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The SUPREME BATTLE OF ALL TIME
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the ordeals of mankind have counted for more. Each of us. has a portion of responsibility for immeasurable issues. Every one of f us in a part of it. To- gether, the drops make the power of the ocean.
the Allies are in the thick of the The British Army to-day Britain and France must work
The call to every man and wo- most desperate conflict of na- marching with songs is not only day and night for air-supre- 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 apella victory, cry. It is the prayer of Isalah. "Awake, awake; put on strength, strictest sense of the words the directly for our own lives and Nothing else spells victory.
O arm of the Lord; awake an in democracies "must· ́conquer or homes, and for every one of us, 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.
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Britain's own freedom and life, no less than the existence Either the hopes of Hitleriam of the British Empire, are at will be crushed for ever or the stake in Belglum and Holland. Allies will have succumbed to a Nor let us forget that in this success would fearful fate of vengeance, spolia- grapple our own :
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.
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That is what we have yet to We repeat what we have al- ways held and explained. The equal. Can Mr. Churchill's new enemy's apparent delay in the Government bring about the in England 7 last eight months was a delu- ironside crusade sion; it was ceaseless and cumu- That will be the acid test of its
for the moral and practical power. utmost of the worst. It meant
Except that the British Army a supreme bid-when equipment is in Belgium and that British was accumulated and the plan
are air-squadrons
sweeping matured to force conclusions ahead with strong effect, we this summer and to make the know nothing of the movements Nazi tyranny by next autumn and fortunes of our own men. Indicats news which la strietty copyright under the provisions of the Telecommun-the master of the world. extions Ordinance, 1924 Buch newE, SA
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7E are confronted
new danger
The "Kolossal" and the brutal This is the beginning of re- serve all rights and forbid repablication, are the inseparable words of lentless necessity; enforcing proportions not before either wholly or in pars without previous Hitler's murderous fantasy.
металлетень
King Leopold's Defection
both individual discipline and pected.
and' ma....
immense weight of men terial. Its initial impetus has car- ried it up to the narrow seas beyondi which lies Britain.
Even if the danger is remote, we ought to organise against it, and.. here the means are close at hand.
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,
of uniforms and arms. Now
mans is the latest catastrophe in mind if we are to understand Denmark, and Norway the si stantly realised they of Metford Hide that used to be the
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Let the Government give the word, and there can be instantly formed. In this country a force for home de- fence, consisting of men of 45 and over,
whose chances of being called up in this war would otherwise be by small,
Most men who are fit at that time- of of life served in the last war. In. SUB-every town and village there are ex- ፈ officers ready to lead them. shown national militia could be brought total national uprising; includ- The German attack has
Dawn and Dusk Patrol see but the beginning of the
borne troops forms part of the re-
ALL that is needed is the issue plan. We must expect it to in- The defection of King Leopold clude later an irruption through tempt any intelligible, account of the peril of this kind of attack upon that the Regular Army wears battle...
It is impossible as yet to at-gular tactice of the German Army. As the enemy draws nearer to us and his unconditional surrender Switzerland.
That is the re- the military operations. The British territory increases. We must dress, there must be hundreds of the old type of uniforms available. of the Belgian army to the Ger-doubled crisis to be kept coolly enemy struck and as in Poland, organise rapidly to deal with it.
British public opinion has in- As for arms, stocks of the old Lee- suffered by the Allies in thair what this summer will see. technique led the onslaught.
970 Brillah: action.
British Army's weapon are doubtless. struggle against the Nazi war Meanwhile, the inception of the Their bombers ranged far and
The new War
War Secretary, Mr. Eden, stored away in Army depots. scheme is hold enough. But not wide over the immediately as-answering a question in the House, The main function of this volun- machine. That Britain--and more bold than perilous for the sailed nations and Into France said that the matter would receive/teer force, which would need no pay or rations, would be to maintain, France have been gravely com- aggressor.
to harass the Allied advance. carly attention.
There is no time for the least de especially at dusk and dawn, a con- promised must be confessed.
They attacked civilian popula-
stant watch all over Brilain for For-France-it means increased
Distinguish between approach tions where it suited them,
The
enemy has already estab-enemy parachutists. Every church-.
ar tower should have its look-out-con On a precarious hold pressure from the north and and object. The enemy struck
nected by telephone with a guard simultaneously at Holland, Bel- Presently they will attempt bases within 50 miles of our castern from the Channel ports; forgium, and Luxemburg. A bar- the same in England. Again, coast-15 minutes' flying for. the big room down below, where the Home-
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We shall have lines.
direction where parachutists were re- invasion.
France, covered the premedi- will smash at us.
ported.
