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A Totalitarian · Eclipse Has Been Arranged!

Meet the Navy's

"ACID DROP"

by Paul Holt

THE odds are that one

name will come to the surface, to defeat the Navy's liking for re- ticence and privacy, to take its place. when this war is over, with the Eng- lish names of Blake and Beatty, Nelson and Jelli-

.coe.

It's a Welsh name-Phil- lips, Christian name Tom. It belongs to a little admiral who doesn't sail the seas.

I first heard the name of Vice- Admiral Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips mentioned by Winston Churchill at the Guildhall luncheon to the men of the Exeter and the Ajax on February 23.

CHURCHILL, timt day, was taik- ing to the Navy. Not to civilians. There were phrases in his speech -he rasped "amid the tangles of a one-sided neutrality" when he talked about the Cossack rescue of the Altmark men from a Nor- wegian Lord-which were intended for the world.

But the bulk of his words were for the Navy. He talked about "your friend the one you sank

the Graf Spee." And

he pold tribute, as the Navy would want him to do, to the men who made

the River Plate victory possible. To Sir Henry Harwood and Sir. Dudley Pound, the First Sea Lord.

But because I hadn't heard the pald name. mentioned before,

more attention when he paid tri- bute to Vice-Admiral Tom Phil-

ilps.

And now he has paid further Tribute.

He has made Admiral Tom "Phillips Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff. Before, he Was deputy chick street announcement

Now, it is clear from the his appointment, he takes on when Sir

Pound leaves off.. The anent talks about twenty- four-hour warfare.

of

is this Tom Phillips? No- WHO is body knows him. The lower deck don't know him. They haven't a nickname for him. They don't call him Ginger, which is the name they have for Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork and Orrery,

At the Admiralty he is well known by night, but few know him to talk to. He is aliörter thinn Napoleon, who stood Eft. Biris. Td give him Nelson's Sft. 4ins.

crammed full of ideas, and it is quite clear that he could talk about them. for his subsequent career shows that he has been trained, step by step, for the post he holds to-day.

His superior, Sir Dudley Found, is a "biz ship man." He thinks in terms of battle cruisers. But Tom Phillips a little ship

man. Light cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes are his speciality. The smaller the ship, the happier is Tom. He will only admit to one hobby. Ho likes sailing. I guess he'd be happiest -in.n

a-10ft, pram with a bamboo mast- stepped in the fore sent and his leg over the tiller.

HE is fifty-two, the son of an Army colonel and a grandson of

one of Queen Victoria's admirals. He bon served his time at the Admiralty in the Plans Depart iment, and has been head man of the destroyer force in home waters. He is a mystery man to his fellow about

two brains with just admirals. All they know over a single brawn

He is, I'd soy from a sight of him, on the heavy side of a feather- weight. Say nine stone

dead.

He has small feet, a grim little rat- trap of a mouth which turns up

at the corners. He probably has a lot of secret jokes lò himself that nobody, not even Churchill, knows - about.

In his posed pictures he wears his hat ut the Beatty tilt, but often furgets to keep that pose and puts it on dead straight.

I'm not suggesting that this is his affectionate nickname, but somebody who sees him most days summed him up to me as "The Acid Drop." . C. Ferraby, Daily Express naval reporter, says cheer- ily "Why he's all brains and no body, like me." mea

Put him up against the eft. 4ins. bulk of Ironside at a War Council meeting, and you'd say i was a new music-hall act. Jetsam, and Clapham. But these two men are the brains of the Amy, the brains of the Navy.

ADMIRAL Tom Phillips got to whore he is to-day because, :for one period in his life, he had nothing to do. For three years of the last war he was commander of the cruiser Lancaster on the Facine station, All he had to do

was pace the Pacific In case something turned up. Nothing turned up, As Fred Astaire singa: He joined the Navy, and what did he see?. He sow the sea.

For three years, from 1910 to 1910, he kept eruling while tho Admiralty, from time to time, would promote him. At decent Intervals they would make him neling commander, commander, neting captain, to show that they had not forgotten him. Com- mander Phillips spent those thirty- six months studying noval strategy and tactics. He worked out now theories, evolved now plans of at- tack;

He came home from that long yigit in the run with hir bead

him is that he is very clever. His only notable foible is that he runs a penell through Thomas Spencer Vaughan, which are his Christian names, and substitutes Tom,

Why? Is it his joke? Does he mean Tom Thumb? Nobody knows. Nobody dare ask him.

Spotting The Rank

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

A Lieut. Colonel takes executive command of a regi- mont or battalion and is the actual officer rasponsible for the discipline and fitness of his unit.

to

He is solected for this come mand from the field officers of the rog!- mont which belong though occa- a tonally.....| Liut. Colonel from other unit it appointed to command.. "Tho title i.. derived from the fact that is

the old days of the Army tho Colonel was viually a General holding post because thera was no pay attached to "tha rank of General as such, and his omoluments had therefore to be provided for by giving him a Colonelcy. He then ap- pointed a doputy (Llout.- Colonel) at a lower rate of pay to carry on the actual work of command. SZA

· Pay: - £1,209-a !year.

