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Arms Profits
SOME at least of the lessons of
the Great War have not been forgotten. One after another, restrictions then found necessary are returning to a new period of life.
Excessive profit on the making of armaments might have pass- ed without particular notice during normal times, but in the present phase of our existence, when so many millions of money are being absorbed annually by the war god, it is essential that the national necessity should not i be exploited unduly for private gain.
of
taxation The equitable armament profits is a very com- plicated matter, likely to cause much worry to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his collabora- lors, but it seems, from the details given in the White Paper published last week, that the Government is attacking the problem in a reasonable way. The firms directly concerned in the proposed new impost are not likely to show much enthusiasm for it, but their feelings will not the general weigh much with public!
Despite the present extent of the expenditure on armaments, even the Government's most Junrelenting and ingenious critics have had singularly little to say about the country's not getting value for its money. This, it is to be hoped, justifies the assump- tion that there are no "scandals" such as came to be associated with armaments expenditure during the Great War. In the stress of that struggle money had to be spent with often inadequate supervision.
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THE STRONGEST PARTY.
ASTON ABBEY DIVISION NORTH SOUTHWARK ELECTIONS
VOTERS 43,000
MON-VOTERS 71,000
Admirals All!
to
HE man
who 18 become First Sea Lord in place of Admiral Sir Roger Backhouse has, during the last four years, borne a greater load of res- ponsibility than any other officer of the Royal Navy.
For four years the Mediter- ranean has been the cockpit of Europe, and hardly a month has passed in which a threat of general European war has not arisen in that area.
Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, the new First Sea Lord, was due to De- come Commandersin Chlef in the Mediterranean in 1935, in sucess- sion to Admiral Sir William Fisher, He wen
went out to the Mediterranean to take over the new duties, and then there arose the Eastern Medi- terranean crisis following the Italo-Abyssinian disputo.
In the circumstances a change In Commanders-in-Chief at that moment was thought unwise. Bo Sir Dudley Pound served for several months as Chief of Staff to the man whom he should have relieved.
The load of responsibility which was borne by senior naval officers in the Mediterranean at that time was shown by the sudden tragic
of death
Admiral Sir William Fisher soon after he had turned over the Mediterranean
T
-by Lt.-Commander- KENNETH EDWARDS, R.N. the distinguished writer on Naval matters
of the Mediterrancan Ficct. The Eastern Mediterranean crisla was then simmering down, but there was no return to normal peacetime activities for the Mediterranean Ficet,
There was civil war in Palestine. and civil war broke out very soon
Ships were afterwards in Spain. bombed from the air, machine- gunned.submarines.
mined, and attacked by pirate
In every case the responsibility for inter- preting the Government's policy on the spot rested on Sir Dudley.
The Admiralty does not inter- fere with the Naval Commanders- in-Chief. They are kept informed of the general principles of polley which
may be involved, and they are given advice if they ask for it. They are, however, the men on the spot, and the Admiralty trusts them to do the right thing at the
right time.
Rather above average height, grey-haired and with a weather- beaten face it by a pair of plerc-
ing eyes, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
is not without his enemies.
From 1932 to 1935 Bir Dudley Pound was Second Bea Lord and
Command-to-Admiral-Bir-Dudley Chief of the Naval Personnel at Pound and returned home.
It was in March, 1930, that Sir Dudley Pound tools over cammand
the Admiralty. This was a period during which the full effects of many years of disarmament were
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being felt in the officer ranks of the Royal Navy.
process
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Admiral Found was responsible for the necessary weeding-out
such and
promotions cir- there were.
It WAS which mado the cumstance
far larger weeding-out procesa than the promotions, but a large number of
officers and their friends blamed Admiral Pound for the fact that their careers were
ended as he gained
Such
in certain quarters was inevit- able. He was not concerned with the private lives of officers, nor with the
of whether or question not an officer was capable of up- holding the honour of the Navy in sport, games, or social activities. He was concerned solely with the fighting efficiency of the Navy-a goal which he pursued energetic- ally and ruthlessly.
Having been Second Sea Lord, Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, and Director of the Plans Division of the Admiralty, Sir Dudley Pound knows Whitehall thoroughly. Moreover, he had pofitient experi ence when he was the Admiralty representative to the League of Nations.
Sir Dudley Pound as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Star will be the professional head of the Admiralty,
The Admiralty really consists of Board of Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral." under which work six Divisions of the Naval Staff, and 6 number of departments.
