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The greatest British air force ever mobilised outside Britain itself is deployed in the Middle East.
The aerial theatre of war in which it has to operate extends miles from Gibraltar eastwards to Palestine, 3,000 miles from Palestine south- wards over East Africa, 1,500 miles from Alexandria to Aden, and 1,000 miles from the western Sudan to the Red Sea.
These vast distances are the first thing to visualise if we are to get any clear picture in our minds of what air war in the Middle East may be like.
The Middle East Command of the R.A.F. covers a greater area than any other, and touches many countries of the Empire. And, appropriately, it is an Empire Force.
Ith Commander-in-Chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, is an Australian, though he has had many years distinguished service in Britain.
Its personnel, the most cos- mopolitan in the world, in- cludes men from the British Isles, Australians, New Zea- landers, Anglo-Indians and In- dians, South Africans, Pales- tinian Jews and Arabs, Sudanese. And in addition to these Empire Citizens, Czechs, Poles, Frenchmen and Egyp- tians are serving in the Com- mand. Some of its squadrons belong not to the R.A.F., but to Dominion Air Forces.
The Command's equipment, munitions and other supplies are drawn from many coun- trica.
How the Czech contingent. now serving in Egypt's West- ern Desert, came to be there, is in itself a romance of what free men will do to fight for Freedom.
These men, pilots and Kround personnel, escaped from Czechoslovakia after the German occupation in March 1939, reached Poland, joined the Polish Air Force as volun- Leers, fought the Nazis there.
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When Warsaw fell they found sanctuary in Rumania, and then began months of ad- venturous travelling through thousands of miles of enemy and neutral countries til at long last they reached Egypt.
The wife and four-year-old daughter of one of the party accompanied them through- out, sharing their hazards,
"Nothing matters to us,” they said on presenting theni- selves for service, "except that the R.A.F. should give us A chance to fight somewhere."
Young Palestinians, Jewa and Arabs, are not only enger to defend Palestine, but cager. to light anywhere else where the R.A.F. ensign flies.
The Jews among them know only too well what Nazi 'do- mination means. Most of them experienced its tortures in Germany and Austrin.
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A number of these Pales- tinians served with the French Foreign Legion in Syria and escaped to Palestine when France capitulated.
Those who don't speak Eng- lish-and few of them do are being trained with the aid of interpréters, mostly for service with the technical branches of the R.A.F.
The Middle East Command well. is well-equipped and armed,
For months past, Hurri- canes and Spitfires have been pouring into the Middle East, as well as modern bombing planes.
Against such a force, the Axis Powers will not be able to repeat the blitzkrieg tactics used in Abyssinia and in Poland.
Nor will it be the same sort of air warfare as that now waged over Britain. The deserts provide innumerable landing fields, and an aero- drome there can be freely and frequently moved.
Middle East Command, R.A.F., has a mobile-minded Chief in Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore. It has another, and fortunately equally an air-minded one, in the Commander-in-Chief of all our forces in the Middle East, General Sir Archibald Wavell.
It was Wavell who years before the war said: "No sol- dier should hold a rank of high command without having had at least six months' close association with the R.A.F.”
THE POLITE POLE
The Poles are noted for their politeness. Their greeting is always accom-, panied by a bow. It is quite impossible to induce one of them to precede you through a door.
At a certain bomber station there were a num- ber of Poles who were certainly no less polite. than their compatriots.
The climax came day when a section of the British pilots were setting off on a mission that was generally khown to be ex- ceptionally hazardous. -
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As they left the mess they found the Polca drawn up at the door. Their spokesman had in his hand an English dic- tionary. He stepped for.
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"God pickle you, gentle. men", he said.
The English language is full of pitfalls, and-per- haps not the least. of them-concerns the words "pickle" and "preserve".
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A LETTER FROM EVERYDAY ENGLAND
by
Kathleen Conyngham Greene, O.B.E. London has been in the front of the war picture lately. The unshakeable courage and cheerfulness of London people have shaped the course of his- tory.
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London is the largest city
the world; the second largest. is a million inhabit- ants behind her. We talk of London as the heart of Eng- land, and so it is. But it is the heart of a rural England. Even if the impossible hap- pened and every church, hos pital, club, shop and private house in London were levelled to the ground, the heart would not stop beating. Every little market town, every village, manor house, farm and cot- tage would have to go too. with the people who lived in them, before
conqueror could say "there's an end to all that!"
