,I No . 1 Air Ministry Ho . 6399 /_IR HINISTRY __JW HINISTRY OF H(Ji-il~. SEClffiITY QOI.'D,1TIW1UE There is nothing to report - 22/2/42 -- _No. 3 Air •Ministry No. 6370 · MINISTE.Y COMMUNIQDll ? Airc;ro.ft of Bombe~ Command last night attacked objectives in the Rhineland arid elsewhere in Wes tern Germany, Mines were la.id in eneimr waters, Three of our a.ircraft a.re missing, \ C O I:i L U N r·G U E The followinr; 001.Jnuni quc was issued t oc.ay by the Heac1qutttters of the Nethorlanc1s East InL:.i0s fi c;htin:=,; f orces ~- . Yester.rlay Liorninc; fifteen Ja:;_Janese bonbers arn'I. a nunber t )f fi 3hters attacked an aeroc:roue in .,_ ,.·est Java. ·,·i-hile over this · aerodrone at least three and .probably , f our Ja;ianese b onb ers were shot d own. Ei~:hteen Ja:_Janese fi[;hters set out f or Bandoeng , but were intercepted by our fi r~hters which shot down f our planes and dacar;ed another s o seriously that it cnn be considered ll) st . \t' e l o st two of our airer aft. One of tho pilots who ranned a Japanese plane reached safety without injury. The second pilot was wounded, Soue dana{~e was d ;Jne to the above Lientioned aerodroL;_ e . In the vicinity of Ma.lane; one Jap anese boDber was shot down. ~lsewhere Japanese activity was restricted to incidental aachine-rsunnin.c; of sor.1e aerodromes as a result of which sot1e persons ,.vore killed and s orJ.e wounC:.ed. / Nar FOR PUBLICATION OR USE ON CLUB TAPES BEFORE 0030 B.S.T. ON MONDAY ll:EBRUARY 23, 1 942. NOT TO BE CABLED . ABRObD OR BROADCAST BEFORE 0030 B. S. T ON TIL\T DATE. The King has been pleased to nominate the Right Honourable and Most Reverend William Temple, D, D., D. Litt., Lord Archbishop of York, Priri-a te of England and Metropolitan for election by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury in the place of the Right Honourable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, G. C, .V. O. , D. D. , Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of .A.11 England and Metropolitan. The King has also been pleased to nominate the Right Reverend Cyril Forster Garbett, D.D., Lord Bishop pf Winchester, for eleetion by the Dean a nd Chapter of York, in the place of the Right _H onourable ._and Most Reverend William Temple, D.D., D,Litt., Lord Archbishop of: York, Primate of England and Metropolitan• . 1 O, DOWNING STREET, s. w. 1 I 22/2/42 ~ No, 10 FREE FRENCH CCRVETTE SUNK The Adntl.ral Commatlder-!n-Chicf of thu Free French Naval Forces regrets to annbunde the loss of tho Corv0t t 0 ALICE sunk by torpedo while on convoy duty in the Atlantic~ The Co:rmnanding Officer of the Corvette, Lieut. de Vaisseau Pepin le Halleur -vvas wounded., 34 members of the crew are missing. The next of kin have been infonned. I • FREE FRENCH HJ~QUARrEIB MIDDLE EAST CO:MllifJNIQUE Cairo Feb;_ruo.ry 22, 1942 Yesterday our fighting patrols again engaged some pQrties of the enemy east bf the TMTIVII-MEKILI track, but the enemy withdrevv after on exchange or: artillery fire. No chango vm.s report8d Qbout MEKILI, whioh the enemy appears to hold in considerable strength. To the south west a patrol of the Royals penetrated as far as 1.1:SUS, vvhere they destroyed enemy vehicles and captured prisoners . Improved weather conditions enabled our Air Forces to provide fighter protection throughout the day for land operations in the fonwrd. areal WAR OFFICE 22.2.42 - No .. 12 PLEASE ClliDK 1}ITH. BROADCAST Air Ministry Bulletin No. 6371 Pilot Officer Arthur Richard Le-vvis, an Australian fighter pilot, : 'Will broad.cast after the 6 o'clock ne-ws tonight, the follovdng account of the fi ght he and Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane had with two F1.Y.19Os, during which "Paddy" was wounded. ''I was flying as Squadron Loader Finucane' s No. 2 and the weather over the Channel was quite clear -rvith ten-tenths clouc~L 2,000 feet. "The Squadron leader firs _t beat · up a Gernian ship with cannon fire, and then we saw two FW. 1 9Os, Though their whee ls were up they had apparently only ju.st taken off, so we· .turned and gained height and met them in a head-on attack ·.just south of Dunkirk. "They had climbed to about 1,000 feet by that time, and