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NOT even the Nazis ignore the world-wide horror expressed at their atrocities
THE Lord of Prendergast, a
"righte valiaunt capitaine," sailed from Pembroke with Strongbow to the conquest of Ireland. That was in 1169.
No.
Quietly and methodically, this year, we have soon our military defensive system made more up-to-date, more supple, more useful and more democratic. But the public knows little of Britain's Number One Soldier, the man who, under War Secretary Anthony Eden, is at the head of England's khaki forces-Lord Gort.
1
Lord Gort was a boy of 16 when he succeeded to the title---- he is the sixth of his line to hold it, and, being an Irish Vis- county it does not entitle him to Charles Vereker, a gentleman
sit in the House of Lords. He of Brabant, crossed the North-
did not inherit all the estates ern Seas to lay his sword at the
until he was 25. The estates service of Charles the First. When the King lost his head,
included East Cowes Castle, Puritan Cromwell dispossessed
built by Nash, in the Isle of him of his Commission, and the
Wight, coincidentally a replica of gentleman also sailed across to
another Nash castle owned by Ireland to seek some use for his mans were holding the canal as appointments, at the Staff Col- the Gorts in Ireland which they sword. That was in the mid- their line with all the despera- lege, as Director of Military were compelled to sell. seventeenth century.
flon of despair. Gort's orders Training in India, and as head He inherited 4 fortune of Colonel Vereker, later an Irish were to cross.
of Camberley College, where the £10,000 from an old friend of peer, was in command of a rag-. He was wounded, but the Duke, of Gloucester was alls family, Mra. Louisa Frances-
The student. It time force of 300 militiamen. A wound did not stop him.
was during his Kate Thiele, who left this tri- strong force of the French were attack was checked by a bitter, frat instructorship that he bute to him in her will: MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. revealed on unimpeachable threatening the stronghold of heroic resistance, but Gort, his earned his nicknames, for there The great happiness of my
Sligo. The peer out-manoeuvred khaki stained with blood as well are two..
life has been in watching his now take is to say that the Poles and out-fought the enemy, re as mud, led a platoon down a He was called "The Fat Boy," fine character develop itself. are only suffering deserved (ceiving the thanks of both sunken road and took the Ger- for his cheeks are full, and he his successful career, and the That mans in the flank. Again he has the same air of confident, use he has made of his talents,
was hit, but he went on.
wealth, and position in the unselfish service of his coun-- try.
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punishment for the outrages Houses of Parliament. they themselvės committed was in 1798.
unruffled, serene composure that The blood of all three war- against helpless Germans in
distinguished Haig, and was, riors, all three heroes, flows in Poland.
the veins to-day of General Lord H saw a tank, went to it perhaps, the earlier commander's strongest asset. He was also across open ground, merci called "The Tiger" for his fero-knew him since the age of four,-
It was not only old ladies who ----No-auch-atrocities were per-Gort, Chief of the Imperial
Britain's Kit lessly riven with machine-guns city in seeing that the tasks he who held such opinions of him. petrated by the Poles, but that General Staff,
and heavier metal, took com- imposed were not only done, but Lord Cavan described him as is a matter of no consequence to His name recalls the Norman mand of it, and dislodged the done well.
"The Army's best soldier" and Goebbels and his crew. It is knight, John Standish Surtees enemy. And still he went on. It is recorded that once he set General Sir Ian Hamilton said of easy to invent atrocities; and Prendergast Vereker. His arms A shell splinter hit him a third his entire class to write a precis him on his highest appoint- that they have done on a great recall the Irish Peer, for above time and loss of blood laid him of the lecture he had just deliver- ment: "Thank goodness we have
But from the scale, as they had many times the Latin motto Vincit Veritas on a stretcher.
ed the instant his last sentence a proper soldier in runs stretcher the seated, bleeding had fallen from his lips and (Truth Conquest) there before.
At least we shall not be the arrogant motto, Calooney, figure continued to shout hoarse raged at the badness with which shot 'sitting."" the name of the village five miles orders until the skirmish re the essays were written. from Sligo, where the second sulted in a rout; 200 men were It was indirectly, another Viscount Gort and his rabble taken; shattered the trained arms France.
Goebbels, in fact, began his career with an. Ingonious trick, designed to goad the German people into enthusiasm for the establishment of a national air force.
land.
