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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 22, 1941.

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The MAN who is BRITAIN

6

a.m.-7 a.m.; In the black

dawn a car drives up to a small house in a quiet London street, and out steps the Prime Minister. He is wearing a black Homburg hat, a heavy black over- coat, short black coat and striped ·

a heavy trousers, and carries

He is alone. gold-headed cane. He walks sharply up the steps and disappears at once down to the basement, where there is a

assumes

BLACK HOMBURG,

INSTON CHURCHILL

WHAS RECEIVED THE

SUPREME ACCOLADE OF AMERICAN OPINION BY THE AWARD OF THE TITLE OF "MAN OF THE YEAR" BY THE MAGAZINE TIME. HERE IS A PLAIN RECORD OF THE HOURS THAT GO TO MAKE UP CHUR- · CHILL'S DAY:

that

GOLD-HEADED CANE, CIGAR

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by Paul Holt

he would gladly join Sed- by minute. You would some- bergh if the headmaster gave him times see on his desk diary:

"Interview 6.24-6.85." an undertaking that he would not But Churchill is not like that,

p.in.:

But it was

steadfast

"saw Chamberlain for himself.”

have to obey any of the rules. It I do not want to indicate that he is not known what the head said runs out on dates. But if he to this, but it is certain that Master finds it necessary he does not hesitate to cancel them even Bracken acquired great benefit though they be meetings of the from his enterprise. It is merely Cabinet, Last Monday he miss- ed a Cabinet meeting to go to a coincidence that to-day, at the the City to see the damage. It age of thirty-nine, he still closely was as a result of this sudden resembles a public school prefect. Churchill sortie that the Cabinet Churchill dictates as he very much what else is on the This has something to do with scription for fire watchers was decision on the principle of con- He likes to finish off the his curly red hair, his steel spec- made. Ever since Sidney-street comfortable room in which talks. He searches for a menu the dominant piece of furni- word in the air, and when meal with black coffee, liqueur tacles, and an infectious air of he has liked to see for himself.

brandy and a cigar. This will gusto that goes everywhere with ture is a bed. Here the the word will not come he be by no means the first eigar of him.

His tongue is savage sharp. ile said that Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister promptly un- reaches up with his right the day.

hand to pluck it out of no- dresses,

The afternoon is spent seeing striped

Mr Churchill, his would go down to history as a visitors, or in the House of Com-5 appointments done, die- pele Miyon. where. And rarely fails,

good Lord for Birming- pyjamas, and climbs in. He

nions, or correcting speeches and tates again. Out of bed, he he who rose in the House of reads his mail and the inorn-

It is one of the greatest memoranda. To do this last strides the room as he talks Commons to defend Chamberlain ing papers alone and was his buzzes for a secretary to valuable characteristics of He uses a small gold pencil, and the glowing head of a cigar, and last and his most

the Prime Minister that he will hold a single sheet of manu- occasionally taking a sip of ver- friend in the Cabinet. It was in start dictating.

can sleep as and when he script balanced on the palm of mouth and pausing "to allow the Cabinet meetings that he first

his left hand. To make the cor- well to fill up again." It is a great tribute to the pleases. He has been known rections he stabs the pencil into

The Churchill memory is dis- efficiency and sangfroid of to doze in the car between the paper, which results in great the Civil Service system that Downing-street and the mutilation. His secretaries have ciplined and functions as well as

given up all attempts to take a Rolls Merlin engine.

9.30 p.m.-10.30 p.m.: A meeting of a Cabinet his secretariat are already House of Commons.

papers out of his hand and place Once he has marshalted a sub. Committee. The Ministers re- accustomed to this daily

After the Prime Minister them on the table while he cor- ject in his mind it is rarely inter- called to work generally stay on phenomenon.

has dictated speeches, lot- rects them.

fered with. In this respect he to talk, sometimes until 1.30, 2, The reason for this pecu- ters, and notes he breakfasts He has six secretaries. Mr has one kink. He loathes re- or even 3 a.m.

Eric Seal is his principal private peating himself. He thinks it And so to bed, his black Hom- liar Churchillian habit of un- in bed and rises at-

secretary, and Mr Seal has the is unlucky. His memory, will burg on his head (he buys his dressing and going to bed at

support of Miss E. M. Watson, warn him that he used a phrase hats at Harman's in St James's- the hour when most people a.m., to be ready for Mr Anthony Bevir, J. M. Martin, telling phrase--years ago, street, and he has almost com- are doing exactly the oppo- 10 the daily Cabinet Meet- H. Peony anavir, J. M. Marti

and he will not use it again. pletely abandoned the famous site is that security forbids ing at 10.30-11 a.m., which

old eccentric styles for the black Miss Watson is a great woman.

p.m.: The Prime Minister Homburg. He wears it when he him to sleep at 10, Downing- generally carries on until noon.