May 15, 1940.

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Next country on the list?

OR the first time since.

FOR

war began the people-of Jugo-Slavia are being told as openly as oficials dore that they, too, may be drawn into the war,

Their papers are doing things they would not be allowed to do before the Invasion of Scandinavia and the Lowlands, They are printing Hittle notices daily saying: "The enemy will rain down death from the skies. He will try to sabotage the army, blow up bridges, mine ronds."

„One paper came out with an officially inspired article saying that Jugo-Slavia must be pre- pared to Bight an enemy five times her size and another three times her size-meaning Germany and Italy.

These are little things, but when it is realised that five weeks ago they would have brought hot pro- tests from Germany regarding "Infringement of neutrality and provocation to her great neigh- bours," you get some idea of the way Jugo-Slavlu is facing danger before it is too late.

Not that Jugo-Slavia is strong enough to come out openly with her-pro-Allied-feelings.-The-Ger

man Fifth Column is still strang. in spite of the fact that so far more than two hundred have been asked to go home.

THEN the Croats are still being whipped into unrest from outside. Vladko Matchek, their chief poli- tician, who made pence with the Serbs for the price of Croat auto- nomy is being attacked in pam- phlets smuggled in from extreme Croats are being supported by Italy la policy to separate Croatin.

Then there is the, 600,000 Ger- man minority, who have announced that they have at last chosen as leader Dr. Jysel Jando from Slo- venia, near the Austrian border.

"The Serbs are not blind, but they cannot do much more than they are doing now until our policy In the Balkans becomes more de- Anite than It has been, until we can

tell them: "If the Germans invade, we will send you so much help, and in such form, and in such time."

They feel that they are in a much more dangerous situation than even Rumania, because the general opinion here is that, if Germany should Invade Jugo- Slavia, Italy would try to seize Croatia and the Dalmation coast, In order to "protect" her in-

terests.

---JUGO-SLAVIA'S reaction to this has been to open her back door to Russia with an economie delegation to Moscow, but the hoped-for Allied help is still undefined. The Germans would object, but they object to everything that tends to get Jugo-Slaviu from their

The other day. In darkened cinemas, their agents showered down leaflets saying that Jugo- Slavia had better kow-tow to Ger- mahy, or else

This led to the fiercest anti- German demonstration Belgrade has known since the war began. The police had hardly begun their Inquiries before the German Press attache called on them and com- plained that the leaflets were the latest manifestation of the British secret service,

DESPATCH FROM JUGO SLAVIA BY SYDNEY MORRELL

How he knew about the Jendetz or the police inquiries he did not explain, but the fact is that the British have no printing press in Jugo-Slavia. The French have,

but it prints In Cyrille letters. The leaflets were printed In Latin characters.

The Germans forgot this point, but the police still think it is n good joke.

• A Stavonte alphabet fused by the Slavs of the Eastern Church) and ascribed to St. Cyril,

DID

YOU

WONDER?

When Animated Cartoons Werò Invented?

What was probably the first one- reel animated cartoon was drawn by Winsor McCay, the originator of "Little Nemo In Slumberland.“ The animation concerned the ad- ventures of "Gertie, the Dinosaur"; und I took McCay more than a year to make the 10,000 pen-and- ink drawings that made up the 01m.

"Gertle" appeared in 1009; and about the same time J. R. Bray also used acres of white paper in producing an animated cartoon which he sold to Pathe for $2,000. However, Bray saw that too many 'drawings had to be made for even a short cartoon to make animation commercially profitable,,

Bray made an early stride, to- ward reducing the amount of nec- essory drowing by having the background and motionless parts of each scene on one sheet of paper, and then drawing the figures and moving parts of the scene on trans- parent sheets of cellulold. Ench successive movement of the charne ters was drawn on separate ceilu- toid sheets which were numbered in sequence. The cellulold sheets were placed, one at a time, over the background and photographed in order: and when the resulting film was projected, the characters seemed to move.

These early-Agures could never- pass in front of any background object, because the background pen lines would show through the figure. This difficulty was met by Alling in the figure with opaque white, so the gray, black, and figure blotted out whatever back- ground lines it happened to cross, Then, too, by putting more than one sheet

the of celluloid over background, it became no longer necessary to re-draw the entire figure when, for example, the

action was the waving of a hand. Just the movements of the hand were drawn on one series of coilu- loid sheets, the unmoving parts of the figure being drawn just once on a single sheet of celluloid placed under

the sheets with the hond animation on them.

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