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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 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 or 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 Biscay, the Mediterran- ean and perhaps Black Sea.

the

Fastes

HERE: LIES THE MYSTERY

OF

RUDOLF HESS

LAID TO REST

IN HOUSE OF * COMMONS

BY

Mr. R.A.BUTLER

ON JUNE 199 1941-

R.I.P.

TRESPAS6ERS

WILL BE

PROSECUTED

Hitler Cannot Have A Clock-Work Invasion

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T was the great Moltke who The first is the stress laid on its failure would probably be

taught the Prussian Generel the utmost care in preparation to major disaster. At Gallipoli. some Staff to be meticulously careful in make attack so rapid and over- arranging and carrying out the whelming that the initial collisions landings--not interfered with by- a condition air or sea-were successful, but initial deployment in a campaign; lead immediately to

the subsequent operations were not; so the campaign failed.

In what he could have after that, nothing could be fore- of open warfare.

seen, as the course of subsequent

The followers of this strategist,

the Marne in 1914, tried to see &

The second is the reliance plac- for the ordering he was operations would depend on the not merely a multimillion-way the subordinate commanders ed on superiority in machines to hebring about this condition, name- used the initiative to which aire, he was a multibil-had trained them. lionaire. He owned not only material resources including the lesser Moltke who but also the lives of men, drifted with the German armies to His simple word could little farther into the future; they kill anybody in almost wanted to arrange the course of the early operations after the first any part of Europe. It collisions with the enemy. could kill somebody, In spite of the egregious folly of the French operation scheme, though not any person now notorious as Plan XVII, which previously designated, in provided for a rash offensive, by

unsupported by an army Britain. He seemed to heavy artillery and led to the have everything-money, critical situation in which the French armies found themselves slaves and as much blood in August, 1914--the method fail

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

Yet he may have

Rapid Attack1

Subsequent operations

any

on the

the

By Major- General! R.. Pope- Hennesssy,

C.B., D.S.O..

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

Three Techniques -

In Norway the Germans sur- prised a weak neutral State and to caught the Allies unprepared 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 ofi Crete with which it can have no... 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 t Hitler's invasion, should it arrive on these shores, to face a larger. mechanised British Army

been right in thinking of himself as a Have-

He will find that the operation of shipping a small force up the Not. And by that no western Front, culminating in

Danish coast Into Norwegian har- reference is intended to Ludendorff's onslaught in

bours to which access had been If these deductions, are correct,

made; fairly secure by the activi the fact that at this Spring of 1018, showed, on the

one hand, the great power of a how do they affect our problem ties of traitors (the shorter and very moment he is attack meticulously prepared German of dealing with a German inva-

offensive, while on the other hand sion? Has Hitler any valid grounds better name for Fifth Columnists) ing Russia seeing some they revealed what seemed to be for believing, that he can launch-was very different from that of thing there he not

and insists upon having, quickly the pre-arranged, so as to clock-work?

profit by suddeny unexpected In this connection

two other

large and heavily mechanised. army across seas, where the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force at whatever the cost in changes in the situation, such as human life. There are at 1015 and or Sperations First, the getting from the Con of perfection the technique of alr the success of the first attack things must go like clock-work: have now brought to a high degree

tinent of Europe to the shores of and sea cooperation, great many other things on the Lys in 1918...

this island forces adequate to

Channel Obstacle

he has not. He boasts. From the course of German overcome the forces we have de indeed, that he lacks operations in 1930 and 1940, it is fending Great Britain; secondly, them: The simplest and possible to make two deductions the operation of those forces, when

which have a definite bearing on they have landed must be crown

It is said that last year, in greatest of these is the future we may have to face,ed with complete success in battle. France's darkest hour, General Weygand described the English charity. He may have

At once we see that success dd Channel as the most formidable. suffered long but he is not

pends on mastery of three techni- tank obstacle in Europe. There Is kind; he vaunts himself where even his own fol- ques: The naval technique of every reason to believe that Hitler

crossing the sea which he does not will find it go.. and is puffed up; he is lowers must remember command; the technique of co

At any rate he should and it an envious, he says in his the days when Germans operation between air and sea; and

finally, should all go well with impediment to an invasion design- heart, there is no God; he made merry with the rest him so far (which is improbable), ed to proceed with the clock-work may command either a of us and charity v

was not the technique of an air und ármy ↑ regularity of invasions which have dinner of herbs or a stall- a crime against the state? cooperation of a quality so high as only land frontiers to cross.

to overcome the air and army co-

ed ox, but in either case Was there ever a man there is hatred therewith, who wanted so much as Was there e ever a man Adolf Hitler and had so so lonesome in a world little?

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operation we can oppose to it. He may well be asking himself, In fact, whether it is wise to Facing Bigger Army. embark on invasión before he has isolated and weakened his enemy If a clock-work invasion over-by first winning the battle of the. seas did not go like, clock-work Atlantle, which ho has not won.