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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
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COMMANDER of the German Air Force wing operating against Britain Field-Marshal Otta (Alr Marshal) Sperrie monocled, Afty lsh, fat, fought as a bomber pilot in the last war,
He commanded the Condor Legion of Naz "Volunteers" against the Republicans in Spain.
given the world?
OND
NE of Britain's most influential every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognises in
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.
When he came back he convinced Goering. that Britain would not stand
It is called "The American Cen- up to bombing. He en- gineered the civilian murtury"; it is published in Mr Luce's own magazine "Life," and it may
common.
"Blindly, unintentionally, accident- ally and really in spite of ourselves we are already a world power in all the trivial ways-in very human ways,"
Thero 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
ZATA American of Mr Luce's
der attack on Coventry and other British eltles,. and wrote about them: be described as a plea to America eminence should admit it.
"These attacks were par- ticularly vigorous and successful."
He has no known hobby, and spends his time planning civilian chaos with high explo- His most famous say Ing: "Is there a foe that bombing cannot break?"
sives and incendiaries.
COMMANDER
of
the
Royal Air Force operating ngainst Germany-Air Chief Marshal Sie Charles Portal, has deep-not eyes, prominent nose, and in Big Thinker, at tho RAF forty-oven, slim, served in the last war, Arst as a ranker.
ឆo bossed the Bomber Command when war started, and evolved the great "man" ter Germany's war industries. He, too, la a bomber pilot, and won the bomb-almer's prize of the B.A.F. He be Ileves in playing the game, and m cricket, was captain of the school eleven at Win- chester.
which is devastal-
Spare' time is spent I falconry, lle has written books about 1.
His most famous saying: item, and hit 'em hard." Also been known to say: "Bomb them to blazeN.”
By BEVERLEY NICHOLS
to assume, in conjunction with But if you look at a map of Britain, the leadership of the the world you will realise that there civilised world, with all the respon- British and the French.
are two other internationalisms-the sibilities, sacrifices and hardships which such a leadership would in- volve.
I have no space even to begin to describe Mr Luce's propositions. But one paragraph in the article struck me as worthy of further com- ment. (Mr Luce puts it in almost as an "aside.")
To those Americans who still eling to the illusion of "isolation," who are still 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 internationalism. American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang. American machines and patented pro- ducts are in fact the only things that
MAYFAIR NOW
By Alison Settle
Į
WE
VE 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 standardy in which the world believed, as firmly as we believed them ourselves, those words would be of merely local importance.
Now how does Germany come out of this test?
There is no German equiva- lent of "gentleman." Thero 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 United States, and even
their house, their furniture, workrooms, fabrics and models the
In Grosvenor Street, facing maker, and Victor Stiebel, who to attach
dresses the debutantes and name?
all gone. But they converted there they are being called by In the streets of London's through the night, or that the the back of their building, the another name.
There is Pilsener beer, but of the R.A.F. who hate boasting 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 about their achievements, but
once stood. The rubble that the night dressed in the khaki rooms nearby for those of the that it can hardly be called beer, prefer, rather, that results
was an aristocratic mansion of the Home Guard.
staff as they could not accommo- either!)
And, of course, there is eau- should speak for themselves, falls across a street:
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de-Cologne. But don't you Such are the couture houses were showing models again. think it very significant that even though these may not be
But that is only here and of London, which are sending Even royalty came to look. immediately visible to the
this product, which really has there. Between these gaps, their first united collection out
In Bruton Street is Norman sent its fragrance round the Hartnell, the Queen's dress-world, should have been obliged life goes on with almost the this spring. What is known, however same regularity as if war
to itself a French and the knowledge brings re-were not wrecking the lives the American Embassy, is a new
When you come to think of it, ciety. Their establishments almost inforced faith and hope in the of half the people of the building of pale red brick with young married women of 60-
a handsome.central portico; that
the only "gestures" ultimate superiority of our air-city.
is the house of Molyneux, re- have not been hit.
which Germany has made to the Hartnell's elegant establish- world have been ugly gestures. 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 (Ido-not-include-music, be are of mirror glass, scrs are, of course, utterly alien 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-
Paris.
see the portrait of the original green corduroy velvet.
many.) of bombers, accompanied by
Worth of so many generations
Bismarck used the phrase fighters at one time in raids on The women of England back, and one who extended his lime yellow for his curtains, "blood and iron," and that cannot use the exquisite business to Paris. Still further white for the walls, green for passed into the currency of cul- models which are being in the same street is Digby the carpets.
tured conversation in every were restricted to a few squa-created in the heart of May- Morton, in a house decorated. Creed is in Piccadilly; language. But it can hardly be drons; that we have invented a fair dance gowns made of like an English country house. Lachasse faces the ruin of what called a pretty phrase.
