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August 8, 1940.

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THIS map shows the area of Europe and Africa affected by the entry of Italy into the war on Germany's side.

Italy has, as the map shown, many possible directions for her initial attacks, but what- ever she undertakes will obviously fall into the pattern of German strategy.

Recent Italian claims have demanded Gibraltar, Malta, Suez and Palestine from the British. These may forecast attacks by air and Sea. Sucz and Palestine are within range of the strong. Italian. baser in the Dodecanese Islands,

immediate danger if Spain decided to join with Italy and ̧ Germany. In that case the Spanish Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean, seould provide valuable bases to the enemy.

Other land operations' Italy might, undertake in Europe could be utthicks from Albania on Yugo-Slaria and Greece. The former would affect the schalé balance of power in the Balkans and might in turn in- rolce Russia in some protec tire pro-Stav action.

Malta has the fortified The latter would be made -Italian-base-of-Pantellária—with the object-of-accuring-the- Island close neighbour. Greek seaports against possi- Gibraltar would only be in ble Allied funt holds. These

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BRITAIN'S LEADERS: No! 2

MINISTER FOR AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION:

LORD BEAVERBROOK

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HE new Government has only one Member who, in public life, has in- flamed more controversies and fanned more feuds than its Prime Minister.

He is the man whom Mr. Churchill chose as Britain's first Minister for Aircraft Produc- tion. It wanted a war to make Churchill Prime Minister; it needed a Churchill to coax Lord Beaverbrook off the front page of the Daily Express and to harness the resources of that human power station to the machinery of government again.

In accepting office, Lord Beaverbrook becomes the only member of the new Government who shares with Mr. Churchill the distinction of having held Important ministerial rank in the Coalition which led us to victory in the last war.

Towards the end of 1017, Lloyd George Invited Beaverbrook to be- come the first Minister of Informa- tion. But those who hoped that Beaverbrook, would become Minis ter of Information again were dis- appointed. At the outbreak of war he let it be known that, if the post were offered to him, ho would refuse it.

It was thought to be Lord Beaverbrook's intention to refuse Government offico altogether, In- stead, Mr. Churchill has persuaded. him to accept..an appointment in which success is as vital to our war effort as Lloyd, George's ap

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porta mand at the same time offer bases from which to in- terfere with sca communica- tions-especially with Turkey,

Italian action from her African possessions of Libya, Eritrea and Abyssinia would from the start be handicapped by the impossibility of main- Ataining supplies by sea; for in any Mediterrancan operations the Italians must reckon with British naval superiority.

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One thing is clear; Haly, in entering this war with Ger- many will be the one certain loser. A German victory will Icare Italy as much in a state of vassaldom to Hitler as it would Britain and France.. -and-from-an ̄Allied-victory- Haly could expect scant meren.

Most unexpected, most impressive of Mr. Churchill's Cabinet charges was the appoint- ment of Lord Beaverbrook as Minister for Air- craft Production.

polnuncul to the Ministry of Beaverbrook press which,, Munitions in the lust war.

Now, the ostonishing geolus which transformed the penniless Gon of a Presbyterlon minister into a millionaire at twenty-eight, established unknown Canadian 19 dominating

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figure in polities in his early thirties, and boosted a derelict newspaper into a position

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of world Importance in its pro- prietor's middle life, is devoling Ja powers to the immense and momentous task of giving the Allles numerical superiority in the air.

Deliveries from the United States have fallen short of hopes. The

not

clally, Lord Beaverbrook no longer owns, and with the views of which, officially, Lord Beaverbrook does:

necessarily agree has been campaigning the Government to depend not on America, but on in- creasing the production of our own aircraft factories in this country: Now It is Beaverbrook's job answer their demand.

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His first alm in lito-when he was Mr. William Maxwell Aitken, the sixth son of an

evangelical minister, with fery faith and limited income, In New Brunswick, Canada was to make money,

At twenty, he was penniless,

Footnotes to History

Armoured warships have so completely revolutionized naval warfare that the general American reader, knowing the importance of the invention, but lacking knowledge of its trud birth, is filled with pride in the feeling that for the first time in history ironclads were used in the struggle to pre- serve the Union. The bloodless battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, off Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, is pointed out as the inauguration of the use of ironclad vessels.

