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· STANWYCK-MENIOU WILLIAM HOLDEN
A Columbia Picture.
Friday, February 9, 1940.
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The War of Siege
Hitler's reluctance to toke ↑ bold initiative in the early days of the war has given the Allies over Ave months of priceless value in which to build up and concentrate their military resources and so to make still more diffleult the task of carrying out a full-scale German offensive in the West.
It has also presentext the Allies with a problem. If, as it appears, Germany has lost the inillative in the West, it is an obvious duty of
·le· Allles-nol-only-to-ace-that-she does not regain 1, but lo devise positive and active measures for keeping the enemy on the defensive and wearing down his material strength and his merate.
The so-called slege war must be ended some time; and it is the busi- ness of the Atlles to end it and ta choose the moment and the means.
Though there has been more fight- Ing in the ule than on land, it has been limited, spasmodic, and incon- clusive; only once have the Germans had the better of a battle in the air, For the most part they have been content with hurried reconnals- santes over the East Coast and some fruitless attacks on well-defended British warships; and latterly they have laid a number of mines in British waters and have bombed and machine-gunned small craft, chiefly fishing boats, with negligible milltary results,
British airmen have been much
more
February 9, 1940.
FUNNY, these
| Russians.
by SPIKE HUGHES
N common with quite JL number of Russian soldiers I can't think for the life of me exactly what they'ro doing in a war with Finland. But they surely are true to type.
I have great faith in the Rus- sians in their natural incom- petence. I have never attached much importance to the stories of "Tsarist corruption" which led to the arms mess-up in the last war.
Then the Russian army was loft without rifles and ammunition bo- cause a number of officials back in St. Petersburg were arguing about the graft.
What nobody has suggested' la that it was duc not to Tsarist corruption," but to good, honest Rusalan bungling. The sort of bungling which even today re- sults in the Red Army advancing. twenty miles and then Anding that somebody has forgotten to bring any food along.
And what is more typical than that a Russian soldier taken pri- soner by the Finns the other day, should be wearing a 'palf of town shoes? Probably the QM.S. Just forgot.
T
HE serious aspect of this sort of thing, however, it when a national leo- pard tries to change its spots.
When a nation loses its sense of humour, the gift of laughing at itself, of self-criticism, then is that dictatorship arises.
The Russlans have lost their sense of humour. They have lost It so that you notice it in smail things in the targets representing priests and capitalists in public shooting booths, in the solemn customs officers who tried to take away from me when I was leay- ing after holiday-some photo- graphs of a play because they showed soldiers marching on s floodlit stage, and were
therefore milltary secrets.
It has always been one of my prouder boasts that I was in Russla too long to write a book about it. On I was there for twelve days. the other hand, I saw enough of the people to get to know quite a lot about the Russian character.
I wouldn't say that any Western European could ever understand the Russian character, but one may still be attracted and ex- asperated by it,
E
.
ARLY in this war I was a Russlan talking to
about the Berlin-Mos- cow Pact.. Bays he:"The Nazis think they have been very clever; but the Rossians are moch bigger tweesters."
How right he was. Two days later the Red Army marched into Poland, and then began their Baltic grab.
One of the most disconcerting things about the Russians ls that they are so exactly like what you expected. You may think that the Russian played by Mischa Auer on the nims, na written in the play "Tovarisch," is an exaggeration. I will assure you that it is not.
It the Russians have one great falling. It is their national gift for acting. They are the world's finest natural actors, as any of their firs
enterprising both in their Learning To Fly On
The Ground
reconnaissance flights over Germany arid in bombing raids on German naval bases. They seem to have
New pilots entering the RAF. given up the leaflet-dropping excur-
without flying experience are to get sions over German towns, about the their first idea of flying without go- usefulness of which there is muching into the air at all. difference of opinion.
Aro
will show. But they will carry this play-acting into ordinary life.
With the result that their hales, passions and enthusiasma always spotlit out of all proportion, and the most commonplace achievement is magnified to the size of a world-event.
Their enthusiasms are (locally) very infectious, though they usually cause among Westerners merely a politely raised eyebrow.
OR instance, there was nil that fuss over the Moscow underground.
One might have imagined that this was the first underground railway ever to be built. They took you to admire it while it was being bullt, and even expected you to do a little unpaid digging on it-which struck me as a little unethical as a Trade Unionist.
