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"BEWARE! WE CAN ALWAYS FALL BACK ON RUSSIA!" 'BEWARE YOURSELVES! 'FALL BACK' IS RIGHT
LORD ELTON*, himself a one-time Socialist, takes 'stock
for to-day's now Baron of the Left
REBEL DAVIE
“D
AVID
KIRK
WOOD, Clydesider, 惊 peer!"
So
his incredulous friends
would doubtless have
ex-
claimed in 1916 when he hud just been deported
fro
war-
the Clyde for leading time agitation gainat rents; No they would have exclaimed m 1922, when he first appeared in the House of Commons, one u! the deeply suspect little baud of newly-gle-ed Clydesiders, reddest of the Reds and no they would probably shall have exclaimed in the early 1930s.
But a great
Waler deal of has flowed since then, not only down the Clyde bul unde
-will
be a tonic
for the
Lords
Wes.minster Bridge, and by no meine al of 1. had been Blue Moreover in recent years llaves Kirkwood has imperceptib shed the suffix to his name, tur
he hes s: the while longer Kirkwood sider, but plain Duvid wood-a change which he may
the
bren
Jat
Clyar.
Kirk-
MUTUAL WARNING
Menement with Deids Herat
etory poel *LORD ELTON,
broadcaster, TUNE PXJULIET don and
roth the Sucaian Puri sa up- DOT મ Ramu MacDonald 1931
made MarDonati остоп
**
ດ້ 114
"
well have welcomed for it always more satisfactory to known as oneself.
be
THE REALITIES OF RUSSIAN POWER – No.
3
Soviet Air Force
For Army
ments
on
article on This concluding
is contributed by Soviet air power who,
has to
reasons, who therefore writes
B
has
ASED
Russian arma-
expert
on the for very necessary and remain anonymous,
under the pen-name of
METEORITE
bern designed, ganised and employed
the
primarily as an instrument of direct support to Army.
The grogrupatent position and
Conviction that her
19
Support
STALIN'S THEORY ON AIR POWER
considered that In Stalin's military theory it w
achieved by the victory in present-day warfare is combined efforts of all types of forces, and therefore training of air force unita was planned so that they could in the first place provide direct assistance for the ground forces in all types of operations. The course of the mar confirmed the soundness of these ideas as regards problems of development and employment of the air forces......attention should be focused on the mass employment of the air
their close forces, and particularly
and with ground
naval
forces. operation -Colonel-General Sudets, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Air Force, in 1948.
like the used
EXT
CO-
elaborate jet bomber, there is nothing in Britain.
so it design to indicate a change in the operational role; which
War. 1 likely Stalin's dong the last 6423
new on the use the red og in any theory
miner nflict with, of course,
Decessary the heations made of air power,
of more Air Force by the introduction Soviet
or modern types of aircraft
Force This Tactical Ai
high wah fighters.
attack. and bombers, ground 19ppert hansport and recce. aircraft of obsolescent both in dern stud types However, recent air -
tha! every anything plays have shown uf Russia fort is being made to re-equip sys ern Fenton ad expanse
tradi- with aircraft east equal that it is logical to assume that responsible for the
service the defences have been deplov 1xual and femiy estublisted perfomance to those
d- in the Western Air Forces, Brat ed where they can best protect a formid- es with the Army, and priority being given to fighters, vulnerable and important areas. the last 20 years
have which comprise 50 percent. of Even so their task is mala 150 forve The newest equip the one, and here are bound
the well-known MIG 15, 1o be gaps in 'he system. pro. men
use in Korea. duced one which in its broad now in
strategy. When re-ryhippet the Tacit- pratin to Soviet
the has in the eyes of the Russians cal Air Force will become seriously shaken this governing in st powerful force of its kind belief.
in the world, wapable of pre- viding very effective support to It is important to remember the land anntes to which
extent the
10 tkmens are silored. Covers which this conviction
policy, Russr air
because while the Soviet Air Force end their Navy are forres of sig- their mfence, the weight of
fence
which
witnessed so many new tary developments, have
at the outset
portance in the Soviet mind
attack and defence.
