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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1941.
CHINA MAIL New
Trend
WINDSOR HOUSE
WAR PRODUCTION
No one who under- stands the immensity of
In War
adopted in the last war.
That is why any estimate of the
uncertain and why we have at one and the same time Colonel Lindbergh giving technical rea sons for Britain's expected down- fall, while Wendell L. Willkie furnishes well-authenticated in- formation indicating probable British victory.
outcome at this stage is highly
the task of turning over As Axis moves in the Balkous industry from a peace to appear to herald the opening of a a war basis will have been new campaign, signs begin to multiply that Great Britain is pre- surprised at Mr. Chur-paring to conduct the struggle on chill's recent statement, entirely different lines from those that Britain is still only a partially armed nation. Under the modern con- ception of total war a na- tion is only fully armed when industrial war pro- duction reaches a maxi- mum such as to keep fully: equipped the largest pos- sible fighting force. The number of men who can profitably be trained to fight is limited by the capacity to equip them adequately. Far munitions will be needed for, say, 4,000,000 soldiers
more
The very completeness of the German victories in the first half
of Jast year has enabled Mr. Churchill to discard a line of strategy which Britain followed in
1914 and 1918 and which
its
leaders clung to tenaciously up to the moment when Mr. Churchill
took over the Government.
German occupation of France took away Britain's chief ally, but it also took away one of the most
pernicious sources of defeat-the West Front theory.
in this war than for Scope of Dunkirk
5,000,000 in the last.
asset and likely to take effect in pay, the new unity is an immense
surprising ways during the com- ing campaign,
This West Front theory-the "billy-goat tactles," as Mr. Lloyd George termed it, "butting away
What Mr. Churchill and Mr. To achieve the desired Lloyd George before him--had results requires the most nearly a quarter of a century was been struggling to get rid of for
exact organisation of all effectively liquidated for all pre- the major activities of the with the
sent purposes at historic Dunkirk. disappearance of the country. Control at the West Front myth, Britain becomes united in its strategic outlook, and top is essential, and the while the loss of France and the people have asked noth-Low Countries is a heavy price to ing better than that they should be told what each should do in the common cause. From the moment that conscription for the army was adopted it was generally agreed that the same fundamental must be applied to civilians, and that the Government sidiary fronts, should have power to con- trol property and profits, and the labour of men and women, rich and poor alike.
one's strength against unbreak- able walls" was built around
only be won the postulate that the war could by defeating Ger- many in the west and that armed strength should not be frittered
away by sending it to other sub-
Haig, and some of the most in- Strongly advocated by Joffre, fluential members of the British
and
services, this theory was respon sible for the loss of almost
French Governments and
1,000,000 French and German sol- diers during the terrific eight-day German attack on Verdun in in February, 1916.
It was responsible for the loss of the flower of Britain's youth-
BATRANI
BARENTO
KEREN
TALIAN
AFRICAN
EMPIRE
AGO
AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE
(Leaving it to Mussolini to try and conjure the pieces to- gether again.)
points with devastating sureness,
weeks and months in wrangles be-
policy to adopt, or between Chur
and
maritime supremacy, the navy is While the West Front theory gave tween Lloyd George, Haig, Joffre,. Britain no advantage from its Millerand and the rest as to what
the key to Britain's policy to-day, chill and Fisher as to whether to forcc the Dardanelles. She has Signor Mussolini, failing to ob- lost Russia as an ally, but it may The machinery to be
serve this revolutionary change of well be that effective help to the set in motion was intri-
tactics, and assuming that he had indomitable and self-reliant little cate.
an open lane for supplies to his Greece has more value than no The fighting ser- 480 000 from schools and univer-
North African empire launched help at all from millions of Rus- vices had to decide what sities in the attack on the Ger- his attack on Egypt last August, sian soldiers, who in 1915
as soon as France had dropped 1916 were impotent because they equipment they needed. lowing June; for 300,000
out. To his surprise he found the had no ammunition.
