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MIDDLE EAST NATIONALISM

• Nahas of Egypt -- Arab League-Islamic Brotherhood- Mossador y Fenste

"BEWARE! WE CAN ALWAYS FALL BACK ON RUSSIA!" 'BEWARE YOURSELVES! 'FALL BACK' IS RIGHT

LORD ELTON*, himself a one-time Socialist, takes 'stock

for to-day's now Baron of the Left

REBEL DAVIE

“D

AVID

KIRK

WOOD, Clydesider, 惊 peer!"

So

his incredulous friends

would doubtless have

ex-

claimed in 1916 when he hud just been deported

fro

war-

the Clyde for leading time agitation gainat rents; No they would have exclaimed m 1922, when he first appeared in the House of Commons, one u! the deeply suspect little baud of newly-gle-ed Clydesiders, reddest of the Reds and no they would probably shall have exclaimed in the early 1930s.

But a great

Waler deal of has flowed since then, not only down the Clyde bul unde

-will

be a tonic

for the

Lords

Wes.minster Bridge, and by no meine al of 1. had been Blue Moreover in recent years llaves Kirkwood has imperceptib shed the suffix to his name, tur

he hes s: the while longer Kirkwood sider, but plain Duvid wood-a change which he may

the

bren

Jat

Clyar.

Kirk-

MUTUAL WARNING

Menement with Deids Herat

etory poel *LORD ELTON,

broadcaster, TUNE PXJULIET don and

roth the Sucaian Puri sa up- DOT મ Ramu MacDonald 1931

made MarDonati остоп

**

ດ້ 114

"

well have welcomed for it always more satisfactory to known as oneself.

be

THE REALITIES OF RUSSIAN POWER – No.

3

Soviet Air Force

For Army

ments

on

article on This concluding

is contributed by Soviet air power who,

has to

reasons, who therefore writes

B

has

ASED

Russian arma-

expert

on the for very necessary and remain anonymous,

under the pen-name of

METEORITE

bern designed, ganised and employed

the

primarily as an instrument of direct support to Army.

The grogrupatent position and

Conviction that her

19

Support

STALIN'S THEORY ON AIR POWER

considered that In Stalin's military theory it w

achieved by the victory in present-day warfare is combined efforts of all types of forces, and therefore training of air force unita was planned so that they could in the first place provide direct assistance for the ground forces in all types of operations. The course of the mar confirmed the soundness of these ideas as regards problems of development and employment of the air forces......attention should be focused on the mass employment of the air

their close forces, and particularly

and with ground

naval

forces. operation -Colonel-General Sudets, Chief of Staff of the Soviet Air Force, in 1948.

like the used

EXT

CO-

elaborate jet bomber, there is nothing in Britain.

so it design to indicate a change in the operational role; which

War. 1 likely Stalin's dong the last 6423

new on the use the red og in any theory

miner nflict with, of course,

Decessary the heations made of air power,

of more Air Force by the introduction Soviet

or modern types of aircraft

Force This Tactical Ai

high wah fighters.

attack. and bombers, ground 19ppert hansport and recce. aircraft of obsolescent both in dern stud types However, recent air -

tha! every anything plays have shown uf Russia fort is being made to re-equip sys ern Fenton ad expanse

tradi- with aircraft east equal that it is logical to assume that responsible for the

service the defences have been deplov 1xual and femiy estublisted perfomance to those

d- in the Western Air Forces, Brat ed where they can best protect a formid- es with the Army, and priority being given to fighters, vulnerable and important areas. the last 20 years

have which comprise 50 percent. of Even so their task is mala 150 forve The newest equip the one, and here are bound

the well-known MIG 15, 1o be gaps in 'he system. pro. men

use in Korea. duced one which in its broad now in

strategy. When re-ryhippet the Tacit- pratin to Soviet

the has in the eyes of the Russians cal Air Force will become seriously shaken this governing in st powerful force of its kind belief.

in the world, wapable of pre- viding very effective support to It is important to remember the land anntes to which

extent the

10 tkmens are silored. Covers which this conviction

policy, Russr air

because while the Soviet Air Force end their Navy are forres of sig- their mfence, the weight of

fence

which

witnessed so many new tary developments, have

at the outset

portance in the Soviet mind

attack and defence.

