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WHY U.S.A.

Air Supremacy Over MUST HELP

Warships:

By Commander EDGAR

P. YOUNG. R.N. (Retd.)

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In antepatan of the communiques issued recently by the Ad- miralty and the Air Ministry regarding the Altacks made by our Fleet Air Arm aircraft

the Nazi battie Scharnhorst.

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cruiser

I muy be noted, to begin with. flot the circumstances could harde by have been more favourable fur the attacking force

it was known that the Scharn- horst, after her success, in company with her sister-ship, the Gneisenau, against our aircraft-carrier Gluri-

und her gallant destroyer escort, had taken hielter to Troml heim Flord.

There she had been located and attacked sucessfully by our bon tars, so ust have been anti- elpated that

world sh

shortly

bre makin such a sorbe we had a submarine more probably, severni muaby- HD1C5 lying in want off the en- Laite of the nore, with the anti- not only that her farty result sailing was speedily reported st abes that she was struck by om af their torpedoes

Blog to her destination, dril less at reduced speed owing to the damages inflicted on her by homb and torpedo, she WIst heavily escorted," presumably by de- atroyers. well an by the be Messerschuilt Oghters mentioned in our Air Ministry's communique.

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THE distance she had to vover was about (100 miles, and during the first four-fifths of that journey she has to move closer and clever to 11 naval huse at Seapa Flaw, nly 339 miles distant from Sta- vanger

THE BRITISH CHARACTER

IN

By M. A. MALYON

[N the carriage of my uccustomed train from town the other day I was joined by a soldier evidently back from the front. He was a big, burly man, and the perspiration streamed down his weather-tanned face--for it was a hot day-as he divested himself of his incredible burden."

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This included bulging pack, two equally bulging bags dangling down to his waist and jostling against a steel helmet. To crown all, a thick overcont. crouching between his two burdens was, in comparison, but lightly loaded.

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The soldier disposed all this im- pediments on the rack, and ex- pressed his relief by nothing more than a broad grin.

and it heavy going "You must In this weather," I said, sympathe

He

Just

tiently.

grinned again

and replied, "Oh, you get used to

the

It."

to him, as

told me of some of thet had been happening T unit in the great with- drawal from Northern France. He was quite laconic and unemotional as he related experiences whileb, to my elvilian senych, sectned enough to try the strongest nerves, but which he accepted as a matter of course. "Oh, you get used to it." was his only comment.

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He was not only unshaken, but entirely cheerful and content. All the perils and privations that he had endured were to him just a part of the day's work.

When he strapped on all his burdens again and got out with a friendly "So long.". I could not but say to myself, as the poot exclaim- ed to the village blacksmith, Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, for the lesson thou hast laught." His untroubled, un- complaining acceptance of such a arduous lot was not only a rebuke to any grumbling here at home, bul a fortification of faith in the triumph of the cause which resied on such a foundation. In that simple soldier's character the na- tion must have a defence stronger than any Maginot Line. There, indeed, was something on which the nation could lean with its whole weight, knowing that, under no strain would it fail.

This encounter reminded me of that fine tribute to the English character which was paid by Burke

when he spoke of "the amant and Inbred integrity, pety, gud nature and good humour of the people of England Tarak Heaven Hut we stili deserve it, and it we do an I have had further wiiness

A collage-neighbour ol who has been serving in France un a suppi, has Just reached hamme after moving accident by floo and field, the recital of which would be annterial for au ere. This man's perilous way was taken deviously and dangerously from the Belgian front, through France Days of Atlantic port. marching and fighting were follow ed by embarkation on a ship that vas bambed and sunk, and by 1 for ille under incessant

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When I met my friend In the lane he was in the highest fettle looking as if he had just returned from a holiday at Skegness,

and

his spirits conveyed the same nug- gestion that he had been having really good time. He radiated cheerfulness.

My friend had no thought of defent. On the contrary, he was full of pride in the way in which "the boys" had borne themselves and had stood up to all that ene to them. The only thing that irked him was the ubiquitous treachery

that had dogged the British Army's movements, even to the last, but nothing had happen- ed to din his confidence or disturb hls serenity of mind. He was in- deed "a man of cheerful yesterday's and confident to-morrow!."