The Cabinet nowadays rarely She was private secretary to street these days. He has meets at Downing-street. It is Lloyd George and also to Bonar

She has written a part of bed again for half an hour. He rebelled against this decision one of the most remarkable Law,

He takes his stick with a gold without avail and recognises changes in British political his. the history of England in short-rises refreshed and eager for the knob and band on which are dinner table, for this is the high embossed the arms of the that it must be so. He tory that in these last, few hand.

spot of his day. Mrs Churchill Spencer-Churchills (it was given Winston Churchill's confidant presides as hostess, and there to him by Edward the Peace- sleeps in a safer house and, Room has consed to be the focal works at a less conspicuous point of drive and decision for his parliamentary private, are anything up to a dozen fan- inaker), and he lights his fest

sceretury, the Right Hon. Bren- ous people to be his guests. It He goes to bed again the Empire war effort. In these dan Bracken. This is a remark is in the clash of conversation cigar as grudgingly he leaves for because he likes to dictate in busy days the Cabinet is always able young man. He was born over the dinner table that Bri- his secret resting-place." bed. Most of the great bio- on the move and meets where it in Ireland, went to Australia, tain's policy is beaten out and

arrived back in this country at moulded, graphy of his ancestor,

the age of eighteen, and went at Marlborough, was dictated

Churchill kes to have his Lunch a simple once to the headmaster of Sed- between the hours of mid- 1 m The Prime Mini- bergh with the unusual proposi- sailors and his soldiers around

It was Churchill who insist- night and 3 a.m., and in be- ster has a favourite dish-cold tion that he would like to become him. tween catnaps.

ed that the King should not sleep roast beef, and does not care an English public schoolboy and

So here you have a man upon at Buckingham Palace. It was whom the future of civilisation the King who urged Churchill to depends. He hates bores and he leave Downing-street. Each hates ceremonies, He hates be considers the other to be Bri- ing tied down and he likes sec- tuin-No-1-military-objective- ing for himself. His dominant.

one.

months the famous Cabinet

finds itself.

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6 likes to go down Minister goes to see the King i

characteristic is loyalty. That.

is the greatest virtue in his mind. His political career has been en- livened and enlightened by episodes of steadfastness to- wards old friends.

He will not accept a routined day. Mr. Neville Chamberlain was entirely "run" by his secre- tariat. They put a time-table

The Man who is Britain works an average of fifteen hours a day, but will stretch this to twenty if interested.

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on his desk in the morning, and And so, to bed-

he kept. to it faithfully, minute

G.B.S. On De Valera's Neutrality Dilemma

MR DE VALERA'S dilemma if Eire's neutrality is violated is stressed by Mr Bernard Shuw in an article in "Forward." Mr de Valera recently described as “irresponsible and mischievous” an article in which Mr Shaw suggested Britain should take over Irish ports to meet the U-boat menace.

"If he hits a British soldier Elre

Mr Shaw now says:- "My own locus standi is only will in effect be in the war on the that of an absentee Irish land- Fide of the Axis; if I hits a German Eire will be in the war on the side lord who has lived twenty years of Britain and America,

in Ireland and sixty-five in Eng- land.

Odd Position

- "It I were in Mr de Valera's dilemma, I think I should take care not to fire a shot,

"But as the Irish climate Has

"I should interpret the Trinity. worked on my stock for some cell- as saying to the German and Italian turies, I can claim to be at least as letalors and to Mr Churchill: indigenous as a half-Spaniard Ilke Sirs, ye are brothers, wherefore do Mir de Valera or a half-American like ye wrong one to another?" Mr Winston Churchill, though I re-

gard their cross-breeding as all to the good..

"Formal Protest"

If U. S. Anka

"Mr de Valera is placed in the "I should do whet the Govern- done by odd position of having presently to ment of Denmark has

their deelde, if Fire's neutrality la vio- letilt the belligerents do Inted, whether the Trinity is for or worst without any help or hindrance from her people, and should carry on against Herr Hitler.

as best might be under the circum- stances, making what format pro- "If he decides that it la pro-lit- test is proper against the breach of ter he declares war on the Com- neutrality. monwealth, on the Pope, on Northern Ireland, and must prepare Jor "Suppose the United States, which Amerles, too,.

are quite as much New Ireland as "Whichever side he chooses, his New England, were to usk for the neutrality will be naled by the Irish ports for the duration, what Brat alot he fires.

then?"

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