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The Young Nazis
It is often said that the atroci- ties committed by the Nazis' are the work of young men who have been systematically drilled. in ruthlessness and filled with the spirit of hatred of the Allies, and especially of the British.
They have been taught to know no pity, to be regardless of all rules commonly-recognised by civilised peoples, and to think unly of the destruction of the enemy, by whatever means it may be attained.
That explains, it is said, the brutalities of the submarines and airmen, the cold-blooded murder of the defenceless civilians.
There is truth in these asser- tions. It is a fact that Hitlerism has produced a type of youth that can be described as sub- human.
A German educationist who had contact with one of the schools in which young Nazis are trained to be futuro "leaders" ho la better employed now-Baid that these young men splendid machines, but they had no souls. Every decent human emotion had been suppressed in the name of military efficiency. There have been of late many
were
ZORIC examples of the working of these
GARMENT ČLUIHING SYSTEM
AIR CONDITION DRY CLEANING
machines.
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Chief of Air Stor
Sir Cyr Newall
Air Chief Marshal Sir F. Bouhijj
Air Chief Marshal
Sir Hugh Dowding
'Air Chief Marshal Str & Ludlow-Mewitt
Air Marshal Str. A. M. Longmore
Air Marshal
AS. BETEM
Six Men,
ONE JOB
Who is Sir Cyril Newall? Who is Sir Edgar Ludlow
Howitt?
Who is Sir Hugh Dowding? Who is Sir Arthur Longmore?, Who is Sir Frederick Bowhill?
F
IVE knights. And each knightly name seems familiar to you. So I re-
arc peat-Who
they? Don't tell me it's on the tip of your tongue. Answer! And, if you can't. study this further question:
Who is Arthur Sheridan Barratt?
A clue: Arthur Sheridan Berrat was front-page news earlier this week.
You don't remember?
All right. I'll tell you.
Newall and Ludlow-Hewilt, Dow ding and Longmore, Bowhill and Barratt are six men doing one job.
If they did it budly, Britons lives would be in danger. Because they do it well, this war has 50 far. created astonishingly little distur- bance in the everyday routine of civilian Britain,
The six men are the chiefs of Britain's Air Force.
And, becatise the RAF., youngest of Britain's defence army, is just as much a Silent Service as the Navy, you have heard very little about them-so little that their vory names fail to ring a bell in most civilian minds.
I praso the modesty of the RAF. And I realise that its chiefs would rather that I did not lift the curtain-en- their 'personality, functions and careers.
But it ought to be done....
IR CYRIL NEWALL, He is No. 1. His official title is Chlet of the Air Stan,
It I were tempted to write journaleso which I am-I should call him the brain behind the operational efficiency of the R.A.F. His official record must fill pages. He was not the next officer in seniority when the key post of Chief of the Air Staff became Vacant in September, 1937. But his brillanco in. a number of vital jobs won him promotion.
He has an easy way with him, is a good speaker, and has a nice вспле of humour. Ilia closest associates make no secret of their affection and respect for him.
He la 63, spruce, straight-backed, tanned, with dark, greying hair.
He has an American wife, and three children.
Nowall comes of Army stock. He was born at an Indian hill station; and when he began his service with the Army, 33 years ago, aeroplanes аз в weapon were a realist's fantasy.
But, early in his Army career,
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well they do it!
BY JOHN
he served with the Gurkha Rifles in the hills; and that turned his mind to the possibilities of air- craft for reconnaissance.
In 1011 he came on leave to Eng- land-and spent his time, and his own money, learning to fly.
At that time there was no Royal Flying Corps; it was not founded until the following year.
But in the second year of the first European War he was given command of a squadron of the R.F.C., and fought with it at Loos,
An example of his personal bravery:
In January, 1916, he was on duty near a Flying Corps bomb dump. The dump caught fire.
In it were 2,000 bombs.
Newall climbed to the roof, and, holding the nozzle of a hose, poured a stream of water through a hole in the roof of the shed.
Later, four men ran into the shed to stamp out the flames,
Newall led the party.
After the fire the bomb-crates were found to be charred black.
