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Paying For War
During the past two years Ger many has put in large a proportion of ita national income into war pro- duction that it was able to stari hostilities with the maximum of mechanised foren. It appears that Germany has left little margin for increasing this production without depriving the nation of the bare necessities of life. The time has come when Britain, too, is swinging over from a high peace production to full war production, and its inherent strength is now manifest ing itself.
Britain has large capital resources and Bound currency, and external trade, unlike Germany's, will continue is all parts of the world. Britain, like Germany, has to face costs of production which for most kinds of armaments Rro far greater than in the World War. Some of the modern types of air. plane cost ten times as much as was needed to produce a similar typo in 1918. It takes twice as much to equip modern divisions of the army កម to equip the Icas highly mechanised divisions in the Inst war. For the colossal expenditure now required Britain must be prepared to use its great resources till it, too, reaches a maximum of production. So far as factories and man-power are available, there is no estimable limit to the expenditures which Britain will incur.
This does not mean that Britain has 11: bottomless purse. Tho nation cannot devote an ever- Increasing part of its energy and Its money to war production without decreasing the proportion devoted to other purposes. That in to say, the nation. must pay for the war. It must sacrifice other things to feed the war monster.
Its citizens must spend less on hair daily living in order that the Tino
may consume more. Parliament and people recognised this when cellor of the John Simon, Chan- the House of Cummons with taxa- Exchequer, went to tlon demands the
of which before
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By accepting this sacrifice, the British agreed to reduce the bur den of debt on posterity, and in Ao doing to avoid the risk of present inflation and mounting. prices. It was a bold thing to do to put so heavy a burden on an already burdened people. But in modern warfare the sacrifico must be universal. This fact as well as Increased costs is sure to engender some support for paaco-whenever a sound and just peace can made.
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THE BORE
Hitler: "And I meant him to stay only a little while!"
Men
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OMINAL 18ader of the German Army in the West is the shyest of all the German generals- WILHELM VON KEITEL, sub- ordinate only to Hitler, who has himself assumed supreme command.
Kellel's recent career is mora suggestive of a military clerk than A soldier or strategist.
He has worked in the German War Ministry for many years and is now 57. During the war of 1914- 18, he commanded an artillery regiment for short time, but afterwards he staff officer.
Was 3 He was given his supreme position following the army purge February, 1830. Hitler then dis- missed every Reichswehr general who held ideas of his own. Keltel was not among them.
REAL position of Com- mander-in-Chief is held by a Prussian officer WALTER VON BRAUCHITSCH
Recent evonts have proved Brauchitsch to be one of the Reichswehr generals of the Luden- dorff type. He holds strong political
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Pen pictures of Hitler's military leaders on the Western Front, now the main war theatre and llable any day to blaze up into violent activity BY
WILLI FRISCHAUER
vlows and is extremely nationalist, but not necessarily a hundred per cent, Nazi.. Like Ludendorf, he has achieved success in the Eaat and turns now with increased ambitions to the West.
Braschitsch is assisted by the least significant of all German generals Artillery - General FRANZ HALDELL, his deputy.
The uficial Naci blography about Halder has nothing better to Bay of him than that he "expressed the Reichswehr's respects to Ludendorff on his seventieth birth- day."
The others
others are the men who really conduct the war. One of them. General VON KUND- STEDT, is 63, and is Hitler's specialist for occupations.
As military commander of Ber-
CLIPPED WINGS
by John Heygate
OR the first few weeks the two young evacueca clung to their mother's skirts. The country was strange and cold to them,
They missed the life of the streets, and the life of the farm was a very poor sub- stitute. Besides, there was no ice-cream
They seriously thought of running away to London.
In the third week they showed a little more interest. They all looked down-on the plodding drudgeries of the farmer and wondered how he could posalbiy go on But they con- doing such dull tasko. descended to ask questions.
Erale, the boy, the older, asked: "What
call those, mister?" "Ducks," said the farmer laconically. "Why's one got colours on his back and the other's plain brown?" asked Ernio's sister, being shut up instantly by her brother who remembered having seen a pair of them in a London park,
Why don't they fly away, Mr. Farmer?" he asked Instead.