Paquin? new bomb which is incomparably lace worked
They have been was the loveliest little street in The Kaiser invented the there in Dover Street since the Mayfair, a street in which new-goosestep, and that would be in- turn of the century. A bomb ly-married couples used to take stantly recognised for what it is, their Dover miniature houses with doll-like even if you showed it to a group brought down Street premises one night. They gardens. Peter Russell is near- of Australian aboriginals. But were rather put out to discover by-(United Press)..
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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 riski that either our airmen have the bombs as they pass learnt the secret of evading the Nazi defences, or that their de- through the streets; when are immeasurably in-they sit at dinner, the din- ferior to those of Britain, oring room may well have lost]
its wall.
fences
both.
And in taking stock of the task of the British pilots in their endeavours to disintegrate the Nazi war potential, it must not
But the work of making luxury clothes goes on inside the couture houses of Mayfair. in the stock room lie rolls of
a be forgotten that we cannot silks, velvets, Inces, as well as
concentrate exclusively our fine
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the defence of our
woollens and brilliant
bombing power against Ger- tweeds. They are there to be man cities. The R.A.F. has made into dresses for the world large part to play in outside Britain, above all for strip- the world that is still not at ping. Apart from sea and occan war. Every dress made, overy patrols, there are the enemy British fabric shown in such n bases to be disorganised as well model, is not only an ambassa- as the aerodromes from which dor for Britain, but the means British towns are attacked. of getting in the money which Neither must the invasion portais "at onco translated into bo overlooked. There is no lack planes and guns and tanka and of jobs for the R.A.F.
None the less, is strength increases
On the walls of the elegant so rapidly that each of the many claims on its bombs will soon be fully showrooms and in the work- mot. If the British Government des rooms alike you see posters pro- gilnes to commit itself to a policy of claiming: "Courage, Cheerful- blind reprisals,
that is because such a ness, Resolution-those bring us] policy would not be most effective towards winning the war. But let it Victory." To see the workers
battleships.
be, remembered, that the Reich is stitching away at chiffons and being badly hit by our intrepid air- Inces you would not think that men. 1iter, Gooring, and Goebbels some had passed their nights in know this whatever fantasies may the underground shelters, or bopropagated in their official
had worked at first aid posts
-bulletins,
Stiebel uses a strong, vivid
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Lick
By Lichty AND, of course, there is, all
1941, Chicas MADRI
"The United States anys we're guilty of aggression in at- tacking our neighbour island, and they've froxan", "our
anats of 78 coconuts!";
over the world, the legend of German "efficiency."
The German professor is a slock theatrical character on any stage, North. South, East West. But when you ask "efficiency for what?" the answer again is not of the pret ticst.
to
But now switch your eyes south, that "csser" Ger- Austria many which is so much the greater Germany. I need mention only one detall-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 a few bars of Strauss or Lehar in a Mexican village and the district little urchins will grin and shuffle their fect.
Now, at a moment when Germany aspires to rule the whole world, it really is profitable to recall those do- talla (which might be multiplied Indefinitely), because they mount up. to a fact of considerable Importance,
WHICH is that the Germans lack
something which may provo aven more vital to them than any zaw commodity, and that is the curious combination of tact, common senso.. strength, gentleness and compromise which may be summed up on the general torm-the capacity
colonise
to
If the Germans had this capacity there might be real danger for Nor- way, Denmark, Poland and all the rest of
them. Their individuality. might then Indeed, be absorbed in a vast Germanie únit.
As it is each week that passes by makes them' more: Norwegian, more Danish, more Polish, and more "all the rest of it.
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It is a happy augury for the future
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