He also commanded a wing in France; tho forerunner of the Independent Air Force, the first of Its kind in the world.
· IR ---CHIEF --MARSHAL SI EDGAR R. LUDLOW-HEWITT
mand.
Bomebody who knows him well told me his characteristics can be summarised in the phrase, "I've Gold It-and that's that."
It is not that he is intolerant. But Bir Edgar has definite idcas about his job. Bold, enterprising Ideas, fortified by faith and convic- tion.
He is responsible for the control and administration of all the Home Bomber Squadrons - the striking force of the air feet.
For over 25 years he has been a qualified pliot.
He knows all the theories of air warfare, ancient and modern. As Commander of the R.A.F. Staff Col- lege for years,!
it was his job to ex- pound them.
But the director of our bombing forces is no text-book airman. Ho holds decorations for distinguished active air service in the Great War. He likes playing games. Particu- larly hard games, which test muselo and sinew.
If you went round to his country home for tea, he would probably rather talk about gardening than about his daily job. He is keen on
NICHOL
horticultural pursuits and has had opportunities to develop his in- terest in many lands.
A
IR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR HUGH DOWDING is boss of the Fighter Command.
His work touches your life-the life of the ordinary British civilian moro nearly than that of his col- leagues.
For, of course, the Fighter Com- mand has the task of beating off enemy raiders. Moreover, It is Bir Hugh who must decide whether a appearance of enemy aircraft in any part of the country merits the sounding of an air raid warning. He gives the word.
Dowding has a nickname. He is called "Stuffy" Dowding. Nobody knows why. Certainly his person- ality is anything but stuffy.
The nickname dates back to his days as a junior artillery officer.
He was in the Artillery when the last war broke out, then joined the Royal Flying Corps in France and quickly set to work on a task in which his experience in the old job and the new was linked.
He was largely responsible for developing wireless communication between aircraft on reconnaissance fights, and the big guns.
Stuffy is now 68, a widower with one son and one daughter. He is genial, debonair, with a ready car for a joke and-to use his own phrase "quiet confidence" in the strength of Britain's anti-air- craft defences.
He is confident, but he dislikes over-confidence. I shall never for- get his words in peace time, to batch of R.A.F. cadeta "passing out" from Cranwell College:—
Hundreds, thousands of acci- dents happen to pilots with 150 or 200 hours' fiying experience, who think they have nothing more to learn. Always keep a healthy re- spect for your plane.”
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IN CHIEF MARSHAL SIK FREDERICK BOWHILL has the job for which taste and experience fit him.
He is chief of the Coastal Com. mand. He has sailed the aca, and ho has flown above it,
As a boy he served before the mast in the merchant service. He took his air plot's certificate in 1913,
In the last war aircraft carriers, as we know thơm to-day, did not exist. An old Channel steamer was
Just Forget Your Aches and Pains
converted into an aircraft carrier,
and rechristened HMS. Empress. Bowhill served in her as acting Fight Commander,
Now he is 60. He retains the nickname of his youth—" Ginger " —his quarter-deck walk, and his , unquenchable sense of humour.
Ils most prominent facial char- acteristic is a set of extraordinarily long, bristling eyebrows,
Tennis is his hobby-forbidden to him since the war, except on days when the weather is so bad that no enemy raid need be feared.' Chlef task of his planes is recon-" naissance looking for onemy planes, submarino
surface raiders, and reporting their pre- sence to the shore bases for neces- sary action.
He knows every more of the Kir wer game. Not long ago he phoned the Admiralty and told them to expect enemy air 'attacks on certain cruisers and capital. ships at a specified time.
The attack took place, and Ginger was only two minutes out. in his calculation. It was not espionage, but sheer technical brilliance.
Reports had come in from acat- tered pilots of the movements of enemy planes. By exact plotting and reckoning, the head of the Coastal Command was able to fix the precise time and sceno of the attack.
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A
IR CHIEF MARSHAL. SIE A.. M. LONGMORE has a proud distinction.
He holds the oldest flying certi→ ficate in the Air Force.
It is the 72nd issued by the "Royal"Aero Club, and it is dated.
April 26, 1011.