though over the radi,0- telephone the Squadron Leader kept telling me how he vvas going ·to fight and which way he vvas going to tur:p., there vvas a general sort of mix-up. · "The Jer:rys were trying to get in bursts of fire at us and we were doing the same as them. Both appearE\i to concentrate on the Squadron leader and. he undoubtedly hit one of them. He aftervvards told me that he saw pieces flying from the FvV. at which he was firing, "In the second head-on attack the Jquadron Leader was hit, His aircraft was struck in the spinner in the starboard wing and in the side of his cockpit. Pieces of fuselage went into his side~ I heard him call over the radio-telephone - 'open cut and make for home; tho so and so's have hit mo 1 • He went right down a)most to the deck and I followed him -as hard as · T could. I was slightly behind and about 500 feet above him weaving like blazes. "I did not know how bad]y he had boon hit and the natural thing to do seemec1. to be to protect his tail if I could. Tho Huns came after us and by s wingi.ng tho nose of my aircraft I watched them come into range time after ti!ne. "Yvhenevor I thought matters were getting a bit dan gerous I turned round and had a go at them. Paddy - he will forgive mo if I call him that - cam0 back to help me on several Oli·Qasions when things were becoming a little too lively. "Ho may have been wounde ·,_ but he was still full of fight, that is why I am not claiming the Hun which I saw go into tho sea. It is impossible to say whether the two or three short bursts I had did the dama ge or whether Paddy him.self shot down the ·19O. Ho certainly hit one of them and it could easi]y have been the one -\hat gra.shed-~ "By tho time the second FW left us we wore getting pretty near the English ooaat. To.ddy · told me CYVer the R/T that ho ·was not feeling too well but he made a wizard landing and taxied up to his dispersal point almoat as ~f nothing had happ·ened. "He put up •a grand show and though ho was in plenty of pain when I saw him in hospital a few hours later he was still the same Paddy" He was as cheerful as ever and for a minute or two VvG talked about the show we had been in during the afternoon. "All of us in the squad:ron are more than happy that ·he will soon be back with us, · and if I did help him to get home it is no more than any other pilot would have done. " ....... __________ _ .,.\.ir Hinistry No. 637~ - - - . - · - .,.._.._ , , .. ✓- IUDDL.l~ - . . . .-• ._ ... . EAST ~ COi.C{U1'UQUE ··---- • . ,. • - . . - --- ... ·-·~ - . Fighter · a irc:t·ci't of the Royo.l l:.ir Force resuned their offensive operations in the forvo.rcl area of Cyrern1ica yestercay (13'ebruary 21 ) . . L. forr.12.ti on of iJ c. 109s \!as :i.ntercel)"Lod over G:.u.L:.a bay, nnd one of the eneny a ircraft ,,-m.s shot do-rm. In the SDJ.1e r egion n.nother Ifo .109 Vias shot dO\m by 2,.:nti- Dircraft Gl,U1firc . En0rw a irc:-.'cd't continu~a. their rai ds on Halte. during Friday night (Februm.7 20/21 ) [1.nd ag2.in yesterday. Sone danase ru1d casualties have been reported . ..:-t l east one of the ener,1y bocibers '.":as intercepted n.na · severely d21~aged by our fiGhters. Three o~ our aircra ft ~r e n i ssing , but all the pilots are safe; PLEi~SE CHECK TITTH BROi-J)CJ.~ST Postscript by Mr,. A.If. Van Riemsdijk in 9~ 20 p,m., Home Service, :Sunday, February 22-,_ 1942 _............_ I am a Dutchman. You have heard. a lot about the war in the Far. East as it has reached. the Dutch Eo.st Indie&. Whn.t r.mst have struck you particularly is the destruction Yrhich hf1S been going on there, Norr the Dutch arc ve;ry•., vei-y property-conscious. The ,vhole of our colonial policy has been to r.1ake this Dutch East Indies rich., not only for ourselves but just n$ much for the . Indonesians:., as we call the peoples of our Indies• And when these oil po:ver stations·, storage tan.ks ana. docks were completely destroyed, Dutch ana Indonesians alike looked on and sarr 'tiheir -vrhole livelihood complet:ely gone. It dbe s not re quire much irnagina tion to picture the scenes. Palembang can · be compared to the Dnei'!