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NEW MONSTROSITY
THE machinations of the Axis have produced another monstrosity an utterly 0371- justified attack by Italy on small, peace-seeking Greece--- and another heroic sequel which we all may hope will not end in a second Poland, a clarion call to the people to defend them- selves against the legions of the barbarians.
We can be satisfied in this instance that it was not British promises that induced Greece to withstand the greedy demands of Mussolini; nor was it British violation of Greek neutrality that provoked the war. The Duce has learnt the art of fabrication or at least he has
ONE YEAR OF WAR:
-by-
STRATEGICUS. ·
The anniversary.
.
though' likely to become more tion until the midnight of sistance, the elly was subjected to a pitiless bombardment from the air. formidable later on, appear to September 20.
The Dutch hnd neither the aeroplanes But it is evident that if ever nor the tanks to strike back; and the be designed as a nuisanec. Judg. ing the position as objectively there were a chance of piercing Commander-in-chief surrendered. nts I can, I fail to ace the the German defensive positions Meawhile, before the allies hud possibility of our being unable it was when the enemy had 70 me to use their strength in Belgium, irretrievably undermined through to deal with any attack he divisions engaged on the Polishe inain defensive position had been
some fatal mischance which of can mount against
us; and front. all the time the Royal Air Force, The attack on the front between the Meuse-Albert Canal was turn- now not fully understood. The line of
never
even
the outbreak of the war incomparable in its skill and the Moselle and the Rhine
threatened to break through. The ed through the crossing of the two
But
illusion bridges opposite Maastricht. finds Britain in a very courage and in the not distant French suffered from the
future destined to be incompar- that the Maginot line was in worse was to follow, since a day or two Inter Sedan had fallen and Ger- different position from able numerically, is dealing the pregnable," in the sense that it could
mited to follow General Corap's any which was expected. heaviest blows at the sources at not be pleseed without the sacrifice men armoured divisions were per-
of a colossal number of men, nad troops across the Meuse bridge. his war potential.
they transferred this "impregnability" But to reckon up the ac
to the West Wall.
This success was immediately ex- More powerful tanks than ploited. counts it is necessary to
It is impossible to think that the had yet been encountered, operating realise that from the condi-
altack, though directed with great with low-fiying aeroplanes, advanced Still, this is not the state we skill, was ever pressed suffelently west and south. In the former direc- tions under which the war
expected to be in a year after Though heavy armoured units were on they turned the extension of the broke out, it was likely that the outbreak of the war, and it used, the average depth of penetra Maginot line and threatened the allied
Germany would win all the is of importance to recognise tion never exceeded three miles. At positions in Belgium. The
its greatest, It was only 8 or 9 miles; the steps by which we have come and this was where the German armies had to fall back.
Poland
ter-
were
allied
earlier successes.
ritory pushed a sallent into France. She attacked Poland at her to this position.
taetient positions Some
good Germany fell upon
secured, giving observation over the own chosen moment, without
when she was fully prepared and German ines that would have been For some days they attempied warning; and this means Poland was only partly mobl valuable if any reat advance were to stem the advance, but the fatal over-confidence which had that the years of her pre- lised; and she attacked with so projected.
But when it was seen that Poland led the French Staff to underrate paration were accomplished. many advantages that it is She had for a long time pro- difficult to understand why she could offer no further only broke the Polish fighting quality and
and convention at sistance the French not only
withdrew off the attack but
the consequently the formidableness mised her people guns in place set all law
divisions from the advanced positions, of the German tactics, and their of butter; and they had certain- defiance.