of
USEFUL BOMBER
MELLOWED
the
always person
And it now there is to another change and he is to b plain David Kirkwood ከጊ longer, this may be understwa to imply that the man has anol- lowed. Which is altogether 16 his credit; for he was essentielly a friendly and, like many rebels, owner a particularly warm heart and if he has mellowed it is doub- less because in the course of yours be has not been able
circle help enlarging s friends
The
of mel.owing. process however, 1 gradual and me a- spicuous, and when the tran lation of a rebel to the
Su posedly ansfied atmosphere of the glided chamber drawe sunt
attention den public
it, ü of hands ure certain number apt to be raised in pious horror,
انا
Contrasts are always dramatic and on such occasions the re bel's record is duly searches:
and new
for the past indiscretions vituperations which his staus has suctdenly rendered so incongruous-viuperatiom, may even be, against the gilded chamber itself.
THE PACIFIST
I well remember how. 1932 when a peerage was con
in brief, is suppor, of the sea-ferred on Clifford Allen, paci- ward flanks of the and ball!
Russia
នាង
Ast and ex-chairman of the In- dependent Labour Party, for a tew days there was a veritau Although
pioneered Press witch-hunt through the development of para Inaccessible and half-forgotte tro:ps in the pre-war days, she
records of the unimportant war- made little use of them in the
conscientious time conclaves tha! the significant It is
Laxi war, nor of her airborne forces.
es: objectors.
tors. But it did not exhibited
whum were captured Russians have never
ha most of
Jong, and Lord Allen of Hurt could
JOTE! which an aircraft
while being used as infantry in wood became a picturesque Bui the early stages of the fighting woo classified as an all-weather
House; nor did his utterancea night fighter, which may men with Germany Judging by the respected member of the Uoper ts that they are content to
mass parachute jumping
there, so far as I know, plays given recently, some im-
outrage the susceptibilities attached portance is still leck of the type of skilled per- this method of operations. The their Lordships, sounel essential for the main- arge civil air Blect would be a lerance and operation of early useful supplement to the Soviet warning and airborne radar.
Air Force in war.
от
rely
on AA guns or some form of 5 rocket in leu. There is also a
The Russians
dis
to
the Jast ar URING the
There are some who doubi Air Force Range
may consider is measured by the abihty 1.
few the carried out a
spasmodic "apacity
19.000 further the Army to achieve its objectives raids on German and Finnish that the length of time attack Russia's ability to produce and
territory makes rowns, but the results were ng arcraft must be over Rus- maintain an air force
early strong, but the fact that they inter ended the war wit front-
with a Until impressive
an American warning and controlled The ny instance. from an 1.20 (Superfortress) carne eception unnecessary; but against line strength of 23,000 aircraft,
and an annual hands, and
atom bombs and an aircraft carrying a departure from this policy were able to produce copies of the destructive power of which 40,000, is evi the development since the it, the Soviet Air Force could may be equivalent to an attack can. It is true hat aircraft are
by several hundred aircraft now much more complex, last war of the Soviet Strategic not be said, by Western stan-
bombs, the Soviet Union is still Air Force, but sunce
carrying conventional force
aic aspect, which may be cited Russion
such in its proper sense
been ward in miliary
A
has
have possessed durds, to strategic bombe. force.
*** slan
they
to the F.29 copy. erations there is no indica-
however, upera
huve A uselju! the Russians tion how they tend to use However, it is cafe to assume medium bomber capable of at- that they will have studied the tacking almost any target effects of the Allied strategic Western Europe and the Mid- bombing of Germany, and with le East. the atom bomb in their session strategically.
will 115C this forec
FOUR FORCES
to
D
ever
uf
បុ
Which is not to say that re had abandoned his principles but merely that he, too, mellowed, process which,
desirable after all, is 98 human beings as in wine.
And the House which Kirk- wood will enter is, in ore re- spect at least, a different place of to that to which Clifford Allen that mater Joha they--and for
Morley and not a few earlier but iconoclasts so speedily adapted
himself.
