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Hitler's "Peace"

WHAT INTLER cannot fathom, as he rants and raves of the per fidy of democracies who wage war on him, is that the entire world wants pence. We do not doubt but that Germany wants pence, as Ilitler declaimed in his, Danzig speech yesterday--but to him_it must be a peace on his own terms.

The world suspects, with good reason, that the price of peace will be German hegemony in Europe. Czecho-Slovakia has al- ready gone. Memelland is back in the fold. Poland is torn and shat tered, ready for dismemberment. It is all so very obvious that no nation is safe whilst this modern and lustful conqueror wields such

S

September 21, 1939.

Portrait of

some

young Britons doing their job

OME WHERE in Eng- land I stood at sunset

pilot who four years ago was passing into the sixth form at a public school.

We two stood and looked up at the fighters, that between them carried enough bullets to kill 10,000 men, and the young man with silver wings on his chest said quietly, "No, I am not flying to-night. You see am going blind."

-by-

VICTOR RICKETTS

ball of

shooling any attempt to put them over as winged heroes. They aren't. They are ordinary young Britons who come from the same sort of homes as the young men catching trains to the City every morning. But their job is war flying, and sometimes the accidents do happen. That is inevitable when the toys they play with weigh tons and travel- at miles a minute through this coun- try's mists' and storms.

They are torse while on the job. Once I flew with a fighter pilot at a.m. For away to the south searchlights suddenly blazed and

There

UR iextbook reply was, "Mes- under- soge received and

Over us circled a flight of three Hurricanes silhouetted blackly against the sunset. In- side each of the rumbling figh- ters sat a war-wise youngster ready to slam his throttle wide open in pursuit of raiding bom-spinning round a few feet either side He was fifty teet above them as they clustered excitedly round a cloud- bers.

of his head. Behind him in a trans-motored past his airfield when his bank. Into our earphones crackled. parent turret was the gunner. plane caught fire. Terrified they a command from headquarters, "Get

Flying in the dark they hit an-saw his machine in llames from nose over to as soon as you can.

plane. With

damaged to tail.

are two raiders over there." other muchine going steeply down out of He dropped to the road just in control to a certain crash Tom roared front of them, bounced as

und there "Jump" to his gunner, hurled back fire into the next feld the sliding roof over his cockpit and overturned. They were still in their stood." enfapulted himself outwards.

motionides cur, with rescue parties, Le were already going full Halfway out he thought of the tail racing over the airfield; when Harry throttle to where the bombers had An, razor-edged ut 250 m.p.b., and appeared, black-faced, walking out been sighted, with their gun turrets kicked himself out over the wing us of the flumes. He stii does not gilitering in the pearchlights. far us he could.

know how he got out. "I Just kicked "Message

received and under.. As he sild off the edge into spoce hard."

stood" will be the last unemotional the fall of the plane caught blin aj I have just seen Harry with a acknowledgment of orders from glancing blow. He escaped with burn on one cheek. Over blue many of our flying automatons if bruises and dropped sutely into a uniform is shung the hideous, dirty the enemy bombers ever really come field.

yellow anti-gas cicak. He is wait- to Britain again. "The other chap didn't get out,"ling for the telephone alarm call that yhe said soberly.

I have just finished writing this will bring him with his brother in a bomber squadron's mess. fighter pilots racing into the air is beating against the windows.

raiding bembers. "Another Pilots are sprawling in armchairs

It was evening, with dew on the alrfield grass.

camouflaged planes ranged out, a mobile field kitchen with the fragrant smell of hot coffee, and far away, now, the drone of the patrolling fighters,

I said, "Oh," rather stupidly. They've just taken me off ing." I heard him sny. "Both my eyes are going a bit dm. I'll be able to see a bit I think, but fly- ing's inished for me.

"I had a Rugger accident a few years ago, got a kick on the bock of the head. That started it I think."

You hear things, quietly like that, that beat the rims.... This same boy was unti a lttle while ago a pilot in a crack fighter squadron. It was his life and very nearly his death.

Roaring along on night manoeuvres he had the real-life nightmare of all who fly-in the dark-Instantaneous and complete breakdown of his engine.

started coming to pieces. Beneath; were no lights, only darkness hid- ing trees, hedges, walls, ∙rivers; all} the necessany things to break hisi neck trying to land three tons of steel at ninety m.p.h.

power that, at a word of command.--At-five miles a minute his engine legions of machines and armed men will trample into the dust the Independence of a free people.

