1941-07-03 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 3, 1941

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

GENERAL WAVELL'S MOVE

General Sir Archibald Wavell's exchange of posts with General Sir Claude Auchinleck needs to be linked closely with the fact that the Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton is also going to Cairo, as the direct representative of the War Cabinet, to take over from the new Com- mander-in-Chief a great mass of political, econo- mic and administrative work which has hitherto been handled by General Wavell. The shock and the surprise need not.) therefore, give rise to speculation on any sup- posed reasons for the replacement of General Wavell. Now that the 'facts are known, it would have been more sur-

prising if the immen- sity of the tasks thrust upon General Wavell, the fighting of five campaigns on five dif- ferent fronts, in addi- tion to attending to the details of economic war- fare, political work and

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propaganda, had not had Passionate Nazi-hater Jay Allen, |

Grandiose are Allen's ideas, not gueurs, its bathetic insincerities, their effect in heavy by illegally entering Occupied the least of which was to attempt the better.

of a vast Europe- But you must see it, if only to France, has fallen into the hands the creation -strain after twelve

of the Gestapo. His arrest is due, wide democratic news service to have a good laugh at the "Ger- Towards the end of the with months of continuous as are all his misfortunes, to im- compete

long-established,, mans. fabulously rich, semi-official picture are shown extracts from German film effort. In those twelve petuosity and a belief that

you are an American you can do agencies that already supply the the much-vaunted

world with its daily news. He of

the Polish campaign, called months, General Wavell pretty well what you like

might have saved his always short "Baptism of Fire."

The film, you will remember, has more than justified Europe.

breath for other purposes.

that was to terrify everyone out! his brilliant reputation as

It has two high- of their wits. a strategist and a military hope to disguise himself and get

if

in

Jay Allen is one of the few I know who could never

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away with it. One of his eyes wake up his countrymen to what regarded as inevitable est skill by any and every that you think he squints and he then

It is war, felt that usual news channels this standard. Half the work then find that he doesn't.

doing enough in

The first is Hitler doing disconcerting sometimes.

I hope were not

direction. Such men in 1937 or Sarah Bernhardt act in an arm is to be taken off the the Gestapo will find it so.

thereabouts were dubbed mis-chair. He has just given the word shoulders of his successor: Among tyrants the name of chief-makers, and their schemes "Go" to his Air Force: they are

their

to way

blow Polish Jay Allen stinks, particularly does usually came to naught. Allen's on in Cairo, and plainly no do so in the nostrils of Francisce scheme was among the majority. harm will be done in the Franco y Bahamonde, whom he in- Unlike many of his slicker col- women und children to pieces. And, Middle East by the arrival terviewed at Tetuan, in Morocco, leagues who are content to cash there he sits, sprawled out in his when the Spanish revolt first in on superficialities, Allen likes railway carriage, for all the world of а keen, energetic, broke out in 1936. It put Franco's digging down to facis, likes also as though the fidgetty. Goering master tactician, free to name on the map.

to go political slumming before beside him was a doctor who had concentrate upon the mil-

injudicious than usual, committing himself to paper. He just told him the worst, Galloping then calmly told Allen is a great blower-in and blower- consumption, at least, He's a re- itary task. Incidentally, that, if it were necessary,

he out of rooms, meetings, parties. gular old Dame aux Camelias.

The second is the commentator: there is more than a hint would murder half the popula-He never seems to be in the same

a German, spealting English: He tion of Spain to gain his ends, place for more than four min- that General Wavell This is dynamite, thought Allen; utes at a time. But in that time he has the sort of voice Pop-eye the would have if his knowledge of Russia was He didn't even stop to pack his manages to pick up more facts Sailor Man

bags before driving full tilt into than most of us can do at a full-voice had never broken. And he's of the minds of French - not out

Morocco to cable the dress interview. the War Cabinet when story. the exchange of posts was under consideration. These are days when new Thereafter Franco's thugs put emergencies require for- a price on Allen's head, the more ward-looking minds. It is eagerly as they discovered that

then closely connected Strangely then, but not a matter for congratula- with the Republican Government, naturally perhaps, came this song tion to discover the clear was a friend of men who after there translated) the other day wards became famous or in- from a German radio station; sung est evidence that the War famous, whichever way you look by a choir:

at things: among others, Del Vayo,["Now are we bound for England. Cabinet has its eyes Caballero, both of whom, some The whole country will be des- focussed not only upon years earlier, he'd concealed for troyed by fire. the urgent demands of days in his Madrid house when then we set out for the New

Primo de Rivera's police were World, the immediate moment, hunting them. but upon the potentiali- Nervous to an almost un- ties of the future. It gives believable degree, Allen talks in quick, sudden jerks, as though confidence too to note the every five words or so he sudden- cheerful acquiescence of ly sees something that makes him forget what he was going to say. General Wavell in a Only those who know him well change of command, can effortlessly understand what

he's driving at: others, im- Much may be forgiven the much as he would doubt-pressed by his pulk, his air of March of Time film unit for its less have liked the oppor- knowing what's what, gladly splendid work in the past. In its make an effort to understand, are first full-length film, The Ram- tunity of finishing the job often well rewarded for their parts We Watch," there is much he has so brilliantly be pains, Ahead of the Gestapo men to be forgiven from the point of detailed to interrogate, him is no view of a British audience. The gun.

enviable job.

less said about its dizzy, lon-

he was

**

Keystone of Nazi propaganda to the United States has been no German territorial, economic de- mands on that country.

un-

Whence we shall, fetch Rosenfeld

(Roosevelt), Switzerland, the insolent porcu-

pine, We shall seize on the way home."

But "Baptism of Fire" itself isn't half as terrifying as the news-reels. of the last war. They do show what war means. Which is more than Dr. Goebbels has

been able to do in this film.

Incidentally, isn't it time we stopped singing "Land of Hope and Glory." That line about the British Empire: Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set" sounds slightly comic in the cars of those pledged to a war that, we are told, has no imperidi ambitions in. Its make-up.;

Here is the ultimate horror. In "officialese." I found it in a docu- ment at the Ministry of Informa tion. It is passed, on without com- ment.

"The subject," says the docu- ment apropos the awakening of Yugoslavia, can be admirably treated propagandistically."

Only the italics are my own?

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