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WAR MAP

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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 shows, many possible directions for her initial attacks, but what-

ske ever

undertakes obviously fall into the pattern of German strategy.

will

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

in .bases

the Dodecanese -Islands,

har

Malta the fortified Italian base of Pantellaria close neighbour. Island Gibraltar would only be in

immediate danger if Spain decided to join with Italy and Germany. In that case the Spanish Balearic Islands in the

Mediterranean ccatern would provide valuable bases to the enemy.

Other land operations Italy might undertake in Europe could be attacks from Albania on Yugo-Slaviu and Greece. The former would affect the whole balance of power in the Balkana and night in turn in- volve Russia in some protec -tice-pro-Slav-action

The latter would be made with the object of securing the Greek seaports against possi- ble Allied footholds. These

BRITAIN'S LEADERS: No. 2

MINISTER FOR AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION:

LORD BEAVERBROOK

THE 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 now 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 1917, Lloyd George Invited Beaverbrook to be- come the first Minister of Informa- tion. But those who hoped that Beaverbrook would become Minia- -ter of Information again were dis- appointed. At the outbreak of war he let it be known that, it the post were offered to him, he would refuse it.

مر الدرة

ABYSSINIA

poris would at the same time offer bases from which to in- ferfere with sea communica- tians-expecially with Turkey.

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

One thing is clear: if Italy enters this war with Germany she will be the one certain laser. A German victory will leuse Italy as much in a state of rassoldom to Hitler na it would Britain and France,, and from an Allied victory

could

scant Italy

expect mercy.

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

pointment to the Ministry of Munitions in the last war.

Now,

the astonishing genlus which transformed the penniless son of a Presbyterian minister into a millionaire at twenty-eight, established an unknown Canadian as a dominating figure in polities in his carly thirties; and boosted a derelict newspaper into a position of world. importance in fis pro- prietor's middle life, is devoting was thought to be Lord Beaverbrook's intention to refuse its powers to the immense and Government office altogether. In momentous task of giving stead, Mr. Churchill has persuaded Allies numerical, superiority in the him to accept an appointment in their, desammenfiar dach, das

It

the

which success inns vital to our · Deliveries; from the United States war effort as 'Lloyd · George's `ap-

· have fallen aliort of" hoper.~" The

Beaverbrook press-which, off- cially, Lord Beaverbrook no longer owns, and with the views of which, officially, Lord Beaverbrook' doen not necessarily agree-has been campaigning the Government depend not on America, but on in- creasing the production of our own aircraft factories in this country. Now it is Beaverbrooke's job to answer their demand.

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His first aim in life-when he wat Mr. William Maxwell Aitken, the sixth son of an evangelical minister, with Lery faith

and limited income, in New Brunswick, Canada was to make money.

At twenty, he was penniless,

Footnotes to History

Armored warships have so completely revolutionized naval warfare that the general American reader, knowing the importance of the invention, but lacking knowledge of its truc 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, 1802, 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-fitted 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 Ericcsón, 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 cra 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, who 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 from money-making, resigning all direr- torships and later, passing over the the controlling interest of Daily Express to his eldest son.

How did he do it? He became secretary to a man with great com- mercial Interests, won his em ployer's contdence by demonstrat ing a gift for salesmanship and a brilliant trading Instinct. Soon, he was handling huge business. denis.

He established himself in Mon- treat as an independent financial source, put through some of the greatest industrial consolidations and reorganisations in the history of Canadian Anance.

During one of his visits to Lon- don, in connection with Anuncial schemes, Mr. Max Aitken renewed friendship with a fellow-Cana- dinn from New Brunswick, named Bonar Law. A general election was in progress

Donor Law, who was fighting a desperate struggle in North-west Manchester, urged Aitken to coine and help bim In the fight. Aitken, to the astonishment of every finan- etal house in Canada, declared he would do more. He would fight o constituency himself. He became the candidate for Ashton-under- Lyne.

I was absurd. Altken was stranger to this country.

Ius-op. ponent was a local man. He had

ten days in which to wrest the seat from the Liberals. He gol in with

a majority of 198.

Max Altken settled in London. In 1011 he was knighted. In 1914, he was in thakl as record ollicer -a sort of super-publicity man- for the Canadian forces in France. In 1010, 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 Boner Low as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House, was formed. Sir Max- he had already been made 4. burenet was rewarded with peerage

and became the Arst Baron Beaverbrook,

It was in the last year of the War

that Lord Beaverbrook took over the paper with which he is pssociated in the minds of most people. He bought the controlling interest of the Daily 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 life, in making the papar a success. He retired from in (theoretically) management'

1020. In the Express office to-day, "The Beaver" as he is universally known In Foot Street, is officially Daily Express Reader No. 1.

He also remains ite. No. 1. con- tributor: In its columna

he

IS A HERE

FOOTBALL POSER

FOUR teams-the Lions

the Tigers, the Pant and the Bears-formea miniature football lea£•• Each team played match against each of tha other three, two points by ing awarded for a win and one point for a draw.

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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, one point.

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

SOLUTION

The Tigers beat the Bears 10.

This is a problem in deduction. 1. It will be found that the Tigers must have won against the Lions; otherwise more than 11 goals are required.

2-Also all the Panthers mut- 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.

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

his

In its headlines, he assured renders that there would be "oo war this year or next year." And since, the war started his. pen has been hard at work. Beaverbrook has 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 20.

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