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Dictator Of Despair

Whit

new

dictator Marshal Petain tonk for his musel in devising the

Constitution thrust upon Prober IN still uncertain. His partiality Scena to L for the subaltern Italian potentute, whose kept Press Is returning thanks by attacks of runtemptuous virulence. In the slavery to Nazisin which The Marshal has planned for his country be intends

absolute to he

Louts XIV. declared

the Stute." Napoleon wielded supreme power. Marshal Petain's absolutisen is on- trived to be hardly less complete One ference, However, seems to huve escaped his notice. Napoleon and Le Roi Soleil founded their rule on victory und on polietes which made France great. The Marshal

i first dictator in French or atly other history whose title to power Is surender to despair. It does not promise a long fe for he Petuin regime.

As "Chief of the French States" e in the sole executive and legislative authority. Even when he chooses to appoint new unrepresentative as- semblies, after a fashion of his own choosing, he enn ignore them when- ever it pleases him to say there is "tension from abroad or a perlod ví grave Internal crisis-conditions which the Petain-Laval alliance is not likely to terminate. Further fears are confessed by the article lay- ing down that the Marshal can declure a state of slege whenever or wherever he thinks fit. The assem-

Irish are beginning

to wake up

HANDFUL STILL FOR

FRANCE

plied: "Non. Bergery is one thing

He was a close friend of one of

IN the Casino at Vichy, where French society met now sald to be a Trotskyist. He re-

to gamble and gossip after drenching its livers and one thing only Bergeryist." By H. L. McNALLY

in the salty Vichy waters, old Petain, with Laval those French society women whose DUBLIN,

at his elbow, works to hand over France to Fas- role in the politics of these dying can't happen here" has cism. "IT

years of French democracy will, in timo, merit every historian's atten- been the general feeling

tion-the Vicomtesse de Noailles. Eighty Frenchmen defled the ns the old soldier who might one day

Charming, among Irish people until now in Gestapo in a last stand on the be called into power. The approach exceptionally well dressed she had

but

not good looking, spite of the urgent warnings latest voting, but most of the was made chiefly by the Comte de her political salon in

in Paris. She which have been given by Mr. deputies in that cowed Chamber Endor to Italy. His nephew married the Cornity Franco-Allemand, the

Chambrun, one-time French Ambas-

was one of the

members of de Valera.

voted the end of Republican Laval's sallow daughter Jose.

"Link of France, which,

was, till Franca and the beginning of a "Ah, sure, Kathleen ni Houlihan

It was the uncle who was shot at Hitler Invaded Prague, the chief new authoritarian Constitution. the Gare d'Orleans in Paris in 1935 Nazi

fazi propaganda medium in Paris. has plenty courting her now," was The new gang comes into power. by the French beauty, Magda Fon- the comment of one

Adrien Marquet, the Mayor of Bor- thele tanges. She claimed that the Am- deaux, now the new Minister of the politician.

Hitleran Constitution three men had bassador had broken up her love Interior, always wearing patent "England and Germany, and even courage enough to vote on the pre- Chombrun family are likely to get Comite Franco-Allemand, too. Al- affair with Mussolini. Now the leather shoes, was a member of the Northern Ireland, are asking for vious day, though they know The favours to-day."

Gestapo agents wore

watching from their reward by his being made the ways a bitter anti-Semite, he is urg- the galleries all the time. Seventy- RCW

French Ambassador in New ing Laval now to adopt an York. It may be because only purely year-old Alfred Margaine, a Radical, French and American nationality.

He hoa, inckdentally, both Jewish policy in the new France. courage of He it

well-known

Woo

There is not the slightest doubt that an invader will be resisted with all the forces now available to Eire

Against

these men ond

contested the semi-dictatorial power under which Dandier stifled all criticisin and led France to the edge ut dešent.

anti-

objective war news is permitted in tall, white-haired, with the courage of

the Frenchimen who made democracy French general who fought for n. descendant of Lafayette, the the newspapers and because no and France words of strength, went Amerien in the War of Independence.

BUT, frankly, I think these war newsreela have been

politicians are going to be shown into the Opposition lobby with two

ice of interest for only a briet period. in Elre that few people seemed to Socialists, Dlondi and Roche, minor Then we must keep our eyes on For litter, as soon as they have feel any sense of imminent dunker.

figures who by this meke their first Charles Pomaret, the well-dressed, carried out the legal formalities of A reference to

deputy invasion

claim to any prominence in French hail-fellow-well-met

for smashing the old French Constitution, history.

Lozere. An ex-civil servant, he has will rapidly. I believe, brush them generally regarded as a joke, and But it in claim enough. Margaine what so many French politicians have palde and put into power the real It might be a joke K Eire and was one of the Radienis who voted an ambitious wife.