while the The supply departments butting against the German lines lane suddenly closed,
at Arras and Messines between British-instead
blundering placed orders on a gigan- April and June in 1917 and 430,000 along with insufficient men tic scale with firms cap- more in the Flanders mud of Pas- supplies as they had done at Gal- able of adapting their tember.
schendaele the following plants. There was im- And for all this tragic cost in men, with tens of millions of mense demand for mashells, and even the whole Mes- months disposed of his army and the Grand Duke Nicholas, to the.. chine tools and
man lines at the Somme the fol- more,
Sep-
of
or
lipoli in April, 1915, when the 125,000 "Anzacs" landed to find the Turks unsurprised and well prepared to meet them-in two
than 1,000 casualties to a few square miles of territory selves...
"
bour. More tools had to
elaborate mining operations, only
be manufactured; more were gained. labour trained. Care had
Reversal of Policy
to be taken that the rate
Fascist Fallacy
them-
Russian Failure.
Every day desperate: appeals were being sent from General Yanushkevitch, Chief of Staff of
for
are
a day cartridges are asked from the fronts, and there none. My heart is heavy," the un- happy general would plead. More- over, the Russian people to-day, are little likely to be more help-. ful to the conquering Nazis than the Czechs or Norwegians who are
From the human standpoint, while Britain is in some ways weaker in political leadership than she was in 1914, yet the Prime Minister who gave General Wavell all the men. arid equipment. hej needed for the campaign in Libya
By
a similar miscalculation, of production, of one part the policy-he attacks where thecided to invade Greece, he found already under the German heel..
To-day Mr. Churchill reverses then on Oct. 28, the Duce de- of a weapon kept pace enemy. is weak, instead of where that the British, instead of land- with the rate of produc- the enemy is strong. Ho may haveing an ill-equipped, ineffective only a fraction of the men and force at Salonikas the Allies tion of other parts manu arms that were assembled on the had done in 1815, with some idea factured in perhaps many Allied front in 1916 and 1917, but of proceeding against the Turks other factories.
everything he has is effective. were, able to send timely equip
He may have lost most of the ment to the Greeks by sea, with Registration for service continent, but the continent is an effective air force detachment in the Forces has now incipient rebellion, so that the reconnaissance work.
stething mass of discontent and to supplement their bombing and been followed by the
German occupation only partial Fly, effective... dustrial registration of Moreover, if he does not control the civilian population by the land, he controls the sea and can uncover the enemy's weak age groups that i is, by the making of lists of those who may be called over and run industrial of the Mediterranean. on to serve the State in undertakings.
Heavier tests than these may be national industry. Com- How far this vast ma-ched to face the British at any
The net result so far for Britain't is two new bases in the central Mediterranean at Crete and Ben- ghazi-which bid fair to eliminate and prospect of Signor-Mussolini's making further claims to control
and at the right moment is the man who above all, has been try ing to shift_Britain's policy from the West Front to the world-wide. naval policy.
these
He is the man who in 1915, ast First Lord of the Admiralty, had the enterprise to spend £70,000 of public money on unütihoriséd ex- periments in a field that was no official concern of, his-tests with a new contraption subsequently known as the "tank." pulsion in like manner is chinery of production has remains intact, there is every rea- momerit, but so long cas, the fleet
Considerations such as applied to employers, who, been organised to the sph to suppose that it wil pro- must be thrown into the balance
Ceed to uncover the Nazi weak before one can size up the pros engaged 1 in vital war best possible advantage points, as it has uncovered: the pects of the war.
have no longer the cannot yet be fully fudgy an entirely different propositionables that play so vital a part in Italian-for though the Nazis, are In the matter of the Imponder- right to dismiss their em ed, but there is no doubt from the Italian Black Shirts, the the final destiny of human · · af- ployees except for mis- that equipment is now vast extent of their conquests may fairs, they mount up to a formid conduct; and the Govern, coming into production weak points,
be expected to leave inevitable able array-the more so since the new strategy of sea controly uralike. ment has the power, spar- on a scale that is literally
the strategy of the West Front ingly exercised, to take enormous.
has lost France and Bel-makes cooperation from: America "but she will no longer waste both easy and effective,
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