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The SUPREME BATTLE OF ALL TIME
The Trumpets of the Apo calypse are sounded and its seals are broken. Illusions are shrivelled as by the breath of fire. -Our-awakoning is firıal. Our resolve is steel.
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As we conjectured last week
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By-
L. GARVIN
the ordeals of mankind have counted for more. Each of us hae a portion of responsibility- for immensurable issues. Every one of us is a part of it. To- gether, the drops make the power of the ocean...
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the Allies are in the thick of the The British Army to-day Britain and France must work most desperate conflict of na- marching with songs is not only day and night for air-supre- The call to every man and wo- tions ever known. It is
the fighting for the Belgians and macy. Air-supremacy added to man of us to-day is no political. battle of all time. In the the Dutch. It is fighting as sea-supremacy spells victory. cry. It is the prayer of Isaiah. strictest sense of the words the directly for our own lives and Nothing else spells victory, "Awake, awake; put on strength, democracies.. must conquer or homes, and for every one of us,
O arm of the Lord; awake as in perish. We are in the grapple as though the battle
were in These are hours of destiny the ancient days,. in the genera-- of life and death. It will not Kent and Sussex or elsewhere that count for ever. None in tions of old," cease now until the issue has on our own native ground. been decided for ever before six months are out,
Britain's own freedom and life, no less than the existence Either the hopes of Hitlerism of the British Empire, are at will be crushed for ever or the stake In Belgium and Holland. Allies will have succumbed to a Nor let us forget that in this fearful fate of vengeance, spolia- grapple our own success would tion, and servitude.
be impossible were it not for the vast military effort of France That is the size of it. That is and the stern sacrifice of her its instancy.
"While people."
We repeat what we have al- That is what we have yet to ways held and explained. The equal. Can Mr. Churchill's new enemy's-apparent delay in the Government bring about the last eight months was a delu- ironside crusade in England? sion; it was ceaseless and curnu- That will be the acid test of its
for the moul and practical power.
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King Leopold's Defection-
machine.
utmost of the worst. It meant
Except that the British Army a supreme bid-when equipment was accumulated and the plans in Belgium and that British air-squadrons are sweeping
matured-to force conclusions
Nazi tyranny by next autumn and fortunes of our own men. this summer and to make the ahead with strong effect, we know nothing of the movements the master of the world.
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HOME
GUARD
by
G. WARD PRICE
W
TE are confronted The "Kolossal" and the brutal
This is the beginning of re-
danger a new are the inseparable words of lentless necessity;
before Hitler's murderous fantasy.
enforcing proportions not both individual discipline and pected.
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immense-weight-of-men-and mas terial. Its initial impetus has car- ried it up to the narrow scan beyond which lies Britain.
Even if the danger is remote, we ought to organise against it, and hero the means are close at hand.
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Let the Government give the word, and there can be Instantly formed this country a force for home de- fence consisting of mer of 45 and over, whose chances of being called up in this war would otherwise be by small,
of
SUS-
Most men who are fit at that time:" of ilfe served in the last war. every town and village there are ex- officers ready to lead them. A national militia could be brought
total national uprising; includ-| The German attack has shown Make no mistake. As yet we ing all of us, sparing none of us. that the use of parachutists and air into existence in a week.
borne troops forms part of the re-
Dawn and Dusk Patrol ALL that is needed is the Issuo of uniforms and arms. Now
the
see but the beginning of the The defection of King Leopold Plan. We must expect it to in- It is impossible as yet to at-gular tactics of the German Army. clude later an irruption through tempt any intelligible account of As the enemy draws nearer to us DB-3729-30 and his unconditional surrender Switzerland. That is the re- the military operations. The the peril of this kind of attack upon that the Regular Army wears battle-
of the Belgian army to the Ger-doubled crisis to be kept coolly onemy struck and as in Poland, organise rapidly to deal with it.
British territory increases. We must dress, there must be hundreds of the old type of uniforms available, mans is the latest catastrophe in mind if we are to understand Denmark, and Norway the air- British public opinion
has in- As for arms, stocks of the old Lee-
to be suffered by the Allies in their what this Bummer will see. technique led the Onslaught, stantly realised the necessity of Metford rifle that used.
British Army's weapon are doubtless struggle against the Nazi war Meanwhile, the inception of the Their bombers ranged far and action.
Army depols.. scheme is bold enough. But not wide over the immediately as answering a question: in the House,
The new War Secretary, Mr. Eden, stored away in
The main function of this volun- France have been gravely com- aggressor
of rations, or
would be to maintain.. to harass the Allied, advance, carly attention. promised must be confessed.
They attacked civilian popula-
There is no time for the least de-especially at dusk and dawn, a con
stant watch all over Britain for For France it means increased:
tions-where-it-suited them
lay. pressure from the north and
The enemy has already estau-enemy-parachutists. Every church lished a precarious hold
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That Britain and more-bold-than-porilous for the sailed nations and into France said that the matter would receive/teer force, which would need no pay.“
Distinguish between approach and object. The enemy struck simultaneously at Holland, Bel-
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pre-war
network
or air
of civilian
ma
up-with
each
Defence veterans would take it in ed danger of
attempted neutrals, as against Britain and to come to the real thing. They chines that used to serve Germany's turn to be on duty, equipped with: invasion.
air motor-cars ready to hurry off in any France, covered the premedi~ will smash at us. We shall have Lincs.
direction where parachutists were re- The Urama of King Leopold's
tated Infamy. For perfidy, to imash at them.