No such fight had taken
.
facet of his career-in which also
command
of had made the canal impregnable his ancestry can be traced-that SINCE his appointment he has
has
with the man who became Lord the sword: it has been preserved by the sword; it can be safe- guarded only by the sword"—. *
also by the tank, the aeroplane," he the machine-gun and the hunts (not like Mr. Jor- bayonet.
the three
the machine-guns that
· dined with the French High. were smashed; and the two batteries of field-guns that had brought him to his present posi- Command under the shadow of aid a barrage across the road tión. Gort is a sportsman as shelled-and restored-Rheims; he should be, bearing the name he has toured the Middle East; himaelf He caused to, be published in SMALL wonder that Lord Gort were captured.
expressed took to the profession of That was the truth behind the of Surtees: one of his ancestors, he
his maternal grandfather, was steadily in the outworn, yet all the German newspapers, in arms as a duck to water. He brief, cold, official lines that re- the creator of Jorrecka; another, still effective, rhetoric of the. blazing type, an account of 21 was educated at, Harrow, where commended him for his V.C. flight across Germany of aero-the Army Class used to be the Jump a decade, and you will that Bessie Surtees who eloped Army: "The Empire was won by planes of unknown nationality, only section of the school that see Gort again, still and equally, Chancellor Eldon.
was forgiven for working hard, a, "righte valinunt capitaine." which scattered leaflets over the He went to Sandhurst, and, at In 1927 he was in China as Chief
19, was in the Regulars.
of Staff to Sir John Duncan-- He rushed upward through when the Chinese were being HIS sports are manifold: the military hierarchy like a blackguarded in the bulk of the place, but the conspirators got rocket. He was a Captain in British Press as a "lot of Yellow rocks), he yachts, he pilots his He is all for the true co- their way, and that was
the 1914, a brevet major two years Reds," and the ruthless old Man own aeroplane a trick he began operation between beginning of the furious inter-later, acting Lieutenant-Colonel, churian War Lord Chang Tec- to learn in middle-age, he ap- fighting services, and his son, national competition in the air. a rank confirmed after the war. in was regarded as the hope of proves of the team games that acting as unpaid Private Secrc- His full colonelcy came to him civilisation against the mur teach playing for the side and tary to Mr. Duff. Cooper, has Since then Goebbels has never in 1926, he was a. Major-General derous Communist" Chiang Kai- the winter-sports. Once, coming given effect to his father's down a mountain he collided theories for he has served both looked back. He produces atro- in '35, and both a Lieutenant- ¿hck! cities at any time, anywhere, on General and a full General in Gort was in the Paoshan area violently with another skier. in the War Office and the Ad- any scale; and then the murder 1937. His last promotion when with a French missionary, Fr. Said one: "Who the hell are miralty.
the Robert Jacquinot, a Jesuit' who you?" Said the other, laconic-
He believes in character as **** | gangs are let loose among the he was created Chief of
As a pre- victims to wreak what is called Imperial General Staff-carried is also something of a saint. A ally: "Gort!"
him clean over the heads of 90 number of nunn waro in danger. That informal but effective much as in ability
requisite of command. I retributive justice.
Gort and Jacquinot went out un- introduction laid the basis of a
ing that Joffre or Haig might He has not betrayed his blood, armed amid a horde of yelling friendship, and, when the other quotes a German general as say Gort holds more medals than yellow men. The trim uniform skier Leslie Hora Belisha, casily have been defeated on any other man of his rank. The of the soldier enraged them, but Minister of War-was conning manoeuvres by von Moltke or to be his Military Ludendorff; "but compare Joffre M.C. in 1915, the D.8.0. in 1917 Gort turned never n hair, over names
the D.S.O. with three bars, Quietly, almost as a lion-tamer Secretary, his eye lighted on that with von Moltke at the Mamme or representing four separate acts holds his beasts in check by the of the man who had crashed into Haig in March, 1918, with that justified its award; and the power of the human eye, he him.
Ludendorff in the August of the "Send for Gort!" said H.B. same year," little bronze cross inscribed moved on, unharmed.
Slowly the yelling died to But Gort was on manoeuvres..
Gort, it would seem; has both AFTER leaving three endear-"For Valour" and carrying a ing notes at the home of Miss pension of £10 a year, the V.C., silence, broken only by the fluent "Bring my car round," said H-B., ability and character: the mar
in 1918.
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Wendy Barrie, the film actress,
22-year-old Robert Stone, was arrested in Hollywood.
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Chinese of the priest. Together and off he went to Aldershot.. Gort was in command of a they escorted the women.
of battalion
the Grenadiers safety. floundering in the mud-flats that
He is held on suspicion of robbery, bordered the Canal du Nord. It
saya United Press.
But Gort was a mere Major who would play the Kitchener General, too lowly a rank to ad- to the Haig of Ironside, mit of his holding the new_job. In the last war there was also- So, when he came back to Lon- a Tiger: old Clemenceau, the
In the notes Stone told Miss Barrie was September, 1918, when the AS well as being a soldier of the don with the Minister, he was politician, who was named by his that he had a gift for her and would German machine was being hand, Lord Gort is a soldier promoted Lieutenant-General, country Father Victory. In thia.
war the Tiger is a soldier, forced into reverse.. The Ger of the head: thrice he has held and took it on.
visit her soon.