirk in Korea should be follow- ed by British pressure for

1

of world domination, to Munich in the Pacific, with ap- break up, if possible. the peasement of the Chinese og-

this might alliance between them.

To gressora,

stampede the Americans accomplish this task-

I

well

into

the arms of isolationist "Pacific- frsters,"

her

1 would order both

agencies to attack and declare that America chould let These are the politicians whe denounce the Communist the selfish and cowardly movement in the most vio- Europeans look after themselves lent terms and to show while she concentrates all fanatical zeal in witch-hunt- efforts on defending the Pacific island-belt from the Aleutians, ing bogus Communist plots. via Formosa, to the Philippines. I would order the However, despite the pressure the "Pacific-firstcs," agency to of the

first round has gone to common exploit every possible op- sense, went on an American tour on portunity

THE AIR

By Winston Churchill

the

Mr Churchill persuaded Gen. Marshall (with the President's White's Governorship a para- approval) to attend a further

had appeared in graph conference of Gen. Eisenhower's English newspapers to the effect headquarters in Algeria. They that the King had had luncheon crowed the Atlantle in the same at the Convent. Bying-boat.

Ten days afterwards His Majesty received a resolution

Protestant

associa-

HE large double bed passed by a

T

in

of

in e st

Gen. Elsenhower was very ie served. He listened to all our arguments, and I am sure agreed with their purpose. But Mar- shall remained up till almost! the last moment silent

American

of denouncing

his own, and I travelled with British selfishness and be- Gen Alexander, meeting all trayal of their American

the commanders and seeing

stirring sights of troops. The ally.

I would tell the Bri-

Delays

sense of victory was in the air. tish agency to do the same THE Americans agreed to stall The whole of North Africa was for the Americans in Bri.in the Unlied No- their denuncia- cleared of the enemy. A quarter tain

prisoners of a million cooped in our cages. Everyone was very proud and delighted.

were

tions tion

Chinese

ns

with of the That is what I used to Egressons and to play around

awhile with procedure.

There is no doubt that people think. like winning very much. I ad- 01 dressed many thousand soldiers

at Carthage in the OLEN

ruins of an Cer- meeting were favourable to the

the immenso amphitheatre.

and the hour

setting itself to oratory,

circumstances

of

That, I understand, is the Now that I have arrived secret background to the vole here to watch these impor- this afternoon by the Steering the bridal suite tion deploring the fact that the

be- tant policy discussions

Committee approving the United the Boeing was King should have thought

States demand to put the ques- tween Attlee and Truman tion of intervention by China to visit but many troops, four times as many lent comfortable, necessary not only

even to have luncheon at u

and almost as many have no idea what I said, but it seems to me that perhaps on the Assembly agenda. Catholle Institution.

British. It

We had three times as #ainly

es available for actual the whole audience clapped and the appointment of special

As the

and I slept sound for a good Roman many hours. All at

once However, when King George VI operations

Americans. cheered as doubtless their pro- there was a sudden shock visited North Africa in June. We had since Alameln, not to decessors of two thousand years and bump. I awoke, put on

1843, he expressed the wish that speak of the earlier years, lost ago had done as they watched the Governor's residence should in the Mediterranean

inciatorial combats. my zip suit and went for- be renamed the Convent, so the times as many men and ward down the long central Convent it still is.

times as much tonnage as our Allles. But what ensured for gallery of our spacious

the potent fasona

fairest machine. and climbed the Round The Rock

staircase to the navigating controls. I sat in the co- pilot's seat. It was by now a lovely moonlight night.

זח

I returned to my bed, and did

I adhered to

Tomorrow the Assembly will agents is superfluous. meet to assign the item to the Political Committee. The com- There arc A sufficient mittee is expected to discuss it number of woolly-minded for about a week before return-

action. spontaneously and without

This week's "machining" will. directions from Moscow.

delay the necessity for awkward on tho China question

Great advances blunderers to do the job ing it to the Assembly for final.

