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MAY 22, 1939

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a panegyric. y Nazi German ar back as Sep- eutsche Wehr" itary Journal)

ery well armed. ght and heavy rs, small and warfare mater- ntities, and its ed."

te in the organ Ministry: "The nny of 1920 has | Corps of Voro- tanks, 150,000 ver 100,000 mili- various kinds the head of Eu- of motorisation. nce have been "Militarwissen- ," December,

1936, told Lord assia has the e strongest air

1, in "Luftkrieg War Threatens Germany last

World War be- ich the Soviet

military policy. aments' at the blans and mea-

armaments had tic quantities to army of ten to Moreover,

e which was in armaments in- e of an air at-

thor declared: he present time air fleet in the to its capacity

Air Force has ver.'

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Royal Tour Commences. The King kissing his mother goodbye at Waterloo, on May 6. The Queen and Princesses are in the picture. (Air Mail).

sands of well trained, politically edu- Reichswehr. cated junior officers.

They are those of very distinguished soldiers." The aim was "Our aviation personnel is replen- "the establishment of Red Army con- with. "Nauti ished from 32 special flying and tech- trol over the Soviet Union, or, in other by the German nical air schools."

words, a Russian military dictatorship

U.S.S.R. is a

follows on the

cognise the in-

U.S.S.R. pos-

time the most in the world.

e fact is that

Are these young officers industrious working in agreement with the German and are these schools efficient compar- Reichswehr." ed with, say, the French? M. Pierre

Cot, ex-French

Air Minister, after Mr. Steed continued that "the execu- visiting them, wrote:

tions of the Russian Generals caused

remarkable.

Judging by what Voroshilov said and

"They (the officers of the Red Army) consternation in the Higher Command s-that is, in are young. They work hard. Their th Sea, in the intellectual activity is

of the German Reichswehr."- the Pacific Everywhere throughout the Red Army strategy must we found laboratories, workshops, and

factor (which technical equipment for independent what other experts have noted, the end of the work which aroused our admiration. eliminated officers have been more than namely, the There is nothing similar in our officers' replaced by others equally, if not more, leships flying training schools in Paris, Lyons or capable.

Marseilles."

iting in the

To-day the U.S.S.R. possesses the uary 16, 1939. It may be urged that was in 1985, most powerful Army, Air Fleet,

and hed forces of Has not the "purge" weakened the submarine fleet in the world. All the are set out in Officers' corps in the interim? On the branches of her Fighting Forces are These figures contrary. Mr. Wickham Steed, dealing equipped with the most modern wea- oximations, but with this question ("Spectator," July pons. Her rank-and-file is unsurpass dea of relative 16, 1937), after explaining that none of ed and her officers are young, capable

the sources of his information were and daring. Russian, wrote that there were negotia-

orps? Voroshi- chools for the

tions between the eliminated Soviet Should it come to war, I will prophesy. Generals and the German General that the forces of the world's first So- Staff.

cialist Republic will fight with a cru- sading spirit never equalled by Napo- tuition to tens "I know," he stated, "the names of leon's troops at their best. lendid Soviet the German Generals who carried on on behalf of the ery year thou- the negotiations

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