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Navy mobilised; fleets out in the bluo roady for action; Lon- don breathlessly watching the drama of the Chamberlain- Hitler-Mussolini · talks; rapid hasty preparations for war: alr rald trenches scarring the parks and open spaces-how amateur they would seem' to-day-yet, no sign of parite among the people. On the top of the bus, in the casual encounter in the grocer's shop, you heard the grim half rueful comment, "Well it's time Hitler was told where to stop, and if it has got to come it's got to come!"
September 3, 1941.
TWO YEARS
OF WAR
BY JOHN DENNY
WINTER of 1940 saw the chlor
Tintores changed to Greece and
·Africa. Italy, stabbing Greece In the back in approved Fascist fashion, had met with unexpected resistence which no trick of Mussolint could overcome. In Africa, Wavell broke the Italian armies and started the
altered by
the
campaign which although n
German thrust
back the Imperial
fores
to Tobruk. had successful and brilliant resulta In the complete elimination of Italian rate froin Abyssinia, Somaliland and Eritrea. To this victory, Empire forces, British, Australions, Indians, South Africaria, New Zealanders, Sudanese und African units on land and In the air, made well-knit con- tribution.
Germany's advance through Yugo- slayla and Bulgaria against Greece in support of the pitifully outfought Italians was for a time strongly re- sisted by British Imperial icreca in alliance with the herole Grecks, both on the Grecian mainland and at Crete. They could not, however, prevent yet another German occupa- ilon in Athens and the evacuation of Crete, after a valuable time gaining defence, followed.
Meanwhile, German submarines and aircraft had engaged in the Bat- tle of the Atlantic, and from Janu- ary, 1941 to the present me that battle silent and gravely destructive of British tonnage, has been raging.
Then came the dramatic news of the Munich agreement. For the time, reality seemed to be thought in the mind of a nation, forgotten. The uppermost
which had long sensed the futility of war and its waste of young life, was of profound re- lief, of intense gratitude, to the Prime Minister who had brought what, in calmer mo- ments, most people felt was only a respite. Chamberlain's landing in England, triumphant- In close parallel with the be- minute offer of an act of union There again, the Germans were held ly brandishing the scrap of ginning of that other challenge between France and England so that by July Britists losses at sen hnd been diminished. Although paper pledging Hitler's fidelity to Germany twenty-five years from Winston Churchill, France even now it is far too early to speak to a pact which was to prevent carlier, the last days of peace asked to be released from her of final conclusions, there is a con- war between Great Britain and were uncertain with apprehen- obligations to her ally.
ndence that, thanks to the tennelty Germany, vividly illustrated the sion lest the country would be
of the Merchant Navy, the unlimited great American re- Phone 27770-0 amazing optimism which had confronted with another un- ON June 22, and June 24, res support of the
pectively, France had signed the Royal Navy and the Royal Air
public, as well emerged so swiftly and which, availing sop to an insatiable
as the vigilance of alas, was to be so relentlessly glutton. On Sunday, September armistices with Germany and Force, the enemy will be worsted. shattered.
3, 1939, doubts were resolved. Italy. The latter was a bitter, In the process he has lost his finest The Prime Minister told his tragi-comical aggravation of ship, the Bismarck-a loss which to Illusions Destroyed people and the world that Great French distress. Italy had been Hood to
film is for greater than that of the Great Britain, however SIX MONTHS later, the Britain once more was at war biding her time, flamboyantly much the destruction of
that fine thunder of German tanks with Germany. In the light of flourishing Mussolini's spiritual battle cruiser and the inss of her through Prague destroyed all after-events, it is now recalled affinity with the gangster men have to be deplored, illusions left. There were not as a curious portent that her regime
Germany. Italy Navy's Work
GARAGE
The
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Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1941.
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FAREWELL TO AN ABLE
ADMINISTRATOR
creature, he did not know the ness of their lives here.
