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Could Britain Today Survive Attack?
A
be?
by
Admiral
Sir Sydney Fremantle, GCB (Formerly Deputy-Chief of Naval Staff)
LONDON.
We require obviously 267) RE Britain's defences Air Force of overwhelming
today as sound and strong as they should
a
The practice. on the open- ing of modern wars, is to launch
sudden attack upon your enemy with such strength that you calculate It will overwhelm him.
Britain is not likely to make aggressive against any nation, but she must always be prepared against a sudden aggressive war being launched on her.
Her security, therefore, rests entirely
war
strength, and it should be ready to meet such an tack at very short notice.
I
alt the equipment required by a modern army, in time to be of value.
THE LOON - reminiscent of the fylng bombe seen over London - which has just been used in U.S. defence trials in the South Seas.
Doodlebugs are still on top
T
WO events of great
Unlike the land-based Vi, ne
significance took place long ramp is needed to get the during U.S. naval Loon airborne. The weapon is manoeuvres which ended off launched from the submarine'? Honolulu recently.
hull by a rocket booster, which
A NEW TYPE of flying bomb is then jettisoned. A submarine WRA successfully launched can surface, get a Loon on deck, from a submarine In a mock and firo it within a low minutes. Attock against surface warships
COMBINED
antic
THE aircraft barrage of 70 of
k
E
theas shipa failed to shout the Without- further improvemen! of the weapon, New York. Oring
foreshadows Philadelphia and San Francisco
missile down.
The
Fuccessful attacks on well- are within its ranga Every defended cilles by submarines city in Britain could be reached suddenly surfacing offshore to launch flying bombs carrying
None of the American atom
ko for bomba atomic warheads.
_manufactured could be carried by the
The US, flying bomb, called the Loon,
an
AND Hitler's top rocket man la helping 1.S. to keep them there
is a much-improved of the Ger- version
VI. Bie VI TOM inventor, Herr Robert Laisser
formerly of the Fieseler Aircraft Company and working in America, helped to design it. Its 150-mile endurance is 35 miles shorter than that of the
now
other
flying atomic
Loon от any operational bomb. An bomb.
be-
causo of the Jong heavy detonating mechanism. welche more than four tons. The payload of the Loon is lega than half this. Much big-
But the proportions indicate Un, while we are required to rest content with an Air Force and a Navy which are entirely Inadequate for the fulfillment of their functions on the outbreak of a war, we are spending op proximately half as much again as an eliter of those forces in maintaining nh Army 1hr strength of which would be of German weapon used against little value in the early stages of London. But it carries a bigger official hint, however, that a new explosive pay-load, it is faster, method of detonating atomic an. It can be recurately guided bombs may lower the overall to its target
wnr.
At all hazards we must avoid We can raise
and keep an Another Dunkirk, The allied Army on the scale we are doing armies in Germany and Austrin, todný
only
by conscription with good support from our Air which, though perhaps necessary Torre, would to doubt make a in the later stages of a war, is fighting retreat.
utterly unnecessary in prace distasteful to
our traditional instincts.
Have we auch n force? can only answer "No." SEA ATTACK
record that Ger- IT is on
cruisers, marines, and minelayers
We should be playing our full were actually at their fight part in the defence of Europe it ing stations and had started we secured for our allies control
sea communi- Atlantic. operations within 24 hours of the air and of the outbreak of the last cations and denied them to the
France, Holland, and Belgium time, and highly would do their best, but we must Recept the possibility of the enemy reaching the Channel and Atlantic ports.
man
war,
sub
future war
enemy.
ESCAPE
drawn from our
upon the Our defending hayal power of her defences forces in any
No NOW what are the lemons in against swift attack.
must be in readiness for strategical preparation to be Let us consider in the their duty of securing our
experience in light of realities and of sea communications instant- the two last Great Wars? modern experience what ly a war breaks out. could and might happen.
AIR ATTACK
IT is a reasonable assump-
We dare not take any avoidable risk in moving up troops and their equipment, muni- tions, oil, and materials across scan.
Russia.
the
raw the
nation with which we could find only powerful ourselves in conflict, is believed to have between 250 and 300 submarines, many of them of the latest types.
tion that no country would begin hostilities ngainst Britain unless she felt that she was ready and capable of overwhelming us. She would have made all her preparations by a ful mobilisation of all her fight ing forces, with her armies on the frontiers which she She has had the full assistance proposed to attack, her
of the cleverest German experts, cruisers and submarines on structing these boots.
not only in designing and can-
but the trade routes, and
in also training the crews for them. after a period of intensive attack on our morale by an attack on such a scule and at Hove we got the ships to meet propaganda. Intelligence short notice? Again I can only agents, Fifth Column, and answer, "No." fomenting as much internal
discontent as possible.
We may expect her
to open operations with secure an attempt to control of the air over Britain by an intensive air attack.
We had a narrow escape from, disaster in the Battle of Britain The arduous and long continued Bitle of the Atlantic was never wholly won in either war.
We suffered the loss of the whole of the equipment of a modern army at Dunkirk.
Insumetent air and sen power lost us. In the second war, Singapore and Hongkong. for a considerable period the Mediter- ranean, nad with If the full use
of the Suez Canal.
#
er flying bombs are not con- sidered practicable.
