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"POSITIVE PEACE POLICY"
of
Y
Maybe I can Mr. Lloyd
help
... notes by a war
reporter for the A.R. P. chief to take with him on his
tour
OUNG' Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, "Minister for A.R.P.,"
is flying to Doncaster, Manchester and Birmingham to study local ARP. progress and problems.
His job is to see that if bombs do drop on Britain they shall do as little damage as possible.
I should like to help him.
Not that I claim to be anything in the way of an expert on A.R.P.
I don't pretend to know the technical points of the hundred and one things he will have to take care of-air-raid shelters, subterranean depots for petrol (it's sad what happens to petrol dumps when they're not undergound, like battered top-hats those at Tarragona look), co-ordination of electric power plants' so as to ensure that even if one or two important stations are knocked out there will still be ample emergency power to carry on essential industries with the least amount of interruption.
But I have been on the receiving end of bombing raids for just on two years now-ever since that July day in 1936 when Paris-Soir's Louis Delapree and I, with the foolhardiness of in- experience, stood thrilled and elited by a roadside watching two Government airplanes dropping bombs on an insurgent airfield, Fortunately for us, they They landed within 100 yards of us. were only tiny little 201b, bombs.
And being a bombee for a couple of years' docs develop a certain air-raid philosophy, gives practical experience in personal A.R.P., modifies first theories.
TN those early days of July 1936 I had magni-
-by- SEFTON DELMER
Apar
300
*300*
These diagrams are from handbook Delmer brought from Madrid
Top: An open trench. Says Delmer ¿"Trenches are splendid protection against the light percussion bombs used in town-bombing civilians," Bottom Earth: banked against the walls of a house deflects a bomb.
are
WHEN Mr. Lloyd has
to us, and where those people
made sure that there live who help most to win the
war.
suflicient shelters in the By that I mean, put shelters danger areas then he can begin close by the munition works, building big shelters in the non- the power stations, telephone combatant residential districts. and telegraph exchanges, the In the meantime I would ad- docks, the Government build- vise him to concentrate on ings, airfields, and other obvious equipping the residential dis- targets.
tricts with emergency trenches Mr. Lloyd should do his and dug-outs for protection utmost TOW in peacetime to against light percussion bombs, make it possible for the men which I have noticed the Italian and women to carry on their and German bombers use when
The fairly widespread belief that Great Britain was about to take a more positive attitude in the chronic Czecho-Slovakian dispute with the Sudeten German minority, a belief which was so sincere on the part of many London commentators that they confidently predicted the terms of the new pronouncement policy, has been short-lived. Sir ficent principles on what to do when bombed-ruther on the John Simon, Chancellor of the lines of bull-fighting they were. Exchequer and himself a former
I remember airing them to Britain will do so with real live work in safety and without In- terror-bombing civilians in Bar-
terruption during air-raids. He celona. Foreign Secretary, has knocked Mr. Gordon Selfridge jun., up in bombs from the word go.
Guadarram Mountains. The the
So do as Mr. Selfridge did. can do so by seeing that under- Trenches are splendid protec- the forecasts on the head. British policy has not changed "The thing to do," I said, "is to Get into a ditch or a trench if ground workshops are prepared tion against these percussion keep your eye on the bomb. Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd has not built and existing buildings fortified bombs, because this type of Watch it as it comes down and you a shelter by that time. against bombs.
bomb explodes on hitting the step aside before it lands." And here I may give my first I will give an example,
ground, sending splinters and A few minutes later we were advice to Mr., Lloyd.
In Barcelona the telephone fragments of stone laterally for being bombed.
exchange is above ground. As as much as 200 yards. If you Mr. Selfridge, very sensibly,
HE must begin building soon as there is an air-raid are standing in the way, it's air-raid shelters right alarm the telephone stops func-good-bye to you and lucky if got into a ditch by the roadside.
away. It is no good waiting un- tioning." and lay down flat with his head til any trouble has started or, as No calls go through until the up.
there's any of you left to pick turned to the ground, his arms in the case of poor Barcelona, "All clear" has been given, per- covering the back of it.
from what it was when the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, made his Govern- ment's stand known on March 24. There is no pledge to sup- port France in any war in which she becomes involved 48
21
result of her promise to defend
the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia.