Her deliberate use of trea- leaving only light outposts.
dependence on the defensive, ly secured the guns. She had
When the Germans, in the middle now betrayed them... assembled and trained vast chory and scientific application army, equipped with everything of terrorism are the astonish- of October, determined to recover which could promise it victory; ment of the world; and it is lost ground their blow accordingly They had thought out no means of of the operations the French pasi-dive-bomber; and they never evolved she had accumulated stocks of impossible, at present, entirely spent itself in the air; but at the end carteracting the heavy tank and the the speed and tions were almost entirely on their one. The altempt to stem the Ger- all the commodities she might to disentangle
minn advance to the west consequent- ty falied, and the allied forces were require and which the British magnitude of her success from own soll once more.
barbarous
It was no great matter in itself; but eat in two. blockade might cut off; she had these wholly
it was ominous, and in fact from that brought her war industries to pedients.
time the initiative even in raiding the peak of production.
She had prepared the ground activity was abandoned almost en began to advance up the Channel The allies set- coast in the rear of the allied armies. tirely to were neither prepared for war ping Poland of the protective and the affensive spirit, without was made by General Gott u nor in the least anxious to en- flank which
EX-
the enemy.
German armoured divisions at once
On the other hand, the allies for her attack by carefully stred down behind their defensive liner The only attempt to heal the breach
an
independent which
gage in it. France, as we now Czecho-Slovakia provided. By noted away. know, was short of neroplanes so doing she was able to place
cesses
and
win in the beginning,
*
first
in various if all that had gone before seemed a
western front
no war is won, frittered un. failed. The Germans had immense superiority in the alr Their armour- About a month after the end ured detachments were dominant.
it was even noted by a French and heavy tanks; Britain had armies in positions threatening the Flemish campaten, Germany ins no army of continental propor- the rear of the main river de vaded Denmark and Norway. The milllory spokesman as "brilliant" that could make no defence' and she artillery could check tanks! The idea tions and no Air Force of a size fensive lines. On the flanks too featured in the German plan only as of firing pint blank seemed almost an indelicacy. The Belgium army' proportionate to her risks.
she had concentrated two large a larder and the gate of the Baitle sed resistance
were driven to surrender; and it The lack of organised
In In neither country was there air armies.. at Konigsberg and
mobilised Norway was largely due to treachery seemed as if the internal combustion any sign of the mobilisation of Vienna; and she had
under and the adoption of several novel engine would win not only another industry for war purposes. It her armoured divisions
was an operation of considerable skill It was at this point that the was, therefore, quite inevitable the command of the experts who expedients. But the actual invasion campaign but even the war.
seems to have Dunkirk episode come to restore that the first year's balance had trained them.
and daring. Oslo sheet should show German suc- Before the war began General fallen to an invasion from the air; and sanity and hope to the outlook; for
ere used parachutists were
triumph of the machine this was at allied
reverses. Douliet had outlined a form of parts of the country.
to resist victory of murule. Everyone expected it; and any attack from the air which Ger- Norway's determination
The brillant defences of Calais other result would have been many applied almost exactly. was fortified by an allied expedition incredible. The unarmed man In the first hours. of the cum- which attempted to prevent the con- and Boulogne were its prelude; but German position, the amazing battles which covered landed north and south of the evacuation of Dunkirk were a may win in the end: he cannot paign, her Air Force attacked and h
every aerodrome, headquarters Trondisjem, with the intention of conclusive proof that numbers, en- and nodal point in the country; capturing the clly as a base of opera- gines and machines could be beaten by the cool head and steady heart. and as a consequence, almost tions against Oslo.
The first part of the plan should not
This mo
morale is not weakened but from the outset that stream of have proved difficult; but the sperg strengthened by the Immediate We are not il "beleaguered
"Our communications information and direction by tive arm of the allied force, attempt sequel. The Germans, at once fell fortress." are intact; we can enter and means of which a staff turns a ing to advance upon Trondhjem from upon the main allied armies stand- the north, suddenly found the Gering along the Somme and above the In four an army mans attacking their rear and flank Aisne to the Maginot line. leave as we wish and need; we body of troops into
from the fjord. The check proved days they had broken through the can cross the enemy's frontiers was dammed.
