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"Don't suppose we'll soo mony men at Lord's while those_little_lace_pantiòs_are_at Wimbledon."

Britain's

Wartime

London Express Service

Leader

Lifts

:

Corner

CHURCHILL FEW SECRETS

RITAIN'S finest hour was 1940; it was also, of course, Mr Churchill's.

He revealed himself then at his greatest in his double capacity as a war leader and master of the English language,

wos

The Dutch resistance crushed; the Belgian King sur-

rendered; France was ruined in

six, weeks' campaign;. Italy and Russle, non-belligerent allics of Germany hitherto, fained greedily in the scramblo for the spoils; and the port of Dunkirk was saved only long enough to enable the miraculous

of the British Expedi escape tionary Force by the error not Cas has been maintained) Hitler, but of Rundstedt, and

lost stand by the heroic

at Chiais.

of

By

H. R.

TREVOR-ROPER

Author of the best- selling book on Ger- many's fall, 'The Last Days of Hitler."

Claud Mullins, Former London Magistrate, Writes About:

THE TRAGEDY OF BROKEN HOMES

—AND THE CHILDREN WHO PAY THE PRICE

W

of those

THY do I write so could have applied corporal

much about divorce, punishment to some separation, and of whose cases I had been decid- Ing. The thought was, of course, breaking and broken homes foolish, but that was the way in generally? Why during my which I sometimes reacted to fifteen years na a Metro- the tales of husbands and wives politan magistrate did I to which I had had to listen, work hard to improve the It was not for the beneft of conditions under which quarrelling married couples matrimonial disputes are that I have tolled, but for their chlidren. A few months-ex- heard in court?

perience as a magistrate were The reason is not that I iko enough to make me understand quarrelling husbanda and in a new meaning the old worde Iniquity of the wives. On the contrary, I dis- "ylslting to

Many fathera upon the children unto like them very much. times after holding a Matri- the third or fourth generation." monial Court I wished that I

Of

The

TELLS

believed, as we now

know

Veil of their

A

How refreshing for a general rightly, that they had not bulle thousands of miles away to re- or conceived special craft,"

ceive such instructions from his AGAIN, IN the impens- Government! trable world of scientifle.

what ree research, he knew sources we had, and what hopes could be placed upon them.

Wavell struck, and this book ends with his first great desert victory, capturing "five acres of These resources are here, fully ofeers and 200 acres of other explained.

ranks" for a loss of 133 killed, They were resources which, 387 wounded and eight missing. sided by good strategy, Food diplomacy, and good psychology. 'would enable us to survive tho

ordeal.

Magistrates see in the course work many young offendors who seem to lack any Ilko They seem foundations. driftwood; they are uttho mercy of any strong influences that they happen to meet and only too often such influences are bad.

They inck ideals. They have no ambitions, save to have as good a time as possible with the of effort. Their minimum pleasures are confined to gambe ling automatic machines and often the company of young who cannot women or possibly do them good.

men

They have never been traineð by their parents to do any work that requires skill, and when asked what sort of job they can to, they usually reply, "Any- thing which

really means

and

. FINALLY. THESE tele-"Nothing." Frama Illustrate another characteristic of this extraordin- Many people blame the com-

munity, the Government In this book we can follow the ory book.

the local authorities for the strategy-Mir Churchill's grasp

existence of such youths and of both the sum and the detail of kidnapping

A time of apparently im- of the French Now he has written his

strategy is really astonishing: minent disaster is often a time young women. Minister Mandel, who escaped own account of that memor-

and we can follow the diplomacy of bitter recrimination. It was so

But the from France to continue the most interesting is the person in the lost war; it was so in able

[Winston S. year.