Longmoro is an ez-Naval man.. dour and sturdy, 54 years old. He was born in New South Wales, is married, and has four children,
As head of the Training Com-- mand ho directs, at high pressure, the training of the vast new host. of recruits who are flocking to the air service.
It must tickle him, as he turns out airmen by the thousand, to recall how he himself learned to. fly in 1911.
He was one of the first four naval officers given permission to do 30.
The aeroplanes wero lent by pubilo-spirited philanthropiston one condition: that the pupils did not dy on Sundaysi
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IN - MARSHAL ARTITUR. SHERIDAN BARRATT ends my list.
Ho turned the R.A.F. Big Five into a Big Bix when, this week, he was appointed Air Officer Com- manding-in-Chief, British Air Forces in France.
It is Dow
post.
Barratt, in consultation with the Army chiefs, has to ensure effec- tive R.A.F. support for the British and French Army on the Western. Front.
He to the youngest of the Big Six -only forty-eight.
Franco is no new air battle- ground to him. He served through. the last war in the RF.C.
As soon as the present war broke out, to France he went again. He has worked tremendously hard-
off,
It is a mistake, however, to ANY people are worried because one of us at the present moment, our fears immediately get the upper think that this is a new develop they imagine that the strain of Apart from its immediate effect of hand and we are sure we are at least ment of German mentality. war will bring an increase of illness enabling us to think and act more twice as bad as we had previously
The same characteristica were in its wake. Actually, apart from any quickly and decisively than usual, imagined. For that reason I
the reverse will be the the Increased adrenalin content of the that we abolish "for the in any but there was an occasion in Octo-
Buggest revealed in the last war. The case.
ensualties,
blood acts considerably to our power the most iniquitous phrase U-boats did precisely what they
of resisting Infection.
elvilised language, "How are you?" . It is a tremendous help in theno are doing now. International times to realise that the body has its Sorry For Ourselves
Itealth should be a thing we take ber, for which he took a few hours- Kor granted. Let someone askus Was ignored. Neutral own mechanism for dealing with
how we are, and we at once begin to His only daughter, Suzanne, waS. waters meant nothing to them. permit to function normally it will normal life the adrenal gland re- we can parade as a balt for sympathy father could attend, and arrange-
emergencies, and that it we only
In healthy person leading a seek for some little ache or pain that getting married in England. Ships were torpedoed without guard us against most ills,
It was not expected that her warning and the Germans took
cuperates during a night's sleep, and The mass suggestion of a phrase no thought for the safety of the smaller
This is a phenomenon which, on a is copable of performing its additional that has apparently become meaning-ments were made for her god-
scale, is constantly ex-work next day.
Jess by constant repetition is terrifla father to give her away instead. crews. They frequently desperienced by doctors and nurses. If There is only one thing likely to in its power.
Just before the wedding Air- conded to the lowest depths of they are called upon to fight an cause its powers to diminish. That
Marshal Barratt arrived-by air. barbarism by shooting men well known that although they work cold-bloodedly dispassionate that we epidemic of Infectious disease, it is is worry. Although few of us are so
hat Must Not Brood
Ho gavo Suzanne away, and four: struggling for their lives in the killingly long hours and are almost can avold all worry during a war,
hours later now back to France. One cannot have a more convincing With his wife and Buzanne, continuously in contact with discase we usually adopt the sensible course example of this than the way the Barratt has travelled over most of The only difference between victims.
germs, they themselves are seldom and look on the bright side as much German nation has drugged itself into Europe. the last war and this is that
na possible.
a belief in the Infallibility of their
HI outlook is cosmopolitan. The reason is that the adrenal rumanism has in its hands gland, which is stimulated to activity ing amount of self-pity if our friends
But it is easy to work up an appall-Heil Hitler."
Fuhrer by the incessant repetition of That was proved by the education. Tel 21219 Gloucester Bldg, 2nd Flr, Tel. 2coza larger and more deadly instru-br unger excitement, or danger, is are sumciently misguided to great us
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A magnificent example of the way She went to school in England' Its barbaritics.
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until she was 13. The Tait of her That is what is happening to every to tell us how poorly we are looking. PLEASE Tum To Page 2.
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