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Thursday, March 21, 1940.

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The Young Nazis

It is often said that the atroci- ties committed by the Nazis' arc the work of young men

who' have been systematically drilled. in ruthlessness and filled with the spirit of hatred of the Allies, and especially of the British.

They have been taught to know no pity, to be regardless of all rules commonly recognised by elvilised peoples, and to think unly of, the destruction of the enemy, by whatever means it may be attained.

That explains, it is said, the brutalitics of the submarines and airmen, the. cold-blooded murder of the defenceless civilians.

There is truth in these asser- tions. It is a fact that Hitlerism has produced a type of youth sub-

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Chief of Air Staf

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Sir Cyril Newall

Sir F. Dowhill

Sir Hugh Dowding

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Six Men, ONE JOB

Who is Sir Cyril Newall? Who is Sir Edgar Ludlow-

Hewitt?

Who is Sir Hugh Dowding? Who is Sir Arthur Longmore? Who is Sir Frederick Bowhill?

|IVE_knights. And each knightly name seems familiar to you. So I re- peat-who arc "hey?

Don't tell me it's on the tip of your tonguo Answer! And, if you can't, study this further question;

Who is Arthur Sheridan Barratt?

A clue: Arthur Sheridan Barratt was front-page news earlier this week.

You don't remember?

All right. I'll tell you.

Newall and Ludlow-Hewitt, Dow- ding and Longmore. Bowhill and Barratt are six men doing one job.

If they did it badly, Britons lives would be in danger. Because they far do it well, this war has so

distur created astonishingly little bance in the everyday routine of eivlilan Britain.

The six men are the chiefs of Britain's Air Force.

And, because the R.A.F., youngest of Britain's defence army, la just as much a Bilent Service as the Navy, you have heard very little about them-80 little that their very names fall to ring a bell in most civilian minds.

I praise the modesty of the R.A.F. And I realise that its chiefs would rather that I did not lift the curtain-on-their-personality, functions and careers.

But It ought to be done....

IR OYRIL‚NEWALL.

He 15 No. 1. His official title is Chlef

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II I WLIE tempted to write journalese which I am--I should call him the brain behind the operational officiency of the R.A.F.

His official record must all pages. He was not the next officer in seniority when the key post of Chief of the Air Staff became vacant in September, 1937. But his brilliance in a number of vital jobs won him promotion.

He has an easy way with him, in a good speaker, and has a nice sense of humour, His closest associates make no secret of their affection and respect for him.

He is 53, spruce, straight-backed, tanned, with dark, greying hair.

He has an American wife, and three children. ·

Newall comes of Army stock. He was born at an Indian hill station; and when he began his service with the Army, 33 years ago, aeroplanes

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he served with the Gurkha Rifles In the hills; and that turned his mind to the possibilities of air- craft for reconnaissance.

In 1911 he came on leave to Eng- land-and spent his time, and his own money, leaming to fly.

At that time there was no Royal Flying Corps; it was not founded until the following year.

But in the second year of the Arst European War he was given command of a squadron of the R.F.C., and fought with it at Loos.

An example of his personal bravery:

In January, 1918, he was on duty near a Flying Corps bomb dump. The dump caught fire.

In it were 2,000 bombs.

Newall climbed to the roof, and, holding the nozzle of a hose, poured naticam of water through a hole In the roof of the shed,

Later, four men ran into the shed to stamp out the flames.

Newall led the party. After the fire the bomb-crates were found to be charred black.

He also commanded a wing in France. the forerunner of the independent Air Force, the first of its kind in the world.

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· IR- - CHIEF MARSHAL - SIR EDGAR R. LUDLOW-HEWITT controls the Bomber Com-

mand.

Somebody who knows him well told me his characteristics can be summarised in the phrase, "I've sold it and that's that."

It is not that he is intolerant. But Sir Edgar has definite ideas "about his job. Bold, enterprising ideas, fortified by faith and convic- tlon,

He is responsible for the control and administration of all the Home Bomber Squadrons - the striking force of the air fleet.

