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ARMS AND BRAINS
UNITY AND THE SERVICES
From Debate To Action
"A Supreme Council Of Defence
(By J. L. GARVIN)
London, Feb. 18.
Bir Murray Sucter withdrew hils Unless new crises of foreign po- motion when its purpose had been Bcy compete, the House of Com-served The debate had not only muns during the months ahead given trenchant will be dominated by Defence as in
expression
од
both sides at Westminster to the
profound disquiet of the country. It had shown the determination of the House of Commons to bring about an early change, unless that demand is satisfed next month by the unmistakable effectiveness or the Government's own proposals. HI. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
OF REFORM
KING GEORGE'S FUNERAL
£25,000 Asked For
Landon, FED. 25. The funeral of King George cost £25,000, and this sum is included in a supplementary estimate 10-
£219,690. Lasued to-day.
This total of £25,000 is made up
of the following estimated expenses under those departments:
Departments of the Household. - Entertainment
King's nt
Royal and other guests from over- stas: funeral furnishing; mourning allowance for servants; hire of cars, railway expenses, etc., £7000. "AdmiraltyTraveling and sub- elstence of Naval officers and men. £5000.
War OfficeTravel'ing expenses of military personnel and pay of Territorial troops. £6000.
Air Ministry. · ---- Transportation, etc., of Royal Air Force personnel,
£260.
no session since the years before Armageddon. In all ways the sub- ject is more dificult than then. and in some ways both more for- midable and more urgent. Demo- cracy is the best system for assur- cd peace, but unless when roused to make a drastic refarm of its or- dinary habits it is apt to find it- self at a dangerous or fatal disad- vantage by comparton with the more concentrated systems of pre- paration for the possible ordeal of war. We see the great dictator- ships armed to the teeth and still erming. The cominand and or- ganise with unprecedented thar- oughness and "totality." as the word goes, the human and tech- rical resources of entire societies, As a result of the Anal impulses created by the actions and rear. tions of the Sanctions Policy, the whole world is now moving to a climax of rearmament. However much that tremendous fact may be deplored and dreaded, no man of any Party can pretend to blink 1. Not only does it dominate Paris tempting in theory, but recent liament. It dominates everything. considerations have shown that it teed loans made to the Oceanic
I. WHAT THE SPARROWS KNEW With last Friday's remarkable debate the real awakening has be gun and the next few weeks will rake it complete. The thanks of the country are due to Rear- Admiral Sir Murray Sueter for his motion and its consequences, He
moved formally for the creation of a Ministry of Defence," but his real purpose, admirably attained. was to arouse strong discussion on
and
In a word, there is fundamental agreement about main proposi- tions. First, by one new means or another, the Flying Force, Navy. and Army must be co-ordinated henceforth for successful Defence. This implies the efficiency of com- bined or collateral action by air sea, and land Second, the literal suggestion of a Ministry of De- fence, under a super-man, is not the best means of constituting the capable authority required-an au-, thority with a strong casting-vote on inter-service questions and un- questionably paramount, under the Cabinet, over each of the services, The idea of a 'Minister of Defence
The
Office of works-Expenses at Westminister Hall and. St. George's Chapel, works services on the route of the funeral procession, etc.. £3000.
Sundries, including expenses of the Earl Marshal's staff, stationery and printing, etc..)£3740.
Other prinicpal ems the supplementary estimate are £101, 500 for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and £88,180 for the Treasury. This last sum is asked for in connection with the guaran- Steam Navigation Company
would not work in practice. It would create Jealousy, discontent, friction, and antagonism, Cabinet would become a continual; Court of Appeal against the super-expert advisers must be such as to Minister.
We must not draw a false ans-
enable him to subject to searching cross-examination and to authori- tallye rulings the separate ideas of each
service. He and his col-
Icg from dictatorships. Different tengues must have a more diversi-, dictators differ in their methods, fed intelligence system than any Napoleon delegated. Signor Mus. solini holds too many portfolios, es. Such a chairman of the re- separate department now passes- For all his splendid vitality it is, constructed Committee would be, mistake. Herr Hitler and Mr. Stalin and the Japanese make no though he would not be in any way after all, a Minister for Defence such mistake. Notably, the Ger-
a direct superior set over Admir- man Dictator utilises to the full
the matter of absolute necessity That necessity is to adopt some new means in accordance with the new and revolutionised conditions -for regulating the claims the lations of the three services; pre-eminent staff systems which for co-ordinating their action; and derive from the great Prussian to provide for the requisite ex-tradition now extended with the pansion of Industry in support of
them all.
same thoroughness to Airpower and economics. That example is what we have principally in mind when we entitle the present article 'Arms and Brains." In these mat-
ters German efficiency, as proved against a world in the war, is still
alty. Air Office, and War Office
alike.