This is not the precise truth. For, in 1855, during the Crimean War, Capt. Cowper Coles of the Royal Navy had ingeniously out-filled a raft with iron-plated protection, and boasting a revolving 32-pounder that rotated without the use of spikes or tackle. The experiment had been born as a result of the hot fire of the Russian guns defending Sebas- topol, but never went beyond the embryo stage.

In the summer of 1861, the Confederate engineers raised a sunken Federal frigate, the Merrimac, the after cutting it down to the hull, dressed it in iron plates. This apparent freak created havoc among the Union flotilla, threatening to annihilate the entire fleet. But the following spring. Capt. John Briccson, a Union engineer, constructed the iron- clad Monitor as a counter-weapon.

The subsequent battle was indecisive except for the fact that it halted the destruction of the Northern armada by the South, Its greater significance lies in the fact that it ushered in a new era of naval fighting, that of the steel battleship, -` and sounded the knell of wooden warcraft.

Daily Quotation

THE ELECT are those who put life into one, reho give courage to the faint-hearted; hope out of their own heart's constancy.-LADY RITCHIE.

without prospects and scarcely able to scrape together a living. At Twenty-eight, he was a millionaire. At thirty-eight, he retired Irom money-making, resigning all direc- torships and, later, passing over the controlling Interest of the Daily Express to lils eldest sun.

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How did he do it? He became secretary to a man with great com- mercial interests, won bis ployer's confidence by demonstrat ing a gift for salesmanship and is brillant, trading Instinct. Soon, he was handling huge business dents.

He established himself in Mon- (real as an Independent financial source, put through some of the greatest industrial consolidalions and reorganisations in the history of Canadian finance.

During one of his visits to Lon- don, in connection with financial schemes, Mr. Max Aitken renewed Iriendship with fellow-Cana- dian from New Brunswick, named Bunar Law. A general election was in progress

Bonar Law, who was fighting desperate struggle in North-west Manchester, urged Aitken to come and help him in the fight. Altken, to the astonishment of every Anan- el house in Canado, declared he would do more, He would fight & constituency himself. He became candidate for Ashton-under-

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Lyne.

It was absurd. Aitken Was stranger to this country. His op- ponent was a local man. He had ten days in which to wrest the scut from the Liberals. He got-in with umajority of 108.

Max Aitken settled in London. In 1911 he was knighted. In 1914. he was in thaki as record officer a sort of super-publicity man for the Canadian forces in France. In 1910, he was working hard to put out Asquith and put Lloyd George in.

Largely as a result of his and Lord Northcliffe's

efforts.

the transformed War Cabinet, with Lloyd George as Prime Minister and Bonur Law os Chancellor of the Exchequer und Leader of the House, was formed. Sir Max---- he had already been made baronet-was

rewarded with a peerage and became the first Baron Beaverbrook.

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It was in the last year of the war that Lord Beaverbrook took over the paper with which he is assoclated in the minds of most people. He bought the controlling interest of the Dally Express for £17,500.

(In the previous year, the paper had lost £40,000.) Beaverbrook spent hundreds of thousands of pounds, and eight years of his lifo, in making tho paper a success. He retired from management

in (theoretically)

1929. In the Express office to-day. "the Beaver," as he is universally known in Fleet Street, is officially, Dally Express Reader No. 1

Hp also remains. its No. 1 con- trilator. In its columns he

HERE IS A FOOTBALL POSER

FOUR teams-the Lark

the Tigers, the Pant and the Bears--formed miniature football leag*. Each team played

match against each of th other three, two points b ing awarded for a win an one point for a draw.

Eleven goals in all were scored, five of them by the Lions. In their match against the Bears, the Lions won by two goals to one.

The Tigers amassed five points in all; the Lions, three points; the Bears, onc point.

What was the score in the game between the Bears and the Tigers?

SOLUTION

The Tigers beat the Boars 1-0. This is a problem in deduction.

It will be found that the Tigers must have won against the Llons; otherwise more than 11 goals are required.

2-Also all the Panthers mat- ches must have been pointless draws.

3-One goal is left unaccounted for; and, since the Tigers won their third game, the result must have been as above.

Mr.

launched the abortive Empire crusade, which resulted in Baldwin's plaint that Lord Beaver- brook had a "personal vendetta” against him.

In its headlines, he assured his readers that there would be "no war this year or next year." And since the war started his pen has beta hard at work. Beaverbrook han often been wrong, but he has never been beaten. At the age of sixty-one this month, he tackles the job of his career... We may all be thankful that he has agreed to do so.

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