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You Can't Tame A Tiger
With A Saucer of Milk
WE are a marvellous people. As
soon as the world thinks we are down, up go our tails and the fur begins to fly.
In a long experience of having my finger on the pulse of Britain, I have neven known it beat so strongly as it is beating to-day.
We We are now at the crisis of the war. promised the world two months ago that if we cold hold on just for a month we should win.
Well, we not only held on for that month but we have doubled the time. And we can say now without hesitation that the tide is on the turn. Hitler is doomed. It is our job to hasten the day of his doom.
Now is the time to throw defensive ideas out of our minds and fill them with the spirit of at- tack.
I WOULD suggest for a start that we begin to talk a little less about the defence of Britain. Let un call it instead the protection of Britain. Defence sounds too much like sitting in the for- tress and waiting for Hitler. That is the Inst thing we want to do, We can force u stalemate But we are going to have by waiting for Hitler. no stalemate ending to this war.
Hitler is going down good and hard, if it costs
us every penny and every ounce of strength we have.
Eyes On Italy
Where do we begin-and when? press again for action against Italy with all the force of which we are capable.
Despite the bounce and brag of Mussolini, the heart of Italy is not in this War Mussolini, once well liked in his own country, is now widely One good reverse and Sawdust hated there. Caesar's throne will rock.
Alres ly there are signs that we have the measure of the Italians. In the skies they are no match for our grand airmen, although they have a vast superiority in numbers.
So far as the army is concerned. I am told by those who should know that the Italians in were heroes compared with the In a crescendo of screaming planes the last war
We know what that means. and feree air fighting, the Buttle for Halians in this.
We have not tried our strength against the Britain has raged for over a month. It is on a scale which could not have Italian Navy yet except in submarine chasing, been dreamed of a few years ago, and the results of which have been very gratifying, once more Britain is surviving one of but although on paper the Italian Fleet is Tar which have stronger than ours in Mediterranean waters, our marted her long and glorious island men have complete confidence in us in turn show him what war
The German Reich is dashing the result of any battle.
is. It will, in any case, be good is mighty air strength against what
But we must not leave the practice for us before we start Italians in peace to dodge the on the chief gangster. issue too long. We must get rid
THE Air Force is already re- nonsense of of this old men's
our side.
We ported to have broken communi- time being on want the job over soon. The cation between Germany and
at the Brenner lives Italy longer it lasts the will be lost, and our young lives There are two other rail connec
tions left St. Gothard Tunnel aro precious.
and Mont Cenis. Both are We must goad the Italians vulnerable, because the railway into Bending their fleet out. lines on the Italian side emerge string and resolute, and the skill. That can be done by raining between steep cuttings.
bombs on their inland cities and A few heavy bombs there courage, and tenacity of her young flying then have inflicted such appail-shells on their senports. Pound would bring down a mountain- ing losses on the enemy that we know them into action.
side on the railway. Let us go even that Britain
withstand <tan
The vital im- assaults heavier
tuct iles An the portance of this
Germany is now knowledge That nearing the maximum in her air
opening phose of a plan involving un
attempted me invasion, a gleam of light is appearing through the clouds which have so long obscured the future
There is now no question of Britain defented in this air bottle. The being spirit of her people has proved so
more
Choose Five
and do it.
Pass.
I have seen a suggestion that
Ramparts We Watch!
CARIBBEAN SEA,
And let us not forget that there It his air strength is so great are his airplanes? Why are other weapons than high explo- where sive bombs. A fortnight has passed doesn't he send 1,000 instead of that he is since i Arst suggested that we should 1007 You may argue take advantage of the dry weather keeping them for the moment he and not the
of Germany really needs them, but I am forests
the alight from end to end. Still nothing vinced that If Hitler possessed
he has 30,000 airplanes of which boasted we should never have been But make no mistake, it can be able to take
single one of our boys done. 1 should be done. And we off the Dunkirk beaches. should insist on it being done.
has been done.
