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by... Nathaniel Gubbins

EING a

letter Vote:-

pre-Election "quiet, courteous manners," to Floating and Bovan for his "cheeky way with the nobs,"

As she also admires Churchill because he "is e gentleman and knew how to tick off Hitler," she seems to be in a political mess she votes for personall-

tles.

Dear Floating Vote, Thanks for your interest ing letter about "the daughter's" General Elec- tion problems, though 1 Perhaps the daughter would don't think she need worry find it easier to make up too much about having dis- and if she concentrated on one mind if she forgot personalities, loyal feelings about the aspect of her problems instead

her

Socialist Party which she of bothering her pretty head

Anyway, she seems to be

in distinguished company.

abouri

national bulk-buying, tnance, and foreign affairs.

anything Few girls know about bulk-buying: even fewer

I

The Bevanites are not bother know anything about finance, ing to be loyal to Attlee, except and although I would be the during the Election, and I last to deny that she is a giri sympathise with the daughter of exceptional Intelligence, when she says their disagree. cannot agree with her mother ment has left her confused. that the ought to be Foreign particularly as she likes them Secretary, even if she did once both so much; Attlee for his have tea with a clerk in the

Foreign Office.

"My Dad says he could get a jolly good hanger for a hut'penny under a Tory Government when he was a boy." London Express Service

has hitherto supported.

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S WAR MEMOIRS

"CLOSING THE RING" - CHAPTER 27

PNEUMONIA FOLLOWS

THE CAIRO TALKS

Mr Churchill and sident

Roosevelt held

Pre-

A

the

second Cairo conference with their staffs on their return from Teheran on Dec. 2. President felt 1943. The

committed to Gen. Chiang Kal-shek to launch an am- phibious attack across

Bay of Bengal.

The President, summing up ruieth his spirit than

discussion, asked whether taketh a city." he was correct in thinking that there was general agreement on the following points:

(a) Nothing should be done to hinder "Overlord."

(b) Nothing should be done

The

to hinder "Anvil."

This would have employed which Mr landing-craft Church!l desired to use in the Mediterranegu for the capture of Rhodes, thus per. haps bringing Turkey into

the war.

Ο

of

() By hook or by crook we should scrape up sufficient landing-craft to operate in the Eastern Modi erranean Tum key came into the war.

(d) Admiral Mountbatten

he

the

But I think the daughter has put her finger on the spot when the asks: "If the Socialist Party is split, how sm 1 to know if a Socialist candidate 13 a real Socialist or a Com- munist In sheep's clothing?”

A clever phrase for a girl so young.

of course, she could ask her Socialist candidate, "Are you a Communist? It he is Д genuine Socialist he will answer "No."

Не will also answer до 15 he Is a Communist sailing under false cotouNA. So the question will get her nowhere.

Anyway, I arh glad she la that against his own proclaimed in this pregnant moment on the happy in her work, and glod, cinations." Then Mr Sherwood broad of my back amid the ruins too, that she admires her de- We all met together at 7.30 quotes following extract of ancient Carthage.

partmental manager with the at the from a note which he had from p.m. the next evening

When the X-ray photographs | kind, tired eyes and whose-wife Marshall after the war. showed that there was a shadow is a beast." Kirk Villa to go over the final Gen.

The "If I recall," said Marshall "the report of the Conference.

on one of my lungs I found that As he is a Liberal, and the Southern France assault opera- President stated, in completing everything had been diagnosed daughter now seems

to be a tion was formally approved, conversation, 'I feel I could and foreseen by Lord Moran. Dr floating voter like yourself,

her problems and the President read out his not sleep at night with you out Bedford and other high medical maybe authorities in the Mediterranean solved, signal in Generalissimo Chiang of the country."

if she has Liberal Kai-shek, informing him of the

und excellent nurses arrived candidate to vote for. At last our labours to abandon

were from all quarters as if by magic. decision

finished. I gave a dinger at The admirable M and B (drug), Andamans plan.

the villa to the Combined Chiefs from which I did not suffer any of Staff, Mr Eden Mr Casey inconvenience, was used at the British share

and one or two others, I re- earliest moment, and after a member being struck by the week's fever the intruders were optimism which prevailed in repulsed.

in Pacific

the

A$

How to voté

should be told to go ahend and shaft also discussed among was mooted that Hitler would that he judged that the issue revealed

N the afternoon

Dec. 4 we held our do his best in the Bay of Bengal with what had al- first plenary meet-

ready been allocated to him. ing, but made little headway. The President

On this last point I suggested it might be necessary to began by saying that he that

withdraw resources from Mount- must leave on Dec. 6, and batten in order to strengthen that all reports should be "Overlord" and "Abvil." The

and

their recommendations to the was launched in the summer, the previous February. The Milting to the

are

Sf the news is not bad (1ough, it has now beM Combined Chlefs of high Service chyles, The Idea Although Lord Moran records

by 120 experts of

Survey that all themselves the British share in not be strong enough to face was at one time in doubt, I did Ordnance

Britain is sinking to sea level I did not the strategy to be pursued the spring campaign and might not share his view. against Japan, presented collages even before "Overlord" feel so I in this attack as I had and that the whole of England

south-west. The centre of London to sink- President and me in their Final

I piso called and B, which

Saint so much impressed by Moran and Bedford, did the ing below the suburbs. the current of opinion that I work most effectively. I did not Paul's Cathedral is tilting over.

