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Major George Fielding Eliot
noted military expert, urges U.S. action. Time to prepare, he notes, has been Hitler's best weapon in all campaigns; without it, he might be lost
vices; that such co-ordination requires the most thorough plan- ning; that planning takes timo and cannot be complete in every detail if there is an unknown "X" factor provided by an ac- tive and offensively minded enemy; moreover, that the al- most miraculous German speed of movement, the follow
Every now and then in the course of my articles I have been calling attention to the increased importance of the time factor in modern war. Everything moves. faster in these mechanised days, particularly air forces. There is less time to think
to the day and hour, with no un counted by those who are doing through, requires the forward things over, to weigh de xiety as to the upsetting of their all the attacking and have good assembly of supplies, which is cisions. That applies to the schemes by a sudden Allied sur- reason to know that they, are again dangerous if not impossi corporal with his squad, the prise counter-move.
facing, an enemy who has no ble in face of vigorous enemy major general with his divi- The French sat snug behind thought of attacking them while counter-action. sion, the commander in their Maginot line, the British they are preparing his destruc- chief of great forces-to the were too few to attack if they tion. people and government of a threatened nation.
more
-
-
had wished, and the Belgians In The Balkans
and the Dutch were indulging in
Hastily conceived and ill. planned attacks-as of the British in Norway or the Itali- ans in Greece-have failed in At
the customary wishful thinking: Exactly the same considera- this war as in past wars. In no era has there been which seems to include the tions apply to the most recent this moment the Germans in North Africa are proceeding force behind the theory that even to consult to- example of blitzkreig, the Bal- with respectful caution in the gether in face of common dan- kan campaign. Here the Ger- face of an enemy who is likely maxim of the old field ser-
ger is a "provocation" to be mans were able successively to vice regulations: "Even a avoided at all costs. This theory occupy Rumania and Bulguria to hit back, The British against Stubbs Road defective plan boldly and presupposes that tigers do not and to establish control of the Graziani, the British, in East Africa carried out campaigns Hungarian railways. Then they resolutely carried out is, cut rabbits unless "provoked."
had well over a month in which with almost the same freedom of action ns the Germans in Po- to establish their supply dumps and and Norway, with similar in Bulgaria, concentrate their results. forces, make ready for any even- tuality.
Thongkong Telegraph.
better than the hesitating Supplies Moved
Ahead
Best Defence
The evidence is overwhelming
search for the ideal." Bet- ter-and safer; for the new
In all these cases the forward techniques of total war are most dangerous when the assembly of supplies was es-
pecially notable and contributed They knew exactly how they aggressor has had plenty of Immensely to the subsequent were going to attack Greece, and time, undisturbed, to make speed of the German movements. what they were going to do if his plans and launch his at- it is a practice which is hardly Yugoslavia turned recalcitrant. striking power of modern wea turbedplan is certain to be THE prenx "Special to the Telegraph tack. The best defence is possible in face of an active When the time came, they did pous used according to undis- is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to to upset him by some sort enemy air force too strong to those things. The Yugoslav victorious. The best defence is
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arrangement
of vigorous offensive action before he is all set,
Looking back over the either wholly or in part without previous blitzkrieg campaigns of this war, we can see how true this is.
EIRE AND CONSCRIPTION
IN the midst of wars and a. threat of invasion from Ger- many that has never relaxed, the burning nationalism of the Irish will not permit them to allow conscription in Northern Ireland. Mr Churchill feels that the issue is too important to be over-ridden and has
tem
static defence is doomed, the
moment.
be beaten out of the air, because government of Cvetkovich was in such a case large ammunition overthrown, but not before it had a well-planned offensive of one's and supply dumps in forward doomed its country by refusing, own, delivered at an unexpected As we sit here in Amerlea de- areas offer the most inviting of while there was yet time, to con- duct the all-important military targets and are likely to become conversations which might have bating risks and shivoring at the nothing but bonfires.
::
resulted in a Yugoslav-Turk- taking of chances in "distant" Likewise one of these perfect- Greek defensive alliance backed war, we might think of these ly co-ordinated and timed blitz- by British air and sca power, things. We have a chance now kriegs, once set in motion, is and which would have con- to take the offensive; later on Polish Campaign difficult to check or to reorient fronted both Bulgaria, to begin we shall be deprived of that op- in direction, so that it is especi- with, and Germany in the last portunity, we shall have to sit In Poland, the Germans acted ally vulnerable to sharp attacks analysis, with a very different and wait for the enemy to move,
enemy armoured situation. in accordance with a plan which by strong they had had plenty of time to forces on its flanks or rear, and work out very thoroughly. particularly to an enemy turn- They knew exactly what they ing movement which might as- were going to do, and how, and. sail it in a totally unexpected with what forces, and against quarter.
Plan Has. Weaknesses
in the fullness of his own good time, with a plan he has con- ceived and prepared in full security.
course we
could possibly
This is the course our defent- Meditating upon these things, ints and appeasers would have what sort of opposition. More, But all these considerations, one comes inevitably to the con- us take. On the evidence of they had plenty of time to bring restraining as they might be clusion that blitzkrieg in its full this war, it is the most danger- up their troops to their jump under ordinary conditions of flower requires very careful co- ous off positions, to nasemble sup- war, may be cheerfully dis ordination of all arms and ser- adopt.-(M.I.). plies well forward, to make every sort of preparation; even) units of certain parts of the to rehearsals by staffs and by!
operations.
porarily abandoned the measure, Certainly the problem is one calling for the closest attention and high statesmanship. The question will be largely solved by Mr de Valera's personal in-
While all this was going on, clinations as
a he has tre they were not disturbed by any mendous and fanatic following fear of attack; their opponents -were-indulging in wishful think-| who will sway the Dail to hising and futile negotiations. side in whatever decision he takes.
