1959-09-12 — Page 7

THE CHINA-MAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1959.

and then the heartache...all London stops to allow the children to leave

(Continued from \\Page 6). private letter to Goering from Halifax. It amuret Goering of Britain's definite wish to come to understanding with Gor-

many.

.

If the British public had known about it at the time, them indeed there might havd been panic and certainly anger

at the thought that the Govern- mont was once more ready to bow to the Nazis. Whets Goer- ing got tho' letter, he bounced with joy. At midnight' that night, Hitler himself, sent for Birger Dahlerts. He questioned him closely, about the mood of the British people,

It was not the end of Binger Dahlerus's strange misafon. He made three mone journeys

between London"ant Berlin. At

a time when all Europe's nero-

planes had been grourided, and

a rudar serven had

been thrown (round Britin,

WOR

allowed to como in twice in a German plane,

MYSTERY

PLANE ARRIVES AT

CROYDON.

NCHESTER UNITED'S IDEAL LEFT WING.

riggiorwarth. Had

·Wicker

Fishing For Tanky Worth The Coat

STILL WE PLAYED ON..

REMEMBER that the footbali season opened as usual?

'At last we

MESSAGE FROM HITLER? »!J

the headlines in the newspapers. But no one guessed' who was aboard it, and, for the second trip, he was routed through Hesion.

secretly

Dahlerus was a good-hearted lover of peace. But his efforta not only in- for peace wore

con effectunt. They created fusion in the British Cabinet. And they convinced the Nazis, particularly Hitler and Goering, That the British were not pcricus the after all. And that, when time came, they would not go to wr in support of their Polith Allies.

the British

But, of course, publie knew nothing of all these hale-in-the-COSTIT fast-minute

negotiations, and would un- doubtedly have ucen enraged

had they done so.

For they WETU now calmly

have

regained

our

courage

facing up to certainty of war, could hardly bear my husband church, after which he col- and no more mucking about out of my sight, an frightened lapsed. Ho with Hitler.”

was that i should soon have cardrum.

Buzzards

It was typical of the situation that, in the village of West Witley, near Gedaliaing, Surrey, that last week-end of peace, the natives were staring ipprehen sively at dark shapes swooping

over their heads.

had burst his

his company no longer. We Flight-Lieutenant Deere spent were afrald and we showed it, the crisis week-end of August and But you things are different. 1030 humping sandbags We've regained our courage." helping civilian workers to build dispersal pens around the Spitfires parked over the alr- feld.

also worried about his forthcoming medical, Would the doctors pass him for operations?

The pilot

He

was

Daily Express

HITLER. MY PATIENCE ALMOST EXHAUSTED"

POLAND FUTS OFF

- MOSILISATION

NBERG OFF

Burle

DEMANDS.

'Foli Hitler waitka

Chisine

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the specialist the fact that he had already been up in a 5pit fire to test his wonky car. When he climbed the plane or dived It swiftly, the ear clogged and ached.

REMEMBER: "My patience atmmixt cxhausted "?1

argue about glands. Some clubs had been experimenting with

their glandular treatment for players, and were now trying to make it compulsory..

Not that it seemed to make much difference to his future For in the Battle of carcer Britain that was to come a few months later, Flight-Lieutenant Alan C. Deere known to some of his ground crew as Old Ear- ache became one of the greatest sees of them all. His total score was 22 enemy air- craft destroyed, 10 probables, and 18 damaged,

By

the end of the war, he had also collected for hinseif the D.S.O. and the D.F.C.

No fuss

At Hornchurch, in Essex, the Spitfires and their pilots were standing-to. But one young They looked him over. Heart ghter-pilot looked at them good. Blood count, too. General

But when normal condition perfect. sourly, for the possibility seem. ed strong that, if war came, he they came to the ear, the fight- would be taking no part in the lieutenant could see the doubt night in the afr.

begin to kindle in specialist's eyes.

But it was not Nazi borbers they were worrying about. The Largol of their invitation was the action of a local landlord, Mr David Leigh, in bringing a flock of buzzards down to his estate to kill off the rabbits."

He was on the sick list, and Said a spokesman for the the chances were that he would villagers: They're much more stay there for the duration. - likely to peek out the eyes of our babies while our wives are on war work." And they were petitioning Surrey County Coun- cil to have the buzzards ground- ed for the duration.

A housewife named Mrs Cella Dale probably summed up the mood of the nation when she said:-

"As I came out of work this morning a large barrege balloon

Three months before, the young flight lieutenant, a New Zealander named Deere, had taken his Spitfire up above the Thames

estuary on a practice patrol. The oxygen system used at the time in fighter planes re- quired the pilot to increase the flow every five thousand feel.