_Jcr Dam which the Russians d.estroyed, The people in the Dutch East Indies are attached to the Hot her Country ,+ith a great many tics,. They arc so ri1uch part of our national existence tho.t any- thing that lnppens there inuediate1y affects Holland. Dutchr:1cn all over the world. realised ~Vhat hacl to be done, but they have shuddcrea. at it, A few weeks have seen the destruction of centuries of endeavour. Let us l ook back, you nna. ·we, the people of Great Brite.in and the Nether- lands, to the early clD.ys of colonising in East o.nd tfest many hundreds of years ago. We begun in fr.ct in the sixteenth century, as merchant adven,turers. There were competitors; yes, the competition was fierce bnd often ugly, among you and us o.nd .the others. A colony wa s a territory \lhich had to yield profits for private cor,rpanies.., the Eo.st., the rles.t Indian Crn~panies·. Colonising ,vo.s profitable, crude and cruel, It ::cemained so for longer than we like to remember. But tine narched on. The shouting nnd the fi ghting died doYrtH nnd we staked our clail-ns-, It took ·a long time before we stnrtea., to carry the ·white man's· burden in the sense that we think cf that phrase novr. Vlhen it was first coined it must have been done ironicolly. The carrying might have be en heavy, but the reward ·wo.s still very considerable-. The irony has worn off now. The British and the Dutch went on carrying _the burden, each according to his lights-, -his strength, his methods. But it's no longer the lucrative job ·it once was. Therel,s no easy money .in it ·nov;-. D,asy money hasn't been in it for very many years·, Ana. ·we've come to, think thnt that's hov1 it should be. Lately, you and we have finished ·rmrking., and acting independently in the Far East. -~-You and. we have established there ., together 'With the United States of America and China1 the A.B--. C.D. front. Now we are carrying each other's burdens •,,.. and. each other's sorrows • • You know., y;e Dutch have a proverb which says: SorrCJVir shared is sorrovr haJ. ve·d. Whether that is mathematically .cori~ect or not just no.-✓ seems to matter little. What matters is that we must stand together as never a front of nations has stood together. You and. we see our vrork of centuries assailed by upstarts, Povrer politi:cs arc the only thing the modern Ja:-panese understand. They ·express themselves, no·c by reason or right-, but by their ruthless:, barbarous use of an u-p-to-date vvar machine only. If they aucceeded in their ambitions, they would- undo all that we have achieved, The spoils would be tremena.ous and there, ready for the taking. That ts what has moved them. That's ·wh o.t has spurred them on in an adventure that looks like the spectn.clc of n. whole no.t:ion run nmuqk. / Where they 2 Where they have r~ached _the fringes/-.where they have run . their boats ashore, where t};ley have swarmed, through the jungle and waded .through the rice fields, there they are rending. asunder -rrhat you ana_ 1ve have created, _ there they are destroying our plans, ,t~ere they are shattering :our c"treruns , there they are .f alsifying the picture of. the white man, and presenting him . as a white- 9 kinned devil . · T·wo things vve ask ourselyes, you and I , over and over again. How far. ~hall_ they go? How long _shall they stay? 1 ~ . We· Dutch feel that never in the history of man were questions mo:re urgent - and we feel that the ansvrers must be : they shall not go . far ; and their stay sh 0 ll be short . We speak noYv of the peoples of the Dutch East Indies as our own brovm brothers. No one. will deny that once that may have been a term of •:convenience, nothing more . But there is real meaning in it now. · . We wish -chem to be our brothers in fact ·; united in a nation that 1:vill march rwi th us. Of course, it's an aim that may be far distant , over many horiz.o ns :. or y~t. it may b.e reached sooner than we think, at. - ~ rat e - in the Dutch East Indies . bur course ~~s set that way. We think a great deal of an Englishman, Sir Stamford Rafflep , who ' governed the Inc:!