THE CHINA MÄIL, JULY 3, 1941
CHINA MAIL
DEWINDSOR HOUSE-
GENERAL WAVELL'S MOVE
General Sir Archibald Wavell's exchange of posts with General Sir Claude Auchinleck needs to be linked closely with the fact that the Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton is also going to Cairo, as the direct representative of the War Cabinet, to take over from the new Com- mander-in-Chief a great mass of political, econo- mic and administrative work which has hitherto been handled by General Wavell. The shock and the surprise need not. therefore, give rise to speculation on any sup- posed reasons for the replacement of General Wavell. Now that the facts are known, it would have been more sur- prising if the immen- sity of the tasks thrust upon General Wavell, the fighting of five campaigns on five dif- ferent fronts, in addi- tion to attending to the
details of economic war- fare, political work and
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HIMMEL ! THIS IS ILLEGAL!
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Notes
For
Tough Nut For Himmler
propaganda, had not had Passionate Nazi-hater Jay Allen, Grandiose are Allen's ideas, not, gueurs, its bathetic insincerities,
men
I know who
could never
and
Allen, fearing that
Nuzi
The film, you will remember, that was to terrify everyone out of their wits. It has two high-
Influence was becoming para- lights.
а
their effect in heavy by illegally entering Occupied the least of which was to attempt the better.
of a vast Europe- strain
But you must see it, if only to France, has fallen into the hands the creation after twelve of the Gestapo. His arrest is due, wide democratic news service to have a good laugh at the Ger- months of
with continuous as are all his misfortunes, to im- compete
Towards the end of the long-established, mans. rich, effort. In
If fabulously petuosity and a belief that
semi-official picture are shown extracts from those twelve
the much-vaunted German film you are an American you can do agencies that already supply the months, General Wavell pretty well what you like in world with its daily news.
He of
the Polish campaign, called
has more
might have saved his always short "Baptism of Fire." than justified Europe.
breath for other purposes. his brilliant reputation as . Jay Allen is one of the few
Jay a strategist and a military hope to disguise himself and get
mount in Europe, wanted to commander of the high-is deeper set than the other, so away with it. One of his eyes
wake up his countrymen to what est skill by any and every that you think he squints
he then regarded as inevitable standard. Half the work then find that he doesn't. It is war, felt that usual news channels this doing enough in disconcerting sometimes. I hope were not
The first is Hitler doing is to be taken off the the Gestapo will find it so.
direction. Such men in 1937 or
Sarah Bernhardt act in an arm- thereabouts were dubbed mis- shoulders of his successor Among
chair. He has just given the word chief-makers, and their schemes "Go" to his Air Force: they are in Cairo, and plainly no
usually came to naught. Allen's
on their way to blow Polish harm will be done in the
scheme was among the majority. women and children to pieces. And Unlike many of his slicker col- there he sits, sprawled out in his Middle East by the arrival
leagues who are content to cash railway carriage, for all the world of
revolt Arsiin on superficialities, Allen likes а keen, energetic, broke out in 1936. It put Franco's digging down to facts, likes also beside him was a doctor who had as though the Adgetty · Goering master tactician, free to name on the map.
to go political slumming before just told him the worst. Galloping More injudicious concentrate upon the mil-į
than usual, committing himself to paper. He consumption, at least. He's a re- Franco then calmly told Allen is a great blower-in and blower-gular old Dame aux Camelias. itary task. Incidentally, that, if it were necessary, he out of rooms, meetings, parties. The second is the commentator:
He never seems to be in the same there is more than a hint would murder half the popula
a German, speaking English. He tion of Spain to gain his ends, place for more than four min- has the sort of volce Pop-eye the that General Wavell's This is dynamite, thought Allen! utes at a time. But in that time he Sailor Man would have if his knowledge of Russia was He didn't even stop to pack his manages to pick up more facts voice had never broken. And he's not out of the minds of French
bags before driving full tilt into than most of us can do at a full-obviously taken a degree in mak-
Morocco to cable the dress interview.
ing people's flesh creep-but at a the War Cabinet when story.
pretty poor university. the exchange of posts was under consideration.
tyrants the name of Jay Allen stinks, particularly does Franco y Bahamonde, whom he in- it do so in the nostrils of Francisco terviewed at Tetuan, in Morocco, when the Spanish
Keystone of Nazi propaganda
These are days when new Thereafter Franco's thugs put to the United States has been no
But "Baptism of Fire". Itself emergencies require for a price on Allen's head, the more German territorial, economic de- isn't half as terrifying as the ward-looking minds. It is eagerly as they discovered that mands on that country.
news-reels of the last war. They 'he was then closely connected Strangely then, but not un- do show what war means. Which a matter for congratula- with the Republican Government, naturally perhaps, came this song is more than Dr. Goebbels has tion to discover the clear-was a friend of men who after (here translated) the other day been able to do in this film..
wards became famous.or in-from a German radio station; sung est evidence that the War famous, whichever way you look by a choir: Gabinet has
at things: among others, Del Vayo."Now are we bound for England. its eyes Caballero, both of whom, some The whole country will be des- focussed not only upon years earlier, he'd concealed for troyed by fire.. the urgent demands of days in his Madrid house when Then we set out for the New the immediate moment, hunting them.
World, Whence we shall fetch Rosenfeld but upon the potentiali- Nervous to an almost un- (Roosevelt), ties of the future. It gives believable degree, Allen, talles in Switzerland, the insolent porcu- gulek, sudden jerks, as though confidence too to nate the every five words or so he sulldan- We shall seize on the way home. cheerful acquiescence of lyses something that makes him
Primo de Rivera's police were
Torget what he was going to say
General Wavell in a Only those who know him well change of command, can effortlessly understand what
LI
ping,
Incidentally, isn't it time we stopped singing "Land of Hope and Glory." That line about the British Empire: "Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set" sounds slightly comic in the ears of those pledged to a war that, we are told, has no imperial ambitions in its make-up.
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· PHILIP JORDAN
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