1959-09-19 — Page 7

THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER · 19, 1959,

Britain decides to act alone...the last days of peace are over

(Continued from Pago 0)

In the two hours which

changed the face of the world that dramatio Brudar morning; several things tap- pened that have never, until Now, been recorded in' the ∙hlatory bookk

In Germany, for instance, the Swedish business man Birger Drailerup made a lant dissperate. effort to save the peace.

Ho made a telephone call to the Foreign Ofice in London from Goering's

operational Head-

quarters in a railway coach on the Polish frontier,

· Curt· reply

The trimliers of Europe had long sines been sealed. All telephone lines had been cut But he managed to whocdile call through to London and talad to a functionary in the

SUDDENLY... IT ALL BECOMES SERIOUS... A MATTER OF LIVES,

The first wailing siren was a false alarm

In the repule bouse, Mr E. G. Boulenger turned down the heat so that his dangerous snakes vipers, adders, cotras are rattle, snakes would become lethargie,

He poused and then went on: 'here,

Foreign Omez, telling him that all, his two giant pythons, he there is mything more or any Ware stunt un footwear, sloubey of them thinking they had been give the secret codo miga xit the

Goering was ready to fly to London by special plane for a Irak stop-the-war talk with Halifax. the British Foreign Secretary.

But the British Government no longer believed in Goering's tricks. Dahlerus was told curt

y that Goering would not be gesture Germany could now muke was 10 withcaw her fores within the next two hours.

In London, the Nazi Charge d'Affaires, Hor Kordt, cuper- Intenued his staff they burned]

came.

Achis and

never,

The puzzle

Page

it is WAR!

OUR LIVES

Sunday Express

NO IMMEDIATE CALL UP S OF ALL MEN LIKELY Married And Single

Classed Alike

GALU GROUPE TO BE TAKEN AS REQUIRED

But The Boye Will Not Necessarily Be First

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Hitler Bombs The Babies

Evacuation Trela

September J-Thia sa thị Sunday Express many people were tooking at when, suddenly, war was announced on the radio. Now the Page Ona Klory became a personal question

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loud, clear and that Sunday morning with a It sounded. The house where l'am "You can imagine what a bitter atering docan't have a roof on menacing over Britain that Sun- friend from the British Embarry

sent the in Paris. blow it is to me that nil my it. It hna a straw hat matend." day moming and

nation currying to the shellcm. His Rapide private plane was long struggle to win the peace Britain's mater has failed.

puldiers, They emerged holt an hour challenged by a British destroyer many of them in their own later, feeling sheepish, and some over the Channel and enleed to To the most dangerous of them "Yet I cannot belleve that boots, because the Army sture

tricked. For it

n false day, which had been given to all im

friendly aircraft. gave a bumper meal of rabbits thing different that I could have om in muky

order that

The pilot gave the code, but pulis and humiliations it bad and mice, and then locked them done and that would have been waited for

got one of the letters wrong. suffered at the hands of Hitler in two strong wooden eppes more successful,

The destroyer signalled Fighter and his thugs in the knowling Buil they would live

In households throughout the But if they were bamboozled, Command to tell them of his before. there for sOTIO time without

"Up to the very last it would country, whore, for the first time so, too, was the Prime Minister, mistake. Fighter Cummond da food.

have been quite possible to have in yeats, there was no husband Neville Chamberlain was usher- cided, just in case to put out arranged 11 pectful and honorable

to bring up the early morning ed into a shelter in Downing "yellow" or cautionary signal, setticament between tea, lonely wives wondered wint Street when the sirens went,

This Germany and Poland but Hitler the future held for them-bombs, and there he

"yellow" signal would not have it....Now may wer-work,

left long passed on to the G.RO. was ration-queues.

there an error was made by on ut after the alarm was over. Ged Wess you all. May He knitting.

out not a Why were the sirens sounded? operator. He sent defend the right.

Air Chief Marshal Lord Dow "yellow" signal to the towns in ding of Fighter Command seems his area but a "red" meaning lo think they went off because enemy aircraft approaching.

He said: "The task will be a Dutch aircraft strayed into At once all the air-raid haŬ. There will be dark days alrens in his area went to ahead, and war can no longer the Thames Estuary,

operation.

Other commu- be confined to the battlefield. nities heard the sirens But we can only do the right, welling in the distance, and as we see the right, and re- verently commit Our cause to

And all over the land other men and women were making dzelsdone, large and small, that would alter their lives.

