THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1951.
"R, M. MacColl's
WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS American Column
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MEET
Mr Churchill and President
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COULD
not admire
my land-
BIG THREE'
AT TEHERAN
THE BRITISH
PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED THEIR GREAT WORLD WAR II LEADER TO POWER AS PRIME MINISTER. THIS IS CHAPTER 19 OF "CLOSING THE RING," HIS FIFTH VOLUME OF THE WAR'S HISTORY SUCH AS HE KNEW IT
All the
Our American friends
LUCKY STRIKE
NEW YORK. HARMLESS crank
A who blued his money
away? Or a passionate fanatic who may just have There missed greatness?
one, wo or perhaps three months. Consequenży, both he and are two schools of thought wished in this military conference about Edgar Davis, who has to hear from Marshal Stalin and died in Galveston, Texas. Marshel Voreshilov what action would be of the greatest service to the Soviet.
Salin, speaking next, wel comed the
success of the
But one thing WED deniable about him he did hings in a very big way.
a New Englander and at
the arrangements which had been made for
He was United States in the Pacific, but frontier. I continued to be far from forward reception after
were said that the Sevie's could not trom Massachusetts, well, and my cold and sore troops, two or three divisions comforted in their ing in Teheran. The British throat were so vicious that for at the outside, were already in
obstinacy join in the sugae against Japan the beginning of the century Minister met me in his car, a time I could hardly speak that theatre, and thero were by the reflection that "at any at the present time since pracne made a fortune in Sumatra
all their forces were Moran
were re-rubber. with
dically stopped Chur- and we drove from the air. However, Lord
no ships, except local vessels, rate we have and ceaseless care
to carry them to the larger chill entangling 115
Then he went to Texas and in the gagsins: Germany. The field to our Legation. As sprays
Balkans." No such iden had Soviet fcrets in the East
were more or less sufficient sans his last dolier in six oll we approached the city the enabled me to say what I had scenes.
to say--which was a lot.
wells which proved dry one e to defence, but they would have road was lined with Persian
To get the active, vigorous ever crossed my mind. I re- use of these forces, who other- gard the failure to use other be at least trebled in order to after the other.
lookers- wise unemployable forces
The momens for joining to attack. wise would be mere
Desperately their friends in this theatre would money to sink just one mor be the moment of Germany's and struck it fabulously rich. 25 an
which collapse: then they would march In 1928 he sold out for
$12,000,000 (£4,285,000). France was
The men on horseback ad-
vertised the route, but could
at all. provide no protection
WBS
słow
yards in advance gave warn~ ing of our approach. The pace
Presently
the
spaces crowds stood in between the Persian cavalry, and as far as I could see there were few, if any, foot police.
Towards the centre of Teheran thest crowds were
tony
our
her
the
the
of
Ægean
he
borrowed
Then came a strange venture which
cavalrymen every 50 yards, Misleading for at least three miles. It accounts
on, might inflict grave Injury bring Turkey into the war and
If Rhodes dominate the upon the enemy was clearly shown to any evil people that somebody of HERE have been many mis- were taken the whole gean error in war direction
by leading accounts of the could be dominated consequence was coming,
line I took, with the full Air Force and direct sca-con- cannot be excused by the fact together.
that in spite of it victory was and which way.
won. agreement of the British Chiefs fact established with Turkey.
If, on the other
Tur- of Staff, at this Conference. It
hand,
is still being talked about on Broadway. For more has become
[At the firm plenary meet-best legend in key could be persuaded to en-
than two years October 1926 Arn:rica
ing of the Conference, held at ♣ that I srove to pre- ter the war, or to strain
AS for Europe, Stalin said that to November 1948-Davis kept Soviet Embassy in
cost to A police car driving a hundred vent the cross-Channel enter- neutrality by lending us
prisc called "Overlord' and alrßelds we had built for her,
Teheran on the afternoon of he would like to begin with going at a personal
i few words about the Scviet himself of $1,000,000 (£367,- that I tried valdly to lure the we could equally dominate the
Nov. 28, Mr Roosevelt pre-
of 100)- the conduct
called mystic play capture Allies into some mass invasion Egean and the
sided. He began the discus-xperiences in
Their attack in July "The Ladder," all about a new be
neces
he war. of large of the Balkans, or a large-scale Rhodes would not
ston with a brief account often in the Eastern Medi- cary.
