"Stay Where You Are . . ."

Winston Churchill, like most Britons, has done a lot of thinking about the Nazi invasion that may be World War II's last battle. One thing he does not want to see when that time comes is the helpless confusion that clogged France's roads, paved the way for German victory last year. Mr. Churchill's thoughts this week crystallized in a foreword to a leaflet, Beating the Invader, telling 46,000,000 Britons how to behave when and if the Nazis come.

Church bells will ring out in warning when the first German troops land on British soil. From radio loudspeakers, from sound trucks racing through the streets, voices will boom, telling Britain's people what to do. "Give all help you can to our troops," said the pamphlet. "Do not tell the enemy anything. Do not give him anything. ... If small parties are going about threatening persons or property . . . and they come your way, you have the right of every man and woman to do what you can to protect yourself. . . ."

Wrote Winston Churchill in his foreword: "Where the enemy lands, or tries to land, there will be most violent fighting. . . . The fewer civilians . . . in these areas the better. . . . So if you are advised by authority to leave the place where you live, it is your duty to go elsewhere. . . . When the attack begins it will be too late to go. ... Your duty then will be to stay where you are.

"You will have to get into the safest place you can find and stay there until the battle is over. . . . This also applies to people inland if a considerable number of parachutists . . . are landed. . . . Above all, they must not cumber the roads. . . . It may easily be some weeks before the invader has been totally destroyed. . . ."

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