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September 21, 1939
Hitler's "Peace"
WHAT HITLER éuenot fathom, as he`rants and råves of the per- fidy of democracies who wage war on him, is that the entire world wants pence. We do not doubt but that Germany wants pence, as Hitler declaimed in his Danzig speech yesterday-but to him must be a peace on his own terms, The world suspects, with good reason, that the price of peace will be German hegemony in Europe. Czecho-Slovakia has al- ready gone. Memelland la back in the fold, Poland is torn and shat- tered, ready for dismemberment. It is all so very obvious that no nation is safe whilst this modern and lustful cimqueror wields such power that, at a word of command, legions of machines and armed men will trample into the dust the independence of a free people.
some
Portrait of
Britons their job
young
OME WHERE in Eng-
land I stood at sunset)
pilot who four years ago was passing into the sixth form at a public school."
Om
In-
by
VICTOR RICKETTS
doing
shooting any attempt to put them over as winged heroes. They aren't. They are ordinary young. Britons who come from the same sort of homes as the young men entching trains to the City every morning. But their job is war flying, and sometimes the accidents do lippen. That is inevilable when the toys they play with weigh tons and travel at miles a minute,through this coun- try's mists and storms,
They are terse while on the job. Once 1 few with a fighter pilot at 1 om. Far away to the south searchlights suddenly blazed and
Over us cireled a flight of three
Hurricanes silhouetted blackly against the sunset. side cach of the rumbling figh- ters sat a war-wise youngster ready to slam his throttle wide open in pursuit of raiding bom-spinning round a few feet either side He was fifty feet above them as they clustered exeltedly round a cloud- for his head. Behind him in a trans- matured past his airfield when his bank. Into.our earphones crackled. 'Gel bera.
parent turret was the gunner. plane caughts fire. Terrified they a command from headquarters.
Flying in the dark they hit an saw his marbine in flames from nose over to—as soon as you can. There We two stund and looked up at
plane. With his damaged to tail.,
are two raiders over there." the fighters, that between
themother
He dropped to the road just in carried enough bullets to kill 10,000 machine golnit steeply down cut of
certain crush Tom roared front of them, bounced as a ball of)
OUR textbook reply was, "Mes- men, and he young man with sliver control to
sige received and under- wings on his ebent said quietly, "No, "Jump" to his gunner, hurled back fire into the next field and there I am not tying to-night. You see I the sliding root over his cockpit and overturned. They were still in their stood."
ratapulted himself outwards.
motionless car, with rescue parties We •3'ere already going full Rofni blind."
Hollway out he thought of the tall racing over the airteld, when Harry throttle to where the bombers had tu, razor-edged at 250 mp.h, and appeared, black-faced, walking out been sighted, with their gun turrets kicked himself out over the wing os of the flames. Ife does not gilttering in the searchlights.
know how he got out. "I just kicked "Message received and under- for as he could.
stood" will be the last anemotional As he sild off the edge into space) hard"
I have just reen Harry with a acknowledgment of orders from the tall of the plane caught him a sluncing blow. He escaped with burn on one cheek. Over blue many, of our fying automatons if bruises and dropped' safely into a uniform is stung the hideous, dirty the enemy bombers ever really come * field.
yellow anti-gas cloak. He is wait to Britain again. The other gimp didn't get cut," ing for the telephone, alarm call that] I have just finished writing this
w bring him with his brother in a bomber squadron's mess. he sakh soberly.
fighter pilots racing Into the Biris beating against the windows.
raiding bombers. "Another Pilots are sprawling in armchairs war after Lir Do you think that
plots are irresponsible young line shooter," he said, introducing me waiting for the word to send them
to his friends.
up ralding again.
The radiogram is crooning senti- THIS article does not say the mentally. "When I Grow Too Old to In Dream,
It was evening, with dew on the airfield grass, camouflaged planes ranged out, mobile Beld eitchen with the fragrant smell of hot culice, and far away, now, the drone of the patrolling fighters.
I said, "Oh." rather stupidly. "They've just taken me off y- ing," I heard trim say. "Both my eger me going a bit dim. F'll be able to see a bit I think, but by- ing's Tnished for me.
1 had a Rugger accident a few years ago, got a kick on the back
11 head. That started
of
the
think."
