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Thirty-five years ago Mr. Churchill was making his first speeches as a Liberal and gaining the confidence
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Commons as a Minister. Much has happened since to politics and to Mr. Churchill.
There are probably few who 011 looking back over bls long career would claim that he has always been right. There are some who have so profound a mistrust of his Judgment that they bring to everything he says o mind full of suspicion. But that he stands out among public men as man of character, of initiative, of In- dependence, and of tenacity nobody will deny. And he has at this mo- ment a very special claim to public confidence. Month after month during the fatal drift of Western po-
11
licy, when our realists were talking
the
of composing all the troubles of the world by appeasement, when Nazi rulers were presented to us as harmless en justly sensitive about the treatment Germany had received
character of Cindstone's
the seventies. For Mr. Churchill saw In one case, as Mr. Gladstone saw in the other, that the choice for his
He
February 29, 1940.
break
he
might through ... but afford
couldn't
"I hope Stalin's watching
Life
-a-
in Internment
Buckenwald
you know all
21
British Camp
GESTAPO terrors of Dachau and charges.
are grouped into classes, "A" and "B"-the Class about that, following the Govern- A internees being people of some ment's publication of the White social standing who can't be expected Paper on Nazi tortures in concentrato mix with mere proletarian in- tion camps.
fernces In fact, you con very clear-
brotherly Socialism at all!
B
like military elving anything better food. The colonel, quiet and
though they have not been molly- enddied.
The
are
to
THE myth of the Maginot Line-a section of which has now been taken over by British troops--is that
it is impregnable. And a very dangerous delusion that is: It certainly is not held by the French or the British staffs, to say nothing of the German staff. Those students of military science understand very well the value of fortifications in modern warfare and their limitations.
But the mass of the population in Fránce believe that the Line cannot be broken. Many people here think so too. "On ne passe pas."'
THERE Hes a danger. For if the Line were pierced by a German attack, the public in the two Allied coun- tries would be, dismayed in pro- portion to the confidence they
by Charles Richardson
had been taught to place in the ahead, without being too anxious. invincible strength of the forti- about their flanks, icy believe that. ficution. They might feel, in a they can create a chaos among the wave of pessimism, that the nerve-centres of the hostile army great barrier between them and at hopotence of fis front-line forces.
that will be reflected in a confusion. the Germans had been swept nway,
The further behind the front that the attacked nerve centre les the That would be quite a mistake. wider the length of front that may The piercing of the Line would not be disorganised through the paralysis. Incun defeat and the ending of the or that centre. And in the me-- war, so long as the British and linnised army and the bomber the French armies were substantially In-Cermans think they have the means tact. The effect on the ultimate of paralysing those centres. course of the war. would depend on
the cost to Hitler in Ilves, tanks, airplanes, etc., of breaking through,
E proposition can be ex- pressed as a diagram:-
That
operation might well be so ex- pensive that it brought about Hitler's X, Y and Z the Germann would hope By the heavy bombing of centres ruin, just as the colly German at- to tacks in the spring of 1918 led to reinforcement and promote confusion break communications, prevent the German crack-up in the autumn over an area wider than the front of of that year.
But the effect on Allied morale might be big. It is unwise in, wor to pin to high hopes on the hold- ing of one position.
Line.
ET ux talk some cominon sense about the Maginot
It is a very formidable zone of fortifications designed by the best military engineers in the world, the French, But it is like other fortif~ cations. It can be taken. And that poes for the Slegfried Line too,
The world s littered with the ruins of "impregnable" fortifications. Those ruins still show the breach in the invincible walls through which the assailants poured to victory.
Some British soldiers in France at this moment may be passing one celebrated British military moniment of the Middle Ages. It is one of the masterpieces of medieval fortifica- tion.
They will see an imposing ruin on a rocky height. Cliffs, surmounted by tremendous walls. They may wonder if-end how-it was taken by soldiers who had no artillery or high explosives or even rifles.
castle."
HOLDING ATTACKS
HOLDING ATTACKS.
INFANTRY
BANDE DI
LIGHT. TANKS|
HEAVY TANKS
MAIN
THRUST
B
BOMBED
It might be for from being knocked!·
out.
But in theory, it would re-
the story runs through all over too late. The battle would. the ages. The fort is im-have moved on. The mechanised:
п
Their admiration was shared by come with me to one of Britain's Nailonal Socialism has bred more the first time, exclaimed in delight. the attack. Assuming the main de-
For the other side of the picture, ly see from the "guests" there that he royal builder, Richard Coeur de Lion, who, clapping eyes on it for but essentially reasonable and good-Internment camps. No tortures, no militant snobbishness, and is not "It's a saucy child, my year-old fensive zone pounded by the barrage hearted, when we let our defences hard work, no starvation.
and crossed by heavy tanks, the- chaps are used as botmen. rust and our diplomacy dream, Mr.one disadvantage. You get bored Class A genus pay 48. Ud. a day it-Chateau Gaillard,
Being interned, in fact, has only
So it got its name, Saucy Castle faster mechanised forces, light lanks Churchill was warning the nation stiff. Regulations t
they
can afford it, and get slightly
motorised guns, and Infantry would present prevent that these were lusions, and
Internees from
Three years later, the French Jaid (push further on without paying toom or playing any British public-school spirit into these Guillard fell.
kindly, is trying Illusions for which mankind would
to it. After eight months' much attention to mopping up in lo instil some blege
work by thelr game more arduous than football.
