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May
29, 1940.
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MAGAZINE
a Girl Who Expects
THIS WAR WON'T From RUIN ENGLAND EITHER
Two t
things about which most exports agree are: That this war is the most expensive ever fought, and that we shall all be ruined at the end of it. Both these things have been
'sald`about every major war we have fought since. 1700. The first was al- ways true and the second. was always false.
Let us glance back at six Import- ant wars, including the last, see what 'ther cost and how wo paid for them and in what way they still affect
our ovulinary everyday lives In 1940,
FIEST
MARLBOROUGH'S WAB. We fought from 1702 to 1724. It ave us New- It- foundland, Gibraltar, son Bay and Minores. We kept the first roo and lost the fourth.
That war cost fifty million pounds. pald off thirty and carried twenty over to the National Debt
We pala by
tax of 25. an acre
tax on on land, an mira
houses, graded according to the
number of
from 10% to £1.
windows,
Also by new taxes on salt, pepper.
novations: hospital suTICI, both in military and civil life (Florence Nightingale LUX the, Brat), and, cigaretical a convenient LOGU 40 make cheap, home-made smokes in the field.
It was paid for by an exten" 24. on the income tax, which was then down to "d., and by extra duties on sugar, test, coffee and spirits.
The population was twenty-eight
millions, the revenue sixty millions.
Social
Wad
THE BOER WAR cost two hundred millions, THE GREAT WAR cost nine thousand millions,
last war were results of Summer Time, closing - hours, nitrogen extracted from the air (dus 1gain to Britain's blockade) and gliders to get round the peace treaty pro- visions sgainst
German planes.
The population is now forty-one millions; the national
nine hundred venue
forty-two millions.
wiccs and raisins, and Now, with the
steeper duties on beer, wine. spirits, tea, coson, coffee and tobacco, and by tariffs
on
jobacco, foreign timber and coals.
We also paid and are still paying
bu
stamp duties.
That war introduced us to port wine, which we Imported at preferential rates to bring Portugal in on our side, with the result that six genera tions of Englkimen got gout from drinking too much of it, over-doctored;
It also established the two-party- Syslem by setting up a Whir (War) and n.Tory (Peace) party.
The population was then slx mull-
Hon people: The
xtx WAN
OUR
rovenne
pounds.
*
national million
of
UR... next imporlan!....... war was the SEVEN YEARS WAR to check the combination France ami Austria, then the most powerful countries In Europe,
We paid for that war, which pave
us Canada and india, simply by putting an extra penny on every pot of beer.
It cost eighty-two million pounds.
and sixty were carried to the National Debt.
The chief social change was
lime juice. Ships' crews, at sea for long periods with- out fresh fruit or vegetables, used to suffer from scurvy, which caused thousands of deaths.
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When they got to the West Indies
they recovered on drinking
re-
and
To be Kissed
MEN are not so bad as they're
prated about. I've been kiss- ed scores of times by scores of men, and I'm sure I'm pleased about Jt.
It does things to my self-con- fidenco. That's why I like kisses,. They're such a tonte.
I'm fit and alive happy.
and usually
But if I get a boùt of the blues they're never so bad that I can't be kissed into smaller again.
I'm lucky that I don't have to search the world for someone to do It. Someone who will kins and ride away maybe. I don't care. Not even if he tellsl'
Maybe you think I'm wrong... hut I've got the right intentions.
Some day there will be a kisa that is different and then they can tune up the wedding march for me. I'll make a dependable wife too!
My husband will be the pick of the bunch-that's why I'll keep on ilking him.
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THE TANKS IN BATTLE
By Maj.-General J.F.C. FULLER
Formerly Chlof General Staff Officer of Tank Corps THE tank is a small mobile
T
fort, equipped with guns, protected by armour, and pro- pelled by an engine; the aim of its originators was that it should be used to storm for- tresses, or rather, fortified lines, in Flanders,
When, on September 15, 1916, It first underwent its baptism of fre it was a crude, ponderous, slow-moving ma chino and unbelievably un- comfortable; Its crew were not only half-cooked, but fre- quently asphyxiated by its exhaust gases.