This ime Deere forgot. His oxygen supply was set for five

the

he, A

"Scar's healed all right,” said. "But I don't know. sudden sleep dive and well, anything could happen."

My skill

With a remarkable lack of fuss or excitement, Britain was moving on to a war basis, True, life went on side by side with the mobilisation,

In Brighton, Noel Gay's new show, Run, Rabbit, Run," was o smash hit, with Bud Flanagan in the leading role.

The big question was: Should a star player be forced to take the treatment against his will? The Football League decided that It must remain entirely volúntary until further informa- tion was forthcoming about Its long-term effects.

A complex

I

how."

for the best milker in the ton, Hampstead and Putnoy.

But the 'bused moved off Most of their mothers camo towards the suburbs, somalliing with them, hovering anxiously seemed to clutch: the heart of But alde by side with these over them, trying desperately every man and woman who - Indicatione that England was not to cry.

watched them going ', `and suil England, the nation wał And all day, throughout wondered whether they would quietly getung 'Ints, a lighting August 20, the children waited, ever see them back.. position.

"What's gone wrong?" asfond Around a pool in the grounds the parents "Why don't they

get the kide away?” of of Hampshire mansion, where

Morrison was at 19, Downing the mulionaire owner would Strent trying to find the answer normally have been frolicking to the same question, To Sir

his debutante guests, Horace

Primo Wilson, the typists from Lombard Steel Minister's chief adviser, were taking dictation from streased the urgency of their bosses. The mansion was situation.

- with

the now "emergency". hend- quarters of a famous Clly bank,

A sign on the diving board'sold: "No bathing between nine and.

10."

Lunacy

The B.B.C. too was moving its staff out of London.

Responsible

To the people of London camo a message from Herbert master- Morrison. It who piece of cool, calm unsentimen- tat prose that exactly fitte‡ the mood and the moment.

"To, the Children: With your teachers and friendly helpers, you are going to the country, where the Government considers you will be safer than in Ion- den it war should come; I want

*Terror," he said. "That's you to be cheerful and friendly the Nazt technique, They go for on the journey and when you the children first, knowing that get to the other end. if the parents are worried about · "To Parents; I know you wil their youngsters they'll lose the have, anxieties at this trying will to fight. That's what we've time. I understand your deel- gol to avoid. We've got to move ings. You will be cheored by With what can only be des- the children out of London to the knowledge that it is better cribed as inspired lunacy, the safety-o that the mothers for the children to be out of

regarious members of the won't have to worry about London, as things are. Variety Department were them and can get on with the shipped to the stern, Noncon- jab.". formist town of Bangor, in Bui Sir Horace and chief North Wales, They stood out would not give the order. What from the natives like a handful Morrison, did not know was of sore thumba, especially when that the mystery Swede, Birger they discovered that the town, Dehleres was really responal including all the puba, shut up ble for the delay. He had per- ught on Sundays,

suaded Chamberlain and Wil- son that there was still hope of doing a deal with Hitler.

"Th sil cihemi Koop calm, Keep a cheerful British smile on your lips. Don't get nervy. Remember there are

others actively engaged in the service of our country whose troubles may be much graver, Belle, smile, anile."

But in the childless capital of It 'was in Bangur,' later, onu

the Brillsh Empire that night It that comedian Jack Train,

уда hard to mile. London wandering on a Sunday through And in Downing Street, the scored strangely qulet. The the all-dry town, was beckoned way the minds were working cries of 2,000,000 children, the into a back partour by one of was this: "There is still A shouting and the laughing, hod Bangor's citizens and asked to slender hope of saying the disappeared from the great take n glass of beer.

peace. Hiller may still agree to city's streets, "I don't mind if I do," sald talk. At all costa we resin'i the thirsty Train, gratefully, upset him now. And he may that wo out of this incident is be upset if he hears and Campus character, Colonel are evacuating the children. Chinstrap, the ever-thirsty He will think that we GTC warrior, was born,

determined on wer, anyway."

It was

the

No order

Message

At last...

At dawn on Friday, Septem-.

attack. WOTO

muddied thinking of her, 1, 1939. Nazi troops Cross- the worst kind. But it kept ed the frontiers of East Pruss'a 2.000,000 children in London into Poland. Hermann Goering chained to the capital for gave the order, and the bom

They sat in bers of the Luftwaffe swept The evacuation was on for nearly three days. hundreds of big firms in Lon their schools throughout August out to bomb Warsaw into rub- don and the other great cities 29, and then were sent home mission.

It had come at last. of Britain. The idea was to again.