Most of their achieve unable to gauge the consc-
First Four Months
of
Epic Of Dunkirk
to
of
ao many then, because, during French ally delayed the declara- had since the outbreak of the that winter, the Nazl gangsters tion for a few hours. Moreover, war profited by a false neutra- THE ROYAL NAVY'S task becane showed themselves quite unable the sense of anti-climax was lity. Then, in indecent host, linmensurably enhanced by the to maintain for long the pose created by a prompt alert in lest she should be too Inte for loss of France as an ally, for the French coast, almost enveloping the temporarily assumed at Munich. London which turned out to be the spoils, she had formally de- South of England and giving a clear Through the summer of 1939) a false alarm. London was de- clared war on the side of Ger- field for submarines, became an im- the war cloud grew ever blacker, stined to wait for a long time many on June 11-an assassin's
portant German
mun vantage paint for It might be said that Eng- before it felt the attack of the dastard thrust in a stricken despatching submarines and bombers
neighbour's side.
to attack shipping in the Atlantic, land did not see it as clearly as enemy from the air.
Germany's naval inferiority seemed serve all rights and forbid republications, people on the Continent. At
In the meantime British at first blush after the entry of Italy Geneva in May I found the
forces in France, with incom- into the war to be mitigated, but the fleet showed no diaposition to Swiss Government already in- THOSE first four months, parable skill and Indomitable
lenge the Royal Navy, whien, stituting a comprehensive the despatch of British forces bravery, had extricated them with the help of the Royal Air Force scheme of food rationing-a to France and their arrival on selves from an apparently hope and the Fleet Air Arm, was able to wise precaution for a little re- the Maginot Line, the rapid or less position and managed, by reduce the Italian Navy to insignif public landlocked in the midst ganisation of the nation for de- the help of the Royal Air Force, cant proportions. Even when British THE departure of His Excel- of war-menaced Europe. fence, the eagerness of men and the Royal Navy and the Mer vos had to run the gauntlet in the Mediterranean, exposed to at- In July I had to tour London women to serve and the difficul- cantile Marine, which, for the tacks from the air, British naval and lency the Governor Sir Geoffry
and the provinces, meeting ty they experienced in obtaining emergency, included even air supremacy was enough to ensure Northcote, is the occasion of the people of all kinds of interest fulfilment of their wishes, the Thames pleasure boats and dream of the Mediterranean as an the non-fulfilment of Mussolini's customary valedictory speeches and occupation. In the rarefled swift entry of the Royal Navy barges, seaside steamers, and Italian lake, and regrets which, in all com- atmosphere of Whitehall, I upon its occasions as guardan private yachts, to accomplish a The remnants of the Italian Navy munities serve to bow out of/found a quiet but almost settled of the British trade routes, its Wonderful evacuation in the re- discreetly kept in harbour, even conviction that war before the stifling of German seaborne turn of 335,000 men to home though light British naval forces public life the servant who has end of summer was inevitable, commerce and its relentless en- shores, at the price, heavy way to disposing of Italian claims, wero on the sea. Malta showed the done his duty to the best of his In England generally there was forcement of the blockade with enough far less than had at that gallant island, unceasingly at-
a. stern determination to resist the co-operation of its French
been feared of 30,000 tacked from the air, maintained ability. We join in the unanim-
its any further aggression on the comrades, it is not necessary to killed, wounded and missing. calm and integrity. Moreover, when ous wish that Sir Geoffry and Continent. There was equally write much in detail.
in the summer of 1941, Italian light naval air craft, in a forlorn hope, Lady Northcote will enjoy their a profound belief that the By the turn of the year the
attacked Valetia, none of the a3301- retirement in health and pros. strength of Great Britain was battles between Germany and THE EPIC of Dunkirk, for lants lived to tell the tale, thanks to
Buch that Hitler could not dare the Western Powers had not tributed alone to the gallantry, Navy.