Tired voice

AND SO WAR CAME

"It is the evil things we dail be Balling cigaśnot-brute force, bod faith, injustice, oppression und persecution-and

against

Sew labels

After Chamberlain's speech

Fighter aces Wee Group Cap-

At 11.15 on the morning of hall i am certain that right the B.B.C. put out an emergency tain "Sailor" Malon and Group

September 3. 1939, Prime

the embassy's private papers.

driver A Drillsh

on the Mind:1: Neville Chamberlain embassy's staff managed to poke spoke through the microphones and of the B.B.C. and told the Bri- arer among the embers ros.pd

some documents that fish people that they were were to be of great une 10 our Secret Service in the months

to come,

The pythons

More's the pity that even now neither the name of the Briton concerned nor the nature of the documents he secured can be Blame the auled mentioned. lips of the recurity men for this, At the London Zoo most of the measures had been emergency put into operation. *The more savage animals had been given zedalives, in case a sudden nir ruld broke open their cages.

war.

His voice was tired and the spirit behind it was deflated as he said:

t

will prevail."

First day

To anyone in Britain over 25, the morning that war was de- clured has left an indelible stain on the mind.

warning:

The Act volce of the B.E.C. scencer said:-

un announcement "Here is As you have heard, we are now at war. Keep off the streets

much as possible,

To expose yourself unnecessarily adds to your dangor. Carry your gas mask with you always.

"Make sure all members of

Captain Deere still believe that their aircraft were "scrambled" that morning to search for Nazi aircraft.

In fact, all fighter aircraft were grounded throughout the first day of the war.

Challenged

began sounding-off too,

Q It was a speech that historie day from the King, George V1, won while measured the situation 'And facing the British poople,

For the people

I

The Intolerabio agony and suspenzo from' which we all

suffered·la OVER. of havo The hated word war has been spoken by Britain in full- ment of her plodged and un- breakable determination to defend the liberties of Karope

For 54 touru Poland has stood alone at the portals, of elvilization'defending us and all the free, nations', and 'all we hold dear.

-

"She has stood with exampled bravery, with eple herol, before her Fastlant Hiends have gone to her old ... Should there be confused count- sels, nefteleney, ar wavering, then other men must be called Ja take their place,"

We had decided at last to And just in case there were make a stand. for honour and sil members of the Cabinet

decency. It had been a little

The alarm znowballed across God." England, warning the people to take cover in the raid that never was.

I was a false start to what, who thought that Adolfier Inte in coming but at least the in the months to reme, the could be bought off, even at this British people could say that it newspapers would be describing hour, an M.P. stood up to speak

aphorey" war.

for the House and for the people, was not they but their leaders It had rained the night be

who had been holding back. Do you know who, in fact. September 3, 1939, was not He was Arthur Greenwood, M.P.,

"AND NOW," they said, that "This muning the British for, but Sunday morning over your family have their names was really responsible for the the bloodiest day in the his- Deputy Leader of the Opposi- Sunday morning. "NO MORE Ambassador in Berlin handed most of Britain was fine and and addresses on them clways false air-raid alarm on the first tory of the British people. flen. No one appinded him

TALKING. LET'S GET ON the German Government & final elew. In country towns and clearly written. Do this on anty of war?

But was in many ways the more than Winston Church WITH THE RUDDY WAR." throughout Note stating that unless we vllinges

the land, cnvelope or luggage label and THE G.P.O. They goofed proudest, because on that day and Anthony Eden, who brad heard from

The ond the ot cleven more than 3,000,000 evacuated not on an odd sheet of paper, A civition named Brooks de- the nation wiped out, by Its both joined the Cabinet that o'clock that they were prepared children from the great cities which may be lost. Sew a label cided to fly back from France declaration of war, all the in morning as he said: of once to withdraw their troops clutched their tiny gas-masks on children's clothing so that it from Poland, a state of war and waited for the start of what cannot be lost."

have was, to most of them, a super existed between to tell you that no such under- uxelling adventure, usking has been received, and that consequently this country

is at war with Germany.

wards, as if to give grim am- Almost immediately aftCT-

phasis to his words, the sirena "Dear Mun," wrote one of began to wail in the first air- im. "I am very comfortabic rald warning of the war,

What's this election

...?

about anyway.

THERE'S only

one

thing I want to

know about this elec- tion: what it's all going

to be about?

By DONALD EDGAR

Nationalisation scarcely has

in

It to all very well for Mr even a primitive spourheach. Ita Gaitskell and Mr Bevan to cut rim at the steel industry has short their visit to Russia und fallen not on the employers, but take their place at the head of on the workers who, their army.

fast, though not in open words, That is their job. But their don't want nationalisation TIMI June amed with the Gaitskell has back-pedalled weapons-obsolescent and ob, so fast against Socialism that he solele at a generation ago.

The leaders will do their best. but however eloquent a generat

spear ngainst rocket.

runs the risk of being taken for

a liberal-minded Tory.