For over 25 years he has been a qualified pilot.

He knows all the theories of air warfare, ancient and modern. As Commander of the RA.F. Staff Col- lege for yours, it was his job to ex- pound them.

But the director of our bombing forces is no text-book airman. He holds decorations for distinguished active air service in the Great War. He likes playing games. Particu- larly hard games, which test muscle

and sinew.

If you went round to his country home for tea, he would probably rather talk about gardening than about his daily job. He is keen on

horticultural pursuits and has had opportunities to develop his in- terest in many lands,

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It CHIEF MARSHAL SIR HUGH DOWDING 19 boss of the Fighter Command.

His work touches, your life-tho life of the ordinary British civilian ---morq nearly than that of his col- leagues.

For, of course, the Fighter Com- mand has the task of beating off enemy raiders. Moreover, it is gir Hugh who must decide whether a appearance of enemy aircraft in any part of the country merits the sounding of an air raid warning. He gives the word,

Dowding has a nickname. He is called "Stuffy" Dowding. Nobody knows why. Certainly his person- ality is anything but stufty,

The nickname dates back to his days as a junior artillery officer.

He was in the Artillery when the last war broke out, then joined the Royal Flying Corps in France and quickly set to work on a task in which his experience in the old job and the new was linked.

He was largely responsible for developing wireless communication between aircraft on reconnaissance fights, and the big guns.

Stuffy 13 now 68, a widower with one son and one daughter. He is genial, debonair, with a ready ear for a joke and-to use his own phrase "quiet confidence" in the strength of Britain's anti-air- craft defences.

He is confident, but he dialikes over-confidence. I shall never for- get his words in peace time, to a batch of R.A.F. cadets "passing out" from Cranwell College:-

"Hundreds, thousands of accl- dents happen to pilots with 150 or 200 hours' flying experience, who think they have nothing more to learn. Always keep a healthy re- spect for your plane."

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IR CHIEF MARSHAL SKIL FREDERICK BOWHILL has the job for which taste and experience fit him.

He is chief of the Coastal Com- mand. He has sailed the sea, and he has flown above it.

As a boy ho served before the maat in the merchant service. He took his air pilot's certificate in 1013.

In the last war aircraft carriers, as we know them to-day, did not exist. An old Channel steamer was

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converted into an aircraft carrier, and rechristened HM. Empress. Bowhill served in her-as acting Flight Commander.

Now he is 00. Ho retains the nickname of his youth-" Ginger " --his quarter-deck walk, and his unquenchable sense of humour.

Illa most prominent facial char- acteristic is a set of extraordinarily long, bristling eyebrows,

Tennis is his hobby-forbidden to him since the war, except on days when the weather la so bad that no enemy raid need be feared. Chief task of his planes is recon- naissance looking for enemy planes, submarine' or. surface ralders, and reporting their pre- senec to the shore bases for neccs- sary action,

He knows every move of the air war game. Not long ago he phoned the Admiralty and told them to expect enemy air attacks on certain cruisera and capital ships at a specified time.

The attack took place, and Ginger was only two minutes out In his calculation. It was not espionage. but sheer technical brilliance.

Roports had come in from scat- tered pilots of the movements of enemy planes. By exact plotting and reckoning, the head of the Coastal Command was able to fix the precise time and scene of the attack.

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IR CHEF MARSHAL BIR A. M. LONGMORE has a proud distinction.

He holds the oldest flying certi- Acate in the Air Force.

It is the 72nd issued by the

Royal Aero Club, and it is dated April 25, 1911.

Longmore is an ex-Naval man.. dour and sturdy, 54 years old. He was born in New South Wales, is married, and has four children.

As head of the Training Com- mand he directs, at high pressure, the training of the vast now host of recruits who are flocking to the air service.

It must tickle him, as he turns. out airmen by the thousand, to recall how he himself learned to dy in 1911.

He was one of the first four naval officers given permission to do so.

