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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1953.

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“TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY””

Chapter Eight

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TEARING TO PIECES

OF A FINE

the morning of Aug. 17. 1944, 1 set out by motor to meet Field-Marshal Alexander I was delighted to see him for the first time since his victory and entry into Rome, He drove me all along the old Cassino front, showing me how the battle had gone and where the main struggles hud curred.

The monastery towered 17 draninating rain. Anyone cruid ree the tactical significance of this stately ereg and building, which for so many weeks played is part in stopping our advener. When we had finished 11 was ume for lunch, and a plenie table had been prepared in an agree- Gen. eble grove, Here 1 met Clark (commanding the Fifth

ARMY

By Sir Winston Churchill

on

who

U.S. A:my and eight or ten of " Aug. 19 1 set off to visit gleaming possibilitles and prizes M. exercent

was

open

Arne. We had the south bank of the river and the Germans the north. Considerable efforts were made by both rides to destrov s little as possible, and the historic bridge at Florence was at any rate preserved,

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Alexander this fine sermy had been to those who controlled it.

soldierly cheerfulness, but I was Iloured the harbour, which In a sombre mood that I went to matters. had often played a part in our bed. In thes: great

motor failing to gain one's ways naval affairs. ir? A

Then we went to escape from the responsibility for Lorpedo-bont.

A pair an infer.or sulution, the American batteries.

guins of new -ich

had just been mounted, and I was asked to fire the first shot. Everyone stood stear-I tugged a lanyard

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party names, revived from the past, had been chosen with an eye to the future,

"Whint is your parly?" I ask~ "We are the Imperative; but the well ty tired out when I got back to component of E.'A. M.] and witn- ed one group.

Communisis," their integrated German armies were the chateau nt Sierin, where, draw the military missions which Christian almost as strong as ours, com- Alexander came again to dine. we had sent to help them fight chief replied. I could not help

When one

sayink. "It must be very in writes things on against Hitler. posed of so many different con-

paper to decide or explain irge The British Government agreed spiring to your party, having Bogents and races. along the whole front early on

It was proposed to attack questions affecting action there to support M. Papandreou, but the Catacombs so handy." They la mental stress. But all this after a long talk on July 10 with did not teem to see the point. I cm afrald Aug. 20. Our right hand would

bites much deeper when you Col. Woodhouse, u British officer and. looking back,

must have turned WOX Ferving

the their minds and feet t

with

executions be upon the Adriatic, and our

the spot, missions in Greece, I consented to the cruel mass Inmediate objective Rimini. To Here was this splendid army, be

the westward, under Alexander's ea

of to let them remain for the tint which the Germans had so re- quarter were Ameri-

1le argued that they were cently perpetrated in these an- berbic command, lay the Fifth Ameri- quivalent to 25 divisions,

Arnay, This had been can reduced till an

restraint on EA. M. cient sepulchres. It was just a

bo and that

however. Onc may. be difficult and might be to produce and stripped and mutilated for the not strong enough

making histories sake of "Anvil" the landing in

decisive

against results

the dangerous to get them out, but pardoned for

The in Rome. southern Froncel but would immense power

I of the defen- fcared that one day they would references

rising on every nevertheless advance

with give.

be taken as hostages, and I naked Eternal City,

side, majestle and apparently

monu vigour.

A very fle more, half what for them to be reduced.

with its Fumours

invulnerable, of the and

Germun had been taken from us,

of ruins not pro- we could have broken into the evacuation of Greece raised in- ments and palaces, and with its

and

d'ecord in splendour valley of the Po, with all the tense

Cabinet.

duced by bombing, seemed

with the and contrast markedly frall and false which Jay

towards revealed the

tiny and transient beings who Gen. Mark Clark

Vienna, As it was, our forces,

orces, foundation upon which common

fitted within is bounds, the leading Brush officers of the Leghorn. This

it all long

about one million Strong, could action stood. This made

On Aug. 23 I was received in Fifteenth Arrny Group.

drive, and everywhere we

in the more mere secondary part in

necessary for me to

audience by the Pope. I had Alexander then look me in his stopped to visit brigades and play a

and those he

when I commanding strategic con- tes Papandreou

visited his predecessor own plane, with which I was divisions, Mark Clark receive ception. They could keep the trusted.

came to Rome as Chancellor of familiar, by a short flight to me at bis headquarters.

the Exchequer with Randolph, Slona, the beautiful and feracers hunched in the open air by the enemy on their front busy at

then very young, in 1926, and I city, which I had visited in

agreeable In our friendly and con- the cost and risk of a hard

preserved most They could at least bygone peaceful days. Theree wadential talks I realised how offensive.

