1940-01-27 — Page 2

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 27, 1940

YOUTH IN THE AIR TO-DAY

SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE,

that of the Messerschmidt fighters

his

These young pilots of the Royal Air | likely to be sent against him.

He had no doubt that, with Force in France are most attractive. Many look little more than school- guns and the exceptional manoeuvr- boys until they pull on flying höotsing qualities of his aircraft, he could and great hooded jackets and assume | beat off a Messerschmidt, or get home, an air of mastery as they clamber into or both. their camouflaged monsters.

This war is no jest to them. They know too well the possible .consc- quences of their choice of profession. But they look upon it without bitter-

ness.

Their conversation, when they come to town once or twice a week to dine in state and adventurously test their reactions to a dish of snails, is not of glory in battle.

The talk is of leave, women, dizzy rungs on the

ladder, promotion squadron jests and mishaps, and pulsating scares (now confessed) their training days.

The enemy has not yet, for them, become the Hun.

nor

of

Discipline in the expeditionary units of the Royal Air Force is less for- biddingly formal than in the Army.

I have seen group-captains and corporals dining in the tauraant without embarrassment.

Батс res-

While it would be an exaggeration to speak of equality, the social con- ventions and regulations do not bring to the senses the same shock as notices elsewhere in France: "Strictly out of bounds to all other ranks of the B.E.F."

The democratising processes in the armed forces of Great Britain move slowly.

more promotions There are now from the ranks, it has been stated in Parliament that there is no regula- and other tion prohibiting officers under-

ranks from appearing together off 60 duty, and the barriers are not rigidly raised as before by rules and traditions.

He is neither excessively feared because of the claims made for his quality and numbers, rated because people who werę ex- of pressing astronomical estimates the strength of the German air arm are now devoting themselves to dis- covering inferiorities in German construction and weaknesses in Ger- man flying morale.

They are not, these young Ken, politically minded.

of

They are thus saved from the confusions and perplexities

poli- current history's shocking tical 'and diplomatic reversals of form.

They are thus prepared to be told Berlin to-morrow to go and bomb or to sit once again in the cold duty- tent and wait for orders.

HEROICA REJECTED

their

I am a little surprised by patience, for that is a heavy demand

Yet there still is a deep gulf of rank, class and education,

I believe I could choose correctly, nine times out of 10, by speech alone, who were officers and who

other runks in any given assembly.

There is even, I think, a caste dis- tinction of features, which the evolu- tionary processes of wars and depres❤ sions and upheavals is but slowly re- moving in England,

When peace returns, there will be in an interesting sociological study the effects of conscription by age groups upon the youth of a country massed for totalitarian war.

Hitler, may yet become the great

on the early twenties, and deeply im-social and' economic leveller of Eng- pressed by their rejection of heroics.

They are ready, willing, and afraid.

un-

They have a sensible, uncynical appreciation of their own value and of their individual destinies.

There is about them no Holly- woodised recklessness. In the best sense, they would rather live for their country than die for it.

They have been brought up” In" too hard world - for fatuous emotionalism to break down their commonsense.

They are

not condemning with. bravado the political attempt to win the war by finesse rather than violence.

On the other hand, their confidence in their machines and their flying ability was well expressed, without boastfulness, by a pilot I met this week.

He commands an Army Co-opera- tion Flight of machines, intended not speed of which is probably less than

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