French Fascists, under Doriot. Tristan da Cunha could change against Munich, one of the few who

Jacques

Dorlot, the ex-Communist (ASTON DERGERY is another whose policy, right up to the war. pinces overnight. But the prospect

politician on the up-grade. followed every turn of German policy is a joke no longer.

Forty-eight years old, with flowing within on short a time na it takes for hair, noted Ra one of the best; if n a phone call to come from Berlin to somewhat eccentrically, dressed men Paris, has been out of the picture THE THIE new gang bring Lo the in the French Chamber,

since the war, fore a lot of obscure names. While he thundered against arma- He bos lain very low. Ho Was in French polities. Pierre Laval, of inents as part of the Frant against sold to be in the army, but it seems course, is one of the old stars, Ex- Fasetsny, he edited a paper eniled La certain that in truth he escaped to

་་

Just before the Communist, he owns the newspaper Fleche, which was subsidised by the Germany

Monteur

French aircraft makers to in Clermont-Ferrand,

Ket pub- Tourn

Tough, energetic, violently anti- rulen the Clermont-Ferrand argus licity for a bigger French ale force. Moscow (he was at one time French region as

wer feudat def. He married first of all is daughter of delegate to the Comintern), he re-

*** made a fortune out of a local nuneral Crassin, the former Soviet Ainbassa- presents Just the type of gangster wiler whleb. when be dest got dor to France; then he married on politics which Hitler kes. *** pratitien? power, suddenly appeared American girl who was a Schiaparelli fun willing to wager that within

A the official tole water

all mannequin, and who used to go to six months he is dictator of France, State hotels, casibus, restaurant cars his election meetings with a tome heading n fuli Fascist party combin- and station buffets

marmoset on her shoulder.

ing his own men and storm troops it Frenchman recently from de la Rocque's old Croix de bis approach to Petain, whom he saw whether it was true that Bergery was Feu Fascist Party.

But because there is a section of people who fear that Britain may torely enter the country to forestall German invasion, my men of the British Legion and ein of British sympathies are Fantant to join the defence forces te: 1 th be called on to fight against the Blish Army

Those who have no far taken no part in national defences are mem- bers of the "new" FRA-the organisers of the recent bomb explo sions in England, who are disowned узу the old LR.A., who fought against England during **The Troubles."

Othera Gre Intelicctual sym- pathisers of Nazi principles and the "My boya" from Eugland. The "Ay boys" are mostly languid dilettante young men who fled from England Just September to escape military service and the risk of air raids and have been living here ever since,

They infest Dublin's cocktail bars to the constant disgust of Dubliners, Since I arrived here on Saturday 1 have sensed a remarkable change In the atmosphere. It is not now re- garded as quite a joke when the pos- siblity of invasion is suggested,

in

He has for years been preparing 1 naked

When

The Government warnings, the call and for cvacuation of children from Dublin to the country and for 2,000 A.R.P. volunteers broadcast by the

Battle

Fleets Meet

MODERN fleet consists of

Dublin city manager, Mr P Hernon, the advice by Mr. Lemass to all to buy and store as much food and coal as possible, and the a

Aircraft-carriers keep out of the nouncement of the mining of Irish actual fighting. Their aeroplanes are caustal waters with Irish-made mines used for scouting and direct attack

on warships and ütler alreraft, have brought a reallsation

There sense of danger to the people.

was only one action tween battleships In the Hourly the sense of awareness is 1914-18, that of Jutland. spreading.

In

of

the

The declaration by Mr. Sean Lemnas, Minister for Supplies, that Eire might "possibly in this week or the next week" be invaded, counter-invaded or isolated and cut off from all supplies, has impressed those who have taken a complacent

view of the situation.

men

ARP. is being organised, and women recruits being called for the St. John Ambulance Brigade, and u house-to-house census of children; in Dublin is being made to prepare for evacuation.

Rescue and demolition squads are

BY LORD STRABOLGI

Fire Control

War.

Her main armament consists of nine 16-inch guns. They are the most powerful weapons afoot and ате mounted in three heavily armoured turrels, three guns In

euch, all forward.

in

ships of the line-battle- ships and battlecruisers-with their attendant light cruisers

destroyers. Submarines| form a scouting screen to get early

work usually

Independently, tinution of the enemy and drive

his scouts in. though they take part in the

Each turret can be fought inde- Much of this look-out work can be pendently by its own turret officer battle if the necessary disposi-done to-day by aircraft. tions can be made.

case of a breakdown, but the The ships of the line are further normal procedure is for the whole of screened by destroyers to keep down the main armament to be controlled hostile submarines.

and fired by the director officer. When action is joined, the de- In the Nelson, he would be the stroyers usually take station at the senior gunnery specialist. He sits up be-head of the line and they have two aloft in the control top.

of main functions.