Until these enemy soldiers -hadi- The drama of King Leopold'stated infamy. For perfidy, to smash at them.-
smoothly masked, the violation
of enough of these aero- chutes and linked up with cach knowledge that he atted both nothing to it. For the sake of planes, they dropped men in dromes, and are able to consolidate other, they would not be so fermid 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 may decided to attempt the invasion with by a group of resolute men and military chiefs, and without to the last, both Holland and points for advanced.
of Britain by air.
knowing the neighbourhood and ar- their consent.
risk would be gigantic but riving swiftly on the spot. The Mr. Churchill Belgium risked the dire chance
For instance, they struck of increasing their peril. declared in the House of Com-
straight at Rotterdam. They would the prize if it could be won, present arrangement, under which
And, even if the invasion failed, its the Home
Omce.
requested nny- mons yesterday that it was too Now, the enemy has swept seized the road and railway possible effect as a diversion of one sighting parachutists to inform early to attempt to pass judg-through the Low Countries, bridges of that great sea-port British military
Germany's power to form the nearest military, would give- ment, and this strictly correct Why? Not only to add them to and occupied its airport at monstration effort, and as a de- the police, who would in turn in- the neutral world, might justify it to the enemy aerial advance guard all desperate gamblers who must either the time it needed to do its demoli-- attitude will be applauded by all sion succeeds. No; but to make
the Hitlerite empire if the inva- Waalhaven.
beat Britain and France before next tion work. sober-thinking people. Neverthem the
Incited by Wilhelmina, their winter or face the inevitable doom of A uniformed and organised forco-
their mad ambitions.
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support of British and French better tonic than having useful work. three hundred years ago, the forces, will drive the Nazi hordes to do. The middle-aged man is en- titled to demand the right to de- That is our hope and prayer, but fend his country against the new though the battle of all time whole modern fight for human back
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That is why the life of Britain, Dutch, not we, who opened, over Belgian armies, with the power-eager to be employed. There is no
no less than France, is as much and imminently at stake
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| violent reaction the King's de- Britain.
fection has created in Belgium, neither can one remain. blind to the unqualified indictment pass ed by the French Premier. The Belgian Government's decision to dethrone the King clearly soil and among our own cities. Prevail against this machine. shows that Leopold's behaviour
Belgium, attacked by assas
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As against France whom they sins for the second time in a la considered to be inexcumble. seek again to destroy for ever generation, is once more with M. Pierlot has emphasised that as a Great Power-for that was the Allies to live or die. In the monarch has acted uncon- their object in 1914 they aim stitutionally, which is the only at turning the Maginot Line pold is worthy of his father courage and wisdom' King Leo- crime the king of a democratie from the north.. Later, they Albert The Great. So all the State can commit. Painful hope to turn it from the south
ruler.
though it must be, the Belgian by breaking through Switzer sons of that nation will be Government have disowned their innd with the aid of Italy. Let worthy of their sires. So the
women of their mothers. there be no blindness about The repercussions are certain this. to be far-reaching, but although Belgium's capitulation
must
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Belgium and Holland add a million men to the fighters for With a more consuming and freedom. The "Allies" are no offer now strategical advantages blinding Bate 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 déclarations for ever and of destroying the peoples battling to the death for by M. Reynaud and Mr. British Empire. For that, they liberty and life. That federa- Churchill have atown that want to control the opposite tion will be wider yet... Britain and France are moro coasts of the narrow waters-
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determined than ever to continue the shores of Holland, Belgium, They have only to hold on. the struggle. The terrible Nazi and the adjacent Straits and South Africa, for instance, the war machino has gained one Channel. They want these far 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 been mark and Norway, though that smashes the pro-Nazi movement. fought. To underestimats the preliminary seizure was no mere The name of President Roose- gravity of the situation would side-show but the preliminary velt is na. Dutch as that of be stupidity in its crudest form; part of a systematic plan. General Smuts. Apart from but with the courago of the
that, we believe that America's Allles unimpaired, and their They think they have secured entry into the war will be made spirit strengthened, if anything, their iron-supplica from Sweden. Inevitable by the further de by these reverses, the immediate Their aim now against Britain valopments of this conflict for |future, though sombre, la by no la to soizo nearer air-bases on the life of civilisation. The means hopeless. Britain; and, the other side of the narrow sens, world will be controlled either. Franco will fight on, and while from Rotterdam to Dunkirk, by freedom and law or by they are dghting,, Germany, can Calais, and Boulogne. As we tyranny, violence, and rapine. fnd but little cause for rojoicing said, this is the size of it: this MARCACHET AN In her Il-gotten achievements to the Instancy of the call to our Meanwhile the Alles must fants
total effort
Weston tand the brunt for fvo montis,
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