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The SUPREME BATTLE OF ALL TIME
The Trumpets of the Apo-. calypse aro sounded and its scals brokon. Illusions are aro shrivelled as by the breath of fire. Our awakening is final. Our resolve is steel...
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GARVIN
the ordeals of mankind havo counted for more. Each of us has 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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As we conjectured last week 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 over known. It is the fighting for the Belgians and macy. Air-supremacy added to man of us to-day is no political
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spells the the Dutch. It is fighting as sex-supremacy
It is the prayer of Isaiah. victory, cry. battle of all
"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 as 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-
None In tions of old." of life and death. It will not Kent and Sussex or elsewhere that count for ever. 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 Hitlerism of the British Empire, are at will bo crushed for ever or the stake in Belgium and Holland. Allies will have succumbed to a Nor let us forget that in this fearful fato of vengearice, 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 sacrifles of her'
whole people. its Instancy.
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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 last eight months was a delu- ironside crusade in England? sion; it was ceaseless and cumu. That will be the acid test of its
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Except that the British Army n supreme bid when equipment is in Belgium and that British was accumulated and the plan air-squadrons are 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. At present we ought not to know.
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King Leopold's Defection
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Immense weight of meri. terial. Its intial Impetus has cor- ried it up to the harrow seas beyond which lies Britak.
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In Defence veterans would take i civilian air motor-cars ready to hurry off in any
direction where poruchutists were ree. ported.
Even if the danger is remote, we
ngainst it, and. to organise ought here the means are close at hand.
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... E are confronted by small.
Most men who ore fit at that time In danger of of life served in the last war. new
before
BUS-every town and village there are ex- necessity; enforcing proportions not
officers ready to lead them. both individual discipline and pected."
shown national militia could be brought. total national uprising: includ- The German attack has Make no mistake. As yet we ing all of us, sparing none of us. Uhat the use of parachutists and alej into existence in a week.
Dawn and Dusk Patrol Bee but the beginning of the
borne troops forms part of the re-i
LL that is needed is the issue: A It is impossible as yet to at- gular tactics of the German Army...
of uniforms and arms. Now plan. We must expect it to in- clude later an irruption through tempt any intelligible account of As the enemy draws nearer to us DB-3729-30
the peril of this kind of attack upon that the Regular Army wears battle 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. doubled crisis to be kept coolly enemy struck and as in Poland, organise rapidly to deal with it 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- used to be the the necessity of Metford rifle that what this summer will see. technique. led the onslaught, stantly realised
British Army's weapon are doubtless action.
stored αννα in Army depots. Meanwhile, the inception of the Their bombers ranged far and
The new War Secretary, Mr. Eden,
The main function of this volun- The defection of King Leopold scheme is bold enough. But not wide over the immediately as answering a question in the House, and his unconditional surrender more bold thin 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 maintate, of the Belgian army to the Ger- aggressor,
to harass the Allied advance, early attention.
There is no time for the least de especially at dusk and dawn, mans is the latest catastrophe
They attacked civilian popula-
stant watch all over Britain for suffered by the Allies in their Distinguish between approach-tions where it suited them.
The chemy has already catab-enemý parachutists Every church- struggle against the Nazi war and object. The enemy struck
"arf tower should have-its-look-out cop machine. That Britain and simultaneously at Holland, Bel- Presently they will attempt bases within 50 miles of our eastern nected by telephone with a guard- France have been gravely com- gium, and Luxemburg. A bar- the same in England. Again, coast-15 minutes' flying for the big room down below, where the Home-
troop-carrying ma- China Motor Agencies & Sales Co. promised must be confessed rage of lies against these former make no mistake. It is bound four-engined
For France it means increased 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 pressure from the north and France, covered the premedi- will smash at us. We shall have Pre-war network from the Channel-ports; for tated-infamy:--For-perfidy, to smash at them..
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Gigantic_Risk.