MFC M. Papandreou in Rome imemories of the kindness with been received. visited our battle-front on the painful the tearing to pieces of do their duty. maintained his on the evening of Aug. 21, which we had

days the

at Herald that EAM. hd joined Those Juls Government brosuse the Mussolini, Firitish had been fan lowerds Now I was received by.Popo them, but the Greek State itself Plus X1 with the highest care- Fill had no arms and 10 prite, mony. Not only did the Papat He asked for cur help to unile Guard in all their stately array Greek resistance gainst the line the long series of anterooms We were lodge in a beautiful

Germans.

At present only the and galleries through which wo but dismantled chateau a fes

wrong people had areas, and they passed, but the Noble Guard, miles to the west of Siena, and

were a minority.

formed of representatives of ancient here I passed a couple of day

I told him we could make no the highest

with a mostly working in hed, reading. and dictating telegmms.

there was a loud bang and A Axleander's offensive

not start t Aug. 26 1 few proanise and enter Info no chilga- families of Rome.

tions about sending British forces magnificent mediaeval uniform course in all these journeys a great reel, and the observa-

21st. The impending Greek crisis

possibility should not be talked present. had been one of the chief reasons about in pubile; but I advised him for

visit. my Italian On July transfer his Government

had tele-

once f:cm Cairo, with ទ the King of Greece

Calro that after

At almosphere of intrigue, to seme- Rraphed from

"canning and of two

quarters of the Supreme Allied study with the dignity and sion, which had just arrived the E. A. M. where in Holy reas the head- THE Pope received me in his dominated Greek Commander. This he agreed to informality which he can Σα and made an imposing spectacle National Liberation Front"! ex- do.

combine. We had happily Negro

tremists had repudiated the At

this point Lord Moyne lack of topics for conversation, LEXANDER brought his Japanese-American units.

Lebanon sugreement which their (Minister of State in the Middle The one that buiked the larges: chief officers 10 ilinner, All the time emid these

leaders bad signed in May,

this audience,

had East) jelred us, and conversation at

as it and explained

fully to 110

diversions I talked with Murk

ile begged us to

to declare once turned to the position of the ene with his prodecessor fculties ard plans,

Clark.

General enied again that we would Fifteenth Group

have of M. Papandreou, need to; him to make any new Communism. and starved. The far-reaching been robbed of what he thought because it represented most of declarations, because he

had had the greatest tilslice of it; should I ever have the projects we had cherished must and I could not disagree was the Greck nation except the already said he would follow his and

great opportunity. Still, he extremists, and was the only body Goverment's advice nocut going honour of tnother audicnes with

(one rather un- be looked at, might be Jeered, now be abandoned. It was still a

drive forward to hits which could stop civil war and back to his country. The British the Supreme Pontiff I should not

named Christian because Cable Street doesn't the bailor fell lendly I subject Cub St. It is down in fortunately our duty to hold the Germans in would

our utmost on the British left and unite the country against

Street) running up to numbers 011

the like to be looked at. the largest

to.rous towards him for his conduct Our Minister to the Vatican. E.1. It is certainly not Commercial. Read.. is a hew front. If this purpose was to keep the whole front blazing. Germens. He also asked us

fensive was it was late and I was thorough denounce E. L.A. S. the miltary at a dimeuit moment in both our siek the Embassy. Here A.1. They told me it was social problem in Stepney since juke box care as I passed. They A few blokes poured from a be achieved,

the the worst street in Britain. the war.

wore light gaberdine trousers, I fering

the solemn right of Crown Prince Umberto, who, They may be right.