+
لله
Take a look at Tom's room for
sil
RAF. take their
Roin
Inca? an insight into his character. There
lives is the photogxyh of a pretty girlj
A fair-haired fight-lieutenant with on his dressing table. Among his their hands on every flight. It does
are the face of a boy of mineteen-he bookshelf titles ore "Inside Europe," not mean that our dying men You hear, things, quietly the "Progress and Religion," "Poems of real life editions of semi-hysterical commands a twenty-one-ton bomber You
Henry Kendall," "When We Were Hollywood test pilots who D that, that beat the films....
up just been, discussing air tactics. "When we really start fighting we Young "Swimming! the while men on the ground toss a coin, This same boy was until a little Very while ago a pilot in a crack fighter Amerleon Crawl," and "story of to see if they will come back again. are the people who'll go first on both The R.A.F. ensualty list, compared sides, the experienced pilots. We'll squndron. It, was his life, and very: Ancient Philosophy."
Two motorists can tell the story with hours Bown, probably mop each other up in a few weeks nearly his death.
of an afternoon in the life of Harry, Europe's lowest. And very properly and then it will come down to you Bouring along on night manoeuvres flier in the same squadron as Tom. the. RA.F. pilots consider as no people without much, experience." he had the, reni-life nightmare of all who fly in the, dark-instantaneous and complete breakdown of his engine.
At five miles a minute his engine started coming to pieces, Beneath were no lights, only durkness hid- ing trees, hedges, walls, rivers;""all the necessary things to break his neck trying to land three tons steel at ninely m.p.h.
He
of
Nothing new arises from Hitler's speech. What is chiefly significant is the fresh evidence that he con-
only Look the
way oui, tinues to be wedded to the method through the sliding roof of the drop-
ning fighter
with, a klelt to of the mailed fist. He couki ensily,
carry himself clear as he fell into had he been so minded, driven spner. Then the moment of sus- triumphantly into Danzig after | pense. wondering if the silken would negotiation and without the atten- shrouds of the parachute dant horror of force, which has
open. They did, with a jerk that knocked the breath out of hits plun claimed so many innocent Polish meting body. lives.
With Hitler, menaces have be come an end in themselves and anything obtained without them is by so much less worth having. The manner of his aggression against Poland only makes it more obvious that, if Britain and France wore to "call it off", now aggres- sions would be in store for each of his neighbours.
Poland is gone. Other eastern European nations, particularly Rumania and Hungary, will have cause for fresh alarm in the demise of their neighbour, just as the Christmas turkey who sees his companions' heads go one by one under the chopper dismally notes that each time a head is chopped means that his turn is 50 much
nearer.
sense
"Don't you believe that slu about coming down like thletie-down," he grinned. "You hit the ground with. a wallop."
"The Foreign Affairs
Committee
THEY MET AGAIN YESTERDAY NAMES ARE NEVER DIVULGED SECRETS IN CODE COME TO THEM BASSIES.ALL OVER THE WORLD
Meet"
THEIR secrets are conveyed in cipher mes
sages corried from the distant em- STATE bassics in tie special Foreign Office
bags. FROM EM-
-
THEIR
REPORTS ARE LOCKED IN SPECIAL BOXES OF we went to a hangar to collect my WHICH THE KING HOLDS ONE OF THE KEYS
The fighters were out of sight and
own parachute ready to take when our patrol time enme,
Extremely confidential statements are borne on the person of the mes- senger himself or contained in a bag
which he and his immediate chiet
In the Communications Branch of
cials alone have the key.
Foreign Office and very high offi-
Opinions and statements and re- YESTERDAY the Prime public servant he thinks should be
ports are decoded by expert officials in the Foreign Omce and the various Minister walked from consulted. Droke ur Wellington would
and But who is present will never be embassies
legallan abroad. approve to-day of the average R.A.F. his study to the Cabinet room at
publicly known. And is, impossi-When a fair copy is made it la duly pilot,
No. 10, Downing-street to pre-te for the outside observer to dis-recorded and the document sent to
TEET another one. We will ME
call him Tom. He is limp-side over a meeling of the Forever, for there is more than one the high official concerned. In the
way to the Cabinet room apart from case of grave matters like those now." ing round now with bandages on his cign Affairs Committee of his the front door of the Prime Minis-ot issue they would come under the side and weikt. "Afraid I shan't be Majesty's Government.
ter's house.