the Either
ad it would
been anticipated by religion. the position in the Pacific and
when Germans; but
sufficient which would effec- work. terranean,
the plans for the recapture of
The play was hopeless as en- roops and equipment had been tively kill it. Much of this And of course the prize was
Northern Burma}.
ollected the Soviet had found itertainment, but Davis offered nonsense has already in pre Turkey. If we could gain Tur-
money back if vious chapters been exposed key t would be possible with- The President then turned to comparatively easy to pass to the people their
they did not like it. The last cffensive. and refuted, but it may be out the subtraction of a single Europe. A year and
a half
performance. attracted just 54 worth while to set forth what
man, ship or alreraft from the ago it had been decided to launch He had been asked, he said, people, four or five deep. The people it was I actually sought, and main and decisive battles to
an expedition across the English how the Anglo-American forces were friendly but non-commit-
A FEATURE of the Black Sea with Channel, but owing to transpora- could beat help Russia. The Soviel tal They pressed to within a what, in a very large measure,
i got.
and light naval on and other difficulties it was Government had always felt that railway stations is the large few feet of the car. There
forces.
and to give a right hand to still impossible to decide a de- the Talian campaign had been number of metal lockers was no kind of defence at all "Overlord," now planned
Russia
and three against two or
deter- great detail, should be launch her armies by a route far less adequate force must be assembled in that it opened the Mediter- want to waste.
carry supplies to finite date, for the operation. An of great value to the Allied cause which travellers who
time at the mined men with pistols or, a ed in May or June, or at the costly, tar more swift, and far bomb.
reached As we
latest in the opening days
in England, not only for the ac- repean, But Italy was not a suit-cloakroom can lepve their lug- more abundant than either the
tual Landing, but also turning which led to the Lega- July, 1914
for able jumping-off ground for the sage by means of a temporarily The troops and all
Arctic or the Persian Gulr. tion there was a traffic block, the ships to carry them still
marching inland.
invasion of Germany. The Alps rented key. and we remained for three or had first priority.
stood between.
At 'New York's huge Brand amid four minutes stationary
Central Station master key to all the crowded throng of gaping Persians.
lockers.
lew
Ran greatest risks
the
the
more
the
in
of
The triple
Secondly, the great
Angla theme American army in action in Italy must be nourished to achieve the capture of Rome THIS was
and
advance to secure the air-
the triple theme
Temorse.
Thre
English Charmel had
Turkey would be a better point proved such a disagreeable body of water that it was impossible of entry than Italy; but it was to stage an expedition before a long way from the heart of May 1, 1944. This was the date Germany. He believed that North the decided upon at Quebec. He ex- or Northwest France was plained that landing craft were place for Anglo-American forces the limiting factor in all landings, to attack, through it was of course and if it were decided to mount true that the Germans there
in the would resist desperately, a very big expedition Mediterranean we would have to give up the cross-Channel opera- tion altogether.
I a lesser operation Mediterranean were dealded up- were on, the delay would amount to'
which
I pressed upon the flelds north of the capital, President and Stalin on every from which the air attack on occasion, not hestitating to re-
Germany
became peat the arguments
have gained these
lessly. I could After
were there should be no ad- Stalin, but the President was vance in Italy beyond the Pisa- oppressed by the prejudices of advisers, and Rimini line-ie we
military should his not extend our front into the drifted to and fro in the argu- broader part
Italian ment, with the result that the the of
whole of these subsidiary but peninsula.
opportunities gleaming cast aside unused
TF it had be:n planned beforehand to ruh
risks, greates!