Nothing new arises from Hitler's speech. What is chiefly significant is the fresh evidence that he con- tinues to be wedded to the method of the mailed fist. He could easily, had he been aо minded, driven triumphantly into Danzig after negotiation and without the atten- dant horror of force, which has clalnied so many innocent Palisk lives.

With Hitler, menaces have be- eume an end in themselves and anything obtained without them is by so much less worth having. The manner of his aggresalon against Poland only makes it more obvious that, if Britain and France were to "eall it off", new aggres- sions would be in store for each of his neighbours.

Poland is gone, Other eastern European nations, particularly Rumania and Hungary, will have cause for fresh alarm in the demise of their neighbour, just as the Christmas turkey who aces his companions' heads go one by one under the chopper dismally notes that ench time a head is chopped means that his turn is so much nesret.

some

He took the only way out, through the sliding roof of the drop- ping tighter with a kick to carry himself clear as he fell into space. Then the moment of sus- pense, wondering the silken shrouds of the parachute would open. They did, with a Jerk that knocked the breath out of his plum- meting body.

"Don't you believe that stuff about coming down like thistle-down," he grinned. You hit the ground with; a wallop."

you think that our war

Rain

Dpista are irresponsible your line shooter," he said, introducing me waiting for the word to send them

men?

Take a look at Tom's room for an insight into his character. There

to his friends.

THIS

up_raiding_again.

The radiogram is crooning senti- HIS article does not say the mentally "When I Grow Too Old to

R.A.F. take their lives in Dream."

go

the photograph of a pretty girl on his dressing! table. Among his their hands on every flight, it does A fair-haired fight-Heutenant with bookshelf ties are "Inside Europe," not mean that our flying men are the face of a boy of nineteen-he "Progress and Religion," "Poems of real life oditions of semi-hysterical commands a twenty-one-ton bomber up-has just been discussing air lactics. Henry Kendall," "When We Were Hollywood test pilots who'

Young," Very

"Swimming the while men on the ground toss a coln, "When we really start fighting we American Crawl" and "History of to see if they will come back again are the people who'll go first on both Ancient Philsaphy."

The R.A.F. casualty list, compared sides, the experienced pilots. We'll Two motorists can tell the story with hours lawn, io probably mop each other up in a few weeks of an afterncun in the life of Harry, Europe's lowest. And very properly and then it will come down to you hier In the same squadron as Tom, the ÍL.A.F. pilots consider" us Uncl people without much experience."

"The Foreign Affairs

Committee

THEY MET AGAIN YESTERDAY

Meet"

THEIR secrets are conveyed in cipher mes- sages carried from the distant em- STATE bassies in the special Foreign Ofce

bags.

NAMES ARE NEVER DIVULGED' SECRETS IN CODE COME TO THEM FROM EM- BASSIES ALL OVER THE WORLD

Extremely confidential statements THEIR are borne on the person of the mes- senger himself or contained in a bag

REPORTS ARE LOCKED IN SPECIAL BOXES OF The fighters were out of sight und WHICH THE KING HOLDS ONE OF THE KEYS

we went to a hangar to collect my!

off own parachute ready to take when our patrol time came.

Drake

pitol

or Wellington would

to which he and his immediate chief in the Communications Branch of

the Foreign Office and very high ofl-

etals alone have the key.

Opinions and statements and re- YESTERDAY the Prime nuble servant he thinks should be

ports are decoded by expert officials Minister walked from consulted.

in the Foreign Office and the various Jagations abroad. But who is present will never be embassies and approve to-day of the average R.A.F. his study to the Cabinet room at publicly known. And It is impossi-When a fair copy is made it is duly No. 10, Downing-street to pre-bie for the outside observer to dis-recorded and the document sent to MEET another one. We will

cover, for there is more than one the high official concerned. In the call him Tom. IIe is side over a meeting of the Forway to the Cabinet room apart from case of grave matters like those now ing round now with bandages on his cign Affairs Committee of his the front door of the Prime Minis-nt issue they would come under the side and wrist. "Afraid I shan't be Majesty's Government. flying until next week," he apolo- gised.