-,ies when they were taken over by you a:t the time -of the Napo:~·epnic ·wars . Raffles , as much as anyone, saw the beginning of this modern colonial policy, based on moral . principles~ · · I think it may be said - and it has been vridely aamitted in the wo:rld - tnat vve Dutch have travelled far and that Yve have travelled ·well since then. We have tried to offer to our peoples ·whose religion, hist ory, soil and -- climate are totally different frorn our · ovm. the best chances. in life. The Dutch East Indies - and Java in particular - are fabulously fertile . - fut fertility is not enough to nfake of a larid :.one of the_ richest sources of tropical produce. Our first settlers found spices, . soyabbans , cocoa.nuts , -and little else. The origin of all the other riches of our Indies, untilr:ecently suppTi'ed so abi.mdantly to the world - tea, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, rubber and sugar - that origin may have been forgotten . It is so long ago since tender plants gathered from far and vride, arrived in Java and Sumatra . Our forbears did the gathering, and so laid the foundation of the riches ·which have benefited all the peoples of the ®arth from Archangel to Cape Town, from Melb_o urne t o Buenos Aires. And the petroleum and the tin might not have been found , or not have been Tron from the earth in such abundance, without the enterprise ., the technical skill, , the energy of the whfte man . I Those who call themselves the have-not ·n ations - but who couilid alvrays have bought from our tropical landB all they wanted there, at the same price we ourselves had to pay - those so-called have-nots , have instead spent milliards and milliards on their tools of d e struction. It's true that the Dutch p·ossess some of th e richest territories in the world. It's true, we were among the early birds. But it shouldn ' t be forgotten that vre made these lands rich; and it is not true to say that vre alone possess them. The teeming millions of the DJ.tch East Indies share in the possession. As the riches Y.fe created in Java developed, s_o the Javanese grew in such numbers that ·we had to make living spn.ce for them elsewhere , for :fear that t he time might come Yrhen they would be pushing each other into the sen.s to obtain elbow room. /We decided ,. J -3- . - 1.ve decided to move many J avanese families to the islands of our outer . · ___,, possessions. It was an ambi tiOn, and probably a unique experiment in colonial administration. Its results have· ·been good. But mu.ch moro thon that had to bo done for a people in tho process of development. They are bein.:; ed~_cated, and· we are very proud of our successful fight o.gainst tropicD.l diseases. . \'7hat ,,.;e are also very proud of is that wo have pror11 otcd and helped. to k~ep . ali vc their ancient arts D.nd culture. · Tho Indonesians have shared directly in our prosperity and so raised th\.J ir stand.'.).I'cl of living. Many of thorn f arn1 their ovvn land, and many aro independent traders., -growers of rubber, .for instm1co. You sec, we d.ccic1cd, we hac1 folt the rnoro.l urge to 1.1ako a n a tion, or to uo.ko nntions of the Indoncsinns, that they should {20 forward vvi th us, o.ncl inseparably fr0n us, to th0 bettor futuru. The Dutch havo novor been so raco conscious that it became a disease of tho r:.1ind. Dutch ancl Inda-Europeans and IndoncsiD.ns o.likc..: vv ero to rank equally in the kingdom of tho Nothcrlnncls. That wns our· purpose, ~hat was' o.ur policy. The reality of it, tho oo.rnostnoss of it, is felt by seventy nillion people. · i}h0n Holland was overrun by tho (:!.crmans the humble nan in' tho villag e and the . nativo prince in his palace wc~c stirred oqually ru1d save c ontributions for tho Spitfires an c7.. bombor:sl to '3-ostroy the eneny. Tho Indonosians ·1; , erc quick to ask for tho 01)portuni ty to fi~ht for the '}ucon,. 1 'J,1µat \Vas our rmvarcl for our enlightened policy. · •· · i:;e cannot look far into the future; hut ·we hope t.pd expect that.·. oric day there -will be full po..rtnurship nittcn of the :Qutch Bnpi:h.:;·, that we, \vill-'. stick togeth0r to arri vc at the happiest D.Ylc1 most enclurinL; form of joint poli tic.:il .. mdstcmce which an is11porfoct world 1.wy allow. Dut for th0 uoraent Fate ho.s struck us . a terrific blow. Let nc say - ir.11:,odiatcly that ·it · Hill not over:whclE1 us. Shall wt:- allo\v this scourr:·e that has cone dovrn from th0 highur s0as to arrest the great wo;k .:v.r0 are . undcrtakine;? The flrn-.ws of Tarako.n, "Btlak F.'