W
Not less would it be essential that the Becretary of the new Commit- tee should also give his whole time to its business. No man living can si Maurice Hankey, who is price- approach in fitness för the position less among public servants. For
Last Friday's encounter, though short, went nearer to the heart of realities, and was more effectual in advancing the question than any based on fundamental brainwork that purpose he would have to be
and competent decision
IV "THE PRIME MINISTER TO- DAY HAS TOO MUCH ON HIS HANDS."
relieved tror his duties as Becret- Gry to the Cabinet, though in that capacity his work for so many years has been inestimable,
The next thing to be settled is to constitute a new body of pro- fessional experts. It is agreed
Parliamentary discussion of the kind for many years. It was worthy both of the subject and the House of Commons. Mr. At- tlee, as Leader of the Opposition, deserved the
"We may take the ruling conclu- congratulations he received from the other side, Sir sion as proved, after recent months Austen Chamberlain's 'severe cri- of controversy
suggestion tluism of the past Inertia of the throwing light on the problem again that for the most part they Government and their inexplicable from all angles. Under British should be officers of the highest misinformation was almost starti- conditions,
and
constitutional
and
ing as from him; but we cannot cther, the best practicable solution doubt that it will be as salutary ins to reconstruct the Committee of effect as it was damaging for the Imperial Defence. moment. Though Mr. Baldwin himself was the chief victim of Si
distinction drawn from the Im- Perial Defence College and known to have acquired there some de- finito mastery of the inter-linked problems of the three Services in time of wat.
But that means a reconstruction Austen's censure, we are bound to tröm top to bottom and all remember that other Ministers through. The vigour and impul~
The services are Three, but for were almost equally responsible for ston and ascendency of the famous Britain, above all amid the condi- prolonged Inertia and misjudg-committee in the decade before tons of modern, war, Defence Is ment. No technical secrets were 1914 have gone out of it. Then it One. Unless the Committee of Im- chlefly concerned. The main facts
was packed with abilities, political perial Defence is reconstructed as about cumulative re-armament by and professional. Now it is dead we said from top to bottom and all other Great Powers after Herr and-alive by comparison. When through, and that without much. Hitler's triumph in Germany-with acute differences of view arise be- further delay, Armis will not be the parallel activities in Russia, tween the services, it may and does adequately guided by Brains. We Japan. Italy, and elsewhere were happen as has been confessed shall find, no surety or guarantee open and known to every indepen- that crucial and urgent issues ins-in all the rest. We are faced by dent investigator. All the spar-tead of being settled may be a task as colossal and complex, rows in Europe piped from the shelved for as long as possible.
and at the same time as urgent, as housetops about things our-Nation-
any nation has ever confronted.
al Cabinet did not know.
IL AN OBSOLETE SYSTEM
"Filling Up Gaps" was the mini- pising and delusive phrase at the last General Election. We now
As Sir Austen Chamberlain testi- fles, the chairmanship of a body The major fault, as Bir Austen which ought to be all-important went on to recognise with his usual can no longer be held by the head Justice, lies not in the Prime Minis of the Government: "The Prime know that "alling up gaps" really ter, but in the system. It is im-Minister to-day has too much pa means "making up appalling de possible for any Prime Minister, or his hands." No Prime Minister- ficiencies with exceptional speed for any other Minister burthened whether like Mr. Ramsay Mac and at enormous" cost. No one with departmental duties, to be a Donald or of Mr. Baldwin's very puts the whole charge for the competent chairman of the Com- different type-can give sufficient mittee of Imperial Defence: ar to time and concentration to the con- in part to it the requisite spirit of tinuous business on which the scrutiny, energy, grip, and decision. safety and existence of the nation
· Mir.: Ramsay. MacDonald and Mr. and the Empire may depend in the Baldwin alike ought to have re- sequel,
·cognised this long ago.
V. RECONSTRUCTION_AND URGENCY
three years' programme soon to be disclosed in the "impending White Paper at less than a sum exceeding. £280,000,000. The three Bervices are scrambling for their shares on the old principle of "Pull devil, bull baker" There are, dire posal- Bilities of waste, confusion, and error in the distribution of the As Lord Eustace Percy's speech The chairman of the recon- money. It is lita and death to for the Government sumciently structed Committee must evident create. Without further procrastina- recognised last Friday, it would be ly be a Cabinet Minister free from tlon a new Supreme Council of suicide to conting the austing departmental duties, and able to Defence which shall give the coun- system derived from the simpler devote his whole being to the duty try some far better assurance that circumstances of a generation ago. of unifying Defence as a whole, the gigantic expenditure we are That system is obsolete. By com- He must supervise and adjust all about to provide shall be spent-in parison with modern requirements, inter-relations between the three the right ways; and shall ensure it is inercient and dangerous fa Bervices. He must see that their or us, so far as is humanly possi the highest degree. It is devoid of activities and aims are cohesive bls, the Fower and Safety it is. the elements of unifying direction, and not discordant. His body of meant to purchase.
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