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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1941 ·

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

'THE GREAT HAVE-NOT

Not long ago a ruler addressed his people. He spoke, fittingly, in a can- non factory, not a cream- ery, and to an audience which had an undivided 'share in a surfeit of guns but which had been obliged, even in time of peace, to get along with little or no butter. "All

my life," said this ruler, "I have been a Have-Not.” At first this statement seemed ironic. It is true! that the

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Mr. R.A. BUTLER

ON JUNE 199

1941-

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ruler had once been poor and unable to earn a living in his chosen -profession, that of an artist. But this was long in the past. For eight years he had had the wealth of a nation at his disposal. He had had palaces, including an expensive and secluded retreat at Berchtesgaden. He could be denied nothing that he asked | for, because he was a dictator. When, he spoke he was the absolute ruler, not only of his own rather his adopted country, but also of his native country, Austria, and of many millions of people living in several other countries between; the North Sea, the Bay of T was the great Moltke who The first is the. stress laid on its failure would probably be Biscay, the Mediterran-

taught the Prussian General the utmost care in preparation, to major disaster. At Gallipoli. some Staff to be meticulously careful in make attack so rapid and, over- ean and perhaps the arranging and carrying out the whelming that the initial collisions landings-not interfered with by sea--were successful, but `Black Sea.

initial deployment in a campaign; lead immediately tu, a condition air or

the subsequent operations In what he could have seen, as the course of subsequent

after that, nothing could be fore-of open, warfare.

The second is the reliance plac-not; so the campaign failed. for the ordering he was operations would depend on the not merely a multimillion-way the subordinate commanders ed on superiority in machines to he bring about this condition, name- aire, he was a multibil-had trained them. lionaire. He owned not] The followers of this strategist, only material resources including the lesser Moltke who

OF

A

Hitler Cannot Have

Clock-Work Invasion

used the initiative to which

but also the lives of men. the Marne, in, 1914, tried to see, A. drifted with the German armies to

His simple word could little farther into, the future, they kill anybody in almost the early operations after, the first wanted to arrange the course, of

any part of Europe. It collisions with the enemy could kill

In spite of the egregious folly somebody, of the branch, operation scheme, though not any person now notorious as Elan, XVII, which previously designated, in provided for a rash, offensive hy an army unsupported by any Britain. He seemed to heavy artillery, and led to, the have everything-money, French armies found themselves critical, situation," in, "which, the slaves and as much blood in August, 1014, the method, fall-

ed, though, it only just failed, as he cared to shed.

Yet he may have been right in thinking of himself as a Have-

Rapid At

Subsequent operations on the

By Major- General R. Pope- Hennesssy, G.B., D.S.Q.

ly, air strength and tank strength working in intimate cooperation an air-tank technique.

Three Techniques

Not. And by that no western Front, culminating in reference is intended to Ludendorff's onslaught in the

Spring of 1918, showed on the It these deductions are correct, the fact that at this one hand; the, grant power of a how do they affect our problem very moment he is attack meticulously prepared. German of dealing with a German inva

offensive, hand Has Hitler any valid grounde ing Russia, seeing some-the while on the other huge for believing that he can launch thing there he has not a fundamental inability to modify an air operation that will go like and insists upon having quickly the prerananged, so as to clock-work?.; ⠀

profit by sudden, unspageted. at whatever the cost in changes in the situation, such as the success of the first gas attack

a

were

In Norway the Germans sur- prised a weak neutral State and caught the Allies unprepared to intervene promptly or effectively; so the campaign of invasion suc- ceeded.

It would be rash, of Hitler-to forget the main lesson, of Gallipoli,, the failure to win after landing," or to, imagine that an, invasion of England will follow the pattern of Crete, with which it can have, np Important factor in common,

Under Sir Archibald Wavell the British Army, has shown, a, mas- tery of the technique, of air and tank, cooperation that bodes ill for the clock-work precision of Hitler's invasion, should it arrive on, these, shores, to face a longer mechanised British Army,

He will find that the operation. of shipping a small force up the Danish coast info Norwegian har bours to which, access had been made fairly secure by the activi ties of traitors (the shorter and. better name for Fifth Columnists) was very different from, that of getting into this united country a

Jorge and heavily mechanised. army across seas, where the Royal, In this connection two other, Navy and the Royal Air Force things must go like, clock-work: have now brought to a high degree

Channel Obstacle.

tinent of Europe to the shores of and sea cooperation. this island forces, adequate to. Gorman overcome the forces we have, de

fending Great Britain; secondly, the operation of those, forces, when they have landed must be crowne ed with complete success in battle.

Its lo said that last year, in Frange's darkest hour, Generali Weygand described the English. At once we 800 that success der Channel as the most formidable pends on mastery of three techni- tank obstacle in Europe. There is

human life. There are a at Ypres In, 1815 and of operations First, the getting from the Con- of perfection, the technique, of air.|| great many other things on the Lys in 1918. he has not. He boasts, From the course of indeed, that he lacks operations in 1089 and 1940, it is them. The simplest and possible to make two deductions which have, a definite, hearing, on greatest of these is the future we may have to face charity. He may have suffered long but he is not kind; he vaunts himself where even his own, fol- ques. The naval technique of every reason to believe that Hitler

crossing the sqa, which he does not will and it so. and is puffed up; he is lowers must remember command, the techniques of co- envious; he says in his the days when Germans operation between air, and sea, and At any rate he should and it an finally, should all go well with impediment to, an invasion: design- heart, there is no God; he made merry with the rest him so for (which is improbable), ed to proceed with the clockwork may command either a of us and charity was not the technique of an air and army regularity of invasions which have

cooperation of a quality so high qài only, and frontiers to cross. dinner of herbs or a stall- a crime against the state? to overcome the air and army co- ed ox, but in either case Was there ever man operation we can oppage. to it. there is hatred therewith who wanted so much as Was there ever a man Adolf Hitler and had so so lonesome in a world little?

Facing Bigger Army

If a clock-work invasion over scas did not go, like clock-works

He may well be, asking himself; in fact, whether it is wisp to embark on invasion before he has

Isolated and weakened his enemy by first winning the battle of the Atlantic, which he has not won.

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