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LITTLE MEN
who Saved BRITAIN
and thence. the complete vulnerability o f every
Dunkirk: "It had the magical quality of a great Biblical story,'
[From the painting by Charles Cundall, European na- HE turning point, how And
THE
many tion and en-
perished; and ever, came at Dunkirk, fishermen and officers died to- abled Hitler to At Dunkirk one Britain lost ether; but the pier of Dunkirk heft, and 200,000 men came pick them off the war. At Dunkirk an- home to England, without whom one after an- other Britain was born, to Britain could not have been other, in suc-snatch destiny out of the protected, without whom Britain cession.
hands that had sent it out to would have been lost.
IN the noise of the France will probably get die.
crash of France a union-not a union as be- In the daily poundings of the
small cry was hardly tween equals, but union un- and minds, where one
news upon our ears, and eyes They were not saved by the
heard. Yet it was im-der the heel. portant.
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event men in top-hats and striped follows another in awful and trousers, the men who went The German war aims terrific succession, we forget grouse shooting in Scotland and to-day what we read yesterday. reckoned how one could defend But Dunkirk cannot be for- Britain and still not wreck the (What hap- Dunkirk has about it the ma- pens to an economic system
It represented the first act contemplate a customs union of real political imagination of Europe, a control over gotten. Dunkirk was the miracle. economic system. on the Allied side in this foreign trade, banking, cur- gical quality of a great Biblical when a nation fails?) war.. Winston Churchill of- rency, an economic strangle- story, of a King Arthur legend. They were saved by them- fered complete union to France.
By Dorothy Thompson
The offer came too late, but in it was the germ of a concept that might have grip on all European re- saved the world this war sources; and all for the because of men and lined up the vital and strength and glory of milit- revolutionary forces on the ant Nazi Germany. side of the Democracies in-
selves and by the people of Eng- land. They came home filled with rage and filled with a sense of wonder.
They had a story to tell, a What happened happened story of a battle against in- and the way superable odds, of a battle they behaved, but also because fought without the protection of of circumstances that are un- planes and without heavy tanks explainable, that belong to an- the story of the miracle, of the other dimension of possibilities littlo men from the coasts who
pedestrian lives.
God.
stead of handing over their, The cry for the other than the one in which we lead saved them with the help of wanton exploitation and kind of union-the volun- The British Army was lost; I write these words soberly. perversion to Adolf Hitler. tary amalgamation of the the whole British Expeditionary I am reporting what scores of Force, the flower of Britain's men and women in England With that offer the politi. free for mutual defence and youth, the hope of British de- have written to me. cal issue changed.
mutual economic co-opera- fence against Invasion.
"God means England to do tion-came too late. But it By every human calculation it something." "I never felt like was lost. There was no hope that hefore in all my life.. It was as though every one was
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Before that an Allied war aim had been the preserva- suggested something new; it for it. tion of the complete national had vision, it suggested Fenned into a corridor thirty your brother." "It was like the miles wide, unprotected by Children of Israel when God sovereignty of every Euro-something to which the planea or tanks, the only out parted the Red Sea.""
pean State, a-policy which world might look forward let a burning and devastated resulted in the "neutrality" rather than back.
TURKEY'S
armed strength
by
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F. G. H. Salusbury
The young regimental officer Is keen and distinguished for
The Turkish staff officer, particularly, has attained a high standard; and there are many RMED forces of Turkoy, senior officers and ' generals us an ally in specified "available with experience of circumstances of Great the Great War and the War of Britain and Greece, have Independence. been brought sharply into focus now that Greece has been plunged into war with Italy.
Part of those forces is already his leadership. He never for- In Eastern Thrace, that part of gels that the comfort and Turkey-In-Europe, which marches woul-being ot
men ato with Greece along the River Maritz, supremely important tlungs and on the North with Bulgeria.
Consequently the relations be What other defences can Turkey tween officers and men are ex muster?
cellent, and reminiscent; in some degree of those which obtained in the French Army. with mes enfants" (my children) na tho comman form of address by pincers to their men.
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Her navy is small-one battle, cruiser, two cruisers, four destroyers and half-a-dozen submarines.
- Her air force is small by modern standards. Jilat over a year ago it con- sisted of 370 machines. To-day It is larger, though it is not known by how inuch-another 150 machines might be a conservative estimate.
It had a trained personnel of 8350 officers and men. →
One of its more picturesque person- niitles is Kemal Atatürk's adopted daughter, Sabiha Guektchen. She has commission, and is married to a tellow-offieer.
