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April 26, 1940.

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GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

JURY JROUM

"Everybody laid thair bots? The jury's ready to come out!"

This Man

SINCE that last Mon-

day in September when he signalled his rosumption of Front Bench position by announcing the Athenia sinking, Mr. Winston Chur- chill has been one of the three busiest mon in the land.

. His shortest working day has been of 14-hours: The majority have been of 17 hours' duration.

Sundays are spont in his Elizabe- than home at Chartwell, Kent, 45 minutes from his Whitehall desk. Sunday lo a day of continued work, only the desk being different,

Monday morning's newspapers are brought to him in bed with a cup of tea al 7 a. Two hours Inter he passes under the famous portico into the entrance hall of the Admiralty.

Once the week has begun, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill never leaves Whitehall. A house is provided for every First Lord, at the south- east corner of the Admiralty Bulid-

FAMOUS BRITISH REGIMENTS.

The GRENADIER GUARDS

THE British Army has a record

and traditions, equal to any in the world.

Those traditions have been founded and made permanent by the various regiments of the British Army, and of all those regiments none is better known than the Grenadier Guards.

Later, in 1005, this regiment was amalgamated with the 1st. Foot Guards, which had been waived abrood, in 1650, by Lord Went- worth, from Royalists who harl accompanied Charles into exile,

The use of the word Grenadiers did not, however, come inta use until some years later when, in 1677, the first handl grenades were Introduced. One company об grenadieror bomb Ührowers was attached to each regiment, and every man in the company was specially chosen for his finé stature. sence of discipline and steadiness in action.

These men, wearing tall poluted hals, were always to be found where the fighting was flercest, and they established that tradition whereby the Grenadiers, and the other four regiments of Guarda, - must always be ready to go into nction wherever danger is greatest,

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Title Established YET these original grenadiers were not known Grenndler Guards. The hand grenades which had been introduced in 1077 went out of favour by 1768 and the tall pointed hats had been replaced by tall fur caps the forertinners of the now-famous bearakin. In the same year, the grenade was aivard- ed as a bidge to the regiment, but it was not until after Waterloo that the title of Grenadier Guards was permanently established.

Al that historic battle, in 1818, Napoleon Jaunched his Imperial Guard in a despernic attempt to break the British lines. Much of the attack fell on the Foot Guards who, for from yielding, inflicted heavy losses on their gallant op ponents. It was as a reward for this that the regiment was given the title of Grenndler Guards, and was granted permission to wear the bearskin can in commemoration of the victory.

THE way in which the traditions of those early grenadiers have been maintained in modern times may be gauged from the records of the battle of Ypres, in October, 1914. The Grenadier Guards went into that action with 01 officers and 050 other ranks. They emerged with 4 officers and 130 men.

The regiment, In fact, has been In thick of every war sincò its

park in some of the most famous balties in history. Among the battle honours which appear on the Regimental Colours are Tangler, 1080-Namur, 1805-Blenheim--Corunna - -Khar- toum and, in the Great War, Marne, 1014-Ypres, 1914 and 1917-Loos-and the Somme, 1010 and 1919.

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The regiment also played a not- able part in the capture, in 1704, at Gibraltar, and they die valiant service in defending the fortress when it was later besieged.

Men of the regiment have even fought at sea aboard British naval versels, and they took part in the desperate, yard-arm to yard-arm struggle with the Dutch at Sole- bay.

Regimental March

The Grenadier Guards have, their aptly enough, adopted as regimental march that famous old tune "The British Grenadiers", which begins with the words "Some talk of Alexander and some

Herculesmental uniform consists

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of scarlet tunles and blue trousers with a broad red stripe. The Grenadiers are, of course, world- bearskin famous for their black caps, and they can be distinguished from the other Guards' regimenta by the fact that they wear nino buttons, all equally spaced, on the front of their tunics.

Yet there is something typically British about the fact that this proud regiment should have the nickname of "The Coalhenvers". Not that the Grenadiers object. On the contrary, during many of their famous actions in the Great War they used, as a battle-cry, the slogan "On, the Conlles".