immediate supervision of Sir Alexan- der Cadogan, the Permanent Under- flying until next week," he apolo-i
The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Secretary
State fore Foreign question of Russia's Sir John Simon, himself a former Affairs. He was censoring my story before aggression against Poland camo Foreign Secretary, who is invailably I telephoned at midalght from the up for prolonged discussion, a consulted in questions of this kind, pilots room with the black painted discussion which was later con- lives next door, and there is n pri
gised.
windows,
The
of
Messengers to the King tinued in the House of Commons, vate passage between the two houses, WHEN the Foreign Minister is given reports for submission Outside men were grumbling a
There is also a passage which fest to the Prime Minister and sub- they picked their way round the| Now it is well known that what leads to the Treasury in Whitehall.
When he had happens in that famous room in the This is frequently used by Ministers sequently to the King, these reports blacked-out airfield.
jare locked up in special boxes or read my story he said thoughtfully: old Georgian house is kept a strict
fenses and guin there are only "I couldn't stand your job. I'd be State secret. Every Cabinet Minis #bunch of nerven In a week. You ter is sworn to alience. Sometimes)
Jecrtain number of keys. seem to be rushing round all the
one
It's not
often there is the bald announcement that there took place in "Cabinet Council" together with the names of Ministers present.
such occasions.
Poland has never enjoyed the of security which some nations felt when German might was eliminated from European politics, in 1919 and which the
Three Defence Chiefs
The King, like other high officers Polea might have been expected to time doing a different Job every brief communtque is lasued. More feel because Russia, as well as the day."
ALTHOUGH there is no static of State, has the key to open all those Central Powers, lost the Great I looked at his bandagen: "Sorne
composition of the Forclan despatch cases, and when he is away dally service War. For though each of these
people would have nerves doing your
Affairs Committee it is usual for the from London there is Secretaries of State of the three Ser of messengers from Whitehall carry- job." countries was for a timo weakened,
He didn't think so. "My excite But when the Foreign Affairs Com-
vices departments to attend. Poland always had to reckon with
fing the precious containers bound in morocco leather and embossed with two possibilities whose existence ment is purely physical."
It is by no means always the case the Royal Arms and cipher, strain an mental mittee meet no stalement is made, side by side constituted a paradox. nearly such a
no names of Ministers round the that an Ambassador can be present, to make a personal statement before. table are ever divulged. One was that Germany and Russin
And this is Tom's to adven- might some day go to war against
ture. story, He was flying_a_new] In theory this important commit-from it. each other: the second was that
type warplane that was originally tee are really a consultative body they might take an opposite course
designed without 100 much con- working on behalf of the rest of
For example, when Hitler march-slona by means of a service of pri- and become allied.. The latter sideration of how its crew should their colleagues. To reveal theired into Poland, a special meeting of penis that in matters of particular evont unhappily occurred; in
names might imply that they assum-the committee was called to discuss genvity the Prime Minister drives to either event, however, Poland's in- On the walls of his Flight office ed responsibility for decisions taken, suggestion by the French Gaver Bucklogham Palace to see the King dependence was jeopardised.
notice saying Air Ministry whereas, by the unwritten law of the ment. This suggestion was com- personally. Through their travail, however,
tests with dummies are now going Constitution, in all Cabinet matters munfented through the British Am- on to find out the best method of there must be the collective respon-bassador in Paris, Sir Erle Phipps. In the oveni of further informa- Poland's people will remember thut history has shown that Po-
quitting these planes without fallibility of all. If a Minister finds he But how was that communication tion being required on any subject land's great battles for Indepening into the tall or propellera as you cannot accept the opinions of his made and how was it kept such a there is a system of private telephone
Jump clear, "Full details will be colleagues must resign.
lines to the various Government de- dence have been fought on allen
and partments, circulated in due course," soil. This latest battle will be
Tom piloted one of these planes, The Prime Minister can call tới In cases of this kind the Foreign brought to No. 18 or to the Hee of fought on the western front of sitting of his controls with the black these special sub-committees of the Offee is the clearing house for con- Commons by means of special trusted Gerinany
State messengers of long'service. painted metal, biades of propelters Cabinet Council any Minister ori fidential
get. out of in emergency.
Is t
On occasions like the present the the Foreign Affairs Committee. Farf King is kept hourly informed of
what goes on the Cabinet discus-
vate communications. It often hap-
dend' secret? -
communications.
documents
are