Westminster, County Hall in succession round the table. in the direction of affairs, and All the professional authorities there was not the slightest delay under the Thames are becoming tidos. and the railway tunnels were inclined to think that the in giving the decisions which German collapse was imminent. were required from me. The three politicians present

Report of the Calro Conference. In summary, they proposed that

I was

18

ready for the final agree- President said that he could not the main effort of the Southeast asked everybody to give his view at any time relinquish my part moving up and down with the

ment of both parties by the evening of Sunday, Dec. 5.

Apart from the question of the entry of Turkey into the war, the only outstanding point seem- er to be the comparatively small

one of the use to be made of * 1 replied that this "very good

took the opposite view.

Mrs Churchill

egg-shaped owing to the weight" of water above them.

Of course, on these vast mat- flies out ters on which so many lives de- pend there is always a great THE days passed in much dis-cast, deal of guess-work. So much is unknown and immeasurable.

be in Asia Command should We had a this. agree with

After the defeat of moral obligation to do something Burma.

a0 Army and air for China, and he would not be Germany

with air resources prepared to forgo the amphi- contingent

on Australia should

The last time I went to that bious operation except for some all besed

kind of party the room was re- very good and readily apparent be sent to co-operate with Gen. MacArthur The British effort

volving slowly and tilting dan- reason.

by sea should be mainly in the

zerously towards the north- Pacifle and not in the Bay of reason" might be provided by Bengal.

The table was sinking below The whole building supreme

in adventure

I lived on my theme the floor. The British Chiefs of Staff. Who can tell how weak the of the war, and it was like being was moving up and down with France. At present the "Over-

recoiled from the enemy may be behind his flaming transported out of oneself. The standing on their heads, and a

the ildes, a like myself,

the walters lord" assault was only on three-division basis, whereas we idea of a strenuous and waste- fronts and brazen mask? At doctors tried to keep the work bald-headed man opposite was had put nine divisions ashore in ful campaign in North Buana what moment will his will- away from my bedside, but

The for the sake of building a road power break? At what moment defled them. They I said that I did not wish to Sicily on leave the Conference in any main operation was at present to China of doubtful value. On will he be beaten down? doubt that the British delegation on a very narrow margin. viewed our early dispersal with

score of landing-craft and their equipment. It was unthinkable that one

could be beaten by a petty item like that, and he felt bound to say that the detail must be disposed of.

our

the first day.

great apprehension. There were Andamans plan

still many questions of first-class Importance to be settled.

Two

decisive events had taken place

in the last few days.

abandoned

N Dec. 5 we met again and

the other hand they accepted

could not carry out any large-

the fact that Admi. Mountbatten One week

scale amphibious operations in bed

THE

comfort. Fever filckered in and out.

were

turning into an egg.

Vote for steady heads and a stable Britain.

all kept on saying, "Don't

don't Work worry," to such an extent that I decided to read a novel.

had long ago read. Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility," until six months after a Ger

and now I thought I would man collapse. The plan of rein- & the Conference drew to its

have "Pride and Prejudice." the Pacific eculd be close I became coftscious of Sarah [Mr. Churchill's second forcing

being very tired. For instance, daughter] read it to me beauti- I noticed that I no longer dried fully from the foot of the bed. I myself after my bath, but lay on had always thought it would be the bed wrapped in my towel better than its rival. till 1 dried naturally.

can view.

TAY

In starving England

even

the report of the Combined begun much Booner. They In the first place, Marshal Staffs on operations in the Euro- therefore endorsed the Ameri.

was read out by Stalin had voluntarily proclaim- pean theatre

President and

agreed, ed that the Soviet would declare the

now narrowed Command of war on Japan the moment Ger- Everything was many was defeated. This would down to the Far Eastern opera- give us better bases than we on. Rhodes had receded in invasion

in China, and could ever find

the picture, and.1 concentrated all the more important on getting the landing-craft for all our many talks at Cairo Tunis. Morning saw us over the Napoleonic wars. Only manners made it that we should concentrate on "Anvil" and the Mediterranean. making "Overlord" [the 1944

A new Cross-Channel success. It would be necessary itself. for the Staffs to examine how Southeast this new fact would

HAVE admired dew meis in

lite and envied What calm lives' they had, fewor. A little after midnight on

But

one who bas both my those people! No worries about Dec. 11, I and my machine perly the French Revolution or

the admiration and envy is "Bon left in our York machine for

Viveur," who writes a regular crashing struggle of the

column

"about" eating InTERK-

Southeast Asia.