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Only the day before yester- day, as time is measured in the life of a nation, Greater London itself was a group of villages, with the City of Lon- don and the Royal City of Westminster as their centre. Kensington, Chelsen, Isling- ton, and the rest, have still their own Mayors and sents their of local government own intense local pride!
Rural Reminders London's place-names-----Lin- coln's Inn Fields, Cornhil}, Haymarket-keep her in mind -of-the-country. Not-the- names only, .. It is a boast of London people that there is hardly a house in her bor. ilers from which you cannot look t tree. Blackbirds and thrushes sing in her back gardens. Owls hawk down her streets in the dusk.
Perhaps it is because they find it so pleasing that visitors to London do not always look beyond it. Ribbentrop may have believed that the Ger- man Air Force could wipe out all visible London. If he had known Smalltown and Little Muddicombe as well as he may have thought he knew Pic cadilly, he would have told his master n different story.
The coming, first of the motor car and motor bus, then of wireless broadcasting, has made changes in English country life. Country people can get outside the range of their own legs and of their own ways of thinking. But the general pattern of, life in the English country "just
goes on..
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said the "Feudal American visitor to Little Muddicombe, finding Colonel Landowner administering justice as a local magistrate,
Nazis Thought Scots Mrs Landowner as President
Spoke Russian
Three Highlanders who were cap tured by the Germans near Abbevlile last June and were released because they pretended to be Russians have
een awarded the Military Medal,
Alistair Corporal
Wonald, James Lance-Corporal Private William Kemp, all from Ballachulish (Argyllshire), and sery- ing in the Argyll and Sutherlande, saved because they spoko Garlic. Eight Interpreters were .tried. None understood them.
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Then the Germans produced a map of Europe, and one of the Scots, putting his finger on a spot in North itussia, indicated that they came from that part.
of the village Women's In- stitute, Ruth, their daughter, running the Girl Guides. So It is, at the root, perhaps, though Colenc Landowner owns no more land than is covered by the Manor House and its garden, and this was bought by his grandfather, who made money in cotton spitining in mid-Victorian days!
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fall in behind him. Mrs Landowner has housed an evacuee mother and five mis- chievous children from Wight- haven for more than a year. All the village knows what those children did, playing darts against the dark-look- ing, foreign pictures that the Colonel used to lend to Lon- don exhibitions.. and have censed to grumble about their guests. Miss evacuce Ruth went off to drive an ambulance for the Army. Bui Mr Humphrey's wife and child are at the Manor House. Mrs Humphrey got people from, "away" to give talks about war time cookery, and led the whole village in mak- ing vegetable soups and jam.. The Red Cross working par ties meet in the Manor House. The billiard table is piled high with wool and bales of stuff. Mrs Humphrey is the local 'secretary of the Soldiers'. Sailors' and Airnien's Families Association. She knows what
it is to have a man at the war. No one minds talking to her when a little help is wanted.
Working Democracy
But it isn't only the Big House and its occupants that shape the pattern of English country life.
Drive through the little towns and villages of England and, in each one, if you stop to watch and to listen, you will find, turning briskly and independently, the wheels of an ordered life.·
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Petty Sessions Sessions... Assize Court, Here is justice on an ascend- ing scale.
Colonel Landowner's fellow magistrates on the local Bench include the garage proprietor and the doctor's wife. The local magistrate, or Justice of the Pence, hus administered the law of the country, with- out pay and without favour,. for seven hundred years. The crimes with which he--to whom in recent years she has been added-have to deal are those rightly known as "petty."
But as the English Prayer Book puts it, they "truly and impartially minister justice" --and no man can do better than that!
Parish Council... Borough District Coun- Council cil
... County Council Here is self-government!
The Mayor and Corporation of the Borough of Smalltown are, in their own sphere, á body as important as the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster.
Smalltown's first Mayor. took office in 1170, when their feudal master granted to Smalltown people the control of their own affairs.
This year His Worship the Mayor is n retired green- grocer. One of the Council- lors is a retired Admiral; an- other was the distinguished Governor of the Southern Palm Islanda. A third is a working cobbler of advanced political views. They enjoy the full confidence of the bur gesses of the Borough, who have only duly elected them. Colonel Landowner as roWo don't. uso that much turned proudly to uniform in the Little Muddicombe Homo Guard. It was naturalfor the people in the village to
over - worked word "demo- cracy" in Little Muddicombe and Smalltown,
But wo practise it!
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