of

USEFUL BOMBER

MELLOWED

the

always person

And it now there is to another change and he is to b plain David Kirkwood ከጊ longer, this may be understwa to imply that the man has anol- lowed. Which is altogether 16 his credit; for he was essentielly a friendly and, like many rebels, owner a particularly warm heart and if he has mellowed it is doub- less because in the course of yours be has not been able

circle help enlarging s friends

The

of mel.owing. process however, 1 gradual and me a- spicuous, and when the tran lation of a rebel to the

Su posedly ansfied atmosphere of the glided chamber drawe sunt

attention den public

it, ü of hands ure certain number apt to be raised in pious horror,

انا

Contrasts are always dramatic and on such occasions the re bel's record is duly searches:

and new

for the past indiscretions vituperations which his staus has suctdenly rendered so incongruous-viuperatiom, may even be, against the gilded chamber itself.

THE PACIFIST

I well remember how. 1932 when a peerage was con

in brief, is suppor, of the sea-ferred on Clifford Allen, paci- ward flanks of the and ball!

Russia

នាង

Ast and ex-chairman of the In- dependent Labour Party, for a tew days there was a veritau Although

pioneered Press witch-hunt through the development of para Inaccessible and half-forgotte tro:ps in the pre-war days, she

records of the unimportant war- made little use of them in the

conscientious time conclaves tha! the significant It is

Laxi war, nor of her airborne forces.

es: objectors.

tors. But it did not exhibited

whum were captured Russians have never

ha most of

Jong, and Lord Allen of Hurt could

JOTE! which an aircraft

while being used as infantry in wood became a picturesque Bui the early stages of the fighting woo classified as an all-weather

House; nor did his utterancea night fighter, which may men with Germany Judging by the respected member of the Uoper ts that they are content to

mass parachute jumping

there, so far as I know, plays given recently, some im-

outrage the susceptibilities attached portance is still leck of the type of skilled per- this method of operations. The their Lordships, sounel essential for the main- arge civil air Blect would be a lerance and operation of early useful supplement to the Soviet warning and airborne radar.

Air Force in war.

от

rely

on AA guns or some form of 5 rocket in leu. There is also a

The Russians

dis

to

the Jast ar URING the

There are some who doubi Air Force Range

may consider is measured by the abihty 1.

few the carried out a

spasmodic "apacity

19.000 further the Army to achieve its objectives raids on German and Finnish that the length of time attack Russia's ability to produce and

territory makes rowns, but the results were ng arcraft must be over Rus- maintain an air force

early strong, but the fact that they inter ended the war wit front-

with a Until impressive

an American warning and controlled The ny instance. from an 1.20 (Superfortress) carne eception unnecessary; but against line strength of 23,000 aircraft,

and an annual hands, and

atom bombs and an aircraft carrying a departure from this policy were able to produce copies of the destructive power of which 40,000, is evi the development since the it, the Soviet Air Force could may be equivalent to an attack can. It is true hat aircraft are

by several hundred aircraft now much more complex, last war of the Soviet Strategic not be said, by Western stan-

bombs, the Soviet Union is still Air Force, but sunce

carrying conventional force

aic aspect, which may be cited Russion

such in its proper sense

been ward in miliary

A

has

have possessed durds, to strategic bombe. force.

*** slan

they

to the F.29 copy. erations there is no indica-

however, upera

huve A uselju! the Russians tion how they tend to use However, it is cafe to assume medium bomber capable of at- that they will have studied the tacking almost any target effects of the Allied strategic Western Europe and the Mid- bombing of Germany, and with le East. the atom bomb in their session strategically.

will 115C this forec

FOUR FORCES

to

D

ever

uf

បុ

Which is not to say that re had abandoned his principles but merely that he, too, mellowed, process which,

desirable after all, is 98 human beings as in wine.

And the House which Kirk- wood will enter is, in ore re- spect at least, a different place of to that to which Clifford Allen that mater Joha they--and for

Morley and not a few earlier but iconoclasts so speedily adapted

himself.