Undil any form of air defence needs during some 10,000 a year, and
this is estimated to be about Secialist to be very efficient.
one-third of her capacity.
production evidence that
DT-
in
up into
force,
they
have
failed
to
The
the Russians German scientists making of and
techni- captured German They have no ex- HE Naval Air Force is spht cal material is reflected in
Large THE pos- perience in operating a
forces, design of their aircraft. Beparate strategic bomber
PROBABLE USE
Be
are
the
Grea!
the
field of
Love appear
research,
new
sion
The
OT
and at regular in- while proved types →
and
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the twin Jet
From
responsible appears that the
of appearing in
It
but each ferming part of the fleet strides are being made in
Being cannot
resulta of Allied to which it is altached.
its role shore based,
covers Study the
air operations against anti-shipping strategic
and and-sub- Germany and Japan, and with marine operations and convoy such as the swapt-back wing the abom betab in their posses
The detence and mine-laying, all in MIG 15
constat primary role of
waters; defence REVIEW of the organise Long Range Air Force is like- buses and support of airborne
tion of the Soviet Air 1 to follow tha paltern
Its period of al land operations.
the last MIG 15 appre- though Army influence may on highest activity during
is as good Force is necessary ciate the effect of the Russian
Creasions divert its efforts.
war was in the Black Sea, dur- fighter aircraft in service with the the conception of air power on the
land operations at the Western nations, and Un. The Long Range Alr Force ing structure of those forces.
Kerth, and In the successful twin jet bember gives the up- like the RAF, there is no single does, therefore, present a new Crimean cffensive which um- pearance of having a high per- Soviet Air Force. Instead thera ord
mediately
these formance. followed is cruc trat $1 are four independent air forces, Britain. totalling some 19,000 aircraft bumber forca, to be fully effec- operations. It is interesting to with tive, requires more than aircraft note that the problems
which it was here dealing, such with the necessary range
as the prevention of overceas it load-carrying capacity, and
cuation, reinforcement Ausstans
These are:
(1) The Tactical Air Force.
threat increasing
( The Long Range Air is probable that the
behind are a long Force.
way countries (ii) The Air Defence Force. Western (lv) The Naval Air Force.
of air power.
The Brst three are responsible ranch the fact remainia
and
་
and
and
comparatively recently
peers
were
lonely
of
sprawling somewhat figures, self-consciously amid a sea empty red benches; nowadays, the however, that section of Chamber in which the new peer will take his seat can on Deca-
ปร house quite a formidable phalanx of Socrulist peers, some of whom in their day, if the truth were known, have prob- ably expressed sentiments which, a uttered within earshot of their Lordships, would have sounded as odų as anything which the electors of Clydeside ever heard from David Kirk- wood
Moreover, there are BOW- adays a good many more trade unionists than
cx-Viceroys 111
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other
however, 11 is the
standard op
ex- know-
The House In respoc. 8, fame The
brience and specialist ledge it Its debates is still unique. Its committees still get through
ན་
Yost amount of un- paid and unpublicised work e
aff ential Parliament; it is still the most dignified as well the most ancient assembly
the world, whose debales
no
in
are
of
Risu
ILLS
ल
invariably decorous in spite the fact that It is the only assembly which Never
chairmen had any kind to keep it in order. of which unique phenomena David Kirkwood who If my memory serves me, has had his clashes with the Speaker of the Comm.ns in bls dny,
will doubtless have taken note.
HARD-HITTER
No new Member with a sense of his.ory can enter the Lords without a certain sense of awe, but Kirkwood will not be com ing emply handed. For if the Upper House is to maintain is influence and continue to play the part of a genuine Senate in
CO3-
will
the cming age t must
tinue to absorb new Members Sursai with a wide variety of
And and political background. and political
50 one so vital, so honest and pleturesque, with so long a de mocratie
and with experience such a gift for making friends as the new noble Lord certainly make his own indivi- dual contribution in his novel und
For august surroundings. during a long career David Kirkwood has 14peatedly the nail on ihe head, though it may sometimes have been the wrong nail, he has - variably hit it fair and square.
Senor.
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*
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In vers tary problem, and implied the slan aircrews, they may lack
Neve undertaking of operations which the experience of their
op numbers
UN In the posite A were in some measure within Air
Russian the capacities of the respective forces. However, the
airman has always been a fear- air armies.
less fighter, and any shortcom The role in which the Noval ingo may be overcome with in- Air Force has been employed in tensive training. the past, and the type of air- craft with which it is equip Thus, in
Tactical Air Force
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