Nevertheless, on November 20, 1917, at the Battle of Cambrai, on account of its ability to cross wire fields and trenches and because it was impervious to rifle and ma- chine-gun bullets, it revolu- tionised tactics in twelve
---Pve sampled the lot and I know hours--
the truth about "thrillers.”
Handsome men don't deliver the most exciting kisses,
wars I have) enumerated and the wars 1 have not, Britain has, in the
That'll save me pining for close- ups with any Adonis who comes last 240 years, gone through seventy years
along. war and 170 years of peace, rather less than one year's war to every two years' peace.
of
Yet during that time, so far from being ruined on ten distinct occasions, whic
has multiplied her population by about eight and Increased her national revenus 150 thnes over. You will malice that after every
war both always advanced. And that revenue has
been
not
swollen by Laxes that
crushed the people, since the average standard of living has certainly advanced by at Icast 100 per cent. since 1700.
After the last, the most ruinous of all our wars, the male rale of wages increased 200 per cent., he femate 100 per cent.
Of course, that was not because of the wars, but in spite of them.
I am not saying the Improvement “would”"not" "Have been much
greater without.
I
am only saying that we have always outstripped the effecta of past wars, so it is not la- evitable that we shall be ruined by this one.
Goorge-Edinger-
In fact, the odds are, I'll marry an ugly man. The Romeo breed usually all promise and no fulfilment.
aro
They look good but they don't feel it. There's something wrong with their kissing psychology.
They don't make you forget yourself because they never forget themselves.
You can feel them thinking how grand they are! They only uct with women.
I like the simple things. Like real kisses--and real love. And I'll know both when I meet them.
I make my lipstick work for me. My cosmetics look pretty because I am determined one day to sit pretty with the right husband,-the. right home, and the right kids,
Until then life is merry and I'm not one to part with it for the lack of a kiss of two.
I learned about kissing in my nursery school. Postman's Knock and Kiss In the Ring are the best games the world has covered..
ever dis-
"And I'm going to go on playing temAN,"
Since then and up to the out- break of this war its development has been rapid:
wos
(1) Speed
vastly in- creased, rising from four to forty miles an hour,
(2) Then, becouse of the in- troduction of anti-tank weapons, greater thickness of armour had to be added, which in its turn reduced speed.
So a mean between speed and armour was sought after by con- strueling various types of tanks light, medium and heavy: the first, lightly armoured and very fast; the second, more heavily armoured und slower; and the third slower still, but in some armies protected by M much as three inches of armoured plate.
Further still, an anti-anti-tank was introduced in the form of, a close-support machine, which by throwing smoke shell and emitting smoke clouds could blind the enemy's anti-lank gunners.
LL these various developments led to two schools of thought for the use of tanks. They may be called the cavalry-minded and the infantry-minded.
The cavalry-minded veered to- wards independent tank uction; the infantry-minded believed in co- operative action between tanks and Infantry. The first largely repre- sented the British point of view; the second the French.
“U-boats in the Pacific
there anything
JOW.... wint's all this we hear
the Juice of the lemons NO
there.
So the. Admiralty, imagining that there was no diference in the curative properties of Iimes
and lemoni, ordered every ship to carry provisions of lime juice.
It did no good to the scurvy, but It introduced a new drink to Britain
Our population
when
the
war
about U-boats operating in the Pacific? Is it likely to come true. or is it just another stage in Goeb- bels's war of nerves propogands?
First of all-where would the U-boats work from? Germany has not owned any Pacific territory sultabic for a U-boat base since 1018: so craft could only operate
began was six millions and Book of the Week
a half, the national revenue
was eight million pounds,
THE NAPOLEONI WAR lasted
twenty-one
Cape
year. It gave
Colony, Ceylon,
Trinidad. Britin
Gilann, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
The soot was dight hundred and
thirty millions, of which 620 were added to the debt.