:
But keep below the surface
head and you will be far safer
I stood and watched the air- until the enemy start dropping haps an hour and a half later. level in a trench or a pit and the Sir John Simon has reiterated plane, saw the little black speck bombs. By that time it is too This stoppage is a most serious splinters will travel over your
late, and again, as in Barcelona, handicap. that Great Britain's is "n posi-fall from it. I ran madly in you will not be able to afford In Madrid all the switchboards than in, houses. The trouble tive policy of peace." That what I thought was the opposite sufficient labour or material. and the exchange Itself have about houses is that they are must be presumed to mean that direction to the bomb and threw
He must not build shelters at been moved deep underground. apt to collapse if a percussion myself down behind London continues to fight shy of Pfooee...vroom," the bomb plan, in the places where they ped working-except on such
a rock. hazard, but according to careful The telephone has never stop-bomb blows away part of them. commitments one way ог
That's why those who an-landed-five yards from me. other, but that His Majesty's had run towards it, not away. Government will continue to use But it was a dud,
I
can.
are most likely to be needed. occasions as Franco succeeded 'in afford it in Barcelona have made Don't let him begin by build- cutting the lines outside the their houses percussion proof by strengthening the supports and. its influence and powers of per- As a matter of fact, examina- ing them in the big residential town.
areas, even though that may I have been able to talk to building special walls for shock guasion to keep the peace of tion showed it was not even make him popular with the London while shells were drop-protection. Europe. Beyond that the gen-bomb, but a live shell which had voters. Shelters must first be ping on the building I was in. been dropped in the hope that it built where the enemy is most The London operator, hearing might explode on hitting the likely to drop his bombs, where them, said: "Say, what's all ground.
most dangerous that noise at your end?"
You will not have any luck like that. Any one who raids
If
eral public is left to guess at the British intention; all is dark and mere, unsatisfactory as- sumption, And yet perhaps the psychology behind this silence is deeper and wiser than it seems. There is always the question in Nations may some day be made the minds of the men who play an instrument really effective in at chess on Europe's bloodied international affairs, a rea! ['board: "What will Great power for the policing not only
Britain do? That doubt, the of Europe but the world. possibility that British might Britain is to take the lead in may be thrown into any conflict such a desirable endeavour, she us a determining factor may must have the friendship and very well impell those who con-goodwill of all powers; she must template some desperate venture be known as an unbiased peace- to reconsiderand, let it be maker, a friendly mediator, hoped, change forceful tacties enemy of none, ally of all. That for peaceful and prudent arbitra-is the role she has chosen; and tion.
it requires the utmost tact and In the Czech-German crisis, caution to play the part con- which is the chief concern of vincingly. The parallel, is not Britain, as of all the Great to be taken as a suggestion that Powers, at the moment, the Britain is "playing a part” with value of "n positive peace policy" any intention of deceiving one is clear, although it may appear or other of the European or world powers, As a to be anything but "positive" in the accepted sense. It must nation she is doing what Lord convey that to the peace-breaker tunciman is doing as her select- Czech- Britain will be antagonistic. At cd mediator the same time it avoids the mis- German trouble. She takes no take of committing the country sides. But if, as is suspected to a course of action which in some quarters, the German might very well have the effect army attempts to force the of hardening the hearts of those Czecho-Slovakians to the will of His Majesty's Government is so Berlin, what ivill Great Britain anxious to appease,
A posi- do then? The answer is in the tive" polley in the defence of hearts of the people. But for Czecho-Slovakia might destroy the moment it is not to be for all time the hope, still spoken, for the Government is Icherished by so many: British not contemplating - war, t
people," that the League or hopes and works for peace.
other
in
the
his bombs are
GRIN AND BEAR IT
wouldn't give much.
NOT that I believe the enemy will be able to spare the airplanes for serious. raids on the residential areas of Britain. He will have his work cut out trying to bomb first- class objectives the destruction.
By Lichty which would more seriously
Maaimillan's algitature on that treaty. got on old LOU. of hu?
uffect Britain's capacity to carry on the war.
Even on Barcelona there have been comparatively few pure terror raids.
And London surely will never be as helpless as Barcelona was. during those three days of air terror last March. They came: at a time when the Franco- armies had broken through the. Government front and seemed to be sweeping forward irrealstibly, The Government air force had shrunk to double figures. There was not a fighter that could be spared from the front for the defence of Barcelona.
guns.
And the anti-aircraft that were there were too old and too fow to frighten the German: and Italian bombers,
So the city was to all intenta defenceless.
I cannot see London or any" part of Britain in the plight.
same:
ONE of the things that
startle me is this ideas
of wholesale evacuation of the population which I find so earnestly discussed here, Ar
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