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THIS map shows the area of Europe and Africa affected by the entry of Italy into the war on Germany's side.
Italy has, as the map shows, many possible directions for her initial attacks, but what- ever she undertakes will obviously fall into the pattern of German strategy.
Recent Halian claims have demanded Gibraltar, Malta, Suez and Palestine from the British. These may forecast attacks by air and aru. Sucz and Palestine
within range of the strong Italian busca Zu the Dodecanese Islands.
Malta has the fortified Italian bus of Pantellaria
immediate danger if Spain decided to join with Italy and Spanish Balearic Islands in Germany. In that cast the
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western Mediterranean would provide valuable buses to the enemy.
Other land 'operations Italy" might undertake in Europe could be attacks from Albania on Yugo-Slavia and Greece, The former would affect the whole balance of power in the Balkans and might in turn in- rolre Russia in some protec- tive pro-Slax action.
The latter would be made with the object of securing the
- Tuland-as--elwe-neighbar--Greek seaports-against-porsi Gibraltar would only be in ble Allied footholds. These
BRITAIN'S LEADERS: No. 2
MINISTER FOR AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION:
LORD BEAVERBROOK
THE
new Government has only one Member who, in public life, has in- flamed more controversies and fanned more feuds than its Prime Minister.
He is the man whom Mr. Churchill chose as Britain's first Minister for Aircraft Produc- tion. It wanted a war to make Churchill Prime Minister; it needed a Churchill to coax Lord Beaverbrook of the front page of the Daily Express and to harness the resources of that human power station to the machinery of government again.
In accepting office, Lord Beaverbrook becomes the only member of the new Government who shares with Mr. Churchill the distinction of having held Important ministerial rank in the Coalition which led us to victory in the last war.
Towards the end of 1917, Lloyd George invited Beaverbrook to be come the first Minister of Informa tion. But those who hoped that Beaverbrook would become Minis- ter of Information again were dis- appointed. At the outbreak of war he let it be known that, if the post were offered to him, he would refuse it.
It was thought to bo Lord Beaverbrook's intention to refuse. Government offico altogether. In- stead, Mr. Churchill has persuaded him to accept an appointment in which success is as vital to our war effort as Lloyd George's op-
ports woud at the same time offer bases from which to in- terfere with sen communica- tions-especially with Turkey,
Italian action from her African possessions of Libya, Eritrea, and Abyssinia would from the start be handicapped by the impossibility of main taining supplies by sen; for in any Mediterranean operations the Italians must reckon with British naval superiority.
One thing is clear; Italy, in entering this war with Ger- many will be the one certain loser. A German victory will leave Italy as much in a state of vassaldom to Hitler az it would Britain and France,
Italy could expect and from an Allied victory scant mereu.
Most unexpected, most impressive of Mr. Churchill's Cabinet charges was tho appoint- mont of Lord Beaverbrook as Minister for Air- craft Production, pointment to the Ministry of Munitions in the last war.
Now, the astonishing genius which transformed the penniless son of a Presbyterian minister into a millionaire at twenty-eight, established an unknown Canadian its a dominating figure in poules in his carly thirties, and boosted a derelict newspaper into a position of world importance in tis pro- prietor's middle life, is devoting Its powers to the immense and momentous task of giving the Allies numerical superiority in the
Jir.
Deliveries from the United States have fallen short of hopes. The
Beaverbrook press which, off- elally, Lord Beaverbrook no longer owns, and with the views of which, offelally, Lord Benverbrook does not necessarily agree--has been campaigning the Government to depend not on America, but on In- creasing the production of aircraft factories in this country. Now it is Beaverbrook's job answer their demand.
our own
His first alm in life-when he was Mr. William Maxwell Aitken, the sixth son of an evangelical minister, with fiery faith and limited income, in New Brunswick, Canada-was to make money.
At twenty, he was penniless,
Footnotes to History
Armoured warships have so completely revolutionized naval warfare that the general American reader, knowing the importance of the invention, but lacking knowledge of its true birth. is filled with pride in the feeling that for the first time in history ironclads were used in the struggle to pre- serve the Union. The bloodless battle between the Monitor. and the Merrimac, off Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, is pointed out as the inauguration of the use of ironclad vessels,
This is not the precise truth. For, in 1855, during the Crimean War, Capt. Cowper Coles of the Royal Navy had ingeniously out-fitted a raft with iron-plated protection, and boasting a revolving 32-pounder that rotated without the use of spikes or tackle. The experiment had been born as a result of the hot fire of the Russian guns defending Sebas- topol, but never went beyond the embryo stage.
