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Seventh Article in This Historic Series
Can 1941 The
THE
be answered simply with a "yes," question in the headline might But to answer it adequately we must begin by defining what we mean by "the pffensive.".
war has
By
We Take
Offensive?
Capt. Liddell Hart
and fand
superiority in both air atrength, leaves a natural doubt about the value of such expectations.
In sum, our chance of invading the territory which Germany now occu the world-famous writer on military affairs
ples, and winning a milltary victory No term connected with
there, would seem to depend on the given rise to more misunderstanding, or to such perious misunderstanding. power and virtue of the offensivs in vanco across the desert to Sidi Bar- possible discovery of some revolution rap, and the accumulation of troops sy new weapon of paralysing effect, spot where it was or the creation of an army of radically
desert.
In the usual milltary senso "the its superficial form. offensive" is a term applied, and re- It has come to be regarded by public in that exposed
the opinion in Britain and American as a difficult to maintain their supplies, new model. takes which stricted, to action
nemy universal solution for all war problems. which gave the British the chance of And neither of these possibilities in form of advancing upon the
This craze for "furious assault" in the striking a blow under far more fa-
Such a conclusion does not rule out This is a convenient, but not a precisa
taken the offensive Initially,
of amphibious ralds description especially in modern con- craziest notion that has ever been born youtable conditions than if they had likely to be realised in 1941.
of_unreasoning emotion.
They struck an opponent who was the possibility dillons of war.
Because a direct altsek is obviously till 'strategically unbalanced after the and other strategic guerilla opera- While it suited the days when men
victory, in- fought with awords and spears, it does the most direct way to
In Africa And In The Air not altogether fit warfare which is stinctive pugnacity has the only way, jump which had landed him in mid- tions.
the necessary Their offensive thus enjoyed the Outside this area, the prospect of nur carried out with firearma and other regardicas of whether
conditions of success were assured and fundamental advantages of the coun- taking the offensive militarily this year long-rango misalies.
A man, or a force, lying in a covered thus it has too often proved the short ter-offensive which apt to be the may turn on whether some fresh move on most effective and enslest form of the the enemy's part gives us the opportunity
for an effective local counter-offensive, position may appear to have taken up cut to disaster, a defensive attitude-yet hia or its Are The evidence of 1040, when analysed offensive. For, as in ju-jutsu, it ull And In Africa, at least, the pura offensive for 2011, provides little ground for the lises the opponent's own effort as the should become increasingly, practicable in is operating offensively.
proportion na Italian oil supplies dwindle When considering the military pro and Italian moralo declines, spects of 1941, as regards an offensive "The combinations al and mechanised The significance of this distinction is equal conditions. most simply illustrated in the case of The opening months saw the amazon our part, it would be wise to take force on an increasing scalo offers a definite
resistance prolonged
the account of this experience of 1040 solution of our military problem them and A sniper, who always stalle posture that is nasociated with Finns In face of a vastly stronger as that, except where the attacker had a foreshadows the dissolution of Mussolini's Turning to the question of the air offen- defence, whereas his purpose is es sailant, The Impression and the lesson tremenduna superiority of force, all the African Empire.
were obscured, however, by the shock successful offensives came as a sequel sive against Germany, it has to be recog sentially offensive.
to the opponent making a false move nised that the prospective results of 50 So is that of any felnt or with- of Hitler's victories in the West.
But few people pouse to reflect that which drew him out of position.
continuation remain lighly speculative, It Is necessary, too, to face the fact While a decisive effect is a possiblitty, drawal which entleek an opposing force to advance to a spot where it can be Hitler was careful to wait, before inore effectively amitten by your are, striking at France, until he had a 4- that our Army is much, smaller than the balance of probability is against such
the German, and that even the utmost anticipations. or more enally upset by a threat to its to-1 superiority in tanks and aircraft
development of our man bombing match between two rea-separated That was amply suficient by any pre- possible self-exposed flank. And this is one of the most prostable gambits of the art war calculation sto justify him in ven- power would not go far to bridge the countries such as Germany and England
turing an attack on the Maginot Life in the Inst war, of generalship.
