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CURRENT COMMENT.... By Scrutineer
German infiltration into Morocco, rebel forces under Rachid All, both The campaigns have proved the announced by the BBC, on Thurs of which are an inducement to the quality of the Imperial troops, but day follows! the usuni course, It' German High Command to go there, the problem is one of numbers. consists of a large number of, tourists": Mussolini is quite right when The
with
whom Lucio describes in the "Man- chester Guardian" in these words:
"The Boche as a tourist is one of
the poorest "Exponents of travelling light. "His baggage is Jonded bombs unexploded. "And other odd kit for n fight.- "He goes on his mission with much.
ammunition "Assembled according to plan, "And a field gun in pieces distinci-
ly increases
PARACHUTISTS IN CRETE
we arc nic-
claims that he has rendered Ger- many a great service both with army and his navy, first by immobi- Hlaing out forces In Egypt, and secondly by Libya and in Abyssinin plone in Crete is clearly in the na
by detaching them for the The lending by parachute and campaigns in In which ha sacrificed hall a
a million ture of an experiment, carried out men and suffered ignominious defeats, with that thoroughness in preparnTM At the same time he has prevented tion, and with that complete dis- that concentration of our forces in regard of life which Palestine, Greece and in Crete which Customed to look for in the German would have been possible had he kept High Command. out of the war.
It was obvious that such landings would be attempted and that they Mussolini's attack on France was would take pince before the defences stigmatised by President Roosevelt of the island could be organised after as the act of a particularly low type the evacuation of Greece, for speed the most vital factor In this war. of criminal, but Mussolini had no is the most obligation to France either as an ally
As the GermaILA have not got or its a friend. The Vichy govern- surface navy they are trying to de- "As tourists they Kot there; ns
ment's betrayal of her former
ally by
by monstrate the value of the air arm troops they are met there
this surrender of Syria has been ade- as a substitute. In a sense the plane "By more of their sinister band".
quntely described by:
the
Free combines the functions of the navy It is agreed however thet this
Frenchmen as i most treasonable Con a sufficient number of troops
und or German Invasion of Morocco is not and dishonourable net, and that is wholly military In character, Be- what the rest of the world thinks of fore the war, France had practically it. a customs, union in which
"The weight of his trunks in the
van.
"A
in
lovely profession, the men possession "Have not the game whelly in
hand.
Algeria, were included.
Tunis and Moro exported the manu-
and to them she
IC-
row
factured goods they needed in turn for the foodstuffs and materials they produced. What trade there is now, consists of Imports into Marseilles, from which port they Germany. This means pass on to that huge credits are piling up, but these colonies want goods and not marks or francs. The
papic situation in Morocco and
worse.
"TELEGRAPH”
SATURDAY
FEATURE
of army.
be transported by plane with artillery, and the usual accoutrements
of war, by which a reasonably de- fended country can be conquered?
This is the first real test, for it is not certain how much of the equ{p» ment In Libya was transported by ship with the help of the French in Bizerta. This air attack on Crete is certainly on a fairly large scale, and it is reasonable to suppose that these troops can be reinforced each night, for there is nothing to pre- vent the troop-carrying planes from
an
It would be hard to find anything making several journeys in one night Algeria therefore is steadily growing in the record of Reynaud, who is and getting back to their bases for to frequently condemned, so treacher- the next night. Communications are France is not in a posliión ta manufacture and export, so German cus as the acts of Admiral Darlan, not easy in Crete, but this helps the financiers are buying out the French who has been consorting with Ger. Invaders as much as the defenders,
since he took Laval's since it gives the parachutists interests and tying these colonies many ever economically to the Reich. This is inee. Even in March he was plac- opportunity to form up before they
and a can be attacked; done quile cheaply, for the German ing Morocco, Tunis, Dakar mark is given the arbitrary value of Madagascar at the disposal of the twenty francs. The value of the Germans without the approval of Petain. Now it is with his conni- mark in the open market before the war was twenty-three to the pound, o the value of the trane, according
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ACCORDING TO PLAN
vance.
AIR INVASION PROBLEMS
There is no parallel or practically
The protests of the French ambas- to this reckoning, is a little more sador in the United States were ex- none in this case with the contem- than a half-penny. France, then,
pressed In brave words, but if France plated invasion of Britain, where not only losing military and political cunnot hold on to Syria, to which half of whom are on watch, and there are forty million people, about control of her colonial empire, but is she is entitled, how could sho hope finding it necessary to hand over her to retain Martinique? What guarantee where roads are so frequent that, a economie Interests too.
force can be rushed rapidly to any has America that she will not
Sell
particular point, a base
The air offers a quick means of Dukar and Martinique as a against U.S.A. to the Germans, as invasion, but there is no evidence she has handed over Syria as a base
means. The and more guinst Britain? more
The fact is the yet that it is a the. French that Hitler Vichy Kovernment has forfeited an invasion by air must meet with quick follows his plan as laid down
claim it may have had to faith in its success, for men so transported can-
not carry much Mein Kampf:
good intentions.
uch food, ammunition, or "A clever conqueror will always, it would surely be more honour- artillery. It is a desperate enter- If possible, impose his demands on able to admit either that she cannot prise, and for that reason the soldiers the conquered by instalments, for
help herself And must give up taking part in it must themselves be anation that makes a voluntary
They desperate. Syrin as she did Indo-China, or that surrender saps its own character, site prefers the Germans
It is becoming clear to
sure
have not the com- of belonging to a large force nor by tanks and big
to the
e of and with such a people you can Britisit and is doing these things quis. They are guerillas.
voluntarily and with a certain
op-
calculate that none
ons in detail will supply amount of pleasure as her policy is pressions in quite enough reason for it once to ensure the victory of Germany. more to resort to arms."
This is precisely the method
which Hitler has followed in regard
to France. First it is Syria, now it
is Dakar, next it will be Morocco and the Algiers.
THE ABYSSINIAN
CAMPAIGN
The Germans now have the ad- vantage of fighting on their tivo fronty as against the two fronts that we have, for they can decide to take
their air force from Britain and move
it
to Greece. It is not so easy to move fighters from Britain to Creic,
The Abyssinian campaign brings to though it is n simple matter to send This is the France that was re- an end an episode in Italian history long-range bombers over that dis garded as essential to Europe. "Sho which would never have had a be- tance. A large British air force has, was the heart that pumped the blood ginning had the League of Nations however, always been
of civilisation, put it.
the
1035
onwards. It
based on
as Charles Morgan not been sabotaged by the traitor Egypt, and it is reasonable to sup-
That sinister figure and evil pose that it is adequate. Here was found proportion and
us, whose familiar white tle balance, variety 45 against slan- was the only clean thing about him, dardisation. Her culture was "vichyated"" political atmosphere universal by acceptance and not by of France from TUESDAY
conquest; in Inet it was everything was his treachery that made sanc- which the German of to-day is tions impossible and the conquest of opposed,
Abyssinia by the Italians a certainty. And in place of these splendid
This campaign
the lle to deals France to-day is governed by German
and Italon
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SYRIA AND IRAQ
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if Mussolint is always right, as his 1. Sunday Christian; Mon- day-Greek; Tuesday-Persian;
fanatical admirers claim he is. It must
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and the obvious superiority of the Honour Sir A. D. A. MacGregor, 4. Actor, 5. Dactylology. 6.
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