This nickname originates from the days when men of the regünent were regularly hired out to coal merchants, and often to other traders, for the heavy work in- volved, the money earned on such work going to the regimental funds). Visliers to London will frequeni- ly Бео men of the Grenadiers on guard at Buckingham Palace when the King is in residence, or a small company of them marching. with traditional right, through the City of London, on their way to the night guard of the Bank of Eng- .land,

The Grenadier Guards have a menificent history. To-day they are as steadfast and reliable as were their forerunners of newly three centuries ago,

the Board. Ho may nend for the Civil Lord and discuss with him the domestic affairs of the Civil Staff. Or he may confer with the Parlia- mentary and Financial Secretary who is the other political repre- sentative on the Board. Each of those high officials must keep the Firat Lord fully informed of im- portant happenings in their exten- ta sive departments.

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ing, and this is linked to the Ad- miralty by a connecting door so that Mr. Churchill only has to take a tow paces from his bedroom to bis desk.

In the Admiralty building, Mr. Churchill spends almost as much time in the library as in his office, The library contains 100,000 books covering every phase of Britain's naval efforts, past and present-in- valuable source of information that is consulted hourly by the First Lord or the chiefs of his 4,000 staff.

Also the library houses thousands of official documents, giving full de- tails of every great naval engage- ment ever fought.

Where History Was Mado

MUCH of Mr. Churchill's day is

Board spent in the Admiralty Room, the nerve centre of Britnin's naval operations ever since, in that same room, orders were honded to a courier to take to Nelson which resulted in the Trafalgar epic. It was at the long table that runs the whole length of the Board Room that Churchill met his Board six days before the last war broke out and ordered the despatch of coded messages which called the entire British Navy to the "ready"

Mr. Churchill's day at the

Ad- miralty desk usually commences with reading the special reports that his chief officers have sub- mitted. He rapklly makes pencill- ed notes for his own guidance and future action. Later in the day he will refer to them when he pre- sides over the Board of the Act- miralty at their daily session.

From those reports he maltes careful deductions which nable him to move the vari-coloured fogs on the huge wall maps Indicating the hour-to-hour position of every ship in the British Navy.

As early as necessary, the First

communicates with his Сол ders-in-Chief. He never ak- tempts to Interfere with or in- struct them in matters of huval procedure, but he keeps them con- stantly informed of general policy principles and gives them advice or information whenever they request I. Apart from that he trusts the men on the spot to exercise their own sound judgment.

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Keeping in Touch

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CONSULTATIONS with members of the Admiralty are constant. We speak glibly of "the Admiralty" without knowing of whom or what It is that Mr. Church is First Lord, There are ten members of the Board of the Admirally; their official title is "Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral," so designated by Charles I. after his Lord High Admiral, the Mirated- Duke of Buckinutham, had been more iterally exccuted,

Mr Churchill is never out of touch with some or all of the members of

A Thought for To-day

AND the stars of Heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in

Heaven shall be shaken.

And then they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

-St. Mark 19. Verses 25, 20.

It is a daily duty of the First Lord to receive reports relating to the six Divisions of Naval Staff, cach of which has u Sea Lord on the Board. The First Sea Lord is also Chief of the Naval Staff and reports to Mr. Churchill on Impor- tant quarter-deek affairs?

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An Every Day Job

THE Second Sea Lord is in con- stant touch with Mr. Churchill on all matters of naval personnel; white the Third Sea Lord is Con- troller and Mr. Churchill's expert In the business side.

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Not a day is allowed to pass without a consultation with the Fourth Sea Lord, because that officer is responsible to Mr. Chur- chill for all naval supplies transport. Another official with whom Mr. Churchill is in almost unbroken contact is the Fifth Sea Lord, who is chief of the naval air services. The ninth member of the Board is the Deputy Chief of Naval Staff whom Mr. Churchill sum- mons from the famous Room 10 to report on naval intelligence.

