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where he was brought into the closest touch with prob- lems affecting possible operations in every country in the world. On promotion to lieutenant-general he vacated this important post, but before he had time for
Chief of the British Ex- more than a few weeks' rest he was hurriedly sent to peditionary Force.
Palestine in command of the Let us pass to May 26, two divisions quickly made 1940, when General Sir John available there. This coun- Dill became C. I. G. S. The try was thus being denuded: Norwegian expedition had of the troops most ready for come to its sad but gallant war.
end; Boulogne had fallen In Palestine he obtained three days before, and Calais at first hand an insight into was about to suffer the same Middle East conditions. He fate; the B.E.F., battered was then appointed to the but not bettered, was Aldershot - Command, the struggling slowly back to most important executive the beaches at Dunkirk. Has command in the Army at a soldier ever assumed home. All seemed set" fain supreme military respon- for the highest post în due
afforded by a crowd. He A Study of General Sir John Dill
has no shelter from the
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Chief of the Imperial General Staff
By
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WORTHY OF SUPPORT A correspondent to-day puts
Fate Intervenes Sir John Dill seemed now
and sometimes reach
ter the position became, him in the confused roar
sibility at a sterner moment course, when in 1937 a new more difficult.
in the history of the British Secretary of State for War But when war comes Army? alone must make the de- the British public for- The passage of events with new ideas. The upper arrived at the War Office cisions on which military gets past parsimonies, brought him no relief. It is age limit for high command plans will be based and and is apt to expect a true that the miracle of was drastically reduced, and Dunkirk saved seven-eighths one younger and junior to on which thousands of large and efficient army
to take the field as of the British Expeditionary himself was chosen to be lives will depend.
quickly as the Fleet can was gone. The 51st High-
Force. But all its equipment C.L.G.S. If his decisions are take the sea. The man land Division went down sound, and the results who is Chief of the Im-fighting at St Valery, and a successful, those who perial General Staff at few days later France signed to be shut out from the proffered advice can the outbreak of waran Armistice. It was a ter position for which the whole share in the warmth of knows that he is about rible moment for the C.I.G.S. career had been a prepara- popular approval. If to shoulder a burden last wat as
Sir John Dill finished the tion. On the outbreak of forward a suggestion for raising failure ensues, the man which his muscles are general on the General Staff Command of the Second a brigadier war he went to France in the Bomber on the height must meet unfit to support. When at the age of thirty-seven. Corps. Fate then gave a Fund. His idea--the voluntary alone the icy blasts of war broke out in 1914 He then held a series of ap- found himself where he twist to the wheel, and he donating of 25 per cent. of one disapproval, while his Lord Kitchener became pointments which promised month's salary by Britons-is advisers on the lower Secretary of State for to bring him to the highest might well have been months
by Hollanders in the N.E.I. Its the contours of the hill. of his reputation as a Aldershot, had a brigadiers will he seems to have overcome not novel; it has been employed slopes are sheltered by War, and the immensity commanded a brigade at
position in the Army. He before, but in very altered
circumstances.
By a great effort of work and soldier afforded a pro-appointment on the General the disadvantages he inherited tutes a spontaneous and gener- Lonely Eminence
tective covering for the Staff in India, was the first in that position. His whole ous gesture, and if adopted by The position occupied C.I.G.S. But there was military instructor at the training has taught him to look KING'S 100 per cent. of Britons in by the Chief of the Im-no such protection for newly open Imperial De- ahead and not be led astray by
Hongkong, will not a consider perial General Staff at Sir Edmund Ironside fence College, and was ap- able sum of money, certainly the War Office is as cold (now Baron Ironside) Staff College.
pointed Commandant of the and lonely_as_any posi-when-he-sat-for-the-first
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Starts TO-DAY THE
VAVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVA.
A TEMPEST OF UNTAMED HUMÁN PASSIONS.......LASHING A LAW- LESS OUTPOST OF THE GODLESS WESTERN FRONTIER!
Adrama possessing asweep and grandeur
truly breathtaking in its emotional Impact ...as youthful hoarts. win love and empire from danger-stalked desert and plain(2
Wesley Ruggles ARIZON
JEAN ARTHUR
starring
WILLIAM HOLDEN
WARREN WILLIAM - PURTER HALL And A Cost Of Thousands haped on this folurder Carmony Pat surrol bernet play by Claude Banyan Disded by WESLEY RUGGLES A COLUMBIA PICTURE
VAVAVAVA
a quick and substantial contri- bution towards
chief merits are that. it consti
many lakhs.
In Palestine
any example of long-distance any form of opportunism. As planning we may recall the Prime Minister's-statement-in- the House of Commons when he told us that, the tanks and guns
One possible complaint will be tion in the State. The time in his chilly chair that again the same people, who Army, since history has on the day this war was. From there he was moved for General Wavell's December in the past have given as been written, has in declared, and Lord Gort eral Staff at the War Office and August for Egypt, travel- to the key post on the Gen- battles left this country in July generously as they felt capable, times of peace always gladly vacated it to be as Director of Military seeing act could only have been will be asked to put their hands been a Cinderella, even come Commander - in - Operations and Intelligence, the result of General Dill's deci- ling via the Cape. That far- deep into their pockets, while many others, who have ignored their obligations, will continue to do so, To a certain extent
this is true, but it is reasonable
-TURKEY NEXT?-
sion that the risk should be taken. He was right, but what if he had been wrong?
