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Propaganda's Poison
HOW NAZI INVADERS OPERATE
EVERYBODY'S mind
to-day is turned to the possibility of Invasion.
We know what we ought to do if the Germans try to estab. lish a foothold here, but it may help us if we know something more of the sort of things the Germans expect to do.
I saw the Germans coming us in- vaders into the Norwegian capital of Oslo. I saw something of their war thetics, and I heard a whole lot more from Norwegians (nadquately armed, who had tried to stems parachute troops or hold vital points with rifle and bayonet. "When we saw the Germans, come shouting out of the woods, spraying us with their Tom- my guns, we felt like men armed with bows and arrows," said a Nor- wegion to me.
understood exactly what he mennt, for I had seen the Narl troops marching in column of tree.
First come two ranke with their rifler Blung carelessly anywhere. Their main weapon was the Tommy gun held ready for Instant use of the hip. You do not need to sight it or load it after every five rounds. You let go with a spray of bullets when | you sight danger at 50 or 60 yards, It is their "close quarters weapon," like the bayonet is still ours.
J
Open Moves Avoided
TWILL emphasise this on- It
in Narvik, the Germans
terriner of were
open of exposed movements on hillsides positions no matter how far they were from their enemies-- they knew those enemies were Norwe- glons.
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The reason, he explained, was that every Norwegian appeared to be crack shot, and many a German strolling, as he thought, well out of range was afterwards found with a bullet clean through his forehend be- tween the eyes.
That sort of nenderale; rifle-range fighting gave the Germans in Nar- vik the jitters. They, avoided it at all costs. Oner they could break cover at 60 yards firing hundreds of bullets to the enemy's dozens, they were happy.
It is a point worth.remembering, if you hear of parachute troops any- where In your neighbourhood, Heroles of long-distance marksman- ship or close-quarters fighting will not kill them.
They will creep up on you, or wait for you to come into range. it they can. If neither is possible they
will run.
LET
us come
Bomber Support Propaganda is one of the deadliest
the back to weapons of warfare, as it is one of
column marching into the oldest. Because. It has been used
Oslo. Behind them were a couple of files-still with their rifles and to an unprecedented extent in this personal kit but also carrying the war there may be a tendency to re- various parts of two light machine-, gard it as a novel method of over- guns. Behind them сште round- coming a for. This war may indeed shouldered youths carrying the ma-
ximum
the possible in
way of be the first in which the use of pro-machine-gun ammunition.. paganda has had such momentous results; but that is attributable to the Twenty neroplaner could have
greater facilities which exist to-day for the dissemination of propaganda. The loud speaker which can blare out Its specious arguments to the foe's soldiers where lines of battle are facing each other at close quar- ters, the aeroplane which can scatter Icaflets from a great height for the
August 23, 1940.
The Ventriloquist, and His Dolls
U.S. PLANES
ROM the day Itler's robot armies swept across Finn- ders and awakened the United Blates to the rèall- sation that the war is now on their doorstep, the most fantastic stories, speeches and promises about America's air capacity have been flooding into this country.
President Roosevelt announced a scheme for building 60,000 war planes a year,
Firms like the Olen. L. Martin Company Issue a statement that they have completed a specifcation for a new bomber far more effec- tive than anything flying now, and that the Allies are taking delivery of every one of these pircraft, which can be turned out during the next eighteen months.
Come to Realities
Every one of these statements merely raises a sad smile among people connected with the aircraft industry here.
All of them have the stamp of dream-projects bearing no relation
hard
facts..
But since there is a danger of ralling too many false hopes among the general public about the extent of American air aid, it may be just as well to examine the true position
of the American aircraft industry.
The statements quoted above can be dismissed very simply.
With regard to Roosevelt's scheme
-here are
the facts
to build 50,000 machines a year from scratch, it has only to be remem- bered that Germany, after some years of preparation and with the whole of its industry geared to air- craft production, has never got past 18,000 aeroplanes a year.
In the light of that fact, Henry Ford's promise can be set down as Just another fight piece of over- optimism.
So can the Martin Company's an- nouncement, for if the Allies get one
of these new bombers, stili ơn tho
drawing board, within the next production speed. 18 months, it will be a miracle of
Last March, the United States As- sistant Secretary for War told the country that output in the present year would be $7,000 air-frames. But a little over a month later, Major General Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps, testified before a Congress Committee that only about 6,000 planes would be produced by the year ending June 30, 1941.
elded to standardise on two matr types in this new order.
One is a new Douglas two-motor attack-bomber (of which 1,500 bayo been ordered), and a new Drewater mounting #hell and nghier machine-guns.
According to John L. Jouett, of tho Aeronauticat President Chamber of Commerce, America has 45 aeroplane plants, of which 23. are working on military orders.
ittle country of ours has not less
It is common knowledge that this -
than that number of plants, which have been in full production over a long period.