Offence In Its Widor Aspects resurrected belief that, on land, attack lever of his overthrow.
can beat defence under anything like
Argumen
the ingly
of
In the Rght of experience hitherto, a
is fundamentally a farcical contest-how-
Britain and the ever tragic 11s sprending effects-unles
ene or other cani cross the water, or gain a lefinite mastery of the air.
In the wider sense, the offensive may Yet even then he did not take the risk. be said to embrace any form of action Cause Of The Tragedy Last May Dominions together eventually man
to the Low ty divisions.
aged to place in the field about seven deslined to gain the initiative-in Instend, by his threat operating against the enemy's will to Countries he lured the French out of We could hardly expect to provide continue the war.
Thus, savn blockade is an offensive their wenker defences along the Bel- as many in this war, however long it point of collapse.
when they Insted owing to the increased de-
defence. including anti-aircraft de- fence.
For otherwise they can only Manich ench allier-until the cumulativo effect of the scratches brings one of them to the
Swift Decision That's Real Victory.
indirect action as buying up neutral together with the British forces, ha mands of the Air Force and of home In the economic sphere; and no le such in frontier, and then,
As we are suffering more scratches than supplies which the enemy might other advanced deep into Belgium, struck In behind them at the weakest point of wise obtain.
Moreover, the total avaliable for any Germany, it is obvious that for agine time For the same reason, sir attack on their line.
What the French Premier described his Industrial plants is just as truly a
Is the incredible mistakes" of the campaign in Europe in diminished by we shall run the greater risk of exhaus form of the offensive an the bombing French command-which were not in the need in this war of guarding And if wo succeed in prolonging the THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph", of his aerodromes or troop concentraTM credible to anyone who had observed against a Japanese threat in the Far game
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A GREAT DECISION TO Britain, China and Greece yesterday came the heartening news that the United States Senate, by R substantial majority, had passed the Lond and Lease Bill practically in its original form. Thus has been struck for Democracy in its fights against Totalitarianism, one of the greatest blows of the past decaile. The United States has thrown down the gauntlet; henceforth Hitler and his junior partners know precisely what lies ahead of them-unstinted American ald in terms of money and materials for the Democracies.
In the course of his numerous
tlons.
113
had nor
even
untu
of "scratch-as-scratch-can" shall be almost as exhausted.
Nellier, a food peace nor a quick ID- Where We Failed Last Winter their long and obstinate adherence to stand of dealing with the Italian Gemany collapses, it is likely that we
the methods of the last war-smoothed forces in Africa.
Germany, in contrast, has no great covery could be anticipated from such a Navy and shipping feet to maintain condition. aimed to the path for the Germans new tech- is All propaganda that
Empire to guard. Centuries of experience show that a nny oversens weaken the will of the enemy people, nique of mechanised infiltration. That technique, Incidentally. as distinct from stiffening the will of originally been evolved by British ex- And she is reported to have between victory obtained by a long-drawn attrition ten years 200 and 250 lylaions rained and equip struggle in apt to be almost as damaging your
constitutes own, likewise
perimenters more than offensive-in the psychological sphere earlier.
pedo that her present land strength to the victor as to the loser.
For a genuine victory the issue must certainly In all there ways we can
"It was bad enough that the enemy is immensely larger than our potential be swiftly decided.
The delivery of the decisive stroke or take the offensive in 1941-and in most should have been allowed to outstrip strength.