It was on unarmed and iso fight, only to be dragged back, at diplomacy between the Prime France and Germany in this. Churchill: The Second Inted Britain which awalted the surrendered to the Germans, Minister and President Roose- World War, Vol. II., Their full force of the next German and afterwards murdered), tra- yeit, who exchanged in all near-

gic and many attack; the Germans and their Finest Hour (Cassell, 258.) alles were confident of success told for the first time.

now ly 2,000 messages.

of them

These will enable those who read the book to recover the

they war,

repeatedly -the Again he has a double oppor- deciered,"

already, wont wps tunity: he can expose the secret

accepted events and narrow chances of his conclusion, for the military

neutrals everywhere that crucial year; and

ance an Or again he can display that mas collapse of France, "the fright- spirit of 1040.

ful squawk" of Parisiana under the first light touch of bombing and the shameful civilities

tery of language which, pp lets

than the resistance reflected and inspired, drew Petain to Biler had dissolved upen Britain in 1040 wonder of the world.

the their faith in the West; the King of Sweden and the Pope offered to mediate our surren-

Lond-lease comes

Thanks to this, the misleading reports of American ambassa dors were happily ignored, the Why we survived

complex negotiations over destroyers and bases wore con- Nevertheless, this is not its cluded, and cash-and-carry was chief value.

converted into lend-lease.

tha

. MR. CHURCHILL'S Art der Our only friend was

We all know that we had a

We can also follow volume ended in May 1940, America-the America of "cash when the Chamberlain Govern- and carry" and the American narrow ccapo in 1040; what we psychology: a psychology not of ment, with all the burder of its ambassadors in London and do not know is exactly why we defence only, in spite of our past history, had crumbled Paris confidently assured the survived: for courage and con- predicament, but attack, wher

that we were idence are not enough by ever we could afford it, and under the impact of defeat in President

themselves they need to be sometimes even, for psychologi Norway, and Mr Churchill had deservedly defeated. Passumed power as the Ger«-

supplemented by expert know cal reasons, where we could not armies poured suddenly Mr Churchill, they said, was ledge, skilful

organisation, to imitato Marshal patient diplomacy. irresistibly through Hol- preparing

IN THE darkest days Mr land and Belgium.

Petain.

Churchill was always plan- Mr Churchill now reveals the ning attack. basks of that knowledre. Le

STERK and

He was inspired

. WE ALL know what

deavour

existence

to

State... could

prevent

41-

the

of young people of

this kind only by a control over Here it was not. Instead, it family life that would amount

tyranny. a period of remarkable to solidarity.

Wnx

would powers

control

Such

Involve compulsory

Over all- parents and

to

would have children that In part this was due to Mr | Ch

peculiar Churchill's which enabled him to keep hell as to the minority who are temper, be applied to the majority who

sound Are

and law-abiding as Service staff unchanged, except by death, throughout the war.

Irresponsible.

Such control would not be tolerated for a moment, and it may reasonably Ile refused to yield to the so doubted whether it would be clamour against the

"gulity successful men."

Never severe"

one can

Our schools and our sociat services are not perfect, but they cannot be held responsible for these young lngs.

"NO His phrase,

These young failures are what guarantee success in war, only they ars because of the fullure deserve-1 describes. his policy of their parents. For a long throughout, and the same quality time it has been the claim of of mind now characterises his the Jesuits that if a child could book.

be under their influence for its first seven years, they would for life.

reinforces

followed. If anyone wishes detalls of that organisation, the ton of commandos, and the magnanimous style has muted psychology

to recover the excitement

of

1940, to appreciate the narrow The predicament which would ness of the chance and the ex- have bowildered many inspired hilaration of the battle and the him: "In my long political ex- blitz, they can do so by reading perience I had held most of the this book. great offees of State, but 1- readily admit," he candidly tells

us, "that the post which

had

now fallen to me was the one

I liked the best."

Dakar failure

method of that diplomacy.

He would even have sent them Molotov

Modern

this

tendencies, but the

If by seven the child is

If there were divisions, his have it He was advocating the forma-

Claim. buliding of amphibious tanks, them.