Architect Advises
WOM
consultant to several huge estates
A landscape architect who
· Con-
If Hitler had the airplanes, he would have used them, because it was vital to him to obliterate that Anuy. He did not do it because he
could not. And because he could
But Act Now
of German landowners tells me that not he lost the war. to cause a forest fire on the catas- trophie scule we wont would be a simple matter. But he adds the waming that if we delay more than
will be lost. So why delay?
He says:
So let us have less fear of Hitler
let us hear any more defeatism, or any more of this stupid talk that always petrified of fire in the late we might as well make peace with summer, It would be possible with us. cover with flames and smoke hun- dreds of miles of Germany, and on
a few weeks the best opportunties and more faith in ourselves. Don't
pall
"The Germans were
to
Hitler because he has no quarrel
If he has come to the stage now
I
every
Take the five chief cities of a few depth charges dropped striking power. She may Increase Italy and set about their swift into Vesuvius might destroy the the number of machines sent over and systematic destruction. Give protection erected there to pre-
the minds of the population a huge that he has no quarrel with us, we Britain, but she is rapidly approach-
of smoke overhanging the certainly have a quarrel with him. ing the limit of safety for herself. them a dose of what the German vent disaster in the event of an
would have an And we are going to carry that Once she goes beyond this she will dive bombers gave Rotterdam. eruption. It may sound fantas.
quarrel through to the bitter end. When Hitler found himself on tic, but if it is possible why not country for weeks
enormous effect." be risking the whole existence of her
would arrest and shut up AND here is another idea to add mean that the much vaunted Luft- he is reported to have said another Pompeil no one in this
no matter how air force. Tos great an effort would the spot after the rape of Poland try it?
If we can make Naples into to the bombing and the forest fires, man and woman,
Germany's jugular vein-the high born, who has the nerve to say Well,
otherwise. de "The French want war.
BUT do not underestimate the would they shall know what war is country is going to object. A River Rhine.
The Rhine runs the whole length task that lies before us. The hordes Mussolini wanted war. So let little molten lava is just as satik-
of western Germany. All that the factory as boiling ofl-once a German army in die west needs in of Hitler are inflamed with a fanatic
ism which makes them crusaders, normal weapon of war--and as
If men and supplies must cross. it.
could destroy
evil the bridges it which they are prepared to dlo. I and beastly as are the ideals for years. Another Is the constant Nature has stored it on the pre- What has happened so far is harassing which the ralders receive mises we might as well try to Germany.
for will tell you two stories. promise of what is to come. It will from British fighters. A third is the use it. be a matter of scale, but the general fact that England is a notoriously
wafe would amnsh liself into such a
and state of disorganisation moralisation that Germany suffer from her own massed air attacks in this war as she suffered from massed infantry attacks in the last.
Cut
we would be a first-rate disaster
Now, we cannot bomb them „be-
A German was brought into a field. with ja bedly"
almost un-
I do not think the sanitisation cause it would be too slow an hospital in France results will be the same namely, I dificult terrain for air navigation of the Mediterranean will take operation, too costly in lives and too attered leg. He was
that heavy losses will be inflicted on With its narrow, winding country the raiders to the ratio of about one reads, its puzzling network of railway us very long if we once get uncertain in results. But the Rhine conscious when the anaesthetist came machine destroyed in ave, that the lines and its patchwork of small helds down to it. But that, of course, 14
one of the fastest flowing rivers in to prepare him for the operation to remove the leg. Suddenly he awoke corresponding British losses will be and woods, it is deacient in idem is only a beginning. The real Europe. comparatively small, and that the able landmarks or gulde signa.
Why not, as I have suggested in as the mask was being put to his
face. damage caused by bombs, extensive German raiders are therefore liable job on hand is the defeat and other schemes, harness Nature to ac
hundreds between Mannheim and
the reason why the his gang. Whatever goes before Chip mines downstream. What- ful and this will save you' pain."