If the United States is going to turn out 50,000 warplanes a year from that number of plants, most of them just starting, what must our factories be doing? Bixty thousand? Beventy thousand? Wo wish-they- were!
Shadow Factories
Of course, the United States will make additions to its existing fac- tories. Roosevelt has ordered the setting up of 30 shadow factories, financed by the Government, to build thirty aeroplanes each per month,
Last January, he said, the Prest- dent called for an immediate mini- mum increase of 3,000 warplanes. Not one of these machines has yet been delivered to the Army.
Last week, prominent speakers in machine-gum and available aeroplane and pilot to bo other good thing in acquiring all possible attackers, sent at once to the Allies. That motor patenta from constructors had been parachuted. Within half and other machines would have been shows a spirit for which-wo aro and leasing them out to factories so пл hour if they had been esta-parachuting supplies of all sorts to blished on some lonely moor or them.
carried all the men I saw occupying/ icy were, bombers would have been] America were clamouring for every The Government has done an Oslo on the first day. Suppose they blast
un the way 10
Welsh
Command valley-the High would have known exactly where
edification of the foe's civilian popu- FUNNY SIDE UP
lation, and above all the richly subsidised propaganda department which can pour convincing sophis- tries into cunningly chosen channels, are but the ultra-modern adjuncts which permit the application of new technique to an old art.
The savage warrior who painted a hideously fierce expression on his face' in bygone ages was employing one of the subtlest kinds of psycho- logical propaganda, although neither of these polysyllabic words to de- scribe his tactics had then been in- vented. The idea in his primitive though cunning brain was to scare all the fight out of his enemy; but it was propaganda, and crudely effectual propaganda, all the same. Put into modern English, the idea be wished to convey was, "You can see what a fearsome fellow I am, and how utterly hopeless is your chance of successfully fighting against me. Better give up the unequal struggle without further resistance, lest worst befall you. Propaganda of this kind, in various forms, has persisted through the ages.
History will record it as one of the most amazing features of the Second World War that. Germany was able to overrun practically half Europe by
what
sheer bluff for that is amounts to. Austria fell bloodlessly, conquered not by the
not by the engines of war but
by a legend, the legend of Gèr«
many's invincibility. Cz
Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Memel, weat much the same way, Denmark, Norway,
Holland, and Belgium all succumbed to the carefully diffused propaganda that Germany's will was as inexorable as fate and her army as irresistible.
PRESCRIPTIONS
out their
grateful.
93 to speed up production and to re- But United States air chiefs, testi- duce the number of types. fying before the same Congress, There is Atypical American Committee, said that of the total of "bigger And better" grandeur 2,700 warplanes in the United States about their air expansion schemes, army, only 62-all bombers were But they all take time.
W. F. Hartin
By Abuer Dean not obsolete."
DEAN
don't understand those new-fangled doctors, Mes. Plooper
this prescription is written, in pig-Latin!"
Good, but not enough
America has turned out some good stuff which we have been glad to buy.
Already the more sober-minded production experts are talking about 1943 before effective do- liveries begin to flow out from the expanded industry,
There is another point.
will be over.
By that time, we hope; the war
It has been stated in America that in the The Curtis 75P, for instance, new orders given by the Ailles (for though not as good as our Hurt such aircraft as the Douglas bom- canes and Spithres, has dons great ber and the Brewster fighter, for work for the French Air Force on instance), the price of their release the Western Front.
to us is that all expense in the The Lockheed Hudson, as A development and design of these general purpose bomber, has been a machines is to be added on to their great help to our Coastal Command. cost to us.
But the trouble is that not enough of them havo been delivered. In fact, nothing liko the ordered and promised,
amount
Count
Don't Rely on U.S.A.
On May 17, the Allied Purchasing
This money is to be spent or new: Commission announced that up to designs for the United States Air that date, 4,000 aircraft of all types Force.
wo will pay for
had been ordered from the United America's new air armada.
Blates at cost of £102,000,000.- A jot of these orders were placed early | last year-but where are they?-
Since January 1 this year, Britiln has received only about £2,000,000, worth of aeroplanes.
:
The moral in all this is clear. Wo. must not rely too much on vast air nid from America.
We must not because of optimis- tic, though well-meant, promises re
ax for one moment our drive to. attain air superiority with our own
France, needing aircraft more than we do, has done rather better. resources.. It has received £8,000,000 worth.
Note the Total
But the total of £10,000,000 makes s poor showing against that original £167,000,000. *
We have just ordered mother £180,000,000 worth.
We can do it easily with Canada and the home factories, now that the muddles, the waste and the al- most criminal lethargy of the past. year are cleared up and resolved... And we will,
For all practical help we can get from Uncle Bam, we shall say an earnest "thank you”—but it is on ourselves that we must roly for the
@ Frobably it is because of delivery planes that must sweep Goering'i &. experiences with the previous Air Force from the skies.
orders that the authorities · here have, as has been announced, do-
CARL OLSSON
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