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T WAS a definite, direct fear of war that spread over Britain six months ago. Now, it is something entirely different. In a mat- ter of weeks the people of our Homeland have come to the knowledge that there is a big difference between the fear of war and prepared- ness for war.
But they have reached that understanding with a slowness that almost confirms the Con- tinental jokes about British wit.
Months ago, the armament factories of Britain began to produce death-dealing machinery at a rate unknown in England
since the war.
Although those sometime in- comprehensible "D-notices"-____ the secrecy regulations which are Britain's nearest approach to totalitarian methods-have dis- guised our activities, most peo- ple realise now that only a step or two will be neeeded to put this country on to that much- discussed war basis.
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matter of intense interest to the That is why, to-day, when a democratic Powers of the world, book is published which claims yet the Russian authorities have to give the complete facts of the so far placed the greatest difli- strength of the world's military culties in the path of all official Powers, care must be taken in and unofficial investigators of
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Jitters
When we cast our eyes back through the newspaper files of the past twelve months, the first thing that becomes obvious is) that Germany, Italy and Japan are acting in concert.
MR.
TR. WERNER has made
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This map-diagram, reproducel Times," from the "New York gives an idea of the difference between Europe's peace and war-time strength, but it should be noted that the figures are in some cases only rough estimates. Two things are, however, be yond all doubt tho naval superiority of Britain and the numerical military predomin ance of Russia,
~£70,000
OLAND
SOVIET RU
It detracts from the value of any book when the author. in- sists upon remaining anonymous. The name of the book is "The
one of his most in-
realised that for five years now pre- Military Strength of the Powers" teresting chapters from the (Gollancz, 7s. Gd.), and the au- sent and potential strength of modern military experts have thor is given as "Max Werner," Russia. Ile points out that with accepted the fact that the tank said to be the pseudonym of a that country's present produc- and the acroplane will be the "close student of international tion capacities and natural re- main instruments of modern sources she should be in a better in the forefront of the revolu- warfare. They are the weapons. military affairs,”
position and more resourceful on
200,000
THREE years ago-be-
fore Russian factories had reached their present pro- ductive capacities-Colonel Mar- tel, a member of the British Mili tary Mission, watched the Red Army manoeuvres and reported: "The fact that very few tanks were compelled to full out on ac- count of mechanical defects, and that there were no air accidents or forced-landings, inspired us
and aeroplanes." with a respect for your tanks tanks and 1,000 aeroplanes took
In those manoeuvres, 1,000
part.
national "testimonials" which he Considering a mass of inter-
includes in his book, the author a war basis than the United tion in military technique. States. By a series of deduc- During the last war, they were says: "When military experts You will not find, for instance,
FROM the name, and the tions from figures that have been comparatively new instruments, and politicians undercatimato that the pot boils over in Ger-:
fact that a translator's published in Russia and outside and have not yet-despite Spain, the strength of the Red Army, it name is given, we can take it it, he assumes a military and China and Abyssinia-been call they are merely demonstrating many at the same time as
that the author is a foreigner. aviation strength which should ed upon to prove their worth their own backwardness in mo does in China, and you will
Against his anonymity, however, be a grave discouragement to under modern combat conditions. dern military matters." discover that Mussolini never
Whatever the truth of the au- one has to appreciate the mass any ideas of war now held by
"On August 8, 1918, several thor's various and often confus- makes his move until his two of apparently reliable facts sup- the opposite ends of the totali hundred tanks-416 to be pre- ing estimates of the Powers Allies are quiet,
porting quotations that he has tarian axis.
cise broke through the German military strength, he points out Tientsin, of course, is the produced.
Here are some figures, which lines near Amiens in a battle the dreadful moral of a war that latest instance. The Axis "While the diplomats nego- seem so well authenticated by which was the prelude to Ger- could happen to-day. Powers are determined that the tiate, the machinery of war pro- quotations from German, French many's defeat. To-day, that Modern warfare would be a world will have no peace from duction is working at full blast," and British experts, apart from number would represent about terribly methodical, almost war jitters-no sooner will this is the opening of the bood. That-Russian official documents, that-the-strength-of-one-Tank-Divi- mathematical system of destruc
than is one latest trouble be settled
of those terribly self- they cannot be denied
sion, and hardly one-tenth of the tion, based on a time programme. total tank army of any of the big A country Germany or Italy will raise new fevident facts that most wage
determined on war Expenditure on Russian arma- Powers," declares Mr. Werner. earners in this country remem- ment has increased 20 times in
would spend years of time and bered last week when forms World jitters have cost the
five years;
The modernisation and the millions of money in planning were distributed. But from
The war that would democracies hundreds of mil-that opening, he tells the grue-
The standing army last year mechanisation of the Soviet the attack. lions of pounds in the past year. (somely true story of how arma- numbered 1,300,000 men, and Army, he adds, is likely to cur- ensue would be something more Apart from the cost of keeping ments, in twenty years, have there are over 10,000,000 trained price many people who from pre- devastating than anything that judice have looked upon Russia has even been imagined. There navies, armies and air forces grown from the comparatively reserves;
as an unlikely Power in modern Will be nothing of the static kill constantly on the alert, the simple nature of the last war to
Three years ago, 150,000 war politics.