Inese

Our last meeting, on June 3. and most attentive consideration was largely concerned with the with the American leaders was question of bombing the mar We did not leave Gibraltar that notwithstanding our Im- shalling yards of Rome, and there There is our. Mr Shin- commitments

in Britain with was agreement that they were well continued to дл

mensa

preponderance

for Algiers until the afternoon. There was therefore an oppor strength we had

.of

tunity to show Gen, Marshall accept Gen. Eisenhower's portant and necessary mili-attacks

tary objective, and that there

The difference

in

on

Outburst

his

MacArthur.

'DONNELL says in a typical outburst: "Britain ond

This will give tême

time

By Truman and Attlee — to talk things over to sec

whether they can find a com- China;

of policy, towards

mon Line

-

By the Indians - who are trying to find a basis of negotiation with the Chinese;

By MacArthur, who is still hoping to stabilise a new

Nations?

chances are there of

the

the Rock, and we all made Supreme Command and to was no

valid reason for re-

reHere in Washington there badly needed- After a while I asked the pilot few hours' pilgrimage, and in- preserve for the whole campaign training from bombing this tar- are anti-British senators what caused the bump. we spected the new distillery which the character of a United States get, provided the attacks were and writers like John were struck by lightning." he assures the fortress a permanent operation.

made

by day and due care was O'Donnell of America's top said, "but there's nothing wrong." supply of fresh water. and

taken to prevent damage else-

sale New York Daily News. This

was good news. We had not various Important guns, somo

where. caught fire or broken up in the hospitals, and large mumber of

I felt that great advances had alr: the

there was no need to make froops. I finally went below to

We held our Arst meeting at been made in our discussions forced landing a thousand

see the Governor's special pet, Gen. Elsenhower's villa in and that everybody wanted to miles from anywhere.

the new Rock gallery, cut deep Algiers at 5 o'clock on May 29. ga had

therefore, for Italy. I always wondered why aircraft in the rock, with its battery of Although much layin the summing up, stated the conclu- did not mind being struck by eight quick-ring guns com- balance, I

was well

satisfied sions in a most moderate form the with lightning. To a groundsman it manding the isthmus and

this opening discus

discussion. and

paid my tribute to Gen. would seem quite a dangerous neutral ground between Britain The desire of all the leaders to Eisenhower. I sald I would France do not want war with Ire. thing. Afterwards I learned that and Spain.

go forward on the boldest lines take home the feeling of con-Rod China; do not want Mac- there had been

An immense amount of work was clear, and I felt myself that fidence and comradeship which Arthur to have permission to Wha! a good deal of anxiety.

had been put Into this, and it the reservations made on a characterised action in this cave American Ives by knock. Tryman and Attlee finding a certainly seemed, as we walked count of the unknowable would theatre.

ing out enemy bases in Man- way out of the difculties not wake until just before dawn. along it, that whatever

periis be set

settled by events in accor- Gen Eisenhower replied that churia from which are pouring which avoids war with China When you are flying at 100 miles Gibraltar might have to fear, dance with my hopes. now any pralce which might be given soldiers, arms, planes, causing and preserves the faith of

hour while the earth is attack from the mainland

was prepared what I called "Back- belonged to the officers round American cosunities.... ¿ small nations in the United turning over the other way to по longer one of them.

The ground Notes," setting forth the the table, and stated that while wards you, you meet the sun Governor's · pride in his achieve whole case for the attack on there might be differences of "They are afraid, If, he does,' very early and he rises quickly. ment was shared by his British Italy, together with

tables of opinion and discussion in his that Britain's Hongkong and The Chinese may indeed not my rule in these visitors. It was not until we said the forces available.

under completely headquarters, these were never long flights that meals

should good-bye upon the Catalina that

Soviet thumb as her other bn regulated

We met again at Eisenhower's based upon national lines. Gen. France's Indo-China night bo vie by stomach-time. ad-

and Gen.

placed in Jeopardy." Brooke

satellites. But the mere aware- When one wakes up after day- Gen. Marshall somewhat hesita- villa on the afternoon of May Marshall

"I admired 31. Mr Eden arrived in time to warmly concurred, and we all observed, tingly

Western anxiety to light one should breakfast; five your gallery, but

He finishes up: "We Ameri- ness we hod

one be present. I tried to clinch

avoid war with them, 'coupled hours after that, luncheon. Six like it at Corregidor.