A Gigantic Risk
ported. surrender is magnified in the of Belgium in the last war was
Until these enemy soldiers had smoothly masked, the violation
Specialising in transport-
If the Germans get control freed themselves from their pare
of enough of these sero chutes and linked knowledge that he acted both nothing to it. For the sake of planes, they dropped men in dromes, and are able to consolidato other, they would not be so formid without consulting his Cabinet preserving their strict neutrality considerable numbers at key- their position in the Channel, they able that they could not be dealt and military chiefs, and without to the last, both Holland and points far, advanced.
may decided to attempt the invasion with by a group of resolute men of Britain by air.
knowing the neighbourhood and ar- their consent. Mr. Churchill Belgium risked the dire chance.
The risk would For instance, they struck
be gigantic-but
riving awiftly on the spot. The declared in the House of Com- of increasing their peril.
straight at Rotterdam. They would the prize if it could be won. present arrangement, under which
even If the invasion falled, the Home Once has requested any mons yesterday that it was too
Now, the enemy has swept seized the road and railway possible effect as
# diversion
of one sighting parathulists to inform. early to attempt to pass judg-through the Low Countries. bridges of that great sea-port British military effort, and as a de- the police, who would in tut
monstration of
of Germany's power to form the nearest military, would give ment, and this strictly correct Why? Not only to add them to an occupied its airport at the neutral ward, might justify it to the enemy aerial advance guard all
Waalhaven. attitude will be applauded by all the Hitlerite empire if the inva-
desperate gamblers who must either the time it needed to do its demoli beat Britain and France before next tion work. sion succeeds. No; but to make sober-thinking people. Nover-
Incited by Wilhelmina, their winter or face the inevitable doom of them the advanced bases of
A uniformed and organised forco theless one cannot. ignore the direct attack on France
Queen, now sixty but indomita- their mad ambitions
of men is needed to kill or capture and ble, the Dutch fought with the violent reaction the King's de-Britain.
great baltie not yet fully [the raiders before they can do dogged valour of their great Joined. It may be that the German fection has created in Belgium;
invasion-will be defeated, and--that
material in there, race. After all, it was the
human That is why the life of Britain, Dutch, not we, who opened, over ful supporta British and French better onfe than having useful work. neither can one remain blind to
the Belgian armies, with the power-eager to be employed. There is no -no-less-than-France,-is-as-much- the unqualified indictment pass-and. imminently at stake
three hundred years ago, the forces. wIH drive the Nazi hordes to do. The middle-aged man ben- ed by the French Premier. The though the battle of all time freedom. But they could not behind the German offensive is an danger that threatens us.
whole modern fight for human back.
titled to demand the right to de- That is our hope and prayer, but fend his country against the new Belgian Government's decision were being fought on our own
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Belgium, attacked by assas-
to dethrone the King clearly soil and among our own cities. Provall against this machine. shows that Leopold's behaviour
As against France whom they sing for the second time in a is considered to be inexcusable. M. Pierlot has emphasised that seek again to destroy for ever generation, is once more with the monarch has acted uncon their object in 1914-they aim courage and wisdom King Leo- as a Great Power-for that was the Allies to live or die. In stitutionally, which is the only crime the king of a democratic at turning the Maginot Line poll la worthy of his father
from the north. Later, they Albert The Great. State can commit. Painful though it must be, the Belgian hope to turn it from the south sons of that nation will be Government have disowned their land with the aid of Italy. Let
by breaking through Switzer- worthy of their siren. So the ruler.
there be no blindness about women of their mothers, this.
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So all the
The repercussions are certain to be far-reaching, but although
Belgium and Holland add a Belgium's capitulation, must
million men to the fighters for With a more consuming and freedom. The "Allies" are no offer new strategical advantages blinding hate they dream this longer Britain and France alone. to Germany on the Western time of striking down Britain They are a federation of free Front, the fighting declarations for over and of destroying the peoples battling to the death for by M. Reynaud and Mr. British Empire. For that, they liberty and life. That fedora- Churchill have shown that want to control the opposite tion will be wider yet. Britain and France are more coasts of the narrow waters-
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determined than over to continue the shores of Holland, Belgium. They have only to hold on. In the struggle. The torrible Nazi and the adjacent Straits and South Africa, for instance, the war machine has gained one Channel. They want these for attack on Holland strengthens success after another, but the more than the coasts of Den- the hands of General Smuts and last battle has by no means beon mark and Norway, though that smashes the pro-Nazi movement. fought. To underestimate the preliminary acizure was no more The name of President Roose- gravity of the situation would side-show but the preliminary velt is as Dutch as that of be stupidity in its crudest form; part of a systematic plan. General Smuts. Apart from but with the courage, of the
that, we believe that America's Allies unimpaired, and their. They think they have secured entry into the war will be made spirit strengthened, if anything, their Iron-supplies from Sweden. inoltable by the further de- by these réverses, the immediate Their aim now against Britain volopments of this conflict for future, though sombre, is by nois to seize nearer air-bases on the life of civilisation. The means hopeless Britain and the other side of the narrow seas world will be controlled, ofthor Franco will fight on, and while. from Rotterdam to Dunkirk, by freedom and law or by they are fighting, Germany.can Calais, and Boulogne-As
we tyranny, voo
violence, and rapine. find but little cause for rejoicing: said, this in the size of it; this. in her lil-gotten achievements to in the Instancy of the call to our Meanwhile the Allies--must
total effort.
stand the brunt for five months.
90g Idatz
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
"How.she got a man-li-beyond-mal
got a job!"
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