ing of the Western front of a effect on the world's markets has a terrifying pitch of perfection. pilots were being trained; and
quarter-of-a-century ago-how While many people have been old that makes one "They (armaments) are al- 900,000 drivers were under
feel-but been disastrous. It has cost
forced to accept the immense something more scientific and of in-ready exerting a terrible pres- training for military vehicles at figures quoted for Russian tanks ruthless. shippers more because creased war risk rates; the Bure on European foreign policy, the same time.
and aircraft, the importance of world's gold has gone across the and forcing it in the direction of
These figures are of tremend- those figures have been lowered Atlantic to the United States, power of every European State
war," he says. "To-day, the ous importance when it is by stories of unreliability. stocks and shares have fluctuat
is determined by their strength; cd violently; exchange has responded to each fresh excuse strength, and, above all, by their by their political and economic for jitter-bugging.
fears.
It would cost Britain thou-military strength."
The man-in-the-street to-day | sands of pounds to send even one
warship to Tientsin. The Flect is concerned with the military Mobilisation last September cast strength of Russia. Stories of £20,000,000—what the total cost fabulous power, have come from of Mobilisation to the countries the Soviet; stories of thousands surrounding Germany was no upon thousands of aeroplanes, one will ever estimate.
troops dropped by parachute; Don't forget that the Totali and tales of amazing new wea- tarianis escape these expenditures pons.
for they are on a aystem of The strength of the Soviet perpetual mobilisation.
military machine is, in fact, a
war.
By creating crisis after crisis they are waging a novel war on Britain and the other demo- grim tragedy that death in a cracies--an economic war that Bubmarine can be. It has the costs very little less than real special kind of horror that death in a mine disaster too often holds Public confidence in Great where the real tragedy is that Britain can reduce much of the it has to be awaited in allent help- death gains in fearfulness because economic strain imposed on the lessness. Submarine mon take the Democracies. That is why we risk with the same calm equani- should not give way to jitters |mity which the collfer goes down cach time Hitler, Mussolini or the mine. Their work is un- the Japanese militarists start a comfortable and difficult, and the new offensive.
risk is accepted stolcally, almost carolessly, as something to be! avoided if possible, to be faced with calmness if calamity dolls. TWO HUNDRED and eighty-ale The sympathy of two great lives have been lost in the four Democracies, mourning the loss of submarino disastors that have their own bravo sons, will go out occurred in the Atlantic and to the French people. In their Pacific Oceans since last February, tragedy. Sixty-three mon have Imagination does not need assis- given their lives in the Phenix tance to bring home to us the disaster.
Undersea Perils
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
“You woman aro' so hard to pleasaf”. Why aren't you satisfied with the birthday present you bought mo?"
"THE history of war," says our pseudonymle Max Werner, "offers us no his- torical basis on which we can. judge present-day armaments ...To-day, European armies possess between fifteen and twenty, times as. many machine guns as they did in 1914, three times as much artillery, and a number of weapons which were entirely unknown then,
"Artillery range has almost doubled.
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"The tank of 1918 had a speed of three or four miles an hour and a radius of 18 to 25 miles. In 1918, the acroplane had [speed of between 75 and 100 miles an hour and radius of Jaction of between 150 and 180
miles.
"The tank of 1939 has a speed of between 80 and 35 miles an hour and a radius of action up, Ito 180 miles. The aeroplano has ja speed of between 250 and 300 miles an hour and a radius of action between 700 and 2,000 miles,"
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And, he says, the big Euro- pean armies of to-day have Bomething like 25,000 acro- | planés, 30,000 * tanks," 60,000 guns and 200,000 machine guns.
Which should be but is un likely to bo-one of the most potent argumonts for peace.