.lpon o.nd Po.lcnbang roo.r out . our clvftoncc. The clouds of snolw r •ising in th0 tropical ·sky, nil cs hi.3h and nilcs wido·, arc the noasurc of our resolution, that they sho.11 n_o t come int o our heritage; th2.t :they shall not rob us of what we have cro.'.ltcd in centuries of endeavour. BRIT ISH BROADCASTING CORPOR.i.~TION ·... .'. I . rZ 'f:._2/.2/_42 - __No_. 15 NOT FOR PUBLIC.L'~TION' BRO.ci.Dc;~sT, OR USE ON CLUB TABES BEFORE 00. 3 0 B • S T • ( i. e • FOR HOI-&ING P:J?.GRS :, ON & tION1X;.Y, 23/2/l,,.2. THIS EL.IBARGO SHOULD BE RESPECTED OVERSit\S BY PREF.il..CING J. .NY 1-'illSSAGES JJ1ILCD YIITH THE EEBlill.GO ~~_QJ\T_ . LICENSING: .__ G.,..'..S .... ... 1-oU\.NTIBS , "'..--.:... .,,._.._.-...~ ~ . ~ -~ORT .. . OF_ GDODS _(CONTROL)___ ORJ)ER . li0.• ,._8_ Under n. Board of Trade Order (S~R. r~ O, 1942 No. 284, price 1 cl.) which cones into force on 211.th February, 1 942, the control in respect of c;as r:1c.ru1.tles na.nufactured partly frou rar:.ri.e is ·ai tharavm and, apart froE1 certc:.in destinations to ·iThich the c~q)ortation of all goods is prohibited, no licences vrill, in future, be required to e:~port this class of goods • Copies of the Order are available fro L1 H. i•: . Stationery Office and through booksellers. I ' NOT POR PUBLICATION OR USE ON CLUB TAPES BEFDRE OO.}0 B.S.T. · ON MONDAY, FE.BRUARY 23., 1942 NOT TO BE CA.BLED iJ3ROiill OR BROADCAST BEFORE 00.30 B.S.T. ON THAT DATE HIS MAJESTY THE ICTNG has approved the following appointments: - Secretary of State for Colonies: The Right Hon, Viscount Cranbo:-cne Secretary of state for liar: Sir James Grigg, K.C.B., K.C.S.I. President of Board of Trade: The Right Hon. Hugh Dalton, :M.P. · Minister of Works and Buildings and First Commissioner for 1:.- orks: The Rt. Hon. Lord. Portal, D.S.O., M.V.O. Minister of Ai.rcrai't Production: The Right Hon, Col. J. J.• Llewellin, c.B.E., M.c., M.P. Minister of Economic Ylarfare: The Right Hon, Viscount Wolmer The following is a list of Ministers of Cabinet rank: - Lord Chancellor: The Right Hon. Viscount Simoni G. C. S. I. , G.c.v.u., O.B.E. Chancellor of the Exchequer: The Rie;ht Hon. Sir :iCingsley \food, M.I\ Sccretacy of State for Home Office and Minister of Home Security: The Ri ~ht Hon. Herbert Morrison, U.P. Secretary of State for Indio.. and Secretary of State for Burma The Ri s ht Hon, .1.s. Amery, M.P. Secretary of State for Colonies and Leader of the House of Lords: The Right Hon, Viscount Cranborne First Lord of the Adrnirnl ty: The Right Hon. A. V. Alexander, C.H. , H.P • Secretary of State for \Tar: Sir Jarnes Grigg, K.C.B., K.C.S,I. Secretary of State for Air: The Right Hon.. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt., K.T., C.M.G. 1 M.P. Socrctn.17 of st~tc for Scotln.nd: The Ri.=::ht Ilon. Thor.1as Johnston, H.P. l.Iinister c£ Supply: The Rt. Hon. Sir .iwidrcw Duncun, G.B.E., M.P·, President of Board of Traa.c: The Right Hon. Hugh Dal ton, M. P .. fre sident of Board of. Education: The Right Hon. R.A. Bti-'i;ler, M.P. Min-Lster of Heal th: The ·Right Hon. Ernest Brown, M.C,, Ivl.P. Minister of Agriculture: The Right Hon. R.S. Hudson, M.1). Minister of Works and Buildings nnd • I First Commissioner for Works: The Rt. Hon. Lord Portal, D,S.O., M. V.O • Minister of Aircrai't Production: Colonel The Right Hon. J. J.. Llewcllin, C,B.E,, M,C., M.P. Minister of Yf ar Trans~')ort: Tho Right Hon. L:Ord. Leathe rs Minister of Food: The Right Hon. Lord Yloolton Ohancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: The Right Hon, A. Duff Cooper, D.S.O,, M.P. Minister of Information: The Right Hon, Brendan Bracken, M.P. Minister of Economic Warfare: The Right Hon. Viscount Vlolmer Post i--nster Genern.l: The Rt, Hon. W.S. Mor.cison, 1i.C., K.C., M.P. Paymaster GeneroJ.: The Right Hon. Lord Ha:nkey1 G.C.B.,.t G.C.M., G.u.IvI,G,, u.C.V.O. The appointment of a minister resident in the Middle East in succession ·to the Right Hon.. Captain Oliver Lyt_telton, D.S.O. will be announced shortly 10 1 DOWNilJG STREET.