Allier in of them with much greater fored then the
developing these new "We Want No Moro Dunkirks" throat may have to be prepared by a lengthy period of manoeuvring, involving hitherto.
means of nitack, but it was
In so far as that strength 1les in widespread skirmishing but no strategist While waiting for the time when we worse than the much less exacting tal mechanised force her balance is also worthy at the name should allow himself
a big one.
to be drawn into a blogging toutch or Into might be strong enough to take the of creating the
Furthermore, no considerable force scratching match. offensive in the military field we badly means.
their beyond Wille attack
The only protracted type of offendva fatted to develop the offensive possibili-
in
other strength there was all the more reg. of the present type could be Innded on that can prove profitable is a psychological
Sun, and urgency, for providing the the Continent, without securing ports that were open to us spheres.
Indeed, the way that the lenders of modern necessities of successful de- for the disembarkation of its heavier This truth was evidently appreciated by "the soundent strategy in war ts io pori- France and Bellain talked last winter fence. And, their negivet to do so was material and the maintenance of its Leats when he defined the principle that
And here we are faced with the fact pone
of the chomy render the of the victory they were going to win, the inexcusable cause of the tragedy supplies. when their strength had grown, was of May, 1949.
delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy." worse than folish,
Hitler's grasp of it was impiled in hi
Idea
appropriate counter-
WAS
Perhops
This has brought more evil in its that we have done our utmost to make integration or until the moral dia- The more effective bur bombard- It not merely exposed the weakness, train-but not without some compen- these poris unusabic. of their existing strength and prompted salion.
Facts That We Have To Face ment has been. the bigger the obstacle remark, years ago, that the military the enemy to forestall them, but tend-
to achieve the moral break-down of the ed to block the way for a psychological By fostering the delusion that attack we must have raised to our own ull- problem which interested him was "how
of mate military aims. offensive.
could bent defence regardless
It may be as well: For enemy before the war has started."
And his solution was shown in the To confine our
of offensive whether the conditions were favour; however many German divisions are "bloodless campaigns against Austria and action to that of direct military assultable, it may have prompted Mussolini dispersed in occupying the conquered Czechoslovakio, and later in his actual Jas Scandinavia, the Low is an absurdly narrow conception. It to launch his invasion of Greece. understanding of This was
bad in itself. but has countries, it would seem probable that campaigns shows a shallow
changed the general situation for the the Germans could soon concentrate Countries and France,
Only when he came directly up.against sufficient to outweigh heavily any modern warfare.
that Too many of our, lenders, like those better.
But it important to realise Bving are still
By taking the offensive without due force that we could land. We do not e Lirlish was he baffled.
Hitler's grasp of the principle Wha of France earlier, mentally in the last century.
calculation, and in country favour. Want further Dunkirku.
It is often suggested that the enemy's originalty based on his knowledge of the of land force might be German people's paychological weaknesste. Have the Greeks an opportunity to en- superiority The Craze For "Furious Assault" able to his mechanised superiority, ise
E Unfortunately for the prospect of
delles, and to
up superiority, broader conception, the collapse of trip vancing columns in moun- discounted by our attainment of air But. apart from this being not yet France in face of the German Blitz- recoil with a counter-offensive. krieg, after nine months of Sitzkrieg. Likewise on the southern-it-of-the-bight his faflure to overwhelm our
of the Mediterranean, it was the Italian ad- army Inst May, despite tiis has produced a false picture
Chips Maguire! I was kind of dumb not to guess it wasn't I
An Absorbing Tale of a Torch Singer, "Fireside Talks" President A Piano Thumper and a Gangster Boss
the
Roosevelt has bluntly told Hitler and Co., that neither he nor the American people will be intimi- dated by threats that come from the Axis capitals. Now, Mr Roosevelt." and
peoples' representatives have gone fur- ther; they have thrown Hitler's threats back into his face and declared that they are prepared to go to almost any length to stop him from fulfilling his Machiavellian machinations.