Undil any form of air defence needs during some 10,000 a year, and

this is estimated to be about Secialist to be very efficient.

one-third of her capacity.

production evidence that

DT-

in

up into

force,

they

have

failed

to

The

the Russians German scientists making of and

techni- captured German They have no ex- HE Naval Air Force is spht cal material is reflected in

Large THE pos- perience in operating a

forces, design of their aircraft. Beparate strategic bomber

PROBABLE USE

Be

are

the

Grea!

the

field of

Love appear

research,

new

sion

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and at regular in- while proved types →

and

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the twin Jet

From

responsible appears that the

of appearing in

It

but each ferming part of the fleet strides are being made in

Being cannot

resulta of Allied to which it is altached.

its role shore based,

covers Study the

air operations against anti-shipping strategic

and and-sub- Germany and Japan, and with marine operations and convoy such as the swapt-back wing the abom betab in their posses

The detence and mine-laying, all in MIG 15

constat primary role of

waters; defence REVIEW of the organise Long Range Air Force is like- buses and support of airborne

tion of the Soviet Air 1 to follow tha paltern

Its period of al land operations.

the last MIG 15 appre- though Army influence may on highest activity during

is as good Force is necessary ciate the effect of the Russian

Creasions divert its efforts.

war was in the Black Sea, dur- fighter aircraft in service with the the conception of air power on the

land operations at the Western nations, and Un. The Long Range Alr Force ing structure of those forces.

Kerth, and In the successful twin jet bember gives the up- like the RAF, there is no single does, therefore, present a new Crimean cffensive which um- pearance of having a high per- Soviet Air Force. Instead thera ord

mediately

these formance. followed is cruc trat $1 are four independent air forces, Britain. totalling some 19,000 aircraft bumber forca, to be fully effec- operations. It is interesting to with tive, requires more than aircraft note that the problems

which it was here dealing, such with the necessary range

as the prevention of overceas it load-carrying capacity, and

cuation, reinforcement Ausstans

These are:

(1) The Tactical Air Force.

threat increasing

( The Long Range Air is probable that the

behind are a long Force.

way countries (ii) The Air Defence Force. Western (lv) The Naval Air Force.

of air power.

The Brst three are responsible ranch the fact remainia

and

་

and

and

comparatively recently

peers

were

lonely

of

sprawling somewhat figures, self-consciously amid a sea empty red benches; nowadays, the however, that section of Chamber in which the new peer will take his seat can on Deca-

ปร house quite a formidable phalanx of Socrulist peers, some of whom in their day, if the truth were known, have prob- ably expressed sentiments which, a uttered within earshot of their Lordships, would have sounded as odų as anything which the electors of Clydeside ever heard from David Kirk- wood

Moreover, there are BOW- adays a good many more trade unionists than

cx-Viceroys 111

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other

however, 11 is the

standard op

ex- know-

The House In respoc. 8, fame The

brience and specialist ledge it Its debates is still unique. Its committees still get through

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Yost amount of un- paid and unpublicised work e

aff ential Parliament; it is still the most dignified as well the most ancient assembly

the world, whose debales

no

in

are

of

Risu

ILLS

ल

invariably decorous in spite the fact that It is the only assembly which Never

chairmen had any kind to keep it in order. of which unique phenomena David Kirkwood who If my memory serves me, has had his clashes with the Speaker of the Comm.ns in bls dny,

will doubtless have taken note.

HARD-HITTER

No new Member with a sense of his.ory can enter the Lords without a certain sense of awe, but Kirkwood will not be com ing emply handed. For if the Upper House is to maintain is influence and continue to play the part of a genuine Senate in

CO3-

will

the cming age t must

tinue to absorb new Members Sursai with a wide variety of

And and political background. and political

50 one so vital, so honest and pleturesque, with so long a de mocratie

and with experience such a gift for making friends as the new noble Lord certainly make his own indivi- dual contribution in his novel und

For august surroundings. during a long career David Kirkwood has 14peatedly the nail on ihe head, though it may sometimes have been the wrong nail, he has - variably hit it fair and square.

Senor.

Actuaith. Britain is not so anxious

have

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*

of the Navy.

The

In vers tary problem, and implied the slan aircrews, they may lack

Neve undertaking of operations which the experience of their

op numbers

UN In the posite A were in some measure within Air

Russian the capacities of the respective forces. However, the

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