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HE British Army to-day is A sharp tongue and a critical din. The other heads the Alder- Irish wit and charm. The Alder-

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shot Command is usually given only to very senior generals; but Sir John was only given his

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Polish goll, arms and armament

neroplanes, and a useful stretch of food-producing land have fallen into

bis hands.

To that extent, the Reich stronger and better equipped for warfare against the Allies on the western front. But its conquest his

failed to give it the one raw material without which it cannot Hope to indefinitely continue a major www-oll.

Had the Soviet not stepped in, Hitler would have seized the great Polish oil-felds east of the Vistula.

But these are claimed by Russia, which, paradoxical as it may seem. has done the Allies a service in preventing the area from falling into the hunds of the Nazis. Russia, too, has cut off Germany's contact with

Karia,

largest.

battle of Le Cateau, in 1914, and

that.

Quarter-Master General, the whom rations and Ammo" depend, buttons, bil- At the age of 39 he was given it is being strengthened from lets, beef and bread, is Lieuten- ant-General Venning, who has To these commanders of 1914, the worst job of the lot; com- India.

been getting to bed late at their blundering plunges across mand of the Allied Army in He believes, that n great nights since the war started.

general has "a touch of the South Africa constituted the North Russia. War" To "Tiger" Gort or

gambler" in him. He shocked He did better work in that genior officers by saying that, "Tiny" Ironside, "the War"

fated command than could have for high command, a general means 1914-18; and that vast been expected, partly because he ought to prepare himself by "six may, most of us realise all too struggle was the training-field insisted with all his immense months really close association clearly, soon come very close for the men whose duty it may energy that when the job was with the Air Force,"

home to England until the be, under these two leaders, to through, it was through, and the This one-eyed exponent of bombers are mustered-as they take our Regular. Army into troops must be withdrawn. such heresies served with the will be. An immense responsi- j

action.

The war we none of us want

Russian Army in the Caucasus bility may fall on the general He is possibly Britain's future during part of the Great War. commanding the London Dis- Kitchener. The job of Secre- He has had fighting in Palestine trict. He is Major-General A. John Standish Surtees Pren, tary of State for War may be to keep his wits at work since F. A. N. Thorne.

1018. He is 56.

Ho commanded #1 Guards the Rumanian frontier, so that Hitler dergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount too much the job for a technical cannot now Invade Rumanian soli Gort, was the only peer to win soldier, at the beginning of a

Brigade towards the end of the without first yiolating the terrilary

war. Later he served as Milit- "or" Hungary." "Yugo-Slavia or Ba-a-Victoria-Cross-during-the world struggle, for any civilian...

Great War. Twice wounded, politician to hold.

The Aldershot Command has ry Attache in Berlin. A Modern armaments are infinitely near the Canal du Nord, in 1918,

At 59, Ironside is the oldest always been one of the highest gossip-writer has described him as "winning the personal friend- more Fethul thun ever before in

he personally led a platoon of of the new group of generals active positions in the Army ship of Hitler." history but they

ulso DIC

more

John his battalion down a sunken on whose shoulders the burden Dill has been in charge there for dependent. On-fuel is their Hire- blond. Great

fleels

He bulks two years. uni

road that took them to the flank of war would `fall. trachanised armies require enormous quantities. Unless Germany import sufficient oil supplies, her' bombers will in due course be Im-

alz

mobilised mad her striking power blunted,

In peace-time alone Germany con- sumed something like 6,500,000 · fons of liquid fuct a year. Her require- ments now are probably four or five times that figure.

In recent years, oil has beca dis- covered in a number of places in the Reich, and domestic production

of their "impossible" objective. Jargest also. And his name

Lieutenant-General Sir

But a friend of Hitler is not the right label for this stocky,

men.

One miny expect that he will quick-stepping general. At 58,

army He personally brought up, alone might be worth an army command an

corps in he is one of the Army's coming France, as did Haig, his

pre- under heavy fire, the "stray" corps to us.

decessor in 1914. tank that could help bis men Two other men stand out. forward.

One is in charge, already, of sure in far-off Hongkong, it is Although we cannot say for

Two "mystery men" close the

He lost so much blood that at the largest force of British probable that Sir John Dill was list. One is Mr. Hore-Belisha's one time he was directing his troops outside England and In- in charge of the British forces military secretary. Previous oc-

battalion from a stretcher. But

he got on his feet again to lead the assault, and organised the has been ripidly expanded. Even defence of the captured ground 50, Germany's output of domestic before he collapsed. crude oil was only some 550.000 tons

last year.

Conscious of her dangerous de- He is Chief of the Imperial | felency, she has worked feverishly General Staff, the Cabinet's at the production of oil from coal. But her total production of mineral oils from all kinds of domestic raw materials In 1938 was not much over 2 million tons.

military adviser, the, man who

chooses the Army's leaders. But

his personal qualities are more

In short, Germany's capacity to those of a commander than of

wage

a long modern war with

Great Britain and France depends a staff officer.

10 n decisive extent

נס

her

getting imports from abroad. If the

He is 53, the youngest Chief British blockade succeeds in cutting of General Staff our Army has these off, the war will be shortened.

Before the war. Germany's chief ever had. He was promoted to foreign sources of supply were the bie present job over the heads

Dutch East Indies, the United States

unct Rumania. The first two or of thirty-two generals. When these are already lost to her. Be- this roused indignation from old

fore the war, aho, Imported Rumanton

oll by ships passing through the men in London clubs, Sir Ian Mediterranean. This route is also

"Thank

cut off, and the more direct overland Hamilton answerd:

route is accessible only along tor- God we are now under a proper turous mountain paths through third soldier and shall not be shot

nations. Between Germany and the

Rumanian olifield are the Carpathian altting."

Alps. They are a wide and rugged range of mountains, rising to much as 9,000. Germany must

provide her own

da

fleet of motor

trucks to bring the vital fuel neross General Sir Edmund Ironside,

these mountains.

We cannot but deplore Russian el "Tiny," is Inspector-General

aggression against Foland. But

Russian aggression

pt

hns

Icant rabbed the Nazis of the parts of

six-foot-four and therefore call-

of the Overseas Forces. This

Poland which, to war-time Germany, is the position Sir John French

are by far the most necessary.

To-dny, Germany's only hope is that Russin herself will provide the

held in 1914, before war broke

out. Sir Edmund is Comman-

fuel for her bombers and mechanised der-in-Chief of the B.E.F. in untis. Without Russian aid, Hitlerism

will meet wit justice.

Franco.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

75

cupants of the job have become Chief of the Imperial General Stuff (Lord Gort) and Director-

By Lichty General of the Territorial Army

"Boys, the president of the club le protty sick--the least wo could do to show our sympathy, is to play only nine holes!"

(Lt.-General Brownrigg); Lieu- tenant-General Gifford, who now holds this post, has served main- ly in the Colonies. He has been in Africa so much that few Londoners know him.

Last, perhaps most important of all, is 52-year-old Sir Ronald Adam. Deputy Chief of the Im- perial General Staff, his promo- tion during recent years has been even more rapid than that of others in the new group of commanders.

He is said to be "the brains of the Army."

He is so professional that one feels "this is a foreign soldier, not an English one; English soldiers are always rather ama- tour."

But, in fact, nothing could be less foreign than his reserve, the cover of casual phrase with which he hides the penetration of his comments and questions. Here is the rare type of mind that is always searching for essentials.

This is the team, or part of it. It is head and shoulders above that of 25 years ago.