Parment
was made by a da, an RCFO land tax, -taxer on
for
houses, coaches, salt, sugar, currants, beer, wine. apirila, tea, coffee, cocoa and tobacco. Also on leather, soad, brieks, glass,
candies. newpapers advertisements, andt the first time in income tax 28. in the pound. That was not the only, enduring Innovation. Nelson's block- ado having ovì : all Europe off from cane sugar supplies, Napoleon set the beet-sugar industry going for the first time.
Our
the
at Knapping up French colonial bases do- prived their navy of supply oenirem, so they were driven to discover for the first Lime of bottling fresh fruit WAY! and vegetables, Our population, was then twenty-
eight
and Unsitisaal revenue was thirty-
seven million jounda.
THE
the
Kiss
By
Me, Sarge!
By H. C. Ferraby
from a Russian base like Vladivos- tok or a secret base in one of the Isolated island groups off "the beat." Best of these groups would be the Galapagos Islands, Beat of these, on old pirates hide-out north-west of Indefatigable, the central island of the group. This
la 800 miles from the Pacific en- trance to the Panama Canal, and would give U-boats a nice line of British traffic using the canal,
Right: that would be the plan. But there are five sound reasons why the Navy won't, have to waste time dropping depin charges in the Pacifle:
(1) No U-boat could get there from Germany without refuelling At lengt once. Their action_radius, is 7,000 miles: Heligoland to Ga-
Monica Dickens lapagos is about 12,000. So they'd
CHOULDER-Hipe!
Slo-
ope-Wait for it, Wait for it, you” (Sorry, the rest of this sentence is blue- pencilled.)
But you all know it's only the Sarge's fun. That's just the way he goes on.
But do you know how he goes on after hours at that haunt of revellers, the Pler Pavilion at Southpool?
"I know," he says to his part- ner, his arm, by the way, resing Hice a band of steel against her ribs, "I know that your name is Gaye, and that your hair is the colour of ripe corn at sunset, and your eyes are dark as pansles...."
For further information about the Sorge. with the steady grey eyes and the square jaw, and the girl with the mpphire-blue eyes, daric with pain; see Love's Revelry by Lewis Cox (Hutchinson: Bs. 3d.) It' ever so topical, you see, because all the fellows are in malform, and do no end of tak- ing on and putting off of Bervice
"In betweed" there's a girl who's in Javon with dai, wIL-o'-the-wisp
·man, but he jiltä her in. the "excuso. me" danes for a girl who 'perox- ZIRLAR ¦ LE OVERTALING, SIND IN-ides her bale,"
CRIMEÁN WAR epsi (seventy million pounds, of And which thirty-four were added
to the debt. I We got nothing, whittver out of
be wanting to refuel in the South Atlantic on the latitude of Monte- video and British patrols are re- markably active round there, as we know from the fate of the Grat Spee and the o capture of many Ger- nian merchantmen
(2) They would need a ship on the spot properly equipped as a floating dockyard-olherwise the U-boats would certainly be Inld up for want of a major overhaul. And
in
99
is
most of the neutral port authorl- ties in South America, and all those in North America, are too wideawake to let such a ship leave harbour.
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passage round Cape
And
(3) The Horn is a terrible journey. Even landsman who sees the sea tree times
In a lifetime knows what the storms are like down there. even
a bold U-boat commander might well jib at the order to take 750-ton Diesel-driven vessel through the Magellan.
(4) If a U-boat took the passage through the Panama Canal (as it legally could do) the whole secrecy value would be lost with it any chance of surprise attacks in the Pacific.
(5) If dismantled parts of U- bonts went by train to Vladivostok (the only avaliable
port on the Asiatic coast, and that only by kind permission of Stalin) and were reassembled there, the U boats would have the following routes of action:
(a) To British merchant ships off Hongkong-2.328- miles,
(b) To the routes around Hono- lulu 3,743 inlles.
(c) To Galapagos base-8,370 miles.
It doesn't seem a very likely pro- position.
~The way to a lovely body
To manage well your pleasing curves.
You must have pole, and steady nerves. An agile body-well controlled
By worth to you is weight in gaid. (Though not the sort of weight, indeed, Possessed by podgy Betty Head.) So here's an exercise—*(Will serve· For steadying control of nerve. For beauty and utility. For balance and agillis.