LOUIS BROMFIELD'S
IT ALL CAME TRUETM
The people of the United States have no illusions about the Fuehrer's vaunted "New Order". They know that if he found it practicable to attack the United States he would soon A Warner Bros. pictura coming to Hongkong next week, Tho find a pretext, as in the case of cast includes ANN SHERIDAN as Sal: JEFFREY LYNN as Tommy; the inoffensive small countries | HUMPHREY BOGART as Mr Grassolli; SAZU PITTS as Miss Flint; he has overrun. Moreover, the JESSIE BUSLEY as Mrs Taylor and UNA O'CONNER as Maggio
Ryan, American people are now con- vinced that, however scrupulous- ly neutral the United States
Serialised by HARRY LEE.
"A snoppy dame, 'ain't you?"
Unfortunately, Britain's leaders have not
Here's A New Field To Exploit
riple and have failed to exploit the yet shown an understanding of the prin great pavelulogical opportunity affered
It in all the more unfortunate because our resources in this sphere are superior to the enemy's,
There is a great opportunity, and ari komediate
for a psychologiest' counter-offensive,
"I only wanted to know what Tommy had tot mixed up with. I knew it was something that would get us all in trouble1 Give me a cigarette, Chips-I've been waiting behind that curtain for an hour with nothing to smokel"
in pursuing their military attacks the Nazis have weakened Germany's moral defeneca. Already there is evidence that chipillusionment has followed in the wake of conquest.
German
The
troope, through being brought into contact with the people of the occupied countries, have been made **I suppose," he said, complying, and aware of the feelings they inspire as holding a match for her, "that you'll go lovaders. Indefinite separation from homo right out now and tell everybody up and deepens the longing for home, down Broadway"
"Think I'm going around bragging that we're harbouring a fugitive from justice? But if I don't run you out. It's only be- couro Ma and Mrs Taylor need your rent pretty und-low's Tommy mixed up with you?"
"Why don't you ask him?"
Together with the sense of being friend- Jers, It opens the way for the Infiltration of war weariness-as well as of counter- ideas.
With a clearer conception of grund strategy, we should have a good chance of turning this disillusionment to advant- age-for the salvation of elvliikation.
We have helped to fortify the German people's-war-will and to check the spread of war-weariness by the hariness of our penee alms, coupled with the definite way we talk about seeking a decisive military victory,
This ominous combination naturally arouses the fear of a peace worse thon Versailles, and this plays into Hitler's hands.
By clarifying our alms on this score we might go far to dispel such tears,
ut to go farther will we need to
"I will!" She started from the room. "Aw, wait, Ball Now that you know it's me, will you come in sometimes and chew the fall I'm going daffyl These monkeys on the wall paper are beginning to make faces at mei" "Why don't you nako faces right back and scare them to death?" she said, and went out and closed the door. Tommy must have heard her for he stood at his door, angry and disheveled. "What were you doing develop a positive appeal that will convert there?" he asked, roughly jerking her the common people of Europe, including Into her room. She whirled on him the Germans, into Allies against Hillerim. furiously, but his helplessness, made her To carry conviction that appeal must be love for him surge up in a rush of based an example, not merely on pious maternal pity. Tommy.. are you sentiments. in trouble?"
*WE MUST CREATE A NEW ORDER IN BRITAIN, READY FOR EXTENSION ABROAD, THAT WILL DE SUPERIOR IN NATURE AND ATTRACTION TO THE NAZI ORDER
WE MUST GIVE MEN A NEW VISION, To beat the doctring that the individual we can evoke a scheme of national life in which the state of every Individual better than it could ever become in a totalitarian aytem Spearhead Of Counter-Offensiva
"What did he tell you?" "Listen, mister. I'm just trying to sell you a friend
THE STORY THUS FAR: Misa Minnte left her brownstone house, its 've got a friend" he said doggedly. might remain, that would not furnishings, and its four ancient boarders, to Maggie Ryan, the cook, and "ire knows everybody that counts. He AND A NEW HOPE
was going to help me to get my musle count in the balance if Hitler | Norah Taylor, the maid, Neither has the heart to evlet the old roomer published! Now, I suppose that you he exists for the State, it must be shown that
Maggie's beautiful, hard-bolled daughter, Sarah Jane, a singer of torch "Tommy, you poor baby lamb" saw the U.S. as the only obstacle songs, comes home after losing her job and beating up the boss. Norah's was thinking how vastly more wise in in his path to world dominion, son Tommy, who has been away for five years, has been playing the piano the ways of the world she was than he sce one?" Then, wistfully, "Listen, kid, The Lend and Lease Bill is the in a tough joint and carrying the gun for the big boss. The boss, when "Don't you know a run-around when you first
of protection the place is raided, snatches the gun from Tommy, fires and hits a man, if you'd only take me on your doorstep,
and practically forces Tommy to bring him to his mother's boarding house, maybe I could against such an eventuality.