the efficiency and vigilance of the epic it was, cannot be at Royal Malta Artillery and the Royal perity and in the confidence to challenge it. If he did, as been joined. Stagnation of the resourcefulness and tenacity of that they will find plenty of one sturdy East Anglian, former chief conflict, after the tragic the men engaged. Once again the sudden German assault on Rus- Towards the end of the two years, enterprises to replace the full-put it, it would be because, poor dismemberment of gallant Pos in the days of Queen Eliza sia gave Homerle irony to the beast- truth of the situation or was land, enabled the public to con- beth when the Armada was put go which had sought to justify to centrate on the exploits of the to flight, the weather fought for slan Pact on the eve of the outbreak an amazed German people the Hus- ments in Hongkong have to do quences of his own internal Royal Navy, especially in the Great Britain, and the calmness of war. Despite his declared inter-
policy. Everywhere, my notes story of the battle of the River of the narrow sea made possible nght on two fronts. H
tions Hitler with Plate, which saw the Graf von
was thereby forced promiso ties-two branches of public life sive recruitment for civil de- Spee come to an ignominious ceivable had the normal volati- ridiculed by events,
quick
was speedily fence and territorials. There end, her heroic Commander vin- lity of these waters prevailed, showed devastating powers of resis
The Russlans was no hysteria and no particu- dicating his own seamanship This blow characteristically tunce. The
titanic battle of tention. The administrative side ar anxiety, for, to quote from and valour by self-destruction. stimulated rather than cowed mechanised might and masses of of His Excellency's tenure of those notes which I have with The United States of America the national spirit of Great Ocean to the Black Sea, continued. engaged from the Arctic office was largely dictated by theme still, the underlying con- was probing the situation in the Brituin. Apparently lying at to strain the German war machine viction was that, although no carly spring of 1940. Mr Sum- the mercy of the German victors to the uttermost. In the air the exigencies of war; much of it effort must be spared to con- ner Welles was the rapporteur on the continent, the British British were pounding in ever-in- was necessary; some of it was solidate the country, war would touring Europe for President prepared to defy their fate with and industrial centres in support of unpopular. The total picture not come."
Roosevelt whose second term of a vigour, phlegmatic driving the Russian armies, and Berlin was cannot be judged in the light of
office was coming to an end, force and Cry For Churchill -
electric team- given practical evidence of the its temporary character and it
War In Earnest work which carried the country reality of the double front when must be accepted as
through con- THE London Press was de-
those weeks of grim Russian and British planes on altern-
ate days rained bombs upon it. scientious effort to adjust a
manding the inclusion of Mr TN APRIL, the drama began in peril. The Home Guard sprang Winston Churchill in the Gov- real earnest. Germany seized out of the ground, as it were. Road To Victory thriving business community to
ernment. This view was echoed, key points in Norway after The beaches, the roads, the the artificial conditions created
indeed led, by the "Yorkshire overrunning Denmark. The streets, the towns were trans-So the second year has drawn to a by potential war.
Post" in Leeds, but generally Norwegians, who were the provinces, and therefore the unawares, had to succumb to cles and defences under the the German yoke, and, after losing It therefore appears
a whole, were cen- occupation by their powerful had already announced the un- Japanese in Indo-China, is moving lendership of Churchill, who Syria and surrendering bases to the what has been achieved in the country as last few years is an ameliora- tent to rely on Chamberlain. neighbours, thanks in large tion of the acate problems with war could be avoided, Cham- measure to the sinister activi shakeable determination of the under Darlan toward full colinbora- Empire and its allies to regard losing American friendship. In the
tion
with Germany to the point of which the Colony is beset: dire berlain would be the man to ties of their Quislings. The un-
If he led the availing efforts of the British tive. The country, had rallied ing dynamic foren of sinter!al aid in victory as their sole preroga- United States of America the gather- tion and over-population, cor. country into war, then it was a forces on sea, in the air, and on in earnest; nor was it too suon. ing Beross the Atlantic, has been poverty, unrestricted immigra
war which no skill in statesman- land to give the Norweglans
and munitions, steadily pour- money ruption, racial discrimination,
ship could have averted. It sufficient support to prevent By the middle of July, the reinforced by important decisions taxation anomalies, labour dis- would be a war in which every the German occupation came as German air force began its nt. occupy Greenland and increase the putes, town, planning and pros- shade of political opinion would a shock to the people of Great tack on London. Hitherto it strength of the fighting forces in the titution-just to mention a few.
