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where he was brought into the closest touch with prob- lems affecting possible operations in overy 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 ho 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 fair' supreme military respon- for the highest post in due
afforded by a crowd. He A Study of General Sir John Dill
has no shelter from the
cold winds of criticism:
the voices of his advisers
Chief of the Imperial General Staff
By
come up to him fitfully when there was only one sister service. With the
from the lower slopes, arrival of a second sis- Lt-Gen. Sir Douglas Brownrigg and sometimes reach
ter the position became sibility at a sterner moment course, when in 1937 a new him in the confused roar more difficult.
in the history of the British Secretary of State for War Hongkong Telegraph. of contrary opinions. He But when war comes Army?
arrived at the War Office alone must make the de- the British public for- The passage of events with new ideas. The upper 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 Force. But all its equipment C.I.G.S.
of the British Expeditionary himself was chosen to be lives will depend.
quickly as the Fleet can was gone. The 51st High- If his decisions are take the sea. The man land Division went down
Fate Intervenes sound, and the results who is Chief of the Im-fighting at St Valery, and a
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WORTHY OF SUPPORT
A correspondent to-day puts
a quick and substantial contri-
Fund. His idea the voluntary donating of 26 per cent. of one
popu
Sir John Dill seemed now
strangement or in part without previous 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- Sir John Dill finished the tion. On the outbreak of lar approval. If to shoulder a burden
last war
as a brigadier war he went to France in forward a suggestion for raising failure ensues, the man which his muscles are general on the General Staff command of the Second on the height must meet unfit to support. When at the age of thirty-seven twist to the wheel, and he Corps. Fate then gave a bution towards the Bomber alone the icy blasts of war broke out in 1914 He then held a series of ap- found himself where he 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
commanded a brigade at not novel; it has been employed slopes are sheltered by War, and the immensity position in the Army. He before, but in very altered by Hollanders in the N.E.I. Its the contours of the hill. of his reputation as a Aldershot, had a brigadier's will he seems to have overcome soldier afforded a pro-appointment on the General the disadvantages he inherited Lonely Eminence
tective covering for the Staff in India, was the first in that position. Ills whole tutes a spontaneous and gener- The position occupied C.I.G.S. But there was military instructor at the training has taught him to look 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 net a consider perial General Staff at Sir Edmund Ironside pointed Commandant of the planning we may recall, the any form of opportunism. As fence College, and was ap- an example of long-distance able-sum of money, certainly the War-Office-is-as cold (no-w-Baron Ironside) Staff College.
and lonely as any posi-when he sat for the first
chief merits are that it consti-
ous gesture, and if adopted by
many lakhs,
circumstances.
By a great effort of work and
Prime Minister's statement in the House of Commons when he told us that the tanks and guns for General Wavell's December
In Palestine One possible complaint will be tion in the State. The time in his chilly chair
From there he was moved that again the same people, who Army, since history has on the day this war was to the key post on the Gen- in the past have given as been written, has in declared, and Lord Gort eral Staff at the War Office 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,
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?—
battles left this country in July and August for Egypt, travel- ling via the Cape. That far- the result of General Dill's deci- slon that the risk ahould be taken. He was right, but what if he had been wrong?
Seeing Ahead
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 us technicians and professors, words of Tiberious Gracchus, 21 which occurred in France. spirited members of the comtime in Turkey, and it was then Some made no secret of Nazi centuries ago:
Early in September, 1939, I was munity to come forward and do that I first understood why Ger
"It is for the sake of other talking to General Dill at the their share.
men's wealth and luxury that Bourse de Commerce at Le many, if she ever bullied her sympathics; some were ostensi- receive a rude shock when she at an international conference, I their lives. They are
called G.H.Q. during the period of con- tried conclusions with the Turks. had met an intelligent young Lords of the World, and they centration in the forward area. I recall a long and interesting Brazilian, from Rio Grande do have not a single clod of earth Indulging in the wishful think- conversation with the editor of
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
at one time 25 per cent. of his month's salary may sound rather forbidding. But the cor- respondent mooting this scheme has wisely suggested the quali-
a leading newspaper in Ankart. "Would you", I said, "com-
Holini or Hitler?"
fleation that where a man has pare Kemal Ataturk with Mus-By John Daly
to call their own."
And now Turkey is to be the early days of the war, I was ing that was so popular in the 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 family remittances to make,
He looked rather shocked, and
ter him for it--and take it." ahend of him-difficulties, I these should first be deducted I realised too inte that there are Sul, whose father I had known.
Mussolini orice informed the mean, in staging an attack and the 25 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
Sir John-Dill's reply was sim
"The Ghazi", he said, "is in man teachers and merchants in ber-tyrant isn't. He is a collec-ple: "It is only a question of a personal sacrifice for one a different category. He was Brazil, he betrayed an anxious tor of other people's countries,
month, but not at the expense
scale attack with one hundred of his dependents. For those our leader, not because he wasted uneasiness. I could not help of republies, or provinces, and whether Hitlor launches &, full- another "pro- a continent or two. Hitler, divisions this autumn or waits who put the proposal Into effect, it our energies, but because, he wondering if
not with much good sonse, is, con- will mean sacrificing come pleasures proved his personal courage and tective occupation" was
We being then prepared in Turkey. tent to let America build factill the spring to do it with two and luxuries for a month, or possi-generalship in the field. 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 so!
Successful generals in the Alegre to Anatolia, but Nazism When the house is well fur- is the same, cast and west, and nished it only remains for him field get the glory which is their giving which has become part and
Turkey lying on the main road to demand the keys. both to Egypt and to the oll Turkey, very understandably, joy of achievement, but fow give fields is a useful country to does not sea why her 20 years a thought to the soldier at the "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. Wherover Bome brave ports, should be written off as share in the victories. But it is
to-day, and they fulfi their obliga.fidence."
parcel of people's lives in England proved worthy of a nation's con tions not only willingly, but Joyfully, I visited the new institutions trenting it as a privilege to accom-
of the new capital, the Agricul- plish something vital for 1 great
tural College, the School of Art, the factories, and I was not sur-
cause.
just duc, and the troops have the
Our correspondent has advanced a constructive suggestion, and every- thing possible should be done to bring it within the bounds of prac- and the entire proceeds forwarded general, some architect of na- 80 much slave-labour for Ger- first and foremost General Sir ticabilly for everyone. Thus, it a
to the Bomber Fund by the company tional achievement, some shrewd many. When she realised what John Dill who in seven months person felt he could not afford to on behalf of the subscribers.
and far-sighted statesman had was in the wind,' she began to has raised the Army at home purt with 25 per cent. of a month's Additionally, It should be stressed, won now wealth for his country, show her suspicions of the from a state of comparative salary at one time, he could, through that although our correspondent ad Nazism's covetous eyes found it technicians. Now she is stif- nakedness and doubt to one of a "promise to pay", make his con-
vances the Buggestion specifically for siness houses could encourage their that all other sections of the com- the mine, Nazism wil collect adversary in the face. Her at has had the courage to take tribution in two instalments. Bu- Britons, it is obvious that he hopes out. Let someone else discover faning her back and looking her readiness and confidence, and staffs by offering to assume the res-munity will follow the lead and make the gold. Mussolini is finding titude is suggestive, if Indepen-great risks in supplying the ponsibility of collecting; donations their contributions. The proposal could be deducted from
salary deserves the enthusiastic support of it to his cost. But a man so dence and national dignity are Army overseas with the sinows
fascinated by the glorious Ro- still treasured amongst men.. of victory, cheques, in one or more instalmentā, 'everyone.
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