That surely is the temperament cannot be con- and the spirit that cannot quered. There speaks "the inbred integrity, ploty, good. nature and good humour the people of Eng- land."

and "There is made manifest what is the backbone of the British Empire. These men, in their stead- fasiness and their cheerfulness

the

have

quality which Thomas Hardy celebrated in the characters of his pensant-folic. In the presence of auch fortitude one feels that, it would be a shameful thing oven to doubt and much more shameful to despair.

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Even at her maximum speed of, any, 30 knots, it would have taken her 14 hours to reach, at Stavun-

the most dangerous polut of Within that period her journey

Battle Fleet the

whole of could have travelled there from

white

QUI battle Scapa Flow.

tubers, any one of which should the match For be entre Un S+

malter Scharnhorst. could hove there trom угрофица much

f her way

What tually happened. have- #141. was that the aircraft of mar Fleet A Aim shndowed the eneany com ay for nine hours mote, trying repentedly to forre home torpedo and boin attacks ained the damaged battle cruiser

The resistance of the Aghter escort, and presumably also of the anti-aircraft tre of the warships, was so effective, though, that, des- pite their heroism and skill, they succeeded only in damaging with a torpedo one of the enemy's de- stroyers and in further damaging with their bumbs the main object of their attacks, the Scharnhorst.

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THIS must, of course, be con- sidered

Inost unfortunate. Though

can take it that the uble to Scharnhorst will not be trouble us for some time to come,

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of on- couragement, since it would appear fox indiente that the air weapons, un when Hitler relies for the break- Ing of our sea power, is less deadly Bon has generally been supposed

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For to imagine that Hitler's Air Force could succeed where own, despite the favourable cumstances, was only partially suc ressful would be to asume that it

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another. way azerior to ours, or that the Raz}'N countermeasures against perind at- fack at see are more effective than

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NOW comes the question. How was that our naval forces failed to Intervent and destroy the Scharnhorst? The Admiralty com- munique states that: "Units of the Royal Navy were immediately dix- patched at high speed to intercept the German forces, but, with the visibility rapidly deteriorating. further contact was not made."

One kurws that visibility in the North Sen IN મ very uncertain factor, but let us not forget that the direbilition which It imposes ore Impartird, and that they have been very much diminished since the development of nertal recon- noissance- such as was, opprrent- ly, available to us in this instance.

Our

The

bow explanation of Nusy missed this excellent oppor- tunity of disposing once and for all of a dangerous opponent must be either thai It started off too late or that it had to come from some base so far away that it could not reach the Scharnhorst in time. In either case, the reason would appear to be the same that it overestimated the efficacy of nerfal attack against heavily-armed and well-escorted surface warship, and underest- mated the deterrent effect of anti- aircraft fire and fighters.

I would seem indeed, that the effect exercised Ut 32201

our Admiralty by the air weapon, like that which was exercised on them In the last war by the submarine Cof which, in a sense, it may be considered the modern counter- part), has been far greater than, as they have now discovered to thel cost, is actual effiency would worrani

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fact. The threat, in

brey more powerful than the actuality

have and the price we

paid for thin seniculation has included, mining other items, the loss of Nor- way, and the unpunished destruc- 1lan by the Scharnhorst and the Gineisenau of the Glorious and her Inadequate escort.

By WENDELL WILLKIE

48-years-old lawyer and clcc- tricity supply chief, who sensationally nominated Repub- lican candidate for

the U.S. Presidency.

THE United States foreign.

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policy must be forthright and clear.

Although the country that its generally agrees sons should not be sent to fight on the battlefields of Europe, the outcome of the war is of vital interest to America. We have nothing to fear from a victory of the Democracies, but we shall bo loss secure if the totali- tarian powers extend their domination over lands near- er our borders.

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On behalf of our own peace and security and our own spiritual values, should give to the Democra- cies such assistance as can, short of war..

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I believe we should ask Britain openly what help, short of troops, the Ameri- can people can give in the war crisis.

It is clear England con- stitutes our first line of de- fence against Hitler. If any- body is going to stop Hitler from further aggression, she is the one, that will do it.

Just putting the matter in the most selfish light, if Britain licks Hitler now we

may

be saved billions of dollars, billions of tons of armaments, and billions of hours of wasted and un- fruitful work.

It must, therefore, be to our advantage to help them in every way we can short of declaring war.

WHERE NEXT HERR CHANCELLOR!

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