operation]

*

Cross-Channel

decisión

thue

the President never referred Tunis airfields. We were trected controlling natural passion sonde Inns and is smart enough

with the

best food in the

affect the force needed to storm the and agreement held. good. But began to unload the luggage. It 80 very well with M and B. pedes esumably » With

.',

One

The last time I read

to the vital and urgent issue of by a signal not to land where we far as they could, together with to earn a living filing his the factor had presented

command of "Overlord," had been told, and were shifted cultured explanations of any The estimates of the

and I was under the impression to another field some 30 miles mischances, All this seemed to Country Asía Command

of that our original arrangement away. We all got out, and they

morning Sarah was viveur column his questing operations in the Pacific and Anders had het 14,000 on the day before his departure would be an hour before motor absent from her chair. at the cose was smelting out a

The President said that from Cairo he told me his anal cars could come, and then a long foot of my bed and I was about choicest grub in Surrey should be sufficient. Anyhow,

decision,

drive.

to ask for my box of telegrams At a athy Inn, drowsing men proposed [by the 50,000

As I sat on my official boxes in the prohibited hours when in contentedly in the Baxon und Southeast Asia Command] cer-

We were driving In his tainly broke the back of the motor-ear faom Calro to the near the machines I certainly she walked with her mother, Norman England of Compton."

did feel completely worn out, had no idea that my wife was he sat down to “hat roup," an Andamans expedition so far us Pyramids. He then aald, almost Now, however, came a telephone flying out from England to John unbelievable

elice of English THE second event of first-class this meeting was concerned. casually, that he could not THE

cola roost beef, delicious importance was the decl- It was agreed for the moment spare Gen. Marshall, whose message from Gen. Eisenhower, me. She had hurried to the

who was walling at the first airport to fly in a two-engined turkey, and abundant hem with sion to cross the Channel during that Mountbatten should be great influence of the head of airfield, that

we had been Dakota.

plenteous servings of meringue, May. I myself would have asked what amphibious opera military affairs and of the war, wrongly transferred and that The weather was bad, but cream, fruit rundara, and ferred a July date, but I was tions he could undertake on a direction, under the President, Innding was quite possible there. Lurd Beaverbrook was vigilant, stilion cheese" determined nevertheless to do sil in my power to make a May small of the inning Wols to the sucroseful, conduct so we scrambled back into our He got to the airport first and Dragging himself away from tion that most of the landing- able to the successful conduct York, and in ten minutes were stopped her light until a tour there, he arrived in time for date a complete success. Tendr

with him, quite close to his engined plane could be pro- dimor at Bipley, where he fie batiles were to be expected, craft and assault shipping were of the war.

withdrawn from Southeast Asia He therefore proposed to villa.

cured. I always think it better devoured thing that we had

* Thus we parted, leaving Mr lord,'' and asked me for my tality, had waited two hours with ing long distances - across

haid Opinion. I would it was for him to imperturbable good-humour Isen) Now she to give "Overlord" Roosevelt much distressed, order to the greatest chance of

any

#

three-course meat

on a scale fovered; during the next few weeks. nominate Elsenhower to "Ovér-·· Ike, always the soul of bospl- to have four engines when, fiy- with wine,, retired, early; "and"

before.

In

the

by comve,

·He then writes: "I lit upon.

to have breakfast "served a courte In the afternoon the Pre- decide, but that we had also the got into his unir, and after after a very rough journey in abed. Any com it was thought necessary that sident, in consultation with his warmest regard for Gen. Elsen we had driven for a little while in unheated plane in mid- the descent im the Myletal advisers, decided to abandon hower, and would trust our I said, "I am afraid I shall have winter. "My love to Clemmie Milford next morning for my ("Anvf!") should be as strong the Andaman Islands plan. He fortunes to his as possible. It seemed to me sent me a laconik private ficarly goodwill creolen with to stay with you longer than I cabled the President. I feel relaven moming for my had planned. I am completely lieved that the le with you a who eats so much child light Hopkings blographer of the end of my tether, and I your superior officer.*** that the crisis for the invading message: Buccaneer of MIT armies would come about the Gen. Ismay reminds me that Mr Robert Sherwood) cannot go on to the front until 1 30th day, and it was essential when I told him the welcome that Roosevelt made the de- have recovered some irength."

"should news", cryptically on the television on Sunday, Dec. B, against All that day I slept, and the

that

..

auty thing".

Understand.

World Copyright reserved. Repro- morning, soon wiber QALA be taken by delion where to phone that the Presklent find the slmost impasioned advice next day come lever and emp ductions can partial chan

bed, he "AN prevent the Germans from con- changed his mind and woof Hosking sind ebony toms at the base of my lung lounge, wiridity prohibited.) centrating a superior force informing Chiang Kai-shek sainst the known pradmemes which were adjudged to parland against pur beach-heads.

Stain and Churchill, neizzo PG DAN I WANNA said? He is a beger man that or bosh

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