and
have neither the security of quiet an effer- surprise arrival nor tive escort, the problem could
solved not have been perfectly However. nothing
at happened. I grinned
I was nol opposed at this crowd, and on the whole they
ro time to a landing in the south grinned at me. In due course རྦ་ས
Riviera, we arrived at
British of France, along the the
with Marseilles and Toulon as Legation, which lay within a strong cordon of British-Indian objectives, and thereafter,
Anglo-American advance north- Rhone val- in the The American Security were ley in ald of the main invasion more clever about the Presi across the Channel, Alterna- dent. An elaborate escort
tively, I preferred a right- handed movement from the armoured cars surrounded Presidential vehicle on its north of Italy, using the Istrian route. Actually he alighted at peninsula and the Ljubljana an unknown landing point, and Gap, towards Vienna. I was
to the delighted when the went quite unguarded
troops
of
the
wards
ап
President
American Legation through suggested this, and tried,
will be seen, to engage bim in it.
utterly
unpredictable
and byways.
The British Legation
streets
we
I the Germans resisted and its gerdens lay almost ad- should attract many of their
the joining
Soviet Embassy, divisions from the Russian or and
If we the as
Anglo-Indian Channel fronts.
were
brigade entrusted with our not resisted we should liberate safety was in direct contact at little cost enormous and in- with the still larger Russian valuable regions. I was sure force that encircled their own we should be resisted, and domain both soon joined and thus help "Overlord" in a de-
became an isolated area cisive manner,
With all
with
war
the precautions
of
The American Legation. Not varied
than an inch
which was guarded by
States forces, was more
half a mile aw
away, and
this
M
meant that either the President
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in
don't
there is one the 8,000
In one of
the
So when a prankster tele- phoned the police and said that
bomb was lockers, one man had laborious- ty and carefully to open them all
The job felt to Felix Turbee, parcels superintendent Fly took him five hours. No bomb.:
HOT TIP to play Roosevelt In the Aim of his life Fredric March. Mrs Roosevelt will ad- vise.
Dr. INGE ON POLITICS
An Act of Parliament, passed In the reign of George III, disqualifies clergymen from sitting in Parliament. The
Act, the House of Commons (Clergy Disqualification) Act of 1801, imposes a fine of £500 for every day
on which a member of the clergy sits or votes in the House. Should clergy- men play a part in politics? Dr W. R. Inge, 91-year-old former Dean of St Paul's, has these controversial views on the subject of parsons and polities.
"YOU ARE THE LAST WHIG--
THE DEVIL WAS THE FIRST'
(Godwin, Shelley's father-in- Inw.) "The waters of the ocean
the Exchequer," he replied: tic President, not at all like ineffable ardour the good of all." and he was not a Socialist. the tyrannical George III.
Speaking as a Whig, it "God is not known. He is does not matter much which used. If He proves Him with Burke party is in power. Mass self useful, the religions about parsons in politics. bribery and pillage of the consciousness asks for no "Politics and the pulpit unrepresented minority will more.” (Leuba.). be are terms that have little go on as long as there is agreement, Those who quit anybody left to rob. A Con-
Was
that
third request and I would the Eastern Mediterranean,
prizes that narrow with all the
should not
or else verse the
have to
have
streets of Teheran
three times
Meanwhile
two
AGREE
will change to lemonade, and the ugly sharks will be replaced by useful and agreeable creattires." (Fourier). Man's progress to- wards a higher sate need never fear a check, but must afforded,
continue till the last existence of and neglected, provided no strength a day, back
history." (Herschel.) "Progress "The higher man will not is not an accident but a necessity. forth, during the Conference. which could be applied across
What we call evil and Immorality Molotov
who the Channel should be absorb their proper character to servative Government may tolerate old-fashioned Theism." had been in Teheran 24 hours ed. In all this
must disappear. Always towards idered to assume what does not be not be quite su ready to in- (W. James). before our arrival, produced a the proportions which
"Whatever the God of heaven perfection is the mighty move- sto that the Soviet Secret mentioned to Gen. Elsenhower long to them are for the vite every trumpery nation Intelligence had unearthed 期 two months
carller-namely
greater part ignorant both to kick John Bull on the and earth fa, He can surely be ment. The ultimate development la certain." no gentleman (W. James.) "God of the ideal man of our realisable of the character they leave stern.