туде Poland

under August They came again on get them out as quickly and as

and

France quietly as possible, before war 30, and still they waited The Britain

tearful pledged by treaty to come at mathers were growing In Aston Abbots, near Ayles- and the Nazi bombers came. bury, a crowd gathered over the Aboard British ships at sen, now. The nerves of the teachers once, to the aid of their ally,

shredded. And the

The eyes of the nation and crials week-end to greet not an

captains were now under were

Admiralty, children were beginning to look of the Empire turned towards Downing Street as they waited A.R.P. parade but a cow named the control of the

for trouble.. Fancy, Fancy had just won the Touriste aboard the P&O liner

for the doclaration of war. championship as the best milk- Strathmore, settling down to a

But giving Jersey cow in Britain Mediterranean cruise, woke up. and what made her extra- to find themselves an their way special was the fact that she to Bermuda. All other British

thanks to

cruise liners were making it at had done it

full speed back to Britain, chiatry.

Amid all these emergency of Neville Chamberlain could Sall no word from Downing "A year ago," said her herde-

no longer contemplate snatching Street. September 1 came and moves, one clement in the no- man,

Malcolm Bradbury, ton remained stalle: the peace out of the mounting went. It was Saturday now. "Fancy had a terrible inferiority children, although evacuation flames, that Morrison got the

When night came, and there complex. She only gevo 360 plans for them had been made order to let the children go.

was will no declaration, propio gallons of milk a year. So I months ago.

On August 31, 1939, the pdo- for the first time become rost- decided to psycho-analyse her. Now Herbert Morrison, M.P., ple of London wlincased Jess and uneasy. Was Britain.

the lives the leader of the LCC with spectacle that, one hopes, no

of 2,000,000 London other generation will ever have going to break Its word? Were

we going to about, re- to scc.

renege on chlidren to worry peatedly told Whitehall: We

Trains and bus services were promise to Poland?

Everyone began to ask: "Has cancelled. Ronds were closed. must get the children oui.”

But the Government would As parents and relatives lined something gone wrong?".

It had indeed. And there was not give the order for them to the pavements, the

something like pants in. Down- go.

ing Street

hand

milked

psy-

It was not unti that night even the sanguine mind

when

0

chlidren and

"You see, the ordinary cow is In Bristol, two great musical stars of the day, Jessie Mat- more like a human being than

a monkey is. Fancy felt neglect thews and Sonnie. Hale, hnit

ed. She didn't like mechanical sunk all their savings in a new show. They had chosen a pro- milkers. I put her in a shed by her, title, for. they called it herself, phetic * Can Take It London never groomed her, spoke gently to had a chance to see it, for It her and gave her special food.

their schools, were to take them to the safety to "I sacked one of the cowmen report to with the outbreak closed-

because be was too harsh- roody for evacuation. With their of the country. war, bringing the two stars lo

voiced and disturbed her, Fancy gas-masks (Small Children's the verge of bankruptcy.

There was an all-important perked up wonderfully. And Size) over their shoulders, they brain, meeting of the Football League, now look at her 2,000 gallons streamed into the classrooms in

it

Decre said in desperation:

doc, what docs "Look, matter? If I get into a dog fight with a Hun, I'm not going to shoot him down with my cor. It's my eyes, my

of

nied out of the schools Morrison ordered the children elimbed aboard the buses that

tethered cloze by the end of my thousand feet, and when his and my skill that will matter, i nqt to discuss the war butto of milk this year, and the medal Peckham, Limehouse, Kensing-

could be stone deaf and still

road dipped its mout at me. They've got men slanding by plane reached 27,000 feet, after read to operate the blackout, " steep climb, he blacked-out ght him. Don't ground me, for

lime he regained con- God's sake, doc." Until the Government told us to By the

clousness.

Spitfire his

had stop hoarding yesterday, I've

The specialist paused, and over on its back and then nodded his head. "Okay," been spending all my extra turned

was diving straight for the sea, he said "But the moment any Thoney on groceries. Yet sonic-

and I mean I'm

anything. how

worried. You He pulled hard at the en thing. remember those awful days in trols, desperately trying to bring goes wrong with that car, you the crials of September 1938, the plane out of its dive; anki come and tell me," when each piece of news made as he did so, he was aware of a your heart sink a ittle further; terrible pain in his head. At when the ugliest buildings in Jost, he levelled out and brought

not

"But of course, doc," said the Jubilant Deere, and rushed out He in tell his pals the news.

the street seemed dear; söhen I the Spitire back to Horn- hadi carefully concealed from

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Fow people cried. The children, now the elgnal had

did not come. Donziț fell into Nazl hands. The Nazi armies began to roll back the Poler, In Warsaw the cries of the dying rose, as Nazi bombs crashed upon the city.

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