Min organising training

the FUNDAMENTALLY; THE highest forms of offensive war- • ERRORS ARE not pal- British people believed Mr fare and counter-attack." reject- liated, but judgments are By the timo that a child Churchill when, in return for ing advice to abandon the never severe, only sometimes reaches the age of seven, the sacrifice, he promised victory. Eastern Medilerranean, and ironical: and the phrases that main Unes of its character are because they believed that he (boldest decision of all), in spite describe the errors of Admiral set for life. Later influences understood these matters; and of the invasion menace, sending Darlon, the 'weakness of Count may modify the Expression of he could make these promises half our best available tanks to Ciano, the angularity of General

these because, understanding Hem, he Egypt.

de Gaulle, the Inhumanity of Mr

tendencies will remain They will learn many now had not a blind but a rational

are immortalised, not details to heighten their appre- confidence. Completely confident that clation of the danger, their re- with supreme power he could lish ct the victory: fallures were the result only of from France under the nose of he had diagnosed its cause: the Imitations of his previous astonished French officials; how defeation, and a vast military power, he offered to Britain • his failure

Dakar error. to occupy nothing but was due to the fallure of an "blood, toll, tears, and sweat.” officer in the Admiralty to re- He knew that Britain was not cognise the vital importance of defeatist, and saw to it that the "In all our long history," he a single message; how the air- error was not repeated.

rested at ono defence of Multa

three has ever been able to present imo

old Gladiators, "Hope," and "Charity": how General Franco's refusal- "Faith,"

how

through the belenguered Medi- by bitterness, but by their in-acqu not fall, and that his previous General do Gaulle escaped A witness of the fall of France, terranean but for the strong dulgent magnanimity,

programme

observes,

of

"no Prime Minister

to Parliament and the nation programme at once so short and so popular."

a refusal due not to principle

German 'invasion'

1

1

views of the Admiralty,

. EVERY

MINUTE, every signal, at this time bears witness to this spirit of attack.

His reward

50

or a lone wolf," or it will always be Inclined, though developing powers of self-control may

bring about efforts to be less so.

Thus it seems clear that Stats Institutions, whether

schools Children's Courts, are handi- capped In their efforts to straighten out the characters of young people when they have been warped by conditions at He home.

It

Mr Churchill's style was once romantic, even flamboyant, "Trust you will grasp situa- has now lost that quality. tion Armly, abandoning 'mega- tive and passive policies seizing opportunity

and

that

D Instead it has achieved haa serene historical character. come into our hands,” he wired writes like some majestic spirit, to Mfr Eden in Cairo: "Safety above the conflict. First is the road to ruin in war...."

The criminal law scarcely touches the problem, since no. crime can be committed by any- How low participants in a one under the age of eight. great struggle can ever achieve Children below that age can- such detachment as this! It is the only be dealt with under the reward of complete justification,

"Care on

and Protection" :powETA: of Children's Courts. These 1940 was the crown and powers Include placing children and strike the Italians by land, career: his reward is to have ballon Officer, transferring them sen, and air... we shall

• IT WAS on herole act of . THE YEAR of the Battle

"But it was we who had the by you in any well-conceived written that rare thing, almost to the care of the Education Bellef, for the ovidenco of Britain contained many naval superiority; it was

to approved! sending them we action Irrespective of result, be unknown among best-sellers, a Authority or some relative and

great book. against it seemed at times over such incidents, samo exhilarat- who had conquered the mastery cause no one can guarantee suc-

schools. whelming.

ing, "some (like the shameful · In the air; sana : finally We cess in war, only deserve it,”

==={London_Express Bervice) (Continued on Page 5)

but pasillanimity-saved Gi- Aware of the complex prob- brallar; and how, at the crucial lems of "crossing the Channel It was popular, of course, not moment of the Battle of Bri- With its tides and currents, and for itself, but because of the

the Primo

Minister,

ster all the mysteries of the sea," ho Group Headquar Invasion could end of it the Prime Minister watching at

was confident that the German Cabled: "Take risks' promised victory, and promised ters, suddenly learned that our it with such confidence, and fast reserves had gone into the without local naval superiority

"Now is the time," he cabled and air superiority, and im». after so convincing a career as batte, leaving nothing further mense special. Seats and landing to General Wavell, "to take risks Justification of Mr. Churchill's under the transferring a prophet, that he was believed, on which to draw.

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