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IN 1914 THE WORLD FEARED THE MILITARISM OF KAISER WILHELM IE,

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WORLD'S GREATEST

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began his war in 1914, the German Army was the most powerful fighting in- strument that any state had ever sent-to-battle.

Anyone who fought against- that army and to-day looks back on its quality, in men and weapons, its knowledge and trained skill in action, is inclined to wonder how on earth did

the we prevent "Jerries" from beating us?

Yet they did not beat us.. In the end they were beaten, largely by the inexorable pressure of opponents they never saw, imen in spray- hidden ships the width of the North Sea away, whose im- pregnable harbour was thousand miles beyond range of the German army's guns.

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WHEN Adolf began his war in 1939. his army was a for- midable instrument foolish to despise it. But its strength

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not over-shadow the world, as the strength of the German -Army-did-in-1914.

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But when the changes of this quarter-century are taken into account, Adolf's army looks third-rate, too hastily strung together, not up to the job.

The Germans in 1914. writes Captain Liddell Hart in his "History of the World War" alone realised what is to-day an axiom-that given highly-trained cadre. of

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leaders, a military machine can be rapidly manufacturel

from short-term levies, like molten metal poured into a

taking detailed work and by boldness and originality.

The painstaking work was in the training of the troops.

In both armies, French and German,

men sorved for two years or more, then went to the __reserve.

Only a few of these reservists were needed to bring the "active divisions" up to strength at the beginning of a war-to fill gaps in units already formed, officered. equipped, ready for action.

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Besides the active divisions," both French and Germans had "'reserve divisions," made almost entirely of reservists,

The German training was good enough for these formations, made

up of me who were clvilians in July, to be fit for battle by the third week of August.

The German boldness was in using such men without further polishing-up. The French could not believe that this was possible. It is an immense tribute to the quality and precision of the Ger- the instructors, and In

to German "spriousness" of the army as a whole, that they were able to mobilise this mass of men "trained years before the war, and- pat them into battle alongside.

their "ordinary" army.

THE Germans scored a sec- ond surprise at the outbreak of war simply by the perfec- tion of their railway organi- sation.

It was-known-that-they-might-

sweep-through-Belgium

The French plans for meeting this sweep now look ridiculous, as indeed they were.

Failure of these plans led to the long retreat in which the French left wing (the British expeditionary force) had to full back for 130 miles or more, from Mons to beyond the Marne.

French But how could the have realised that the Germans would be able to bring one and a half million men over their rail- ways to the frontier?

And if they had thought that possible, how could they have realised that a million of these of 83, 54 divisions out men, would be concentrated in the armies sweeping through Belgium and Luxemburg?

Such a concentration seemed ordinary Impossible, with

methods of staff work and rail- -way-organisation.

But it was carried out.

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mould. The German mould T Palace of the Nations, Mexico, Brazil or the Argentine.

was a long-service body of officers. and N.C.O.'s who in their standard of knowledge and skill had no equal on the Continent."

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FOR forty years before 1914 the German Army had been admired by almost all progressive soldiers in Eu-

rope.

For two whole generations its methods of training, its discipline and oven ita uniforms had been imitated by a core of other armica.

It was the first army to train Its commanders in large-scalo peace-time manoeuvres; the first to have a staff college; the first to adopt the divisional organisa- tion that la the basis of all mo dern armles; the first to instituto a permanent Intelligence section and thus lay the bails for a mo- dern General Saff. ------As-Tar-away-1892-the-Pro.. fessor of Military Art and His- tory at the Britlih Army's Staff College, Colonel. Henderson, was writing: That the Prussian wys- tom should be imitated. naturally Inovilable."

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WHEN the German arinles marched westward in August 1914, the French Intelligence, reckoned that they would have forty-five divisions opposed to the French armies.

Actually there were, oighty- three. A surprise of núch mag-

was achieved bet by, elaborate precautions of crecy, but by i "combination of extremely palus-

property of over fifty of them, equal in service to Versailles, weightily grandlose, bridally white, is a conundrum for the Swiss.

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WHILE the monster mass was yet

1935, incomplete, In Federal authorities requested that its while immensity should equipped with costly steel shutters

blue lights as anti-air-raid· precautions.

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and so easily, could its enormous and controversial contents be hent a'wandering, as well its many hundred humans one day may be, clasping their, skeleton files and documentation.

The League itself has been perfectly innocuous since Sep- tember. It has not signified life in the faintest degree as the map of Europe has been forcibly re-drawn, Swallowed Czechoslovakia and Albania were members, Memel's right- ful status subjected. It to League care, a condition, how- ever, disrupted by Lithuania In

1929. Poland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Hölländ contribute to its upkeep.

There has been one Council meeting at Geneva, since Sep- tember, and so. fleeting ani affair was it that its stars, Lord. Halifax and M. Bonnet. might just as well have split an cau minerale at the Corna- vin terminal and then carried on direct for their respective: capitals.

NOTE has had to be taken. by the Secretariat of the withdrawal

Hungary. The following How seem to be outside the League: United States, Japan, Germany,' - Italy,'".

It was sanctions time and sup- posing the "Transalpines" did a bombing stunt? What a target! Unmissable on Ariana height, hard by the guiding lake, as it remains to-day.

No more happened until crash came that last week of September, Scurry, flurry.

The Axis would quite certainly wreck the Palace of the Nations; might even try to occupy the Canton of

of Veud because of it. High time that Geneva were rid of the

80 exagernational brainbox that

others.

Yot there was no time to plan. It was decided that did war break, the League personnel was to re- move at once to Fribourg, out of the way, back in the hills.

WHEN War, did not come to Switzerland the Bwiss had time to think anew and further: it the

go Confederation were compelled thereafter to mobilise in protection of the national territory, the Let- gue personnel would have to move altogether from Switzerland, leav ing

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staff care-taking only. Such was the position until recently,

It was

then hinted that the Secretary-General might get busy, before the bombardment, with plans for evacuation. If my Information be correct. It was fur- ther conveyed that, war or no war, Switzerland would be obliged, and bergetariat could sewhere for Europe

an interim period until wettled down oden more.

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