However, there it was-the pride and joy of a people with a great sense of comedy, but no sense of humour. And I would not have put It beyond the Russians to name their children "Metrovitch" which it was finally completed.
The modern Russian is child-liko in his passion for machinery. Ho sees nothing ridiculous in naming towns Dynamoville or Differential- gearbug. And the strange thing is that, half-Asiatic as he is, the Rus- slan is the last person in the world to be trusted with a machine, for he has no understanding of its nature at all.
His is a peasant, agricultural
country; which is perhaps why wo
find a whole nation going into
ecstastes over simple mechanical things which *the despised capitalist countries produced forty Years ago.
|ERTAINLY this strange enthusiasm is disarming when you meet it. I remember years ago being most Impressed by a Russian friend, who told me with great pride of a new ship, built in the USSR., which had just arrived at London Bridge. The Russian colony had been down to celebrate its arrival and cer- tain members had got gloriously drunk
this in praising
new mechanical wonder:
Years afterwards I went to Russia in that very boat. It turned out to be about the size of the third-class end of the Aquitania, and for five days we pattered along rather uncomfortably at about 12 miles an hour.
Yes, I'm very sorry about the Russians, for I like them. I like their way of living, their impos- Bible
temperament, their hard- drinking. their flims, their plays and their music and dancing.
I
like their magniñcent disregard of time, their long, casual mealtimes, their natural inefficiency and their charm.
Shall we add to our war alms tho reconstitution of the Russian national character on its normal basis? It would make for a little gately among nations, and we would no longer hear solemn cries
Sabotaget
when something went wrong in a Russian factory. We would know then that the monkey wrench had not been thrown into the works, but-in tho true Russian manner-dropped in by mistake.
Coal Famine Worse In Germany
Their first lessons in dying are to Two leszona possibly may be be given them on the ground, in a drawn from the air war se, far as 11 new form of the ingenious "Link" has developed.
trainer which the RAF has long been using to give instruction in The drat is that, given approxi-blind" flying by means of instru- mate equality in the air, long-ments.
fials distanco mass bombing may ba sacrificial and unprofitable s п regular military exercise.
The second in that though the bombers may get through, they are highly vulnerable to attack by swift modern fighter machines, which
must be regarded - na the most
formidable means of air defence.
Incidentally it has been estimated
that the (highly theoretical) Ger- man plan to create a first-line air strength of 30,000 planes, with which to rald England systematic ally for a month, would require a
total of 500,000 machines!
The Link trainer is a dummy cock pit with all the usual instrumenta
and controls.
It is free to pivot round In any direction.
WHAT A WAR! By Gilbert Wilkinson
PANICKY PERCE and RUBY RUMOUR
I don't know how you look at it, Perce, but
I must say I admire those people who can face a reverse--and see the funny side of it.
Towards The
ABYSS
THE war has now dragged on not all of whom are able to reason
for three months and we are things out clearly for themselves, or still without any clear indication take an impersonal view of the sliun- of the form which it is to take, these circumstances suit, for the or the point at which either of moment, the designs of the Nazis, the forces engaged intend to they also meet to admiration the wishes and plans of the Comintern, to attempt a decisive stroke.
who have always declared frankly The effects of this period of in- that could peretur tur for Wena activity are in some ways disturbing, powers would pave. the way
No sane man regrets that the allies Revolution. The Communist parties have so far been spared savage air in every country have always been. attacks, or the inevitable losses in- and were intended to be,
of outposts volved in a great offensive on the the Red Army, whose function was Western Front. In the past weeks to weaken the home front and so much has been done to perfect and assure a minimum of realatance to strengthen our elvil and military the eventual advance of the Soviet Organisation and to overcome the Power. defects which became apparent after the first rapid measures had been taken to meet war conditions. Never. theless, any student of human paychology
that
knows
anti-climax
and inaction, fol- lowing a period of acute tension and "expectancy can and
do have a deadly effect.
-by-
In the struggle between the forces.
Lord Queens Borough
of order, justico ́and stability and the forces of dis- order. social. Bolshevism - call It what you will
-the outbreak of conflict and dis-
among.
unity
nations with stable systems of govern--- ment has always offered advantago
forces.
