1941-06-23 — Page 7

THE CHINÀ 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 rather his adopted country, but also of his native country, Austria. and of many millions of people living in several other countries between

or

Yates

HERE

DIES

THE

WAY STERY

OF

RUDOLF HESS

LAID TO REST

IN HOUSE OF

COMMONS

BY

Mr. R.A.BUTLER

ON JUNE 199

1941-

R.I.P.

TRESPASSERS

WILL BE PROSECUTED

ར་ས་འཕ་

A

Hitler Cannot Have

Clock-Work Invasion

Moltke

who

The first is the stress laid on, its failure would probably be Staff to be meticulously careful in make attack se rapid and over-

曰

the North Sea, the Bay of IT was the great Biscay, the Mediterran- taught the Prussian General the utmost care in preparation to major disaster. At Gallipoll some ean and perhaps the arranging and carrying out the whelming that the initial collisions landings-not interfered with by

Black Sea.

sea-were successful, but the subsequent operations were not; so the campaign failed.

initial deployment in a campaign; lead immediately to a condition air or In what he could have seen, as the course of subsequent

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

the The second is the reliance plac- for the ordering he was operations would depend on

way the subordinate commanders ed on superiority in machines to not merely a multimillion- used the initiative to which 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 drifted with the German armies to but also the lives of men. the Marne in 1914, tried to see a His simple word could little farther into the future; they wanted to arrange the course of kill anybody in almost the early operations after the first any part of Europe. It collisions with the enemy. could

In spite of the egregious folly somebody, of the French operation scheme, though not any person now notorious as Plan XVII, which previously designated, in provided for a rash offensive by an army unsupported by any Britain. He seemed to heavy artillery and led to the critical situation in which the have everything-money, French armies found themselves slaves and as much blood in August, 1914--the method fall- as he cared to shed.

ed, though it only just failed,

kill

.

the

By Major- General R. Pope- Hennesssy,

C.B., D.S.O.

to

In Norway the Germans sur- prised a weak neutral State and 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 of 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 Hitler's invasion should it arrive

ly, air strength and tank strength on these shores, to face a larger working in intimate cooperation-mechanised British Army. an air-tank technique,

He will find that the operation. of shipping a small force up the Danish coast into Norwegian har- bours-to which access had been. made fairly secure by the nativi ties of traitors (the shorter and better name for Fifth Columnists)

was very different from that of getting into this united country a large and heavily mechanised army across seas, where the 'Royal

Channel Obstacle

Yet he may have been right in thinking

Rapid Attack of himself as a fave-

Subsequent operations on Not. And by that no western Front, culminating in

Three Techniques reference is intended to Ludendorff's onslaught in the

the If these deductions are correct, the fact that at this Spring of 1918, showed, on

one hand, the great power of a how do they affect our problem very moment he is attack- meticulously prepared German of dealing with a German inva- offensive, while on the other hand slon? Has Hitler any valid grounds ing Russia seeing some- they veled what seemte babe 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 pre-arranged, so as to clock-work?

profit by sudden unexpected In this connection two other Navy and the Royal Air Force at whatever the cost in changes in the situation, such as

the success of the first attack things must go like clock-work: have now brought to a high degree human life. There are a at Ypres in 1815 and of Sperations First, the getting from the Con- of perfection, the technique of afr great many other things on the Lys 'in 1918.

tinent of Europe to the shores of and sea cooperation. this island forces adequate to he has not. He boasts, From the course of German overcome the forces we have de- indeed, that he lacks operations in 1939 and 1940, is fending Great Britain; secondly, them. The simplest and which have a definite bearing on they have landed must be crown- possible to make two deductions the operation of those forces when greatest of these is the future we may have to face, ed with compléte success in battle. charity. He may have suffered long but he is not kind; he vaunts himself where even his own fol- and is puffed up, he is lowers must remember 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 clockwork may command either a of us and charity was not the technique of an alt and army regularity of invasions which have

cooperation of a quality so high ag only land frontlers 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 a man operation we can oppose 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?

At once we see that success de pends on mastery of three techni- ques: The naval technique of crossing the sea which he does not command, the technique of co

Facing Bigger Army

If a clock work invasion-over seas did not go like clock-work

It is said that last year. “f France's darkest hour, Generál Weygand described the English Channel as the most formidable tank-obstacle in Europe. There is every reason to believe that Hitler will find it so...

At any rate, he should find it an

He may well be asking himself, In fact, whether it is wise to embark on invasion, before he has isolated and weakened this renemy by first winning the battle of the Atlantic, which he has not won.

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