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UXIDA, injing, in addition to the mass of re- had projected in 1934. It a mechamsed | serves andi recruits, slow to further interest that a year after she has paid a hes price in force and of applying tactical prin mobilise and clumsy to set go- France saw the publication of his prestage which doubles the dulciples based on the speed of theting," a special "hodly of troops, book there appeared in a German culty of curing a
the highly trained, mubile, protected military periodical an article
by armour and ready for instan- the tactics of armoured troops Whatever hope there may action of this new weupon, some- laneous action in combined opera- which was later followed by have been in either Vichy times called the motor-air com- tions with aircraft, the creation of other and, finally, by a special ha' team. has become but only of which had been made possible by study in which mechanised war- Weygand seems now to be gone professional but of general inter the enormous progress of modern fare was described in even greater for good: Italy has been to some|ést, extent revived; Span will doubt less fall whenever Hitler chouses to demand it; unless Britain can find the force to metvene soon West Africa and Dakar will probably low; and while M.
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111 as good position as any to judge. is com fident
Turkish of
resistance,
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As far back as five years before the beginning of this present war. General, then Captain, Charles de Gaulle who since the surrender of France has been the leader of the "Free Frenchmen," Wrote book, now published in English. in which he stressed the import- ance and urged the creation of at picked mechanised and armoured force. seeing in it the only
means of Ladequate
national Such
force was used in the present
by on,
there are many who feel that; defence.
this is dubious at best.
50
on
the sea,
of
A. M. By Nikolaieff
detail than in the volume here re- viewed.
There is, of course, no way of telling whether General de Gaul- le's book had influenced the Ger-j man author, an officer by the name of Guderian, who, inciden- !} tally, was that general who com- manded one of the mechanised columns in Poland and was sub- sequently in command of the "completely motorised" corps which broke through at Sedan, He technique, and he further
may have been impressed by the forth what the composition
earlier exponents of mobile war- war employment of that mechanised fare, such as von Seeckt and even
force should be and what kind of before the Brit-i
leadership it demands.
sets and
a
Apparently, Egypt and Suez by France's adversary in Europe
and, later
him the French Gen- have been saved from the threat ish in Africa, in both cases with
eral Buat, who was probably they through North Africa, and it is results so disastrous for their res-
In his arresting analysis he first to proclaim that "with the reasonable to expect that these pective opponents that We can foresaw that it would be in the appearance of the motor on the plainly see now how imperative "terrible breach" in the North- battlefield, mability has regained positions, together with Crete, was the need for the formation east, "age-old weakness of its full importance." But the can be held. The Nazis havej of the "imaginary" force advocat-France," thal the initial blow greatest significance lies in the "demonstrated that no difficulties ed by General de Gaulle and the would fall, the shortest and easi-fact that, unlike France, the Ger- adoption of the principles laid est path being that toward the mans did not confine themselves of terrain and no half armed re down by him not only for France sources of the Oise, near which, at to paper expositions of the tactical sistance, however glornus, can but Tor her allies as well.
Sedan, less than fifty miles away, powers of the armoured divisions, stop them anywhere on the Con- In six brief but brilliantly writ- the breakthrough actually took but as early as 1935 they began
ten sections of the tinent,
volume the place. He pointed out that France to create such divisions out of the long as they are author tells how France, because could not afford to lose even
cadres of the motorised companies allowed to choose their field and of the geographical disadvantages single battle, since that would of the Reichswehr, which was ad- have time to
characteristic the on prepare
her frontlers, mean Paris put to fire and sword.mitted in the articles mentioned slaught. There can
He said that it would be absurd above. no longer
to build the country's defence That the French were slow to be any reliance on allies,
solely on the "resistance of forti- create a mechanised force, and at limited campaigns to
plies should continue to be sent.fications manned by novices," and the same time modify the estab- stiffen "* this people
But Britain cannot hold out on he arrived at the conclusion that lished ideas and the technique of " or arousc that
words alone or one. In the meanwhile, the out-
on 'planes and there could be no French defence warfare was due, no doubt, for without the above-mentioned one thing, to the instinctive and come of the war will continue tanks consigned to the bottom of mechanised force, capable of act- understandable
fear of every and the remarkable ing without delay, winning. to hang upon the endurance of
all army, particularly of a victorious the citadel of the British Isles. speech by Cof. H. L. Stimson important victories at the very army, to undertake fundamental'
such as Hitler would now
indicates that that is well under-outset, on which the development reforms,
changing its of future
operations would so structure and tactics. But the have two alternatives to press
stood in Washington.
much depend..
outstanding answer to that ques- the war at both ends of the There is every likelihood now.
It is impossible not to see how tion is apparently to be found closely the merely. theoretical where de Gaulle, speaks of the Mediterranean, with the idea of of carly action by the United principles, expounded in this general conditions under which splitting the empire and States to secure the lifeline by book such as the use of initia-France functioned in the pre-war tive and speed and the launching period. In one place the author establishing the Italians before naval cooperation.
of surprise assaults, all cited as says that there had "developed ing turning on the British Isles, or The defeat in Greece, spelt the conditions inherent to victory) our people, an anti-war psychosis switching back his, main forces end of all half-measures. Hitler resemble the actual principles on which is being carried to excess for an immediate all-out assault can win. this war, unless the was based in the war now go there are so many discussions and which action by mechanised forces while in another we read that on Britain. In either event, the democratic world, now puts all ing on. But the resemblance..is so many contingencies in public. strain upon the people of Britain it has into preventing it unless even more striking when we com- life that the best activities, even aro set in motion, pare the Imaginary attacks, vivid when they over the next few months is the United States fearlessly de ly described by General de Gaulle, seldom lead to results" In short going to be a terrific one, both livers the goods as well as with the lightning tactics used by the situation was one very close to materially and morally... makes them the goods to hold France. As one significant detail Under these conditions, though
Germany in Poland and Western "paralysis." : President Roosevelt has given the British outpost now, and to we even find that the strength of General de Gaulle ended, his pro- an emphatic “yes ** to the ques: accumulate later the crushing, the armoured force used in the phetic study with a hopp, that a tion of whether Britain, will hold force which we now see, to be mated at some six or seven panzer belief, nai has since been made, Polish campaign, which is esti- change "must, come," his hope or out and whether American sup the only answer to Hitlerism. divisions, was substantially the plain, was without foundation,
seem to
re-
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