VICTORY PARADE IN BERLIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 5

VICTORY PARADE IN BERLIN

I■( hu nil Salih o British Oiiiciai Wirci-----(hie of ill!- oiii.-krn!:- .1 - in British hislmv ?« ..'•> ; .u Bei lin ibis nio: nil ( > Hie I Prime Minister took the salute from 10.011(1 men ropi .■ ■ mime tin: three hyliiiny sen me- , ~ they marched down ( hal I"l:cni■ Chau- ■ ■.■ in a r > i : 1 if. For nearly three-ci;.a. i; r.-. nt an hour Mi' Churchill raised hi- hand in • ’I. i • . ■ lie I. ■; wake ot D Dr> lank., mm armomed vehicles. At th- se.li'.im; base behind Mr Churcnill st mi bi a '.ilchler. Marr. wcd m in m ■ ■ ~ "va' cst number oi prominenl Brit .11 statesmen and mi! : v.v !< am "s , ever assembled on ioreim.’. soil in the lest 30 ' C At th? head of the parade wms Biigadii ;■ J. K Snurli er ol all the iirth'.nr troops m Berlin. He rod;' in ;"i ; floated across • Tferltn a s the band of .Ir ” a! ?T.:rmes strode past the P. :..m Mini. mr playing -Hearts of Cm'; ' Immediate!-. the .’ m was over the Prim-' Mini: er '' m B< r'in s devastated Fit e.ulillv. th.? Kmfursleddamm. where he ebri ■ ned the Naafi Club with th? name "Winston Club." Germans C’n’er G’nireliill As Mr Churchill was driving from tire Winston Churchill Club a crowd of Germans broke through the military police cordon and surged forward cheering Mr Churchill, who. says Reuter’s Berlin c.orre: nondent, looked a bit flustered and answered with the V sign. Mr Churchill, was met at the club by 3000 troops singing "For 1-1 ’ A Jolly Good Fellow?,Tr Churchill, who was wearing the light drill uni- | form of a colon I ’, said he was unable to sneak without emotion: “Dear Desert Rots, may your glory ever shine. Mav your laurels never fade, and the memory of the glorious pilgrimage you made from i El Alametn to the Baltic and Berlin I never die,’’ ho said. "May fathers I long tell their children the tale. I May you all feel, through following | your great ancestors, that you have accomplished something which has done good for the whole world, which has raised the honour of your own country and for which every man has the right to feel proud. "Twice in our generation and in bygone time German fury has been unleashed on neighbours. How it is we who take our place in the occupation of this country.” Mr Churchill asked Sir Bernard Montgomery to signalise the hapny event of the great victory parade by giving all the troops in Berlin a day’s holiday.