Somme positions; and in another at will and strike blows at the Worse than this, the Panzer decisive.
The southern arm advancing, on four, fighting across the whole front heart of his strength leat divisions-began-to-appear well-the-appeni-of-the-Norwegian-Staff-up-to-the Maginot line, had convin all events, recognises this su behind the Polish front. The down the Gudbrandsdal encountered eed General Weygand that all was
4 the Germans with artillery, armoured Inst. thoroughly that he has been de- German strategy involved
On June 10 French armies were her cars and acroplanes. It was less than livering an attack as resolute as double envelopment; and
a brigade strong and was not armed ordered to cease fighting and Mar- armoured divisions, cutting it is skilfully planned.
for such operations. There were no shal Petain naked for an armistice. He took six weeks after the across the river lines of the ports equipped for the disembarkation The rest is anti-climax, On June 25 taken his finishing lessons French surrender to mount the Nurev and the San, threatened of tanks and artillery, no aerodromes lighting on the
It was ceased. The French were defeated from his partner Hitler, and one
Air offensive, and he has been to surround the whole Polish for an adequate air force.
The The German were skilfully directed;
obsession with the de- engaged on it for weeks. The force while others attempted to crefore a clash of two periods. before they gave battle.
Intal excuse was as good as another
main field armies and, when it was seen that they had fensive, with its futile belief in the for him as he has only to con-
first phase of the massed attacks cut off the
left the Osterdal, climbed the ridge impregnability of the defensive" on Britain was severely checked from the Vistula.
ad cut the railway between Dombaus and its evil brood of fear, mental vince his own people. The rest
that, apart from sporadic day The latter movements
wer and Trondhjem, the allied force was sterility and defeatism had run its of the world looks on, hardened. attacks he has transferred his carried out so rapidly and with withdrawn."
predestined course. Only now is it
to
Operations continued at Narvik for fully realised that the obsession shock by repeated
attentions to the night. and
such apparent precision that, flagrant violations of sacred His objectives are obvious. He on September 9, Marshal Goring some weeks until the port and area with the defensive in the end broods
must put out of action all the announced that "Poland with its were captured; but by this time the innbility even to defend.
offensive in the west had made such treaties, and realises that the talk of world domination so long supports of the Royal Air Force three armies is overpowered and unexpected progress that it was felt -the aerodromes, the aircraft hundreds of thousands of Polish to be wiser to evacuate Nurvik also. regarded as Democratic pro-
factories and all munition works soldiers are throwing away their The operations at Trondhjem were doomed as soon as the naval attack paganda, is in truth the main and communications, in order to weapons."
was abandoned. object of the Axis Powers. crush the Air Force itself. He has moved forward his nero- dromes towards the Channel Coast; and he is varying the
It was on May 10 that Ger- and Gallibat in the Sudan which form of his attack daily. but it was true that the three many opened her great offensive offer good starting points for an The massed Air attacks in the armies west of the Vistula were in the west against Holland, advance on Khartum; and in an- south of England, where alone partly enveloped, and in spite of Belgium and Luxembourg; and other month had taken Moyale he can use his fighters, have their desperate struggle the
allies were at once drawn into British Somaliland.
But all the exchanges, on the been exchanged for widespread position at the end of the second as Schlieffen. had foreseen the in Kenya and the whole of
our week appeared
to be beyond the struggle in the Low Coun- Enyptian front have so far been to. raids, in order. to weaken concentration. He has inevitably hope.
our advantage; and it is achieved some success. He has But the Russian intervention In his later plant he had provided sense as well as sound strategy to damaged some of our acro- put an end to organised resin- for a step he regarded as inevitable, cuncentrate on the main front. dromes; but we know from un- tance. The internal combustion as pallileally it was, by preparing to With evident skill and obvious VCRO- strike between Namur and Sedan, lulton Italy has begun to carry out happy experience at Stavanger engine had claimed its first vic- break through, and, holding off the her role; but there are strong forces that it is almost impossible to tim. Yet the Poles had fought section east of the breach, envelop the in the Near East and the real test
has yet to come. damage an aerodrome so severe- with such stubborn heroism and forces in Belgium.
