European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                K reviewed by Arthur notes the grand by Winston Houghton 903 this third volume of Winston Church ills history of the recent War records the rude Awakening the american the perfidious attack on the soviet and the Union of these once sleeping Powers with Des Perate Britain in the grand Alliance which was to crush the Axis As can no other living Britain wartime Leader has Lowed sweeping magnitude of global Battle lines and the mercuric undercurrents of Power politics in personal and stately prose that reflects both his contemporary knowl Edge and his historical perspex grand Alliance tells of Church ills reaction to the panese atack on Pearl no american will think it wrong of he if i proclaim that to have the United states on our Side was to me the greatest i could not foretell the course of 1 do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of i knew the United states was in the so we had won after All he records that for Many months he had Felt that the late president Roosevelt had been anxious to get America into the War but was unsure How it could be for this policy he has High general Admiral As a jink be tween them Harry had but one Churchill future generations of americans and free men in every land will thank god for their much of the Early pages of the Book deals with the initial fail ures in the african Campaign and the heroic British defense against seemingly insurmountable Churchill repeats his wartime tribute to the German african Gen Erwin rom Mel May i say across the havoc of a great his tribute to the German general is better understood against the picture he paints of the failure of British in the Early phases of the desert from these Early Churchill drafted a note to the minister of defense stating that renown awaits the commander who first in this War restores artillery to its prime importance upon the from which it has been ousted by heavily armoured Church ills admiration Field marshal whose 8th army finally turned the desert tide in in due to Montgomery re Vival of the ancient Arm of artillery Montgomery was not one of those to whom the paper was Churchill but when he showed a copy to him the general replied it is As True now As when it was the grand Alliance reviews the first meeting Between presi Dent Roosevelt and Churchill and the Story behind the Atlantic charter which resulted from the considering All the tales of my old world out and the pain this is said to have caused the i am glad it should be on record that the substance and spirit of what came to be called the at lactic charter was in its first draft a British production cast in my own Churchill he tells one amusing incident Winston Churchill which grew from the fact that Oliver minister of state in had Given him a copy of foresters Cap Tain to read while travelling on the Battle ship Prince of Wales to his Ini tial meeting with president Churchill found the Book vastly entertaining and sent a message to Lyttelton in Middle East he saying i find Hornblower he reports that the message caused perturbation in Middle East he where it was imagined that Hornblower was a code name for some special operation of which they had not Beeri Early in the Churchill tells of Rudolf Hess Landing in and attributes the trip to Hess belief that England and Germany could come to then Churchill makes the first of two pointed statements which would seem to reflect his Dis approval of the procedures and objectives of the International War crimes reflecting upon the whole of this he writes of the Hess i am glad not to be responsible for the Way in which Hess has been what Ever May be the moral guilt a German who stood near to Hess in my atoned for this by his completely devoted and frantic deed of Lunatic he came to us of his own free though without had something of the Quality of an he was a medical and not a criminal Many chapters Chur chill again comments on the War crimes this time in a Man Ner which demonstrates his refusal to believe they were trials of discussing the War time japanese prime he general who after the War was hanged by his conquerors according to modern practice looking Back on his 1941 message to Roosevelt give us the tools and we will finish the Churchill terms it an interim far More was but we did our Best americas great Industrial contribution to the War Effort rates High but lord Beaverbrook is Given much credit for raising the sights of the production Donald Nelson and it Gen William of the German double Cross when Hitler turned his armies against his Chur chill tells first of British warn Ings to Stalin that such an at tack could be the rus sians paid Little attention to the British Churchill is mainly a Catalon of but it May be doubted whether any mistake in history has equated that of which Stalin and the communist chiefs were we have hitherto rated them As selfish in this period they were proved simpletons As Church ills dislike of common did not cause him a moments worry about joining with Russia after the nazi at if Hitler invaded hell i would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of he said at the the grand Alliance ends with Church ills second meeting with Roosevelt at the end of there the plans for the african Campaign were and the lasting Friendship be tween the two leaders was further still to come from this great Man Are at least two More books telling of the huge efforts which brought the War to its successful efforts in which Churchill played a major role and of which he writes i had the for mentioning which i May be of being however in some appointed the grand Alliance the desert the incredible flight of Hess to eng the greek the invasion of Theattle of she Pearl that Christ Mas a the White he forging of the grand All these Are described by Churchill from his unique Point of Vantage As head of Britain War Effort in the third volume of of 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