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MIGHT OF THE R.A.F.
THE increased striking power of the Royal Air Force in their .attacks on vital centres in Ger- man and German-occupied terri- tories, is not, perhaps, fully appreciated. This may in part be due to the inherent shyness
of the R.A.F. who hate boasting
Portal
COMMANDER of the
German Air Force
wing operating against Britain Field-Marslini (Air Marshal) Otto
WHAT has GERMANY
given the world?
Sperrie monocled, nftyish, ONE of Britain's most influential every community in the world from
fnt, fought as a bomber pilot in the last war.
He commanded the Condor Legion of Nazi "Volunteers against the
Republicans in Spain
and intelligent friends, Mr Henry Luce, has written an article of such vision and constructive
power that it should be broadcast throughout the English-speaking world. that
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When he came back he convinced Goering Britain would not stand It is called "The American Cen- up to bombing, He en- gineered the civilian mur-tury"; it is published in Mr Luce's der attack on Coventry own magazine "Life," and it may and wrote about them: be described as a 'plea to America
and other British cities,
and
"These ntincks were par- ticularly vigorous successful,"
He has
known no
Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognises in
common.
"Blindly, unintentionally, accident- ally and really in spite of ourselves we are already ʼn world power in all the trivial ways-in very human ways."
There is one word which I should, delete from that summing up. It is the word "only."
There is this American inter- nationalism, and it is highly important that American of Mr Luce's eminence should admit it.
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS
to assume, in conjunction with hobby, and spends his time planning civilian Britain, the leadership of the chaos with high explo- civilised world, with all the respon-
sives and Incendiarica.
His most famous say-sibilities, sacrifices and hardships ing: "Is there a for that which such a leadership would in- bombing counot break?"
volve.
COMMANDER of the
Royal Air Force operating egainit Germany-Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Porial, hus deep-set ayes, prominent nose, and is ig Thinker of the R.A.F.; forty-oven. im served in the last war, Anst as Tanker.
Bomber Zło bossed the Command when war started. and evolved the great "ma¬ ter pinn" which Is devastat- ina Cerniany's war industrice. le, toe. is a bomber plület, and won the bomb-aimer's prize of the R.A.F. Ifo be flove in playing the game, and in cricket was enplain of the actiool eleven at Win- chester.
Spare time is spent in written has falconry. He books about it.
a most famous saying: Hit 'em. and hit 'em hard.” Also been known to kay: "Bomb them to blazes."
I have no space even to begin to describe Mr Luce's propositions. But one paragraph_in the article struck
of further worthy ment. (Mr Luce puts it in almost as an "aside.")
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To those Americans who still cling to the illusion of "isolatio," who are ati terrified by the very sound of the word "internationalism," he addresses the following reproof:
"Once we cease to distract ourselves with lifeless arguments about isolation- ism we shall be amazed to discover that there is already an immense American
American jazz, internationalism. Hollywood movies, American slang," American machines and patented pro- ducts are in fact the only things that
MAYFAIR NOW
By Alison Settle
But...
if you look at a map of
the world you will realise that there are two other internationalisms-the British and the French.
WE and the French have the same genius as America for making our ideas the property of the world. And though they may sound trival, they aren't.
To consider two "trivial" examples, it is not for nothing that two English words which are understood in almost every language are the words "gentle- man" and "cricket."
Nor is it for nothing that two French words which are equally inter- national are the words "liberte" and "chic."
If we and the French had not cer- tain moral and artistic standards in which the world believed, as firmly as we believed them ourselves, those words would be of merely local importance.
Now how docs Germany come out of this test?
There is no German equiva, lent of "gentleman." There is no German equivalent of "chic." True, there are Hamburger sausages, but outside Germany those are only popular in some of the more Teutonic sections of their house, their furniture,
and even workrooms, fabrics and models the United States, all gone.
But they converted there they are being called by
another name. In the streets of London's through the night, or that the the back of their building, the There is Pilsener beer, but. luxury quarter, Mayfair, are designer himself, the managers, part that opened into another
and the men who dispatch the street, into showrooms, stock-that can hardly be called inter- great gaps where houses
goods, had also been out through rooms and workrooms, taking national. (To-day I understand once stood. The rubble that the night dressed in the khaki rooms nearby for those of the that it can hardly be called beer,
either!) staff as they could not accommo- was an aristocratic mansion of the Home Guard.
And, of course, there is eau- date, and within a week or two
don't de-Cologne. But
you falls across a street.
showing models again. Such are the couture houses were
think it very significant that But that is only here and of London, which are sending Even royalty came to look. this product, which really has In Bruton Street is Norman sent its fragrance round the there. Between these gaps, their first united collection out
Hartnell, the Queen's dress-world, should have been obliged life goes on with almost the this spring.
to attach to itself a French What is known, however-same regularity as if war
In Grosvenor Street, facing maker, and Victor Stiebel, who
dresses the debutantes and name? and the knowledge brings re-
When you come to think of it, were not wrecking the lives the American Embassy, is a new
Their establishments almost the only "gestures" which Germany has made to the Hartnell's elegant establish- world have been ugly gestures.
about their achievements, but prefer, rather, that results should speak for themselves, even though these may not be immediately visible to the
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a handsome central portico; that clety.
ultimate superiority of our air-city.
is the house of Molyneux, re- have not been hit. men'over the Luftwaffe-is that And here goes on the built to twice its size just be- British aircraft is now being London couture, now joined fore the war. Further down in ment is decorated in pale, cool (I do not include music, be- are of mirror glass, sers are, of course, utterly alien R.A.F. constructed at such a rate that by some of the most famous the same street is the house of water green, the doors and cause the great-German compo--
Worth, which has stood there windows we can afford to send hundreds houses once operating in for generations, and where you the banquettes in palest water to the concept of modern Ger-
many.). Paris.
see the portrait of the original green corduroy velvet.