It has turned the area into floral shirts draped over their the

"Deople

40 choose as Lieutenant of the Realm,

calm, wouldn't contradict them, one of the worst, one of the trousers, and huge soft hats. between monarchy and a

Italian new was commanding

although I must say I've filthiest, one of the most de- They stopped, and stared. public. But it must be for the forces on our front. His power- Greek people as a whole, and not ful

They didn't say a word. But seen worse-looking streets grading spots. and engaging personality, a handful of darinaires, to his grasp of the whole silunin Glasgow.

The association of black and you caught his sinister Jatric- and decide so grave en leue, Although tion, military

political,

streets sphere, the feeling that at night Street But Cable

noses 3 white all along these I personally gave my loyalty to were refreshing, and gave one

Glasgow just has problem

changed this

of this place would be,, and is, part the constitutional

London to monarchy

lively feeling of con-

problem

Into doesn't have: the

of Slepney

shaineless the nicest place in a which had taken-shape-in-Eng--fidence than-I-had-experienced coloured-men-and-white-women-Harlem.-

_be_nway_from, Iand His Majesty's Government in my iniks with the polit-living together in hovels which were quite indifferent as to which clans.

Yet I spoke to an important would disgrace the worst slums harlots have left the West End man in London who lives only

Blowzy, frowzy, middle-aged way the matter was settled for

I know in the Gorbals, Greece provided there was a fair

When I talked about Cable to cash in on the raffle down a stone's throw from Cable Street to Londoners, they look in the East End, Brothels have Strest. He tald: "I feel much safer in Cable Street than in tots sprung up all over the place. ed at me and sald: "know, Down in Cable Street, they're of other London streets. These old man, but you have the pulling

chaps are all right, you know. the road up part of same trouble in Glasgow, Much just now. The Cockney watch worst. They jure them into living It's the women who are, the worse up there, I belleve, old

man outled at 2 cigarette and

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kept close to me the nucleus of tion post reported that the shell to Rome on the morning of the into Grecce, and that even the I had never seen before, were

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A more

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certainly hoped he would play his part in buliding up constitutions) monarchy in a free, strong, united Italy. However, this was none of my business.

had enough OBSERVED that now that bus

The Warsaw hand as it was. E.A.M. had stopped demand-

rising had now been in pro- ing to join him, M. Papandreou greas for nearly a month. The was head of a truly national

insurgents were in desperate Government. But I warned him #

straits and 1 was engaged in against subversivo Influences fense correspondence

with We agreed that the Greek mutineers ought not to be re will

Stalin and the President which be set forth in another Teased from custody at this

chapter. climax of the war, and that we should walk and see how they (Continued Tomorrow)

and their representatives be-

haved before sending any more

to E.L.A.S. We should try.

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THE LID OFF LONDON'S gangs

SECOND DAY

THE WOMEN ARE

THE

MABLE Street

man.'

· Coloured Squalor

WORST

By PAT ROLLER -

zakl:

with them. The coloured men at are quite kind, rarely violent, It does rarely commit crimes."

much

Get Fed Up

"Makes you sick to look these girls and men. and all. Used to be worse, mark you. It's quieter- down a lot. Used to bo ed

spoke to

girl

fights and brawls almost every

And I who night. Not so bad now, not zo

bad since a couple of killings welfare worker who conЛm- In that cafe over ed some of this, and whose down here. reasonably

there..." And he pointed.

to takes her

Cable

work

Oh, dear, the explanations you have to make to these in credulous Englishmen, just don't believe that Glasgow is, by and large, a peace-loving city nowadays, and without a colour problem!

A stranger could walk down Street and the other hovels that Cable Street and the dread- Cable Street during the day swarm in the warrens of

criss-cross the without any bother. He might that,

Com Road.

She said: "The men are good to the women they live with. But they gat fed up eventually and throw them out. That's when the trouble starts And you

women fighting get and brawling over some of the men."

ful coloured squalor of Papandreou also plained that the Bulgarians were,

sull occupying Greek solt said we would order them back to their own frontiers as soon as we were able to make sure they would oboy us, but that Greek claims against them here and in the Dodcennese must wait till after the war. In the meantime

A

THE DAY THEY PULLED MY

Tokyo, Saturday.