There has been + recent
weight,
If the overall weight of the atom bomb can weapons like the
bo halved, Loon, which the Americans are already mass-
VI was kept on course by a producing, might be modified to mechanical pilot which had to carry It
This development, or atomic rockets, would enitrely alter
WAR PLANS be set before the weapon was Linunched; it could not be altered NY war plans w make should during fight. The Loon Is A be based on success in the
first achieving guided by radar up to 100 miles, Britain, and in the Battle of the
air battle over Throughout its flight it radios its, Only after that need position back to base. we proceed to the preparations necessary for winning the war.
That does not appear to be the pelley of the Government. But until it is our defence is not what it should be if we are to be certain of security.
-(London Express Service)
"The Carbonero
inunching submarine
cut off the
radio
arc
Atomic Age strategy.
Submerged submarines difficult to deteet. When equipped with new, quick-get-away de vices they will be able to evade atlack by surface ships.
The failure of the U. S. ships to shoot down the Leon suggests that more work on defence impulse controlling the missile's against low-flying missiles will flight and sent it into the occan now have to be ordered. Until after it hou travelled about 80 Bow, the accent har bren on miles," said un on-the-spot rocket defence. report.
-London Express Servšča)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
NEW YORK. THERE are queues for coffee in New York, It would be sheer fully again and shops are rationing it to
ricks and dis-
1 lb per customer. I went to four and got none.
to incur such advantages.
RESOURCES
to'king into the telephone and tainment. "Fallen Idol"
B
not
making their bets. It is such for them. It is for those who pectable and cultured pas- believe their movie entertain-
time.
ment could and should be high art,
can
use at For sixpence a sun-
sicp Into cabinet and
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The price is £50 a mechine, and 357. a gallon for the oil,
DOOSEVELT'S son, James, has
set out on a political career. HOLIDAY: A Tennessee firm The price has jumped to 5s said he would campaign, us
In a Los Angeles broadcast, he has started production of an 7 lb., three times the pre-war
automatic machine for E principles of fundamental
Democrat of course, for Call- beaches. price. stenterical policy which we
fornia's Governorship. Sald he bather Snack bars have stepped up I repudiate all Communist sup- aluminium should adont are clear.
We can afford neither the man- the traditional charge of 4d. a port I shall have no associa squirted with auntan oll bo industrial resources to raise and owner: "Better than putting in power, the
material, nor the cup to 8d. Sald one snack bar tion with them.
maintoin
Army an
on
more water, isn't it?" Continental scale in time of penco.
Coffee is the national drink
come mechanised In Such a force can be maintained of the US. Americans drink it York. A gadget which
on the vacuum WHAT of the Army? At the only at the expense of our air before. during, after, and in
cleaner outset of war, military force and sea forces. And these are between meals. The run on the ciple is to be used to pick would be required sufflefent for absolutely essential In such shops was started by rumours street litter. the preservation of internal strength as to ensure our control that it was to be rationed, as order, defence against raids by of sea and air beyond a shadow during the war, because of crop sea of air, for the fulfilment of of doubt.
failures in Brazil, our treaty obligations abroad, When they have done so, and and for the defence (In conjunc- not before, we can proceed to
ARMY'S JOB
Panicky housewives
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DUSTMEN are about to
be- New
QFORTS: Professional football works
clubs have decided to ban prin- TV next
season because their gates suffered so badly inst sea- son. Baseball clubs are consider- ing a similar move.
up
SHOW BUSINESS: New York celtics brought out the ad- jectives they ted for the
to run at least a year.
Sold the critics: A re-
Whether the selected tar get is our air stations, our tion with local forces) of some raise, train, and equip an Army boarding all the coffee they can Sadler's Wells letture edhe of our possessions overseas. on a large scale, without which buy. Yet the truth is there is Fallen Idol" has just opened at Populous towns, our dock
we cannot occupy the territory plenty for all if they will just an "art" cinema. It is expected and shipbuilding yards, our It is also required to provide of the enemy and so finally win buy it as they want it.
the training centres necessary to factories, our administrative
the war. Yet what is being prepare the great armies which done? centres, or a combination of would be required later in the some or all of these, the at- war, if we survived initial attack, ed by Parliament for the Bghting by one Eddie Borden. New year's finest; pretty nearly per The 1945-50 estimates approv.BROADWAYITES are enjoy-markably fine dramatic picture; ing comments „OD London a fine plece of work; one of the tack must be met by our Generally speaking, we have, forces wero:~~- Air Force, aided, of course, with our reserves, such a force,
York Bight manager and now a fect. All the critics agree that but it has not at the same time ROYAL NAVY £189 million West End bookmaker. Typical young Bobby Henrey steals the sumelent strength to turn the Even should the enemy scale in heavy, land fighting on
AIL PORCE
Bordenisms: £207 million
Lady So-and-Sa picture. 2303 million and Lord Whatslt all owe ARMY
Quote from critic Archer have only a partial success, the Continent.
bookies money. Slow paying Winsten: There is a theory that our 'mobilisation would bo
The total sum is probably as reems to be an affection of the keen-minded men of business much as can be expected under well-born....I just Ilke considerably impaired.
to get too tired to exercise their existing economic conditions. stand and listen to the ladies minds in the course of
TERRORI ¡by our A.A. defence.
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