Then Norway. Here the re- hearsals, the training in em- barkation and disembarkation, in mountain warfare, in the sei- zure of the Norwegian ports,
Was
Lindbergh's Views
Opposed By Most
By George Gallup
policy, the
American Institute
of Public Opinion has completed
a nation-wide public opinion survey which shows that appro- ximately two-thirds
of the
are
Mr de Valera's stand, it is as- sumed, is taken on the ground
Director, American Institute of Public Opinion conducted for months in that conscription will set back in-
perfect security. No one was
PRINCETON, N. J., May 8-bergh, who is regarded by many voters interviewed who definitely the permanent strug- so rude as to drop anything
Widespread controversy has as the leader of the isolationist familiar with Lindbergh's viewa gle of Eire to acquire suzerainty more lethal than a bundle of
Americans ngree with those views. country by the speeches and many over the entire island; second-pamphlets on Germany to upset been stirred up throughout the movement. To discover how on foreign policy disagree with ly, intensification of the British the even tenor of the Oberkom writings of Charles A. Lind- Lindbergh's views on foreign
mand's way.
Likewise the "fifth-column" arrangements were even better because than those in Poland there was so much time to pre- pure, and the Polish experience! on which to draw.
nililary effort in North Ireland in- the vites the closer attention of enemy to that quarter and Eire can- not escape some of the consequences. It is not clear which of these phases are uppermost in Mr de Valera's mind. He Is an extraordinarily
The plan worked perfectly— gifted man intellectually, but his and little wonder. As to sup- whole outlook is dominated by plies, there were even supplies. lifelong struggle against the British secretly stored in Norway itself, for the independence of his country, especially in the Narvik region, So passionate and profound are the in anticipation of the arrival of feelings engendered in this struggle, the German troops. No wonder which did not cease with the end of the calculations which some of armed hostilities, that it is question-us made, based on former ex- able whether Mr de Valera will allow the real possibility of invasion from Germany to persuade him to the
Followed immediately the ap-1 infinitely safer course of eventually plication of all these methods on withdrawing his opposition to con- scription in the British-governed Pro-ning for Norway had been in a larger scale. While the plan- and a democratie-and the Eireau progress, indeed as far back as leader is both it is inconceivable the Polish war, plans had also that he would risk for still unsatis-been in hand for the invasion fled nationalist appetites the infinitely. great threat of total invasion by Germany.
vince of Ulster, As
stalesmon
There are of course, books to be written for both sides of this argu- ment but this is the time when simple facts must be faced and, in the case of Briinin and Ireland, trust must be reposed, The remark- able changes that have come over the British Government, the new fire which has swept through the people and its administration have frame of mind in which the Irish Nationalists will find it much cusler to prosecute their ends after the war. It is incontrover. tible that Hitler will invade Elre just when and where he pleases and the Irish will put up a very gallant but very hopeless fight unless Bus toined by Britain,
developed P. O. BOX 673.
Count the "TELEGRAPHS
Everywhere
We have taken no violent action on the refusal of Eire lo-lend us bases so necessary to Aght U-boat niders, though there is bound to be some bitter feeling about the re-
perience with logistics, went
awry.
of the Low Countries and France, It was perfectly clear, to the Germans that they need! have no fear of an Allied of- fensive, either ground or aerial. They could plan their own move
fusal. If we are going to find that thin conscription of a "manpower in
prevented North Ireland
by Elrean nationalists who fear that this will intensify British Influence, and divert patriotisms, then Eire will have taken a step in the wrong direction. She
will have put shackle on democracy (which may provo Important, she will have alienated the sympathles of her well-wishers in America and sho will bave done nothing to justify a rovision of British altitude on her eventual independence, Eira will always depend militarily and econo mically on Britain and she is risking all this against an internal politiea) victory for extreme nationalists,
*
kamar
LINDBERGH
quote
toon by Bernard Seaman in Pu
(New York).
Many who disagree have, right or wrong, gained the im- pression that Lindbergh wants. Germany to win, the survey shows, while others think he is mistaken in believing that Britain cannot win the war. On the other hand, the group of voters who do agree with Lind- bergh any that the views which he expresses have shown him to be realistic, that he was proved right in his early early judgment of German air superiority, and that the United States should not "stick its neck out" by med- dling in the war abroad.
The survey found that appro- ximately six voters in every ton of 'those interviewed were familiar in general with the views which Lindbergh has ex- pressed concerning American foreign policy and the war
who abroad. Thone
showed themselves familiar with his views were asked:
"Do you agree or disagree with what Lindbergh says?"
The results are:
Agree
Disagree
Undecide
24%
63% 13%
The survey is strictly a study of opinion on Lindbergh's views, and not on his personal patriotiam or loyalty. Virtually none of the voters Interviewed questioned his sincerity or his right to speak.
Moreover, the vote in the survey does not necessarily mean that tho majority disagree with all of the viewk which, he has expressed,
Note: These surveys are made by a system of highly selecting samplings in each of the forty-eight States in pro- portion to voting populations; thereby, The American Institute of Public Opinion holds, is obtained result which would not vary from that of a numericalty much larger canvass ---