Contrary to popular belief, Itler to the revolutionary und his associates are not entirely We are fighting, in the name of or manluca, freedom and democratic government, erentures of impulse govered only by the tempests and against a system of state tyranny passions of their own disordered which originated in a violent reaction minds. They are ruthless and deter- against communism, but which has, mined men, who have laid long-term in the course of time, developed all plans for a course of criminal aggres the worst characteristics of the form slun, the reward of which, if they of political extremism it was intended should succeed, would in their belief, to check.. he World Domination.
Now the wheel has gone full circlo They have attuned their own sub- and Bolshevism and Noziem stand,. ventured to say in my last mes-- servient population by degrees, over ns
In the face of this double threat
It is imperative that we should strain
a period of years, to accept restric- sage, in an uneasy partnership, each tions, hardship and stern diselpline. seeking to derive profit from tho They have evolved a closed and chaos they have created, controlled economy to enable them- selves to meet the consequences which, Inevitably, followed the full every nerve to bring home to all Impact of their political and economic our people the nature of the dangers doctrines
world, which confront them, and help them on the Guicide They have made Germany into one to realise how absolutely vital to grout concentration camp and spread their future progress and happiness.
the instituilons, customs and alarm and confusion around her fron- are
traditions which we are struggling: tiers.
to preserve.
✡
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THEIR agreement with Soviet Rus-
sin, which they hoped would How often does any one of us pause and reflect on the meaning: dissipate the determination of Eng of the fact that in this country land and Franco to resist further almost, if not absolutely, alone among nggression on Germany's neighbours,
in in the
are pot
Transport Chaos folled. to produce this result, but as all the countries of the world-the police go about their ordinary duties wo al kno
know, has opened อ ZURICH. The coal supply situa- chapter of aggran policy.
without firearmat How often do we remember those great charters of worse In Germany development of Soviet tion became génerally, and especially in Berlin,
freedom won by Englishmen cen-: This development has entalled, $0 turies before armed revolt had earned" where there were complaints that far as Germany is concerned, loss of hundreds of thousands of citizens influence both in the Baltic and in any comparable privileges for the populations of other Europoor states? were sitting in their overcoats in their the Balkans what it may ultimate How often do we realise the full mean to Europe no man can say withi It is nothing unusual,
nocial legislation carried into effect in the Berlin certitude, but it does undeniably con meaning of the immenso mass of correspondent of the Neue Zurcher Bitute a tremendous increase in this country during the last hundred Zeitung stated. to see better dressed brand of Marcist Imperialism evolu
power and influence of the peculiar
years?.
Our freedom and order proplo trundling a barrow containing
ct by Joseph Stalin, coal which they had managed to
Hitler would appear to have been based on a long sequence of riot and obtain somewhere.
from relying on
on something approaching a rebellion; we have striven steadily for Field-Marshal Goering has taken collapse in the morale of the people in pul or let in which no man In its new form The Visual Link drastic measures to try to relieve the of this country and France, as a result la deprived of die right to lagal, and
eltuation. To-day seven trains load-
political protection, we have ad- trainer is open and has two cockpits | ed with coal steamed into Berlin. Af of the combined effects of war condi-d
to a stage where the educa like a training aeroplane.
whole gang of S. A. men,
Hitler tlong-including crushing expendi
of the ture and taxation and die absence fton, Youths and
other party functionaries
addition, wo... havo... The correster
keyed up to face the full horrors statute. In correspondent of the Neue of total war,"
still to preserve hullefent In the modern sense. Zurcher Zeitung thought that this Evacuation: the "Black-Out"; the scope for private enterprise to lay scene would be repeated on
to all the path of material ad- Biost
ost suc necessary restrictions posed by ceeding Sundays.
war on Hormal condillery of life and vancement. Even when the suppiles are more trade, unaccompanied by the actual abundant purchasers will have to presence of hourly perll, impose a ship as we picares. falch the cool themselves from the heavy strain on the fortitudo, good-- Over gigantle and, alas, increasing. dealers, as the transport system is humour, and staying power of the tracts of the world's surface all these utterly disorganised.
great mass of the civilian population, PLEASE. Turn› Tô› Pago 9,
health and social elected by
It is also Alted with two dummy were rounded up to unload the sacks of direct attack upon' populations poorest among Us Bro
wings, like a biplane, and is mounted in the centre of a circular room whoso wails are painted with a realistic landscape as seen from the sky.
The controls are absolutely realis- tie and extremely sensitive, more sen siliye than those of an elementary training machine, if not than those of a high speed aghter.
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