had contented itself with occa- Great Britain and the Netherlands United States Half. In tune with Britain. The work of succeeding ad-be united in prosecuting.
sional raids on Scotland, coast August followed with the. ministrators when peace - re-
The resignation of Chamber towns and the like, but in mid- Washington has been lending
well as Government, as
Australia, turns to the world will be clouds banking up in unmis-
power to restraint of Japan's brought more directly to bear on
chill, called upon to form a new the air showed that London was Japan's southward drive carried sa these evils if the promises of the adjourned for new democracy are to bo ex-There must have been few administration, left the nation to be the main object of attack far as Indo-China, with a threat to Members of the two Houses and the Empire in no doubt of On August 15 Croydon was Thalland, had impelled a mora Im- tended to this outpost.
who did not realise that the the gravity of the task he had raided. Nine days later, the first perative sole in representations by His Excellency can take away vacation would be short. Hit Assumed. "Blood, toll, tears and enemy bombs fell on-central * The third year thus opens with the with him the conviction that he ler's attempt to secure the neu- sweat" would be the portion of London. By September the grim recognition that Great Britain has done as much as could be trality of Russia and his threats the British people and their "Battle of Britain" was well in and her allies have still, a hard row done in these parlous times to to Poland brought the danger allies in their renewed pledges progress, and the R.A.F. had to hoe. But the plight of Italy, now ease the Colony into the new nearer. When the invasion of to fight till victory was ensured. already shown the enemy a taste a German tempo, and his task in this re- Poland was launched, the do He entered office just when the of its quality. That story need veness of the vince, the bold resil
which will always demand at-
that
nchieve that fent.
taken
creasing weight on German towns
formed into a network of obsta- ally scene more ignominiously under close. Vichy France has gradu-
diplo
takuble blackness. Parliament lain followed and Winston Chur- July enemy reconnaissance in rats to aid the Axis in the Poelle.
the
vacation,
the Allies and the United States.
of them
the weighty colla- cupied territory, in German oc- gard has not been aided by the
Germans had fallen upon Bel- not be told here, for it is on ro- boration of Russia, and the closing was cast. laissez faire attitude which has
gium and the Netherlands and cord in burning words which of the ranks in the
For
East against characterised Hongkong for, so.
lot loose a fury of machanized have gone round the Empire all, sult Upholds the dog of freetem
Japah while China, veteran long. While the administration to deny that His Excellency has columns which turned the flank and the world. Its climax was and refuses to bow her head-por continues to be the impersonal had to leave unsolved many of the Maginot Line, ruthlessly reached on September 16 when tend the beginning of a successful mouthpiece of a Colonial Office matters to which he would beat down the heroic resistance 185 German planes were shot move to
to thwart the vile ambitions
When that t In London that tries to run all willingly have turned his hand of the Netherlands and Belgium, down by a force which the Ger- under way, the experience, and territories it controls into one if time and circumstance had cut off the British Expeditionary mans outnumbered three to one. termination arrayed across the world mould there is little chance for permitted. For what he hag Force and penetrated so far into By the end of October the "Bat- by the democracies should show The an administrator even of the done the Colony thanks him: French territory that, in the tle of Britain" had been won, road to victory. For nothing less personality of our own depart for what remains to be done we space of a little over a month, and on November 1 the I.A.F. than victory over the evil forces of Nazism is entertained in the minds ing Governor, to satisfy local do look with expectation to his suc- German troops were in Paris staged what was, to that date, of any man who cares for liberty andd mands. It would be hypocrisy dessors."
On June 16, despite a last its heaviest raid on Berlin, civilized progress 43, 144 "Realt,
`of'
gets
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