Until these enemy soldiers had England the seriously heighten- smoothly masked, the violation
If the German get control freed themselves from their pare ed danger
Specialising in transport- of an attempted of Belgium in the last war was
et enough of these aero-chutes invasion.
nothing to it. For the sake of planes, they dropped men in dromes, and are able to consolidate other, they would not be so formid- The drama of King Leopold's preserving their strict neutrality considerable numbers. at key- their position in the Channel, they able surrender is magnified in the to the last, both Holland and points far advanced.
of Britain by air,
The risk woulu knowledge that he acted both Belgium risked the dire chance
be gigantic but riving swiftly, on the
The would
the prize if it could be won, present arrangement, under which without consulting his Cabinet of increasing their peril.
straight at Rotterdam. They And, even if the
invasion failed, its the Home Office has requested any- and military chiefs, and without
diversion of
one sighting parachutists to inform their consent. Mr. Churchill Now, the enemy has swept seized the road and railway possibic effect as a
would in turn in- declared in the House of Com-through the Low Countries. bridges of that great sea-port British military effors, and as a de- the police, who
the neutral world, might justify it to the
aerial advance guard all mons yesterday that it was too Why? Not only to add them to and occupied its airport at monstration of Germany's power to form the nearest military, would give
Waallaven.
desperate gamblers who must either the time it needed to do is demoll- early to attempt to pass judg- the Hitlerite empire if the inva- ment, and this strictly correct slon succeeds. No; but to make Incited by Wilhelmina, their winter or face the inevitable doom of attitude will be applauded by all them the advanced bases of Queen, now sixty but indomita- their mind ambitions,
of men is needed to kill or capture sober-thinking people. Never direct attack on France and ble, the Dutch fought with the The great battle is not yet fully the aerial ralders before they can do. theless one cannot ignore the Britain.
dogged valour of their great fotried. It may be that the Germun any harm.
The human material is there, Invasion will be defeated, and that violent reaction the King's de- That is why the life of Britain, race. After all, it was the the Belgian armles, with the power-eager to be employed. There is no fection has created in Belgium,
support of British and French better tonie than having useful worke neither can one remain blind to no less than France, is as much Dutch, not we, who opened, over ful
three hundred years ago, the forces, will drive the Nazi hordes to do. The middle-aged man is en- and imminently at stake as
titled to demand the right to de- the unqualified indictment pass- ed by the French Premier. The though the battle of all time whole modern fight for human back.
But they could not
That is our hope and prayer, but fend his country against the new Belgian Government's decision were being fought on our own prevail against this machine.
behind the German offensive in an danger that threatens us. to dethrone the King clearly soil and among our own cities.
Belgium, attacked by assas is considered to be inexcusable seek again to destroy for ever generation, is once more with As against France whom they sing for the second time in a M. Pierlot has emphasised that as a Great Power-for that was the Allies to live or die. In the monarch has acted uncontheir object in 1914--they aim courage and wisdom King Leo- stitutionally, which is the only ut turning the Maginot Line pold is worthy of his father crimo the king of a democratic from the north. Later, they Albert The Great. So all the Stato can commit. Painful hope to turn it from the south sons of that nation will be though it must be, the Belgian by breaking through Switzer worthy of their alt. So the Government have disowned their and with the aid of Italy. Let-women of their mothers.
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there be no blindness about The repercussions are certain (this.
Belgium and Holland add a to be far-reaching, but although
million men to the fighters for Belgium's .capitulation must 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 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 shown that want to control the opposite tion will be wider yet. Britain and, France are more coasts of the. narrow waters- determined than ever to continue the shores of Holland, Belgium, They have only to hold on. In the struggle. The terrible Nazland: the adjacent Straits and South Africa, for instance, tho Holland strengthens war machine has gained.. ono Channel...They want these, far attack on 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 underestimate the preliminary seizure was no mere The name of President Roose- gravity of the altuntion would side-show but the preliminary velt is as Dutch as that of
General Smuts. Apart from be stupidity, in its crudest, form; part of a systematic plan.
that, we believe that America's but with the courage of the 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. inevitable by the further de by these raversos, the immediate Their nim now, against Britain, velopments of this conflict for future, though sombre, is by no, is to sgize nearer air-bases on the life of civilisation. The means hopeless. Britain and the other side of the narrow seas world will bo controlled either Franco will fight on, and while from Rotterdam to Dunkirk, by freedom and law or by they are fighting, Germany can Calate, and Boulogne. As we tyranny, violence, and rapine. find but little.cause for rejoicing said, this is the size of it; this In her ill-gotten achievements to is the instancy of the call to our Meanwhile the Allies must stand the brunt for five months. total effort.
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