The Bill is a piece of inspired as a hideaway. Sarah Jane reads of the raid and suspects the mysteriou ao to bed and let me get back to citizens all the benefits that the National-
boarder. She loves Tommy, but quarrels with him when they meet again.
CHAPTER 3.
mensuro
THE clucking, hen-mother atten-
stalesmanship, no less valuable to-day than it will be in' the difficult years after the war.
tions of his two offelous, old For Great Britain and her friends it promises to solve a landindles, Maggie and Norah, made whole cluster of problems. Mr Grasselli want to throttle them. It was only when Roberts, the shady Financial questions will not be gent who pretended to be his doctor, permitted to impede the flow brought word that the shooting affair across the Atlantic of all the was about to blow over, that his weapons that Britain needs for manner toward them becarne slightly
more tolerant. hor victory and America's
Tommy atoutly refused to give Baralı security. Yesterday's voting, Jane any information about the strange Mr Grassell, So she decided to do some which
the aleuthing on her own. She hid behind a complemented decision of the House of Repre curtain in the upper hali waiting for him ut come from the bathroom. He emerged sentatives, proved that the at hat drawn low. Ita must have commonsense and goodwill of sensed her presence for his hand want awiftly to his hip, When he saw that it the American people are behind was a he smiled grimly, that masterly conception.
"Go" she maared, "the mysterious Mr Grassell! in none other than good old
Mr Graselli
work!"
The now."free Blalo" must secure its
Socializi State promises them, together' Ifer first impulse was to retaliato in with the advantages that the latter, of Its kind, but she thought better of it. "very nature, cannot even offer. think you might give me an idea of eng | In other words, our new order shoyld of your songai“ slie said casually, sealing combine a giuranten of economia mcurly, herself in the one easy chair and Highling based on the free provtalon to everyone
cigarette,
of the material necessities of lie, with "I didn't suppose you were interested the largest possible measure of individuai
songs delighted fier, sho
The fulfilment of such a conception is so... and was soon singing. For the the necessary spearhead of our psycho- Bret me he was the gay, twinkling logical counter-offensive. Tommy of the old days .O.
he said and began to told hires
Jis freedom outside the economic sphere.
Barah Jane ron to her mother's rooms wild with theo nawa. “I did it, Mal" she Fried" kept my tempert Maybe it's Tovel Maybe love makes you keep your temper) just kept looking at hẩm and telling him how wonderful he was—and! he is, of couriei. And we didn't get mad. and insuit each other and
"Go away and let me sleep. Sure, you're a. raving lunatic!"
As though wonders would nover enate, both Margie and Norah annotinced to the Astonished hoarders at breakfast that no lesa a personage tion the mysterious Mr Grasscill had accepted an invitation to dine with the household that very evening.
(To be concluded to-morrow.)
TO-MORROW :-
CAN WE BEAT THE U-BOAT? BY CAPTAIN BERNARD ACWORTH, D.S.O., R.N.
who was in the Navy for thirty years, was a submarine commander In thi last war, and for two years command- ed the Anti-submarine training.ttotila,
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