There are ten members of the
Board of Admiralty. The political side is represented by the First Lord,
the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, and the Civil Lord, who administers the Civil Staff and is responsible for all works and buildings.
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of the The professional side Board of Admiralty consists of the First Bea Lord, who is also Chief of the Naval Staff; the Second Sea Lord, who is Chief of the Naval Personnel; the Third Sea Lord and Controller: the Fourth Bea Lord, who is Chief Bupplies and Transport; and the Fifth Sea Lord, and Chief of the Naval Air Sor- vices; and the Deputy Chief of the Naval Stad, who is the First Sea Lord's deputy and is particu larly concerned with questions of Intelligence, Plans and Operations. The tenth member of the Board is the Permanent Secretary-a.
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Civil servant. Tho Admiralty Secretariat is one of the many paradoxes which are to be found in Whitehall. It is manned by civilians concerned entirely with title naval matters, yet its official
Military Branch."
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The Naval Staff has six branches -the Naval Intelligence Division, the Plans Division, the Operations Division, Training and Staff Duties Division, Naval Ale Division, and Tactical Division,
The titles of most of these divi- sions of Naval Staff are self- explanatory. It is worth noting, however, that the Plans Division is not only concerned with wor
Plan
but with plans for the de- fence of maritime trade; both the Tactical and Training of Staf Duties Divisions are concerned with exercises carried out by the Ficct while Operations is con- corned with the movements of ships from place to place.
There are nearly twenty other departments in the Admiralty, varying from Education and Pay to Torpedoes, Mines, and the Pro- duction of Charts. All of these departments come under one or other of the members of the Board,
Such Important departments as that of the Engineer-in-Chief, the Contracts Department and Naval
Ordnance
ace and Equipment come under the Third Sea Lord and Controller, who is really the tech- nical head of the Admiralty, re- sponsible not only for the com- position of Building Programmes. but
for the designs of various
those
pro- ships included grammes.
It is not the Prime Minister in Cabinet who decides upon the disposition of the British Navy. There is a Committee of Imperial Dofence, which is for over examin- ing
tho strategical problems 11- volved by the following of any particular policy in any particular part of the world.
To-day, the lines of policy are A few years fairly well defined. ngo, however, when the Admiralty was for over struggling to obtain Moto
money from the Treasury, it was almost a commonplace for the Admiralty, on being asked to dis- pose of its strength in order to carry out a certain policy. to spread out its hands and ex-
that it plain regretfully
had neither the ships nor the men, but if the Treasury could be prevalled upon
to supply the deficiencies the Admiralty, on its part, would be only too glad to further, the Government's policy.
Rearmament has banished the lean years. Admiral Sir Dudley Pound'a task will be the easter en this account. The world situation, however, makes the task of the First Bea Lord an unenviablo one for, behind the scenes, it is upon his advice and deserament of strength that the decision of peaco or war very largely depends.
Labour Shortage In Germany
London.
The continued labour shortage In
A waterspout more than 900ft. high, and a whirlwind corkscrewing out of the clouds with a rose like Germany is made evident by the that of an express train, occurred labour exchange figures for May, during a thunderstorm which swept now published, For 1,744,000 vacası- parts of Lancashire recently. Thou- cles in that month there were ne sands of holiday-makers, who had more than 987,000 applicants-184,000. hurried to shelter saw a dark funnel-fower than in April. At the end of The May there were still 752,000 vacari- like cloud sink to the water, William Smith, 40, lent a friend funnel grow longer until it was nearly cleg undlied, 8,000 more than at the
tower, racing towards the shore, old Relch vacancies unfilled this the case of Minnie, the pet cat $1.00 and took a rifle as security. To twice the height of Blackpool's 180ft. end of the previous month; In the of the Queen's hotel. Ever so often try it out, Smith pointed the gin at crasited on the promenade near the (twice as many as at the end of April. Minnie is taken to the movies. Now packing box and pulled the trigger Central Pier and broke up. No in Austria, too, vacancies were more she seems to know the stars by aight Smith's 2-year old god, Ernest damage was done, Th, Manchester d numerous than applicants, the and has apparently picked out her crawled out of the box, shot through tram was struck by lightning and former numbering at the end of May favouritesShirley Temple and the hand and cheek, but not injured hundreds of telephones were put out 20,000 while there were only 69,000
seriously.
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