cans do not pay with U.S. blood th

with the confidence in their hours after luncheon,

pend Japanese fired their artillery at matters, and, after referring to Parted on the best of terras.

paper 1 had circulated, sald

of the and US dollars to win battles own strength born Thus one becomes independent the rock several hundred feet that my heart lay in an invasion of the

for outlanders, but they have' Korean adventure, will make it sut, which otherwise above and in two or three of Southern Italy, but the for- Eden and 1 few home together the audacity to come to Wash- Impossible to bargain with the meddles too anuch in one's days blocked it off with an im-

of battle might necessit

site by Gibraltar. As my presence

Chinese on reasonable terms. the routine mense bank of rubble." affairs>otið 'upseta

and tell us how our ate a di

different course. At

my

in North Africa had been fully Ington of work.

We flew off in the early after rate, the alternative between

the Germans were ex- troops and generals should think noon with a dozen Beaufighters Southern Italy and

Sardinia tonally vigilant, and this circling far above us, and in the involved the difference between led to a tragedy which much evening light reached the Algiers glorious campaign and a mere

stressed me. The daily com airfield where

Gena. Eisen convenience.

aircraft was

about to As we approached Gibraltar hower

Gen. Marshall was in no way start from the Lisbon

airfield we looked around for our escort hower and Bodell Smith, Admiral

Andrew Cunningham,

but he Gen. hostile to these ideas, There was no escort. Everyone's Alexander and other

tHickset man smoking a friends Ald not wish for a clearcut de

and was walked tip attention' was attracted by an were waiting for u. I motored cision to be taken at unknown aircraft, which we straight to Admiral Cunning- mo

this thought to be

be a passenger on it. that it would The German agents moment. He Gald thought at first was taking a ham's villa, next

therefore door to Gen. be better to decide what to do signalled that I was on board. interest in us. As it came no Eisenhower, which he placed at after we had started the attack Although these neutral closer we

concluded It WAS A my disposal

on Sicily. He felt it would be Spaniard.

for many months in order Portugal and England and had determine whether there carried duly civilian

traile

tha whether

No escort

The

the

A tragedy

On alghting, at about 5 pm. Inclined to action of the German reaction

necessary to know something for planes had plied

wo were met by the Governor.

It was too late to continue our

where

to

hero Sicily be taken. Geh. Brooke they could organise and handle

Journey to Alglers that night. I was determined to obtain wouthern

would be real resistance in German war plang was instant-

Italy: and he conveyed us to the Con- before leaving Africa the decidermanis would withdraw to ordered out, and the defence- .

tho alan to invade Italy

Viloma dircraft was should the Fo, for example;

ruthlessly shot whether down njind

having Брев

། centuries

I. ego.

Imparted our views to

Fourteen civilian, passengeKS attached to Gen. Alexander,

heat and

incase; Italians the There is a story.

with any preparations had been perished, and among them the

British Losilo: Howard, whoes

Admiral An-

and later

the name. Up till 106 the dove drew Cunningham, and Air what in Sardinia, Coraich, or a well-lown ernor's residence was always Marshal

to in the recent ments they would make on the rice and gifts

called the Convent. In that Gen. All these tho Dakanst what readjust actor

year, however,

King Edward

Leading

VHO Privato Secretary, Sir Deities were inclined to action in Russian front. Henty Ponsonby wrote to the the gresitat male and Win Like winning

Goverton and told him that the the conquest of Italy the Kordeig i thought... 11 advisable to natural fruition of our whole

preserved for us by the records of the many de (*1) hafbi-filerin - £re whaleh her tools

PETERANA Brutality of

KORLA

out

Big Fuse

LL this, of course, pro- supposes that the Russians determined to involve the West in an Azlatic war, 'do not make the Chinese attack United States-occupied Japan on plea that the Americans rearming Japan for aggression against China.

Such an

A

attack, however, would inevitably blow the big fuse. But

that my" hanch "fr" the Buslans are still reluctant to embark on war theimelves.

If Attico and. Truman can agree, supon their. Pacific policy and at the speed things are going in Korea it is necemury' for them to detido quickly---- they must stiil settle what they are going to do in the West.

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