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THE DEFENCE POOL
Reassurance Established Within the Services
BY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL
Contrary to a good many statements which appeared in the Press at the time, there was anything but a general disposition within the Services themselves to welcome the creation either of former alternative Ministry or a Minister of Defence. The canned considerably more apprehension than the latter. We.. were told that younger officers in particular warmly welcomed the idea of co-ordination, or co-operation, combination, which- ever you choose to call it, as a rule with a pretty clear implica- tlon that they, are the people of thought and vision, whereas old officers are merely obstinate, nawrów-minded old buffers."
I can quite belleve that there al Deterice College was opened in was more enthusiasm so far as September. 1926. The first Com- was Adml. Sir Herbert the word may be justified at all mandant in the younger generation than Richmond a most arduous post, with the older school, For these for upon him tell the responsi pld bunters are able to carry mem- bility of giving practical form to ory back over a wide span, and to the principle upon which the new recall that for as long as they can institution was based.. I ventured recollect this same idea has been to ask him what were his ideas not merely discussed, but serious- upon the subject, and I do not ly investigated by administrative think that at this distance of time authorities by special committees, there can be any breach of con- and by individuals, and that it has fidence in quoting his reply: always been abandoned in face of the various dimculties and obstac- les which have emerged in the course of diligent Inquiry.
Therefore. It was not wholly un- reasonable on the part of the old buffers to wonder whether these same difficulties and obstacles still persisted, and whether it is any easier to overcome them to-day than it was twenty or thirty years ago. On the face of it. the prospect did not appear to be rendered sim- pler by the addition of an entirely new and separate Service and the ceaseless ramifications in the old Services
REASSURING SELECTION.
When it was announced that a Minister for Co-ordination of De- fence had been added to the Cabinet there remained nothing but to suspend judgment and wait and see what he would do. The Prime Minister's references to his functions and powers were both Indefinite and limited, because it was impossible to gather just how much or how little his explanations might come to mean in practice.
"It is difficult yet to say much about the College, beyond what was stated in the House by Bal- four. The object is to study war in its broadest aspects, la the "light of the utilization of the Ser- vices in common: not merely *military 'naval operations," or operations.' or 'air operations --but war.
I welcome it as a means of returning to sanity: of prevent- ing such discussions as those about "invasion' before the war, which was an attempt to rush the country into some form of conscription and change the character of our method of fight- Ing from one maritime to one military, and, again, those about the air which now fill so much space with rubbish. If the Col- lege can do something to teach the use of the powers the Empire possesses in co-operation, it will not only produce efficiency, but also economy, for as Dizzy said, the true parent of econmy is efficiency," "
METHODS AND WEAPONS... The choice for the new post was More than 250 senior officers of reassuring. An eminent lawyer, who the Navy, Army, R.AF., and Over- bad probably never before even seas Forces have passed through thought about most of the things the Imperial Defence College. Of to which he now had to turn his these, many have been, or are, as- attention promised two advantages, sociated with the General Staffs. He could not plunge into a ruth- So, as I have said before. the new less lap of reform, because he had Minister of Defence will find that: absolutely nothing ready to put in a good deal of soll has been tilled the place of what he might uproot. upon the strategical side of co- and chaos would have been very
ordination. This, naturally, reacts) swift. Also he brought to his task
on the technical and, material side. a mind wholly unbiased by any It stands to reason that the three professional bent, so that while the Services cannot study one 5.7- has nearly everything to learn, he other's methods without also study- is quite unoqtimbered by precon- ing one another's weapons. Not ceptions and prejudices in learn- so very long before his tragic death, ing it. Probably another asset is Air Marshal Sir Betton Brancker that he is so accustomed to the read a paper at the R.US.I., in the ways of counsel that his judgment course of which he declared that will be less likely to react to any-four or five aeroplanes could have thing in the nature of special prevented the losses inflicted by! pleading.
the Emden in the Bay of Bengal. . Within the period of some three One cannot but feel that had that months I believe the Minister of distinguished officer spent a year Defence has already reached at the Buckingham Gate establish- point at which he is carrying the ment he would never have made Fighting Services with him. This, such a statement. The presence of of itself. is a great achievement, aircraft with the warships seeking and of essential importance to the to catch the Eniden would have prospects of the big experiment greatly facilitated their search and upon which he is embarking. It probably have much shortened it; would have been so easy to start off this is quite another matter. with a spectacular tit, and the anti-brasshat Press would have ac- claimed such a beginning with tre- mendous approbation.
"AN INEVITABLE ELEMENT. In this, by far the most import- ant phase of his job, it now seems But Sir Thomas Inskip has abeo-clear that Sir Thomas Inskip will first of all acquaint himself with lutely disappointed any such ex- pectation. He has made it clear what the three General Stats have that it is no part of his mission to to propose on the subject of co- try and teach the Services their ordination and differentiate be- business, but rather to learn their tween the lines of harmony and a business, at any rate to the extent certain inevitable element of con- to which such knowledge is indis dict. This, of itself, is going to tax vensable to this job: Moreover, so to the full his powers for think- far as he has unfolded his ideas, ing clearly. But his method of ap- these are much less concerned with proach is promising. During the upsetting the old than with creat debate in which he gave Parlia- an account of his brier ing the new As I see it, his pri- ment mary role is not to reorganize the stewardship, he said that he was Fighting Services for war, but to sow "considering" the question of develop a vast project for "con- the battleship.. scripting" all the national resources for wär
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Of course, what this really means is that he is considering what both the strategical and the technical AN OVERWORKED TERM
experts have been considering and Concerning that much overwork-
experimenting upon long before he ed term "co-ordination," what was ever dreamt of taking an active the new Minister really expected to interest in a subject so very remote do in this direction? The popular from his eminent legal career. He ides appears to be that the word is will be wholly dependent upon. a synonym for amalgamation; that what they tell him and because of
Scottish National Development to the filing of the post of Com one big show is bound to be more his frankness in virtually admit
Council It is expected that he missioner for the Special Areas in economical to run than threeting as much, he will get all that DEVELOPMENT
will make an announcement re- Scotland recently vacated by Sir smaller shows; jumble the Fight- they have to give him. Where he
garding the Government's further Arthur Rose, Bud Ing Services together under one can help them after they have
Lieut.-Colonel Colville, Under-intentions in connection with the supreme control and there you helped hid is that his much wider Secretary of State for Scouand specia; Areas and the recently Neighbour, looking over garden Had authority will enable him to take will be the principal speaker formed Economic Committee now fence Have your bees done well
decisions which no single Service to-day at the luncheon which working in association with the this year, Hikkah b. Tits administration could reach on its will be held in the Grosvenor Counci. Leading industrialists in
are!
In point of fact, so far as a tegical co-ordination is concerned, Sir Thomas Inskip has not found the ground nearly so unprepared as is generally assumed. The Imperi-
own account.
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Restaurant, Glasgow, after the the West of Ecotland are awaiting a decision by the Government as annual general meeting of the
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