In the summer of 1861, the Confederate engineers raised a sunken Federal frigate, the Merrimac, the after cutting it down to the hull, dressed it in iron plates. This apparent freak created havoc among the Union flotilla, threatening to annihilate the entire fleet. But the following spring, Capt. John Ericcson, a Union engineer, constructed the iron- clad Monitor as a counter-weapon.
The subsequent battle was indecisive except for the fact that it halted the destruction of the Northern armada. by the South. Its greater significance lies in the fact that it ushered in a new era of naval fighting, that of the steel battleship. and sounded the knell of wooden warcraft,
Daily Quotation
THE ELECT are those who put life into one, who give courage to the faint-hearted; hope out of their own heart's constancy.—LADY RITCHIE,
D' the
without prosperts and scarcely able to scrape together a living. AL twenty-eight, he was a millionaire. At thirty-eight, he retired from money-making, resigning all direr- torships and, later, passing over the controlling interest Daily Express to his eldest son,
How did he do it? He became secretary to a man with great coms mercial interests, won his em- ployer's confidence by demonstrat- ing a gift for salesmanship and a bent trading instinct. Soon, he was handling huge businesă deals
He established himself in Mon- treal as an independent financial source, put through soine of the greatest industrial consolidations and reorganisations in the history of Canadian nance.
HERE IS A FOOTBALL POSER
During one of his visits to Lon-FOUR teams-the Lurs
don, in connection with financial schentes, Mr. Max Ailken renewed a friendship with แ fellow-Cana- dian from New Brunswick, named Donar Law. A
general election was in progress
Donar Law, who was fighting a desperate struggle in North-west Manchester, urged Altken to come and help him in the fight. Aitken, to the astonishment of every nun- cial house in Canada, declared he would do more. He would fight a constituency himself. He became the candidate for Ashton-under- Lyne.
It was absurd. Aitken stranger to this country.
WIS a Is op- ponent was a local man. He had ten days in which to wrest the seat from the Liberals. He got in with
a majority of 108.
Max Altken settled in London. In 1911 he was knighted. In 1914, he was in khaki as record officer -a sort of super-publicity man- for the Canadian forces in France. In 1918, he was working hard to put 'ant Asquith and put Lloyd George in.
Targely as a result of his and Lard Nerthelife's efforts, the transformed War Cabinet, with Lloyd George as Prime Minister and
Bonor Law as Chancellor of, the Exchequer and Leader of the House was formed. Sir Max he had already been made baronet was rewarded with 3 peerage and became the first Baron Benverbrook.
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It was in the last year of the war that Lord Beaverbrook took associated in the minds of most over the paper with which he is people. He bought the controlling interest of the Dally Express for £17,600. (In the previous year, paper had lost £40,000.) Beaverbrook spent hundreds of thousands of pounds, and
eight- years of his life, in making the paper a success. He retired from management (theoretically) In
the
1920. In the Express office to-day, "the Beaver," as he is universally known in Fleet Street, is officially Daily Express Render No. 1
He also remains its No. 1 con' tributor. 'In Its columns ho
the Tigers, the Pant - and the Bears-formed miniature football Icaj. 24. Each team played match against each of t
other three, two points by ing awarded for a win an one point for a draw.
بعید
Eleven goals in all war. scored, five of them by the Lions. In their match against the Bears, the Lions won by two goals to one.
The Tigers amassed five points in all; the Lions, three points; the Bears, one point.
What was the score in the game between the Bears and the Tigers?
-SOLUTION
The Tigers beat the Bears 1-0.
This is a problem in deduction. 1-It will be found that the Tigers must have won against the Lions; otherwise more than goals are required.
2-Alse all the Panthera mat- ches must have been pointless draws.
3 One goal is left unsecounted for; and, since the Tigers won their third game, the result must have been as above.
launched the abortive Empire crusade which :: resulted in Mr. Baldwin's plaint that Lord Beaver- brook had a "personal vendetta" against him.
In its headlines, be assured his readers that there would be. “ng war this your or next year." And sirice the war started his pen has
·been hard: at work; : Beaverbrook has often been wrong, but he has -never been beaten. At the nga of
· sixty-one" this month; ho tackles the job of his career. We may all be thankful that be has agreed to do no.
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