Stiebel uses a strong, vivid Bismarck used the phrase of bombers, accompanied by
Worth of so many generations The women of England back, and one who extended his lime yellow for his curtains, blood and iron," and that fighters at one time in raids on
cannot use the exquisite business to Paris. Still further white for the walis, green for passed into the currency of cul- the Continent, where before we
tured conversation Creed were restricted to a few squa-models which are being in the same street is Digby the carpets.
is ín Piccadilly; language. But it can hardly be created in the heart of May- Morton, in a house decorated drons; that we have invented a fair-dance
The Kaiser gowns made of like an English country house. Lachasse faces the ruin of what called a pretty phrase.
invented the Paquin? They have been was the loveliest little street in new bomb which is incomparably lace worked over with there in Dover Street since the Mayfair, a street in which new-goosestep, and that would be in- more effective than any high jewelling, rich dinner turn of the century. A bomb ly-married couples used to take stantly recognised for what it is, Dover miniature houses with doll-like leven if you showed it to a group explosive missile used by the Nazis; that our targets have gowns, elegant clothes for brought down their
luncheons and afternoons. Street premises one night. They gardens. Peter Russell is near- of Australian aboriginals. But
it is not a very,pretty step. been so carefully chosen and our
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that either our airmen have
rarely more than a third of those tweeds and top coats for the suffered by the German air war work on which they are invaders, which demonstrates engaged. They have to risk learnt the secret of evading the the bombs as they pass Nazi defences, or that their de-through the streets; when fences are immeasurably in- they sit at dinner, the din- or ing room may well have lost
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And in taking stock of the task But the work of making of the British pilots in their luxury clothes goes on inside endeavours to disintegrate the Nazi war potential, it must not
a be forgotton that we cannot
the couture houses of Mayfair.
In the stock room lie rolls of
silks, velvets, Inces, as well as concentrate exclusively our fine, woollens and brilliant bombing power against Ger- tweeds. They are there to bel man cities. The R.A.F. has made into dresses for the world FL large part to play
in outside Britain, above all for
war.
the defence of our ship the world that.. is still not at ping. Apart from sea and ocean patrols, there are the enemy buses to be disorganised as well as the aerodromes from which British towna ara attacked. Neither must the invasion ports be overlooked. There is no lack of jobs. for the R.A.F.1
Every dress made, every British fabric shown in such a model, is not only an ambassa- dor for Britain, but the means of getting in the money which
at once translated planes and guns and tanks and battleships.
Into
None the less, its strength increases
On the walls of the elegant so rapidly that each of the many
showrooms and in, the work- claims on its bombs will soon be fully
rooms alike you see posters pro- mel. If the Bellsh Government des clines to commit itself to a policy of claiming: "Courage, Cheerful-
Buch blind reprisals, that is because policy would not be most effectiveness, Resolution-these bring us let it Victory." To see the workers toward winning the war. But he is stitching away at chifrons and
being badly hit by our intrepid alt laces you would not think that men. Hitler, Goering and Goebbels some had passed their nights in know this-whatever fantasies may the underground shelters; "or
propagated in their official
had worked at first uld posts
-bulletins...
GRIN AND BEAR IT
In
every
By LichtyAND, of course, there is, all
"The United States says we're guilty of aggression, in at- tacking our neighbour, leland, and they've 'frozen' our
huset of 78 coconuts!"
over the world, the legend of German "efficiency."
The German professor is a stock theatrical character on any stage, North. South, East West. But when you ask "effelency for what?" the answer again is not of the pret- best.
But now switch your eyes south, that "lesser" Ger- to Austria many which is so much the greater Germany, I need mention only one detail the Viennese waltz.
You can whistle the "Blue Danube" on the banks of the Nile and the boatmen will join in.
You can hum a few burs of Strauss or Lehar in a Mexican village and the district little urchins will grin and shuffle their feet.
Now, at a moment when Germany aspires to rule the whole world, it really is profitable to recall these de- tails (which might be multiplied Indefinitely), because they mount up to a fact of considerable importance.
WHICH is that the Germans lack
something which may prove oven more vital to them than any rew commodity, and that is the curious combination of tact, common sense. strength, gentleness and compromise which may be summed up on the general
term-the capacity colonise.
If the Germans. hnd, this coppelty. there might be real danger for Nor way, Denmark, Poland and all the rest of them. Their individuality night then indeed, be absorbed in n vast Germanic unit.
As it is, each week that passes by, makes them more Norwegian, more Danish, more Polish, and more "all the rest of it."
It is a happy augury for the future.