On the greatest moral issue

may be, his britalions can't do of the day, the H-bomb, the much with a nurtionalisation Labour Party Fas convinced prosperity zelf, anki now a majority of the trade unions, that they agree The Socialiste havo just with the Tories that we must not re-armed. Presumably retain the bomb.

The Socialisis more than because they have neithor

nyrce, they and enthusiastic knowledge, ideas,

nor about the necessity of high-level know-how.

talks and summit meetings.

BY THE WAY

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by Beachcomber

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The cars All the reads. Not the cara only of city directors and the upper-middle class. There are the ears of what we still call the worlding class."

A stupid meeningless phrase

now. I fact, Macmillan

ought to find a new PX-

pression.

full,

The beaches have been The hotels aul boarding-houses have been worked off. Hieir feet.

The cross-Channel steamer? ond the aeroplanes have been filled; by just ordinary, saving people.

The homes are fling with TV sets, washing machines, electrl- cal equipment.

As for colonialism... well, Gaitskell and Bevan And the homes finve gone up. have defended our policy

Too 'schools are filed with healthiest, Anest-looking, -in Moscow itself with the

beat-educated children we have considerable force and Bad for many a generation. vahemenco,

The Welfare State? It has

The pound stands high.

Sa do our currency reserves.

In foreign affairs the initiative

of o gate E. The rest of their conversa-been extended and made more of Macmillan and Selwyn Lloyd leading to a railway crossing tion was drowned in the cheers

at Spensley came loose, When of the unlockers, many of whom asked to mend it, British Rail- had tears in their eyes. ways sent an arcessor and three The Narkover method assistants in a car to "examine

ASKED what he thought of

it on the spot."

recent events at the Carlton They offered in mind the proved school, Dr Smart- loose bar if the Spensley Council Alliet, at present on holiday, vould pay for it. The estimated as "As the head master of a

cost was three

shillings. But violently dupproved school, I

efficient under the Tories..

in going to Russia has brought The pamphlets, on the use of us prestige and a leadership leisure recently inued by both envied by Europe. partics show 11 identical

ac

No banners

It is almost in one's heart to

And, perhaps the two most important matters, there in

work and there are stable

prices.

the gate is in the parish of can only say that the whole feel sorry for the Socialists. Morelite, whose courell has no affair is an argument for having Jurisdelion over Um cate. A a Boy Union, as we liave at

witter

can

inspire

ruthless

But it is juri

Isolated

I

to

to

There are no banners to un- I know this sounds like private citizen of Sponsley Narkover. When dissatisfied the furl; glorious romantic banners panegyrie. offored to pay the bill, but this boys came out on strike in a round which they can fight with statement of fact. is legal. The county council, fairly orderly manner. The loyalty and love There are no

consulting

of the internal hatrekls in the comtry Government dimculty is that most Surveyors, referred the matter to masters join the strikers,

so which the Land Commissiçei, who sent that arbitration is rare.

The detezenination to win. the ale to the Deputy Assistant, mattor is usually bottled in a

Troubles, sometimes duc There is nothing but a cullen

aaridy. pommes shun Controller of Gates at Crossings, during and unorthodox way." Ho lost it. There the matter In passing

realisation that the battle must chance, there will always be be fought. Two Thana

Isolated hordships which, rests at present.

N article about the noize of Conservancy Board denies oil A

zays that this Facing them are the Tories, though isolated, bear hardly on knowledge of the whole thing on airfield

don't matter as the nearest And when you look at their those who suffer.

But I believe the people have demoly populated area is several ituation... well,

with miles away. The Implication splendidly, magnificently favour more reason for content

government than ther zeems to be that people in able, that they seem to have Mr Khrushchev then parsely populated areas need only one thing to fear. That is have had since before the first

world wo........... ...'. But it is over-confidence. poltel President Eisenhower's not. be considered.

Grabunday say is un left shoulder, and the President, the people in big towns who are:

Even the weather has anled known in politics. I think that wearing a bow-tie, linted arm used to noise and tre

on them this year not that is true of politics it, you restrict oven De Hill would claim that the text in the men and woman as a Tory telumph.

who are active politicianİ

I do not bellove it of tho

The Summit meeting

(Eye-witness account)

leas

with Mr Macmillan. The three inconvenienced by it than people then did a double-chirmte, laugh in villages. Dementi

Ing hopedly. "You see, it is not

po dificult to be friends," sold

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The work wants pooce," suit clowns. My desir, too, a look fortamos that the sun has do Well, there wo, brol What is Mir M. with emphers, Wo all at the towhion pages of ey no more than that. Inte holier this election, all eqULT grant 11,21 said Ms K. -/!That gom newspaper today, man

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