Seeing Ahead
in
to hope that a lead such as this A few months before the prised to meet German experts man past ought to remember the ahead, I mention an incident As another example of seeing will encourage the less public outbreak of war I spent a short as technicians and professors. words of Tiberious Gracchus, 21 which occurred spirited members of the com- time in Turkey, and it was then Some made no secret of Nazi centuries ago: munity to come forward and do that I first understood why Ger-
France. "It is for the sake of other talking to General Dill at the Early in September, 1939, I was their share.
many, if she ever bullied her sympathies; some were ostensi- To expect a man to contribute way through the Balkans, would bly refugees. Just previously Italians go to the wars and give Mans, which housed a portion of men's wealth and luxury that Bourse de Commerce at Le receive a rude shock when she at an international conference, I their lives. They are called G.H.Q. during the period of con- at one time 25 per cent. of his tried conclusions with the Turks. had met an intelligent young Lords of the World, and they centration in the forward area. month's salary may sound I recall a long and interesting Brazilian from Rio Grande do have not a single clod of earth Indulging in the wishful think- rather forbidding. But the cor-conversation with the editor of
to call their own." respondent mooting this scheme a leading newspaper in Ankara.
And now Turkey is to be the early days of the war, I was ing that was so popular in the has wisely suggested the quali- "Would you", I said, "com-
next victim. "Let the Ghazi, speculating on the difficulties and his successors, create a new confronting Hitler, still engaged Turkey, and, I, Hitler, will flat-in Poland and with the winter ter him for it and take it," ahead of him-difficulties, I Mussolini once informed the mean, in staging an attack
Sir John Dill's reply was sim-
fication that where a man has pare Kemal Ataturk with Mus By John Daly family remittances, to make, solini or Hitler?" these should first be deducted He looked rather shocked, and
I realised too late that there are Sul, whose father I had known. and the 26 per cent, contribu-blunders which are worse than As he spoke to me of the "in- world that he was not a collec- against France. tion made.from the residue. In crimes.
nocent activities" of certain Ger- tor of deserts. Your real rob this way a man will be making a personal sacrifice for one' "The Ghazi", he said, "is in man teachers and merchants in ber-tyrant isn't. He is a collec- month, but not at the expense
a different category. He was Brazil, he betrayed an anxious tor of other people's countries, ple: "It is only a question of of his dependents. For those our lender, not because he wasted uneasiness. I could not help of republica, or provinces, and whether Hitler Inunches a full-. who put the proposal into effect, it our energies, but because he wondering if another "pro- a continent or two. Hitler, scale attack with one hundred will mean sacrificing some pleasures proved his personal courage and tective occupation" was not with much good sense, is con-
divisions this autumn, or waits and luxuries for a month, or possi- generalship in the field. We being then prepared in Turkey. tent to let America build fac-till the spring to do it with two bly longer, but this is the sort of trusted him, and he always It seemed a far cry from Porto tories, make roads, raise cities. hundred." And it was sol firing
which has become part and proved worthy of a nation's con- Alegre to Anatolia, but Nazism When the house is well fur- parcel of people's lives in England
Successful generals in the is the same, cast and west, and nished it only remains for him jfield get the glory which is their to-day, and they fulfil their obliga-fidence."
both to Egypt and to the oil- Turkey lying on the main road to demand the koys... fields is a useful country to-does not see why her 20 years' a thought to the soldier at the just due, and the troops have the Turkey, very understandably, joy of achievement, but fow give "protect".
achievements in now schools, War Office who neither seeks And the cunning of it all was new factories, and renovated nor expects recognition for his clear. Wherever some brave ports, should be written off as share in the victories. But it is and the entire proceeds forwarded general, some architect of ná- so much slave-labour for Ger- first and foremost General Sir to the Bomber Fund by the company Itional achievement, some shrowd many. When she realised what John Dill who in seven months. on behalf of the subscribers.
and far-sighted statesman had was in the wind, she began to has raised the Army at home Additionally, I should be stressed, won now wealth for his country, show her suspicions of the from a state of comparative that although our correspondent ad- vances the suggestion specifically for Nazism's covetous eyes found it technicians, Now she is stif- nakedness and doubt to one of Britons, It la
is obvious that he hopes out. Let someone else discover feuing her back and looking her readiness and confidence, and that all other sections of the com- the mine, Nazism will collect adversary in the face. Her at- has had the courage to take munity will follow the lead and make the gold. Mussolini is finding titude is suggestive, if indepen- great risks in supplying the their contributions. The proposal deserves the enthusiastic support of it to his cost. But a man so dence and national dignity aro Army overseas with the sinews
fascinated by the glorious Ro. still treasured amongst mon... of victory.
tions not only willingly, but joyfully, I visited the new institutions. treating it as a privilege to accom- of the new capital, the Agricul- plish something vital for a
tural College, the School of Art, the factories, and I was not sur-
cause.
great
Our correspondent has advanced n constructive suggestion, and every- thing possible should be done to bring it within the bounds of prac ticability for everyone. Thus, if a person felt he could not afford to part with 25 per cent, of a month's salary at one time, he could, through a "premise to "make his con- Day" tribution in two instalments. Bu siness houses could encourage their staffs by offering to assume the res ponsibility of collecting: donations .could bo deducted from salary cheques, in one or more instalments,
everyone.