MAN called today to

we would do all we could for demolish my house, He the relief and reconstruction of had torn a chunk out of it his country, which had suffered

I STAYED while in Rome at bamboo and paper.

out

at

selves to my budness and sighed

and

HOUSE DOWN

intuition

-I was in the bath from Liverpool, Stafford, Leeds.

Women come to black Stop ney and parts of Bow from all over. Britain: from Scotland,

They are fed up at home or are lured by prospects of gold in Lontion, in the rame way as the coloured min are lured' to the city that can be the biggest fet- down in the world,

They are

much and deserved the best before I could stop him. possible treatment. They too The first thing I heard was.a must pull thoir weight, and the humming, a hammering, and Akihito, No. 4, 2nd block, X includes three musts; a street best thing M. Papandreou could then before you could say district, Y suburb.

map, the sun, your wife. do was to establish Greek Blessed Empire of the Divine As houses and blocks seldom Your wife is there to criticise Government In Greece, Frontlet Sun Goddess-there was an un- display a number, districts are every turning you take off the questions must wait for the precedented view of the gas- not defined, and suburban main roads, and to convince you

Lots of coloured men come as peace settlement.

works, and an embarrassed little boundaries frequently change, it absolutely that she is wrong and

stowaways. man, with 14-carat Fmile,

·乾

Some bring their from radar to you are on the right course. takes everything fron

[wives looking through the splintered

And most of them explorer's

Ition stroll.

Just

The other two items back up to negotiate an afternoon

your arguments with your wife, eventually find their way to the Embassy, and

each other We looked

I am told the block system is The map proves neither of you this part of the East End. Ambassador, Sir Noel Charles, curiously happened to be in ideal so long as the city is laid has any Idea where you are.

The women are looking for. and his wife devoted them the bath-until Inevitably he cut like a planner's dream, so

The sun at least. shows your bawed and said: "So long as the streets stay straight direction, if you take the trouble y money. They dress well, Guided comfort.

by fuls sorry; please, wrong house,"

of the shadows, although flachly.

driven to the East End because advice. I met most of

I was hard to be angry. He ration-book monotony.

If telegraph principal ficures In the had mistaken the address. IL

o'clock shadow when you first take in coloured men in London. debris of Italian politics pro happens all the time in Tokyo.

point the car north and you keẹp The women follow them there, duced by 20 years of dictator-

No ever really knows

the shadows like that through- ship. disastrous war,

But, like the best of plans, it out most of the journey, “It is where anywhere is. Taxi-drivers

welfare

wald: ⚫worker volution, invasion, occupation, spend hours looking for a well- does not allow for all those porable you may come eventual-There is never any shortage of Allied control and other evils,

and ly within five miles of your women for these men. It is I had talks with,

known cinema ar the city hall, untidy hills and streams among

qulte dreadful." and evon their others, Signor Bonomi

Awamplands that nature scatters destination. homes, rumour In to be believed."

thoughtlessly about the land But then the sun' goes in, you! She was able to tell me that Gen. Badoglio, als wiinturned: The trouble is that Tokyo has scape, nor for unplanned man- pass the same cross-road for the her organisation has rescued rade Togliatti, who had to Italy of the beginning of the no street addresses. It kind's perverse, insistence on eighth time, and the speed- "quito lot of girls

a long, sojourn in marked out only in city blocks, building streets and houses to ometer clocks up 57 miles for Stepney and brought them back year after

what was going to be a quick into the family fold, E But 's Russia. The leadors of all the Instead of dropping in for a suit himself,

an afternoon trip Itallon parties were invited to quick one, say, at the Akihito Equipment moet int. None had any Arms, 42, MacArthur Avenue," drive, a vialt perhaps to friends!

Russell Spurr More Tomorrow) electoral mandate, and their you have to search out Bar on the other side of town,

the

and

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and dissect ano another with to note the Daten throw a ten there are few places willing to

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