Swing, right arm up and right leg back, Naw touch the door with Irf("band and hold yourself, ulendy, with right arm and leg. to a straight line.
Stand up again, and try with left arm and leg raised.
by Dorothy Cooke
Somewhere in between came the German school.. This school also set out to develop on Intimate tactics between lanks and aircraft on the lines introduced by our own Tank Corps during the final stages of the last war.
Now let us turn to the tank soldier-the fighting mechanic, - typlent warrior of our machine age,
He has to be more a man of wits than anything else; for, strange as it may seem, so little does a tank soldier in battle realise what is taking place out... aldo hils machine that dangers affect his nerves far less than if he were in the open.
Nevertheless, fighting in a tank is no easy task; noise and heat are still considerable, especially under heavy fire when the machine has to be closed up.
Then observation depends mala- ly upon its periscope, much as in the case of a balf-submerged sub- marine. Orders are constantly be- ing received by wireless, and quick wits are needed to comply with them intelligently,
In general, a tank force operates much as a fleet would in a sentiered with innumerable shoals and Islands; for the tonks, these are the areas they cannot cross, auch 110 mountains, steep hills, thick woods, swamps and rivers. ·
Protected by the light tanks, the medium tanks follow, covered by the close-support machines, which are over ready to destroy or frustrate the enemy's anti-tank weapons. In the rear comes the main army--Infantry, artillery, etc.
To understand the tank tactics of uur enemy, it is necessary to go back to the last war.
low-
In 1918, under cover of flying aircraft, small formations of shock troops (infantry) ad- vanced and were followed by non- shock units (also infantry).
The airplanes forced the enemy 10 keep his head down in his french; the shock troops dis- cqvered weak points and pene- irated, and the non-shock units exploited these penetrations.
the
These tacties were very success- fuf and far less costly than former head-on artillery-infantry assaults,
We find these trelles, but our mechanised level, closely applied by the Germans In their Polish campaign last September.
An advanced guard of airplanes was sent out 50 and more miles ahead of the advancing mechanised columns to strike al the Polish "communications, supply centres, reserves and cominand, just as in 1918, within a few miles,
they struck at the field works, com- munications and reserves in the enemy's entrenched zone.
This advanced guard was
im- .mediately followed by
mobile forces largely consisting of tanks which, replacing the 1018 shock troops, unencumbered by Infantry, moved forward at top speed and, under cover of the confusion created by the air attack, felt out weak points, penetrated them, and then threw the enemy rear into disorder and panic.
In their turn these armoured shoeft troops were followed by motorised infantry, who were rushed to exploli or to occupy.
up In these tactics the points of in- terest were:
(1) No predetermined ̈ objec- tives
scem to have been lald.down. (2) Utmost speed was sought In order that the tanks might as noon as possible exploit the air re- sults.
(3) While aircraft cleared the
and
reconnolired for way
the tanks, in turn the lanks cleared the way for the Infantry and upset the enemy's anti-aircraft defence.
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THESE tactics are at this moment
being applied in France. Whether they will prove successful as in Poland is to be doubted, not only because the Germans are being met by tanks
their equal to
great W battle between sopte 2,000 the two sides is now raging-but because, on account of lis dykes, canals and rivers, as well as itar many villages and towns, France is a more difcult country ta operate in tban Poland.
that the Gehave
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scen repe-throwing Germans are using tanks. If this is so, these formid- able "weapons should be of special yalus in town
By setting
the
vlilage Aghting, ground floors of houses on fire, they will be able to smoke out the upper storeys as they were hives of bees.
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In this battle now being fought, tank success is likely to depend more en numbers than on -speed, becntise in no restricted un area the greater tho number engaged the less likely are anti-tank wea-
to stop them.
pons
But it is important to rentisc this: that unless the Germans pos- sess a totally new weapon or a totally now method of attack, it is unlikely in any attack against the Maginot Line that they will repent our victory at Cambrai,
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