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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.

CHINA MAIL An Air

~WINDSOR HOUSE

DIPLOMACY OF TERROR

By the manner in which he has

handled the

Balkan nations-

keeping them divided,

working

Offensive?

By Hanson W.

Baldwin

invasion

The final humiliation and vir- the

threat of last tual destruction of Marshal Gra- | aution --- in the continuous, zlani's thoroughly beaten Libyan determined manner started re- Army have provided the high-cently. And usually the bombers lights in the Mediterranean theatre that made these raids have operat- of the war.

ed unprotected by lighters.

op their mutual jealousies and im- memorial feuds, concentrating his pressure on one country at a time, enforcing "moderate" demands which enable him when granted to make further and less moderate

demands, inflitrating one country

But, important though the Bri- after another "peacefully" with tish victory has been in the orbit "military instructors,” "techni-

of Mediterranean conflict and per- cians" and "tourists." until the hips in consequences yet to be fell, umber and equipment are great it is perhaps rivalled in signi- enough to render further dis-Beunce by the British air offensive

guises needless-by tactics such as

against the Channel coust.

Lessons of Air War Applied

The new procedure indicates many things. First, that the Bri-

mans previously learned, that daylight bombing without fighter

rotection is too expensive in ma

these, Hitler has once more shown Not only do the continued as-tish have found out, as the Ger- himself to be a diplomatic strate- į saults by British bombers against gist of consummate cunning. Just the so-called invasion ports in as before he made outright war Hitler had marched from one "bloodless" conquest to another Austria, the Sudetenland. Czecbu

lovak.a, Menel 50 11atk', re- suming this "bloodless" conquest even within a war, he has lighten- <d the Nazi VINC successively around Hungary. Rumania and Bulgaria, and has begun to apply it to Yugoslavia.

dicate British determination to beat the Germans to the punch and to throw off balance a pos- sible invasion attempt but their importance is underscored by the methods adopted.

chines and pilots lost to make the game worth the candle; largely unnoticed, British bomber losses shot down in both night and day raids) | many recent weeks have exceeded the German losses,

Here are Do sporadic hit-and- run raids, but the inception, ac- Second. the nerial offensive cording to British officers, of an means Britain bas seized the the air offensive against German-do-initiative and struck first. Third, lesson which, in spite of repeated|minated territory that Britain it means we have accumulater! 1

For Hitler has mastered

hopes can be continued until the war ends. The raids are distin- guished, first, by the fact that they are made in daylight; second, in being protected by mass fighter patrols, and these fighter patrols, it is indiented, will be kept over the

demonstrations, his victims and opponents have been so slow to Jean- that "diplomacy" anel "war" are not two separate things but merely

the Two aspects of same thing. They are both part of that Grund Strategy which has been defined as "that which Careets and integrates the policies | coast of the Continent daily. and armaments of the nation that the rest to war a- either render- ed unnecessary or is undertaken

with

Su

the maximum chances uf victory." And in this broadened conception of strategy, the divid- ing line between "peace" "war" all but disappears.

and

In using diplomacy is an In- strument of war, in driving J diplomatic wedge between coun- tries to make a later military wedge unnecessary, In using threats, so to speak, to economise on army divisions, Hitler and his Axis partners have the great ad- vantage over then democratie op- ponents not only of being un- scrupulous and ruthless, but of

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SMITH YATES ON AN OLD ISSUE

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WHO WOULDN'T BE AN EVACUEE HUSBAND?

France and Belgium, very close to, and which may have been initiat- British air bases. No longe-range ed in a limited fashion, cannot

for the defeat of Germany. accompanying fighters are needed amount to much as an instrument

such forays; the Spitfires

tust and man-

Whether bombing alone, with- oeuvrable, that are the principal out the actual aid of land troops, can ever bring Germany to her mainstay of the defence of Bri- knees is, in any case, very ques- tain, can, despite their limited tionable. For Germany As How sprawled across the map of ole of accom- range, full the

Europe and the targets for raid- panying Bghters when the objec-ing Britisher bumbers are inuum- tives are

mileserable. only 50 to 150 away.

during the Winter a considerable and Hurricanes, reserve of 'planes and pilots and now feel strung enough in the air to strike in daylight and with con- tinuity. Fourth, it means we have acquired fighters

sufficient numbers to enable simultaneous fighter defence of Britain and fighter protection of raiding Bri-

lish bombers.