"Because their wings is clipped,” said the farmer, and moved away, followed by the two chilldron, now showing decided signs of
Intareat.
Next day the children were up early. watching the farmer feed his two ducks.
"Don't they got tired of swimming round the same bit ur water all day?" naked Ernia. "It ain't a bit of water to them." repilad the farmer,
"And why should they? One place is as good as another
lin he was for a short time military dictator of Prussia. His activity was then chiefly directed against Nazis and Communists.
Since then he has made it up with Hitler. He marched into the Sudetenland at the lead of the German troops last year, and led the advanced guard of the German troops against Poland.
He is bald-headed, thin-lipped, .
ruthless and harsh. energetic.
It is predicted that General WALTER VON REICHENAG Will lead the spearhead of the German attack in the West..
Reichenau is perhaps, the only full-fledged Nazi among the Ger- man generals. An artillery officer and a sportsman, he was in com- mand of the Munich and Leipzig Karrisons under Ellier.
when it's your home." Which was too much for Ernie and his sister, who retired, baffed.
But in the evening they were back in time for feeding. It was the gizi'a turn: What happens when their wings grow? Don't they fly away, Mr. Farmer?"
"Maybe they do. But they don't go far. And they comes back."
"Why?"
The farmer looked at the two children. Ito scratched his head. "I dunno," he said. "But I reckon if you were to get your meals three times a day regular in the same place-good sound country grub; náns of your ice-creams and stuff- reckon you wouldn't ny far neither!".
Tho
former was right.
There's no need to clip those children's They've already taken wings any moro. over the duck-feeding, and that farm to them is beginning to reem as large a home as the pond to the ducks!
He
would have been Hitler's choice as 0.-in-0. had not the army ex- pressed resentment at the posal- bility of a party" man assuming command.
Another German genéral ex- pected to play a big part in the West is GUENTER VON KLUGE, communications export of the Ger- man Reichswehr,
Wounded the Battle of Verdun, bo has a family tradition of experience in war againat . France. His father was Kluck's
chief assistant in the last war.
Quenter von Kluge has devoted hin Hg to the study of anti- French strategy. Hitler recognised his ambillon, and allowed him to load the German troops which occupied the Rhineland Now Kługo wants to march into Francel
FOUR other generals will be found on the Western Front. One is --VON- BOOK, ~formerly-attached to- the German Crown Prince's staff. He was highly decorated, and was given important commands after the last war. He led the German troops into Austria in March, 1938.
Another 18 General VON BLASKOWITZ, "invader" of Czecho-Blovakia. Blaskowitz, how- ever, is a devoted defender of the Reichswehr traditions.
General LIST · commañús the German troops along the Swiss frontier, He is a Bavarian and a Nazi, but his military record is in- significant.'.Five years ago nobody had ever heard of him, even a Germany. Now he is one of Hitler's favourites.
Finally we como to GEORG VON
· KUECHLER, who is rather a mill- tary professor than a strategist, He is responsible for the training of the troops, and only Hitler's lack of generals loyal to his regime has in duced him to give Kucchiera com-
band.
He is 58, a man of little person- ality.
THE German air force in the West is led by the Flight-Clonerals LDEIR KESSELRING and JESCHONECK. Lochr is an Austrian, one of the legal Nazis who betrayed their country to Hitler. Kesselring is a Bavazian, and close personal friend of his chief, Goering.
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Jeschoneck only forty, and his chief qualification for the big job is hin ardent Nazi faith and his, personal bravery as a flyer..
Soviet Open First Cocktail Hall
MOSCOW, DE, 4.- The Soviet authorities formally. opened their first so-called "cocktail hal last night. Thirty virlelles, were tasted by official guests in the State-operated bar in a street named after Maxim Gorki. The Soviet Press claims that the bar is decorated: In the highest possible taste.
Sovlet alcohol on general· salo to the public in ustaully less than a year old. It is therefore, apt to be shat- tering, especially when mixed, even "in less than 30 variclita.