The aeroplanes were lent by a public-spirited philanthropist-on One condition: that the pupils did. not fly on Sundaysl

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IR - MARSHAL ARTBUR SHERIDAN BARRATT ende my list.

He turned the RAF, Blg Five- into a Big Six when, this week, he- wits appointed Air Omcor Com-

British manding-in-Chief,

Air

Forces in France.

It is a new post. Barratt, in consultation with the Army chiefs, has to ensure effec- tive R.AF: support for the British and French Army on the Western. Front.

He is the youngest of the Big Bix -only forty-eight.

Franco is no now air battle- ground to him. He served through. the last war in the R.F.C.

It is a mistake, however, to ANY people are worried because one of us at the present moment, jour fears immediately get the upper think that this is a new develop they imagine that the strain of Apart from its immediate effect of hand and we are sure we are at least ment of German mentality.

war will bring an increase of illness enabling us to think and act moro twice as bad as we had previously

As soon as the present war broke in its wake. Actually, apart from any quickly and declaively than usual, imagined. For that reason I suggest out, to France he went again. He The same characteristics were.

casualties. the reverse will be the the increated adrenalin content of the that we abolish "for the duration," has worked tremendously hard- revealed in the last war. The case..

bload acis considerably to our power the most iniquitous phrase in any but there was an occasion in Octo- U-boats did precisely what they

of resisting infection,

civilised language, "How are you?" It is a tremendous help in these

Health should be a thing we loke ber, for which he took a few hours doing now. International times to realise that the body has its Sorry For Ourselves for granted. Let someone asic us o

His only daughter, Buzanne, wAS. was ignored. Noutral own mechanism for dealing with

how we are, and we at once begin, to waters meant nothing to them. permit it to function normally it will normal life the adrenal gland re- we can parade as a balt for sympathy.

emergencies, and that if we only In any healthy person leading a seck for some little ache or pain that getting married in England.

It was not expected that her Ships were torpedoed without guard us against most ills.

The mass suggestion cuperates during a night's sleep, and

of a phrase father could attend, and arrange- warning and the Germans took

This is a phenomenon which, on a is capable of performing its additional that has apparently became meaning-ments, were made for her god-. no thought for the safety of the smaller scale, Is constantly cx-work 'next day,

less by constant repetition is terrific father to give her away instead.

Just before the wedding Air- crews. They frequently des-perienced by doctors and nurses. It

There is only one thing likely to in its power,

Marshal Barratt arrived-by air. cended to the lowest depths of the are called tour to fight an cnuse its powers to diminish. That Must Not Brood barbarism by shooting

epidemic of Infectious disense, it

He gave Buzanne away, and four is worry.

Although fow of us are so men! well

hours later flow back to Franco. known that although they work cold-bloodedly dispassionate that we

One cannot have a more convincing long hours and are almost can avold all worry during a war,

With his wife and Suzanne,

The only difference between

they themselves are seldom and look on the bright side as much German nation has drugged itself into Actims.

fa ́ bolief in the Infallibility of their na possible, the last war and this is that

reason is that the adrenal ruflaniam hna in its hands gland, which is stimulated to activity ing amount of self-pity if our friends

But it is easy to work up on appell-uhrer by the incessant repolition of

Hell Hitler." Tel. 21279. Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Fir., Tel. 23938 | larger and more deadly instru-by anger, excitement, or danger, in are sumelently misguided to greet us A magnificent example of the way Bho wont to school in England' Tel. 29302. Kowloon Depot.

Tel. 08545. monts with which to perpetrate cheerfully working overtime and with sympathetic inquiries about the we are already using psychology to until she was 13. The rest of her.

its barbarities.

pumping adrenalin into the blood, stato of our health. If people begin help us is provided by the prompt) schooling was completed in. Ger=" That is what is happening to every to tell us how poorly we are looking, PLEASE Turn To Page 2 many, Italy, Austria and France..

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| struggling for their lives in thely in contact with disease we usually adopt the sensible course example of this than the way the Barratt has travelled over most of

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His outlook is cosmopolitan. That was proved by the education. ho chose for his daughter.