The machines were a mixture of British, American, Polish and German makes, the bombers being mostly British, and the fighters Pollah and Derman.
The Turkish Army la highly efficient and trained to fight a war of manuBuvre. Its peace strongih, is 200,000, increased ott mobillation to 500,000, and with available ressives, in emergency, to about 1,500,000.
Turks are fino soldiers Their mill- tary quality in the Great War was out- alanding. They are equally good in altack and defence, and place le value on their own lives..
The increased offeleney of the Turkish Army, ne doveloped in recent years, has made it even more formidable, than la Used to Do
Ataturk saw to it that there were well organised military schools, and that the growth of modern foreign armica was studied intensively,
Though there was some short- age of material at the beginning of this war. recent, urgent arrange, ments have made good many do ficiencies.
The general equipment with which the Turkish Army would go into petion now in first rate, and Indeed, is better than that of any other Dalkan Army.
Mechanisation is not the over- whelming consideration which it has become elsewhere--chielly for this reason that Turkish roada, on the whole, are not good, and, con- sequently, set limits to the em ployment of mechanised forces.
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The army, therefore, has been trained and equipped as a mobile force on suc.. ilnex na ore parlicu- Jarly saltable to the country, in which 16 is most likely to be engaged. It does not tack anti- Innk guns, and it has a good alock of A.A. artillery. Ita constal do- fences are good
Any
the Turkish Army in the past were due to the corruption of the old Im
perial regime. That has gone.
hortcomings
of
A spirit of virility and fiery patriotism is now linked with in consciousness of reform and onciency.
It makes a combination: which- will never yield to the fashionable axgremion.
port with a single pier-a port
that was being bombed day and A NATION belongs to the night by planes that darkened people who will die to save the brilliant summer sky like it. At Dunkirk was demon- thunder clouds-a bombarded strated that the little men of port, a shallow sea, sand dunes. England would die to save it. ind the British shores thirty Great Britain has not be- miles away; 350,000 British longed to the people. That soldiers were in the hands of beautiful hierarchy of title and the Germans.
wealth and commoners was a Hitler announced "total anni- political democracy, but no go- hilation"; Winston Churchill cial democracy.
groaned that hard and heavy But Dunkirk is almost an al- tidings were to come; Reynaud legory for a strange
sort of said that only a miracle could social revolution. That social save the Army.
revolution now goes on from day On that blazing beach-blaz- to-day." ing with pitiless sunshine and Polar and Silvertown-Lon- ' blazing with Nazi fires the don's worst slums-are bombed miracle happened.
out of existence and their inha- The Army was the 'miracle. bitants evacuated to Mayfair. The Army and a relief force Mayfair, in its turn, that sprang out of every village bombed to demonstrate that in and hamlet on the coast of Eng- this strange war all men are ́ land:
equal-except that some are un- There was no time to mobilise equal in heroism, being better this force. No. time to train than the others.
it.
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Children are evacuated to It was the spontaneous rising safety abroad-or were until a of men who go down to the sen torpedo found them on in ships, in boats, in, smacks, in seas.
the
barges, in yachts; old men with American homes house Bri- their faces lined and hardened tish children, from middle-class by the sea wind; boys, too young and working-class and aristo- to go to war, who knew how to cratic families, but the little tack n sall and wield an oar Princesses, Elizabeth and Mary Jand draw in nets; mechanics, Rose, remain at home...
who were skilful at repairing a To be kingly means to stay rudder or handy in an engine- with the kingly. The Queen room; men in sou'westers, and converses with Mrs O'Connor, boots, mobilised by a grapevine, and sends furniture from Buc- taking to the sea to save the kingham Palace to the East- Army of Britain, and with it to End; and Buckingham Palace save the land of Britain.
itself is bombed.
Thus, the war becomes i people's war, and the King does not receive the People, but the THE-Straits of Dover became People include the King.
blacker with craft than the
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sky above በዘ black with The revolutionary clan of planes.
National Socialism faltors
The Army, pouring in from against this new spirit. To the corridor toward the tiny this new spirit it has nothing shaft of light and escape which to any.
was. Dunkirk, stumbled with Day by day the little men of Jutter exhaustion, dragged Great Britain make Britain wounded companions, crouched again great, and make it. in- for protection against planes and creasingly impossible for any guns among the sand dunes, human soul to become a Nazi. waded out to little beats and big And that, in itself, is a vic- boats, protected by destroyers tory.
or not protected by destroyers, For National Socialism will machine-munned and bombed fall when no one else. In the every inch of the shallows, in world can be persunded to be- the boats.
como a Nazi,
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