"I will not have it," he said. "I
blood trans
and grievous though it may be, will become lost and drop their bombs the punishment of Hitler and help Us? Drop ordinary floating"What are you doing?" he cried.
"You must have un anesthetic, not inflict a mortal wound on the on mistaken objectives. This has every German, big and little, in mines from dive bombing plauca in they told him. You are going to nation. The results will not justify apparently happened many
The fast-moving river will the enormous effort and cost which and
have an operation. It will be pain Germany is putting into obtaining authorities are chary of announcing is only a preliminary to that.
carry the them.
the names of places, particularly
ever they touch will go up-bridges, This is a thoroughly considered small places, affected by raids is that
The same trick that in a barges, and even the river banks, can suffer pain for my. Fuchrer.” statement, because the information the revelation of such names would smaller way will surely bring which, incidentally, carry the tall And he did.
Another German lay in hospital on 'being given out by the British enable the Germans to check their down Mussolini will in turn de- ways. Every bang would be a prize, the edge of death. There was only
authorities is accurate and reliable. navigation: There i
stroy the German gangster. big or small. It is almost with relief that we can That trick is attack, not de- that once the mines were down the what are you doing?" he moaned. no exaggeration in the
is it worth trying? Remember one way in which his life might be
saved, and they prepared for It."; figures supplied about German planes look forward to the immediate destroyed, and no diminution of our future., We are nearing the end of fence.
fast-flowing tide would make sweep-
"We are giving you own losses. As much as can be safely that unpleasant period when the WE have plenty of evidence that ing an Impossibility. Come on, fusion," they told him." divulged about the damage caused by worst lay ahead, when people were the Germans do not like to be hit. experts! Think it over. But hurry, the bombs is divulged Many Hong- constantly wondering what it would
Ho spun into alertness. NO doubt of the people in whose blood?" he demanded.
BOMO kong people, far away from the scene, be like "when it really started." For Only last week there were curious
Frenchmen 'hos are asking how much damage is the Royal Air Force it means the statements on the German radio high places will demur that these
replied,iven it for they really being done. There is a fool-end of a long strain. The strain of which suggest that the Germans suggestions are not war according to you
the text-book My promised by Goering that no ing that ils must be heavier than it fighting is not nearly so bad, for the British plane could ever reach them you have got to get down in the I will not have it in my veins."
Ja that "Filthy French blood," he shrieked. appears on the surface. It can be Aghting airman as the strain of sitare now being driven crazy by our gutter with Hitler und fight as he stated authoritatively that the British Hing down" and waiting to fight.
And he did not. So he died. fights. Devise and use every hellish These are the men accurate
are night- communiques give as
There may be some dark days ahead; nightly poundings. statement of the real position as is hènvy blows may be inflicted and The German radio speaker actual damn the Queensberry, rules for the
instrument you can think of and N
Ing. To defeat them, those who possible without betraying valuable there may be pain, tears, and sorrow. ly said that unless the German Air information to the enemy. Owing to But the young Gullants of: England (Force was sent over England the duration. You can't tame a tiger.wight the good "flight for:÷righteous~ ·
ness must be Crusaders too, prepared of milk. let's to safer, prepared, if necessary, to material destruction nor the casual- breed as the then who overcame the in revolution to demand it.
thing in the milk,
"Ah," some will say, "Hitler will die, but determined that their deals ties are on heavy fa might be thought, might of Spain in 1688, the menace Chief of these reasons is the excel of Napoleon in 1810, the pinus of the What a revealing thing to say. reply. Of course he wills But the shall live whatever the cost lence of Britain's air defences, which Kotser in 1914-18: PORN FREEZE What a hint. What an invitation to longer the war lasts the more "have now been in course of prepara← They have shown that they can. Bomb, bomb, bomb night after realise that some of Hitler's strength
tion and perfecting for nearly two do their job. j.
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