There

he has a director' telescope offers usually with cross-wires in it like the tele when Oppurtunity In this war there have been two when the bly ships are well cagaged scople sight of a big gun. As he cruiser actions-the battle of

they can make a torpedo attack on moves this, his nine guns move with River Plate, when three British light the opposing line of battle. Or they it, and when his cross-wires are on. Cruisers brilliantly defeated the poc-can be held reserve to beat back any the target and he considers the ket battleship Grat Spee and the attempt at a tarpedo attack by the ranges correct, he presses the fring sinking of the Bartolomeo Colleoniemy destroyers. Italian destroyers key and looses off his first salvo.

have the additional duty of laying by H.M.A.S. Sydney.

So long as the intricate director There was a brief encounter be- ships to escape.

smoke screens to enable their big firing apparatus is functioning, and tween the battle cruiser Repulse, and

all the

electric circuits complicated The main fighting falls to the big are as well protected as possible, the the German battle cruiser Scharn ships, which can engage up to 40,000 guns' crews in the turrets have only horst and heavy cruiser Hipper. The yards range; though 30,000 yards in to load their sung by the reads. hydraulic Germans fled,

considered the limit for effective power and bring them to hitting.

The director oficer knows by an

war

the ****

Twenty Miles Apart When battle fleets meet, and both mean business, the cruisers

sides

biles are permitted to exercise only being recruited from the bug FUNNY SIDE UP

one restraint upon him, and an odd one it is. The Marshal cannot de- clare war without their previous assent," It is a curious but indiscreet speculation what wild Inpulse of his own Marshal Petain thought it neces- sary to guard against.

trade. But there is still no black- out, although trials have been made.

Sirens were tested and effective as those in most English cities.

árc

DS

Service and civilian gas masks are on view in shop' windows, but none! are available for sale, Delivery in six weeks is the quickest offered.

Many people in France and out of Nightly talks on A..P. from the

Irish radio stations have begun.

Food is abundant and there is no ralloning, but prices are higher than. In England. But cigarettes are 24d. and matches a halfpenny cheaper than in England.

I have not seen one tin hat, except my own and that of a camera man who crossed over with me, since I landed.

Elre la just beginning to feel that what has happened already to so

it must think of Hitler's Gauleiters when they read of the appointment of 12 governors of provinces. Marshal Petnin's mind was no doubt dream- ing of the old Bourbon monarchy. A like dream of a past golden age must have Inspired the policy of transforming France into a peasant State unsullied by industry. Such fantesics have long been deluding small factions of the French Right, and Marshal Petain, apparently be- many other European neutrals may lieves in them. In his nebulous į happen to her. dictation of them as a policy he shows no more' sign of knowing what he is doing than in the unique inepti- determination to stamp out liberty In вест enough, but nasurances of tude of his negotiations with Hitler. unoccupied France, have been given, Even the unfastidious politicians too. There are to be do dissensions belind him might have been sup in the cities, Inside factories or pased anxious to avoid any more tarmis. Marshal Petain pledges, his Ignominy... But Marshal Petain has absolulism to put all Frenchmen un- made another entreaty, to Berlin-der the heel of foreign mosters. perhaps on German orders-begging Frenchmen will not long endure, at that he and his Government may be the hands of those who bear heavy allowed to establish themselves in the responsibility for the disasters of part of France occupied by Nazi their country, changes which would troops.. If it was desired, ta... dem, make her a vassal to' Nazidom and a monstrate adject servility, this would nation of poverty-stricken slaves,

оп

What happens on board big instrument when his guns are ready super-dreadnought battleship in ac- to be fired. Right down below in. tion-let us suppose our own Nelson? the bowels of the ship is the all-

Important control room. Here team of highly trained officers and ceamen calculate the gun-range of

By Abner Dean the target.

JOE'S LUNC

ABNE

DEAN:

just turn the flapjacks!”

They receive the actual visual range from the range-takers In half-a-dozen positions, and they pass It to the guns after correction.

On the plotting table, the course and speed of their own ship is traced, and the calculated course and speed of the enemy

It is necessary to calculate what. the range will be when the shot reaches the target. It has to be pro- phesied or prodleted.

For accurate hitting, all these: calculations have to be made to a nicety, and as rapidly as possible."

The director officer has a trained man with him, whose job it is to start a stop-walch when each salvo Is Bred. The approximate range- being known, he is able to tell the control officer, when, to

splash of his own shells.

expect the-

This is important, as more than. [one ship may be firing at the

target,

Bame

Picking Out The

e Hite The control ofteer then sees with his own eyes whether his shells have- fallen on the target, or beyond it, or short, or to the left or right, and, orders the calculated range to bo altered accordingly,

a hit, he fires all his If he scores E

guns as rapidly as posible, the ranges being continually adjusted from the control room.

Out

If the control position is knocked there are secondary and tertiary positions which can take- over these duties. And, as already, stated, in the last resort each turret officer with his own rangefinder and.. calculating Instruments, can carry on the aetionTM independently.