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Controls Six Divisions

CHURCHILLIAN wisdom is re- quired when the tenth member of the Board is considered." He is the Permanent Secretary, n position which Samuel Pepys, the diarist, was the first to hold.

The strange thing about that posl- tlon is that it is held by a Civil Servant, and the Secretariat of the Admiralty is staffed entirely by elvilians. It deals with nothinit - but naval malters, yet the officiat title of the Permanent Secretary is "Chief of the Military Division."

It is to these nine men that Mr. Churchill turns, almost hourly, for information and expert advice.

They are the collecting-points of the work of 25 separate Admiralty departments, each of which deals with speelalised matters.

1914

WINSTON CHURCHILL us the ear- toonists saw him in 1914.

told you so

IN the west of Europe there is a glow of light. In Berlin standa Hitler. Far to the East the light casts a shadow of Hitler-a big. gloomy nebulous Hitler. That is Stall.

Hitler raises his fist to strike. The great shadow list strikes, too. Reichstag fire, the Nutzl

The Party and German Army purges, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland..

The murder of Kirov, the killing of the Bolshevik Old Guard and Red Generals, Finland

This shadowgraph Impression is heightened by a book published to- day, "I Was Stalin's Agent." by W. G. Krivitsky (Hamish Hamilton, 10s. Gd.).

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Krivitsky, for many years a member of the Soviet Military In- telligence Department, and finally chief of Military Intelligence in Western Europe, broke with the Soviet two years ago and find tu America, dicre are some of the stories he is to tell and opinions lio expresses:——

The alleged conspiracy of Tuk- hachevsky and the Red Army Generals with the German Gestapo was actually a conspiracy of Slo- lin's against the Red Army Generals, To "frame" them ho used faked evidencė manufactured by the Gestapo and fed to the Russian Ogpu.

To remove the only man butaldo Russla or Germany, who knew of this, Stalin ordered the kidnapping

By General Krivitsky The Man Who Was Stalin's Agent

in Paris of General Eugene Miller, chief of the Federation of Turist Army veterank.

At the time he executed Tuk- hachevsky and his associates, Stalin was conducting secret negotiations" with Hitler through a personal emissary in Berlin. He believed himself on the verge of closing a deal with Hitler. But that was not

come until later.

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In the spring of 1931 Sergel Kirov, head of the Leningrad So- vlet, successfully opposed an nt- tempt by Stalin to reverse Lenin's policy of

exempting Bolshevik from the death penalty. In 1934. Kirov

was masassinated.

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The Kirov case proved as useful to Stalin as the Reichstag fire to Hiller, Both marked the onset of tidal waves of terror.

peoples of Russin,

Krivitsky reminds his readers of what he wrote several months be- Inre the Nazi-Soviet pact of August this year

which gave Hiller the signal to start the war. It bears repeating. The theme is this:-

Stalin favoured co-operation with Germany from the moment of Len- In's death.

The idea of Hitler and Stalin as mortal enemies was. n myth camouflage created by propaganda, The true picture of their relations was' that of persistent sultor who would not be discouraged by re- buffs. Stalin was the suitor.

His whole international policy of the past six years has been a series of manoeuvres designed to place him in a favourable position for a deal with Hitler.

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When he Joined the League of Nations, when he proposed the #yslim

of collective security, sought the hand of Franco, Dirted Why did Stain remove all the

Great Bri- with Poland, courted old leaders and his Army inin, Intervened in Spate, He was Generals? Old differences of calculating every move with uni opinion with the High Command of eye on Berlin. His hope was to the Red Army remained in his get into such a position that Hitler

would. And it "opposition." This

It advantageous to meet memory "opposition," when

Ile advances. Into the meshes of his Ogpu machine, be- came a "conspiracy,"

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On the corpses of his former comrades and follow revolutionists, creators and builders of the Soviet State, Stalin has mounted stop by. step to solitary control over the

In the end ho succeeded. The pact of August 23 was the result, The figure in Berlin stretched oul fts hand and met the hand of the great shadow, chuckling to itself In the East.

W. M. T

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