(Herbert Spender). one or more of the six-tenths
Hunger may draw vital strength - and an Three" us we were re strength across the Channel, and, of the character they
one three-tenths in Italy, and one-
Plato, whose revered increase of very being from our and thirst will be unknown; the
Adelity.” (G. H. Johnson).
conh will be a garden." (Win- wood Reade, author of The ing to and fro through the rancan. From this I nevered with the world in which master, Socrates had been
Martýzdom of
Man.) fond of executed by the Athenian deep. We were all agreed, British, meddling, and inexperienced Democracy, thought that
plot to
kill
Blog, and the idea of
or other of us continually go tenth in the Eastern Mediter assume. Wholly unacquaint-
streets filled him with
alarm.
Move To USSR Embassy
strongly supported Molotov in .
varied-not an inch in a
they
Russians, and Americans, the firs: two major
upon
are
FRANK
May we not say with Politicans themselves.ETC Oxenstierna, the Swedish-states-
cam in all its affairs, on which dictatorship, which he call- Daigns, involving nine-tenths they presume with so much ed tyranny, was the worst sometimes more frank. "It is man, "Do you not see, my son, If our available strength. All confidence, they have noth of all governments, and de- right to lie sometimes," said with how little wisdom the world I had to plead was the ettering of polities but the mocracy, which he thought always. That is a mistakels on the intuelt he in the Eastern Medi- passions they excite," he ends in loss of liberty, the "what regues wo should be standeth take heed test fo fall.
tive use one-tenth of
I
his appeals to the President to move forthwith inside Soviet Embassy,
the ferranean, was argue, which
Simpletons
Would it not
decisive
will wrote.
have
next worst.
three or four times as big as been much better to centre all Still, as a citizen and NOT POLITE
Operation
4
Napolcon, "bu" "Metternich is governed?”
Lot him that
SMALL
NATIONS
We shall
always be a
said Cavour, we did for At least we know that we are ourselves what we are doing for in danger were not fooling Italy" When we were at Cloan ourselves, We always fight best the others, and stood in
x upon the
my wife beard Lord Grey of with our backs to the wall, We tensive grounds, now ringed and dismiss all other opportu voter, a clergyman' ought to
nilles on wasteful diversions? make up his mind. Per. The subjects of a tyranny Fallodon murmur"It is a Blthy have a way of winning one by Soviet troops and
battle in ducha war the dart, We prevailed upon Mr Roose. But this Ignores the
the governing sonally, Reginald McKenna pay semi-divine honours to trade." - valt to take this good advice, facts.
oredAll the available shipping in said to me "I know what these tyrant Lenin, Stain Climates of opinion change. and next afternoon he moved
you are in politics. You are Hitler, Mussolini at any and, pendulums swing violently. with his whole staff, including the Western Hemisphere the excellent“: Filipino cooks already committed to the last the last Whig. The Devil rate while he is alive. The It is possible that our present from the yacht, into the Rus fonto the preparation of sian domain, where
whare", ample and comfortable
(for him." Thus we were, all within a boon found it could not have efrele, und " could' discus "the been used, because the problems of the World: Wer grammer br Hembarkation without any chance Sot
to the limonligimit comfortable way the port d camps involved. Legation, and had only to walk/ranean nothing war Voseded #couple of hundred yard to that could ke appliad rasch the Bovlet, balso, whilon where. GURANTA might be said to be for the for the defence of Top) ém
time being the coatke if the equally
CHINA) LTD.
the main "Overlord" pro- tenance of our front in
Vind. VERHEFT wore pro Even if more andpping : Mind,
and
was the first, according to citizens of a democracy tre mood of depression may be a Great Power, but that does not
reaction Dr Johnson."
more critical, except In litle overdone, It is
against the teeble silliness of America.
The apoele of cosmic progress and human perfectibility The
HE WAS RIGHT
It is not polite to smile at following examples are all from
I think Mckenna was our friends when they are men of women who passed for right. I believe in Peace, at their devotions, but an prophets in their day.
comomy and Liberty, American of democracy especially Economy,
sometimes talks like a fool. (Margaret Tulle) I once hald this to a Chan. Not only in democracy, ded allor of the Exchequer, God's own government for Shot farron, Not God's own country, but God 1. Chaudallor of Himnut is a good demoara-
itho
of
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