engineers, Chateau the front zone, one day pay a terrible penalty,
Teutons. It isn't easy. Some were brought
bullet-handed to this big
"Comp," of course, is a misnomer. About his campaign for collective transferred; several hundreds of Ger
Internment camp and have since been
internment centre consists of security there was something of the mans have passed through in this several very solid buildings--you
campaign way, and believe me they have been would be amused If I could disclose pregnable-until it is taken. Liege army would be thrusting at X itself.. ngainst Disraeli's Eastern polley in well treated as prisoners of war, where the place is.
was going to hold up the German hoping to turn chaos into parolysis... There's no secrecy, as there la at invasion of Belgium. Llege crumpled at that nerve centre. Dachau. The internees
under the German siege guns in a allowed
This is to over-simplify the Ger The Hindenburg Line week, The "boss" of the camp is to write home to Germany, though
man problem a great deal. But it is.. a rough Guards officer. The iron gates of the view of Saar evacuations only 40 roukl not be taken. It was taken. country was ultimately, however the camp are guarded by sentries from Per cent of the letters reach their
statement of the thing in Every line can be taken it you can the lempo of modern war, where the truth might for the moment be dis- a famous Territorial regiment.
destination. However, they're allow assemble at a given point a pre initial stage of the attack mover at. gulsed under soothing phrases, the
ed to write two letters a week each. ponderance of stout-hearted men perhaps 15 m.p.h. (speed of a heavy cholce between upholding tyranny
Of course, they're censored, and are and efficient material, and if you tank) and the later stages at up to.. and defending freedom, Can
posted together with a printed slip have a well-devised plan and good 30 m.p.h. (speed of a light tank). nny- that was swept by Napoleon's armies in German advistug relatives what staff-work. body deny that if the two Western
But two things distinguish the pre they must not say in reply, for tear
This compares with the tempo of sent from the past miseries of of upsetting Gestapo censors. There's his Polish campaign showed. The stages, on the 2 mph. of the tramp... Governments had listened to him the Europe. Never before has so much service for you!
Now, Hitler has a good staff, as the last war, which depended in alt world would wear to-day 11 very
German soldfer han not lost his couring soldier. different face?
energy been spent in spreading be
uge. And
there is probably misery for its own sake. Never Mr. Churchill, who, alone among fore he the power to strike mind as ACH German us he arrives, after numerical advantage on the German those days depended on the physique
nca and
inspection by the military side.
of the footslogger. Now it depends high office in the last war, devoted women throud love of family or/Checked, is given
It would be absurd to suppose that on the refuelling of patrol-driven.. Im-tribunal, hos his identification papera most of his grave and sober eloquence
a brief medical Flitler's generals could not concen-vehicles. in yesterday's speech in the House love of God, been equipped with test, and after his luggage is ex-trate their men and guns for a sur- of Commons to encouraging and weapons so sure and so terrible.mined he is served with his laste prise attack." steeling the spirit of the nation, He
AND that might be the real a pleture could Mr. Churchill of mattress, pillow, bolster, and four What a analysed the elements of our strength draw of this Europe, where all
problem before the Gor- blankets. the
HERE are two schools of man Most of his own personal stuff he
generals, Their to show how vast are the testow suffering by the cold cruelties of de- is allowed to keep, but putting tuck of this and the German. The stranded with empty petrol tanks.
thought about how an at- forces might after a few hours be-
mechanised
razor blade
no sharp The French Could those be instrument such as scissors ar uall-French are all for caution. The files.
Germans for boldness and speed.
In any case, nobody need suppose. that an attack on the Western Front as the instrument of its plans famine lives are absolutely burred. Inter- methodical properation,
For the present, vişils from rola- Tho French lay emphasis on disease, homelesmess, Insanity, and views with solicitors are allowed mans on dash, leaving a great dent
The Ger- could over be a repetition of the
Polish cake-walk. despair.
The Allied Command is well aware the lurid within the sight (but not hearing) to the initiatives of the subordinate Ho could restore' to optimism that is so easily induced by colours that fade on our imagination of officers, and they have to check commander, who will the unusual conditions under which
be forgiven of the German theories of war, and, this war is being waged.
for we live in a world where the through neutral countries.
and censor all parcels arriving much if only he keeps moving on. no doubt, has its plans ready. Ger crime of yesterday is forgotten in the
The French are concerned about man losses would horrifying. But Mr. Churchill closed his speech by crime of to-day,and the crime of 10-\from the canteen, and can supple-front. The Germans about main-idea that the Maginot Line cannot... reference to the
Internces can buy their newspapers their fanks, about widening their it is just as well to get rid of the apathy of the tiny blurs the crime of to-morrow- neutrals at the slaughter of their own their full power to move our foment their ordinary food rations if taining at all costs the onward drive And that if we lose it we lose all..
In any circumstances, be broken. people by. Germany's sea warfare. dignation and ply. He could make they want to with tinned food and of the attack. In a world accustomed by the cinema even the slowest mind understand sweels, Few do, however, as the to spectacular sensations, hardened
Their idea is not so rush as it looks. For two reasons Hitler might, in by the numbing power of terrible some dispute between one Govern-
that this is not a quarrel to settlerations are adequate.
The men are allowed to smoke all the enemy. That was how they won attack on the Line:
They hope to win by dkorganising | the, spring, dechid ́ to gamble on an events, some are slow to realise what ment and another, but a quarrel to day right up till "lights out at 10.10, the Politi, war.By disorganising Is lappening in all its truth. At this settle whether Europe is to master and are rapidly getting used to End an army, you turn it into an armed ty in France.
(1) Psychological effect, especial....... moment the area swept by war in, these dark passions or whether these lish cigarettes which the Citas Arabble, easy to destroy Europe is much less than the area dark passions are to master Europe.
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on which we can draw we know how to use them, to conserve them, and to develop them. But he made
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