Heretofore most of the British bombing has been done by night; intermittent raids have been car-

But it must be remembered that ried out in daylight, generally the daylight bombing raids have against coastal points, but not - so far been concentrated largely except for a brief period duri against coastal points in occupied

Britain apparently has not yet produced or acquired in quantity a long-range fighter capable of stabbing with the bombers deeo | into Germany or German-occupied territory, and until she does, ur- til she is strong enough to bomb in daylight as in dark, the "bomb- ing offensive" so often discussed,

Vast Force Would

Be Needed

Some 200 bombers a night are

but a drop in the bucket of the total war. Even 2,000 raiding bombers daily would probably fail tc loosen the Nazi grip upon Ger** many. Yet, to operate 2,000 bomb-. ets continuously day after day for a protracted period there would have to be available at least 6,000 bombers-more likely 10,000- - and at least 6,000 pilots and air crews, and there would have to be replacements coming from the the World War, and send them to factories and the training schools

Germans In Norway

Norway is the only country in, ministration interfere with all or

ders coming from Hitler's puppet, Norway. the world where the Nazis are

the traitor Vidkund Quisling. Only More than that. having established solid reputa- on the defensive.

last month 500 local administra- In spite of all their ruthlessness, tors were imprisoned for sabotag- tions for those qualities. When

the representatives of the 100- they threaten they are able to

ing government orders. The Mayor million-master-race quite

often

of one city, a rather well-known saw their intended victims that take a severe beating, literally and nationalist leader, withdrew the they have not hesitated in the symbolically, at the hands of their licence of the biggest hotel in the past to machine-gun civilians and 3,000,000-Norwegian "subjects."

city because the owner had per- to wipe out open cities, some- True the Nazis have louted the times purely as a "demonstration." country exhaustively, they have Whichever side a weak neutral sent thousands tu concentration By Otto Zausmer

camps. They country may prefer to help, Hit- Jer feels that he can terrorise it into helping him,

this

of an act of

by the

increased,"

not

of at least 200 bombers and 200 pilots and air crews daily. For one must reciton on at least 10 per cent losses on each raid.

The terrific industrial and tacti-

to

:

They will have to police only the people, but also the po- cal problems in the way of con- lice. Like other officials, the tinuous mass bombardments were police throughout Norway close strikingly illustrated by the wax- their eyes to all acts of sabotage, ing and waning of the German air Just a few weeks ago a warning offensive last Autumn; the assaults was issued to the people of Ale-upon England could be kept at a have shot people

sund, reading: "Yesterday 33 fiti-peak only for a brief time. at random whenever the instigator mitted the use of the auditorium zens were arrested because they

World War experience demon- sabotage could not for Quisling meetings. That was staged open anti-German street

and insulted a strated the immensity of the task. be found and they have made the a month ago; he is still in office, demonstrations streels of Oslo swarm with beg- He does not even

The police took The British found that to main- But there is one weakness in gars. (Up to last Spring no living or orders from Oslo.

answer letters German guard.

a lenient attitude towards the tain 1,800 'planes in operation in formidable-looking struc- Norwegian had ever seen a beggar

demonstrators and consequently | France -- not all of which, by any ture. It depends absolutely and in the capital.

The Nazis have threatened that the extent of manifestations has means, were operated daily and at all times on strength at the

more than 300 planes in opera- centre. It is not only Hitler's vic- But they could not quell the they would enforce their will upon

Harsh measures taken by the tion in England for home defence, The whole the Norwegians by military po- tims that are kept in line through spirit of the people.