The question of

ter's house,

immediate supervision of Sir Alexan- der Cadogan, the Permanent Under- The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign. Russin's sir, John Simon, himself farmer Affairs.

Messengers to the King

WHEN the Foreign Minister is WHEN

given reports for submission

He was censoring my stary before aggression against Poland enme Foreign Secretary, who is invariably I telephoned it at midnight from the up for prolonged discussion, a consulted in questions of this kind. pilots room with the black painted discussion, which was later con- 'lives next door, and there is a pri- windows..

tinued in the House of Commons, vate passage between the two houses. Outside men were grumbling As

There is also ♫ pusange which they picked their way round the Now it is well known that what leads to the Treasury in Whiteball first to the Prime Minister and sub- blacked-out airfield. When he had happens in that fomous room in the read my story he said thoughtfully: old Georgian house is kept a strict This is frequently used by Ministers equently to the King, these reports

"I couldn't stand your job. I'd be State secret. Every Cabinet Minis a bunch of nerves in a week. You ter is sworn to sllence. Sometimes seem to be rushing round all the

on such occasions.

Three Defence Chiefs

are locked up in special boxes or coscs' and again there are only a certain number of keys.

Poland has never enjoyed the sense of security which nations felt when German might was eliminated from European politics in 1919 and which the Poles might have been expected to

The King, like other high officers time doing a different Job every a brief communique is issued. More

LTHOUGH there is no static of State, has the key to open all these feel because Russin, as well as tho day."

often there is the baid announcement)

A Central Powers, lost the Gront I looked at his bandages: "Some that there took place

composition of the Foreign despatch cases, and when he is away रा "Cabinet War. For though each of these people would have nerves doing your Council" together with: the names of Affairs Committee it is usual for the from London there is a daily service

job." countries was for a time weakened,

Ministers, present.

Secretaries of State of the three Ser-of messengers from Whitehall carry- vices departments to attend.

Ing the precious containers, bound irr Poland always had to reckon with He didn't think so, "My excite-

But when the Foreign Affairs Com-

morocco leather and embossed with two possibilities whose existoner ment is purely physical.

It's no mitice meet no statement is made,

Il is by no means always the case the Royal Arms and cipher. 23 4 mental side by side constituted a paradox. nearly such a strain

no names of Ministers round the that an Ambassador can be present one." One was that Germany, and Russia

to make a personal statement before On occasions like the present the And this is Tom's little adven- table are ever divulged.

the Foreign Affairs Committed For King is kept hourly Informed of might some day go to war against

ture story. He, was dying a new ench other: the second was that

In theory this important commit-from it.

what goes on in the Cabinet discus- type warplane that was originally tee are really a consultative body they might take an opposite course designed without too much con- working on behalf of the rest of For example, when Hitler march-afonn by means of a service of pri- vate communications. It often hop- and become allfed. The latter sideration of how its crew should their colleagues. To reveal their od Into Poland, a special meeting of pens that in matters of particular evont unhapplly occurred;

get out of it emergency.

names might imply that they nusim- the commitice was called to discuss gravity the Prime Minister drives to either event, however, Peland's in- On the walls of his Flight office ed responsibility for decisions taken, a suggestion by the French Govern Buckingham Palace to see the King dependence was jeopardised. is a notice saying Air Ministry whereas, by the unwritten law of the ment. This Ruggestion

Through their travail, however, tests with dummies are now going Constitution, in all Cabinet matters municated through the British Am- Poland's people will remember on to find out the best method of there must be the collective respon-bassador in Paris, Bir Erle Phipps. In the event of further Informa- that communication tion being required on any subject that history has shown that Fo- quitting these planes without fallibility of all. If a Minister finds ha But how was land's great battles for Indepen- ing into the tail or propellers na you cannot accept the opinions of bis made and how was it kept such a there is a system of private telephone

clear. "Full details will be colleagues he must resign. doneo have been fought on allen Jump

circulsted in due course." soil. This latest battle will be fought on the western front of Germany.

Tom piloted one of them planes, The Prime Minister can call to sitting at his controls with the black these special sub-committees of painted, motal 'blades of propellers. Cabinet Counell any Minister

dond secret?

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