It is interesting to note how closely So on the threshold of the second ly that it cannot be repaired fighting ability that they com- General van Brauchitsch followed year of the war Britain, stands rapidly. As for the rest neither pletely misled the French Staff this plon; but it seems more probable stripped of illusion, with her arms his day raids nor his night ex- who, recognising under what that it was not the original design. in her hand and faith in herself. of the She has jettisoned much of the bag- Opportunism is the essence peditions have done any great great handicaps they had auf- Orman strategy. An extreme flexi- gage train that would have fatally damage,
fered, thought it inconceivable Gary is the logical impleation of the impeded her as it ruined France. The night raids, weak and that an only partly mobilised tactics of infiltration.
No one is inclined to think she merely occasional at present, army could have achieved
Bul the campaign in the west was has not lost much in the defection much if the mechanised attack not only notable for the now familiar, of France. But she realises that her
treachery dependence upon
and main strategy is intact, though the had been very formidable. the absence of specifle war aims,
terrorism but also for the rapidity pressure of the blockade is weaken- can be broadly stated as a desire to They were the more disposed and novelly of its development, ed in some directions. She har smash the Totalitarian Governments and to restare the security of other to accept this conclusion since Holland was reduced in five days by discovered that in spite of all the in the rear of te main water defen the machine, that numbers are not democratie nations. In that aim we they were experimenting with means of a force landed from the air specious reasoning man is master of Ignore Russia's stand because she these very tactics on the western alve line. In a comparatively small necessarily decisive except when han allowed herself to be aligned, front, and making no great head area about Rotterdam- points were the disparity. Is extreme that with the aggressors.
So far we know she is ready way with them. It must be seized by parachutista on the first day, quality is more than to, step in and, grubs the weakened remembered that Britain and of the offensive and troops were These are truisms, but they had
position:
She recognises that she has only Central European States for herself France did not go to war until thaded from aeroplanes to consolidate been overlaid by much sophistry. when the combatants are exhausted, three days after the opening of Then, while a force was advancing herself to depend upon, but reasons Therefore, until she declares herself the Polish "campaign and the towards the centre of the inundated that she la strategically so placed we expect no help from Russia brunt of the fighting must fall, to join the force In the Rotterdam her powers, she can bring her and proves her declaration by facts French, upon, whom at first the area at Utrecht, on armoured division that detent is inconceivable and Broka through across North Brabant: that, with the wise offensive use of and she takes the risk of being the did not complete their mobilisa area; and, to pat a term to the res enemies to ruin,
If Greece can survive she will have played a noble part in re- builing that object; if she sus. tains the conflict for a few weeks with British ald, she will have thrown yet another doubt on the invulnerability of the great Axis land machines in Central Eu- rope; if she defends herself for months she will light the torch that the ancient Marathon run- ners used to carry from clty to city-a flame that in this case will set afire the latent spirit of Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Bul- garia.
The world also walls to see what Turkey will do. Handicapped as she is by doubts as to Russia's real in- tentions, Turkey may take no more then a passive role at first, but it is doubtful whether Stalin can afford to continue playing blind man's bust with his partners by what may be politely called in his case "defenůvo aggression, now that the fate of his own country is seriously involved.
The Axis will certainly not attack Russia until it has disposed of,, or made peace with Great Britain, and 'It'would appear that Stalin hás ási much confidence in our ability to defend ourselves as we have, or he would not, leave, so much to chance.
Happily we in England and the „Urijih. Empiro have a clear, cut pur-
pose In Bghing the enemy. Which, in -eventtial victim of the Axli,
The statement was premature;
80
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tries.
Italy entered the war on June 10 when it was obvious that France was beaten, and in less than a month had seized Kassala
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