But that did not frighten Minister of Police stirred so much a monthly output of 1,500 'planes nation is on the offensive against wer. fear of him: his ostensible friends the invaders and the result of this the people because they could not hatred against him that he felt it was needed, which is probably the and allies, Russia, Japan, Italy, offensive has been described best be intimidated

present necessary to justify bis deeds and maximum output of Britain to- even Austria, even great numbers by Maj. Quisling's aide, Nils Flom, army of occupation and maintain plead with the people for co-day. The French calculated on a operation. He made a speech to monthly output of 2,400 'planes of Germans, hate and fear him no in the official

organ of Nasjonal that they would not give in to a

4,000 engines monthly this effect, but only Quislingists and loss. If the Nazi lenders were once Samling, the Quisling Party, bigger, even more brutal army.

came to the meeting and people maintain a tactical force of 4,000 revealed to be weak at the centre, "Fritt Folk" (Free People): “Even The Germans, on the other hand, turned off their, radios when he aircraft, probably only one-half their whole "new order" would, Nasjonal Samling men

́to two-thirds of which was everTM a are in a bad position. It is im-started talking. quickly fall into fragments. Of right to exist," wrote the Nor-possible for the Nazi party to There are very few sympathisers operating simultaneously. their opponents this is not true. If weglan Fascist leader. Then he convince the German people that with the Nazis. Girls who are

In 1918, the average monthly a single bomb were to destroy a

need newspapers the Norwegians are not at least seen with Germans on the streets handful of Nazi leaders, the whole have access to local papers

supporting our case or we must as "good Aryans" as 'are the are seized and their hair is cut output of Britain was 2,668 'planes

be Germans,

and 1,841 engines; for France it And while the Ger-Michael Staksrud, up to a year was 2,852 planes and 3,359 en- aspect of the world might change cause we must give our opinion mans could be persuaded that ago Norway's pride, her world gines (planes and engines of de- in a few weeks; but if such a bomb to counter-balance the opposition Norway had to be dccupied for the champion in Ice racing, was re-sign fur simpler than they are to- were to wipe out the present Bri- which now completely dominates German Reich they will not be-cently found dead in a lake near day), a combined monthly output tish Cabinet, great as the Joss the situation." This complaint was lieve that the Norwegians are "un- Oslo after he had been missing for or 5,520 planes and 5,200 engines, would be it would not change at volced at the beginning of this der dogs" like the Czechs or the weeks. He was a member of the considerably more (in 'planes). all the determination of the Bri- month, little short of a year after Poles, whom the Germans have Quisling Elite Guard.

than Germany is producing to- tish people to carry on the war. If the country had been invaded by always disliked.

Day by day people cross the day, considerably more than any England itself were invaded and the Nazis!

Ill-feeling has been created in frontier into Sweden and report planned schedules of. future subjugated, the fight for freedom

Germany when the Scandinavians to friends important Nazi secrets | American production. would go on in other parts of the

have been handled roughly. It which are then transmitted to “British-Commonwealth.

"would be far more unpleasanit if Enginna by amuteur radio stations," "The start of the British day- the-rules-were-stiffened. That is Or a small boat furtively. leaves light-bombing raids, therefore, While in other occupied coun- why Herr Hitler prefers that the one of the thousands of fjords on while indicating increased British tries opposition or sabotage is in- Norwegian Fascista handle the a voyage to England with vital strength, should not be miscon- dividualistic or the work of small situation alone. Now, since it information. This is one of the strued. For the sheer physical dif- groups fighting more or less un- does not look as if they could do reasons why an attempt to invade ficulty of providing the thousands derground, in Norway not only the job, the Nazis are about to England from Norway would be and thousands of bombers re- the whole population but also those conscript volunteers of the young-known in England almost before quired to produce decisive effecia who are left of their former ad- est Storm Troopers, born after the Germans could weigh anchor een almost insuperable,

It is possible for tyranny to be struck down by a well-directed blow, but throughout the world men will fight for their liberty as long as they retain the power to carry on the struggle..

went on: "We

have