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October 30, 1940.

ONE YEAR OF WAR:

by

STRATEGICUS.

earlier successes.

*

cx-

and

Meawhile, before the allies had

two

But

They had thought out no means of

man advance to the west consequent-

once

though likely to become more tion until the midnight of sistance, the city was subjected to a pitiless bombardment from the air, formidable later on, appear

to September 20,

The Dutch had neither the aeroplanes bo designed as a nuisance. Judg But it is evident that if over nor the tanks to strike back; and the. ing the position na objectively there were a chance of piercing Commander-in-chief sutrondered.* né I can, I fall to ace the the German defensive positiona possibility of our being, unable it was when the enemy had 70 time to use their strength in Belgium, to deal with any attack he divisions engaged on the Polisit the main defensive position had been irretrievably undermined through some fatal mischance which is even The anniversary of can mount against us; and front.

all the time the Royal Air Forco, The attack on the front between now not fully understood. The line the outbreak of the war incomparable in its skill and the Moselle and the Rhine never of the Meuse-Albert Canal was turn-

Maastricht. bridges opposite finds Britain in a very courage and in the not distant threatened to break through. Tho ed through the crossing of the two

French suffered from the illusion future destined to be incompar- that the Maginot line was "Im worse was to follow, since a day or different position from able numerically, is dealing the pregnable," in the sense that it could later Sedan had fallen and Ger- mitted to follow General Corap's any which was expected. heaviest blows at the sources at not be pierced without the sacrifice man armoured divisions were per-

of a colossal number of men, and troops across the Meuse bridge. his war potential.

they transferred this "imprepiability" But to reckon up the ac

to the West Wall.

This success was immediately ex- plotted. Moro powerful tanks than counts it is necessary to

It is impossible to think that i had yet been encountered, operating realise that from the condi-

attack, though directed with great Still, this is not the state we skill, was over pressed sufficiently. west and south. In the former direc with low-flying acroplanes, advanced tions under which the war

expected to be in a year after Though heavy armoured units were on they turned the extension of the broke out, it was likely that the outbreak of the war, and it used, the average depth of penetra- Maginot line and threatened the sllied

tion never exceeded three miles. At positions in Belgium, The allfø Germany would win all the is of importance to recognise its greatest, it was only a or 9 miles; armies had to fall back.

the steps by which we have come and this was where the German ter

ritory pushed a sullent Into France, She attacked Poland at her 10 this position,

Germany fell upon Poland Some good tactical positions were own chosen moment, without

when she was fully prepared and German lines that would have been secured, giving observation over the

For some days they attempted' warning; and this means Poland was only partly mobi- valuable if any real advance were to stem the advance, but the that the years of her pre-lised; and she attacked with so projected.

fatal over-confidence which had But when it was seen that Poland led the French Staff to underrate paration were accomplished, many advantages that it is She had for a long time pro difficult to understand why she could offer ne further organised re- the Polish fighting quality and

at sbstance the French not only broke

off the attack but withdrew the consequently the formidablencsa mised her people guns in place aet all law and convention of butter; and they had certain- defiance.

divisions from the advanced positions, of the German tactics, and their defensive. ly secured the guns. She had. Her deliberate use of trea- leaving only light outposts."

dependence on the assembled und trained a vast chery and scientific application When the Germans, in the middle now betrayed them. army, equipped with everything of terrorism are the astonish of October, determined to recover which could promise it victory; ment of the world; and it is lost ground their blow accordingly she had accumulated stocks of impossible, at present, entirely spent itself in the air; but at the end conteracting the heavy tank and the of the operations the French past- dive-bomber; and they never evolved all the commodities she might to disentangle the speed and tions were almost entirely on their one. The attempt to stem the Ger require and which the British magnitude of her success from own soil once more. blockade might cut off; she had these wholly barbarous It was no great matter in itself; but ly failed, and the allied forces were

it was ominous, and in fact from that cut in two. brought her war industries to pedients.

time the initiative even lo raiding. German armoured divisions at the peak of production.

She had prepared the ground activity was abandoned almost en- began to advance up the Channel On the other hand, the allies for her attack by carefully strip- tirely to the enemy. The allies set- coast in the rear of the allied armies. were neither prepared for war ping Poland of the protective tied down behind their defensive lines The only attempt to heal the breach the offensive spirit, without was made by General Gort and R nor in the least anxious to en- flank which an independent which no war is won, frittered un failed. The Germans had immense superiority in the air. Their armour- By noted away. gage in it. France, as we now Czecho-Slovakia provided. know, was short of aeroplanes so doing ahe was able to place About a month after the end of ed detachments were dominant.

It was even noted by a French and heavy tanka; Britain had armies in positions threatening the Finnish campaign, Germany In- no army of continental propor- the rear of the main river de vaded Denmark and Norway. The military spokesman ng "brilliant" that tions and no Air Force of a size fensive lines. On the flanks too first could make no defence and she artillery could check tanks! The idea featured In the Germon plan only as of firing point blank seemed almost she had concentrated two large a larder and the gate of the Baltic. an Indelleary. The Belgium army proportionate to her risks.

In neither country was there air armies, at Konigsberg and The lack of organised resistance in were driven to surrender; and it NEW MONSTROSITY

any sign of the mobilisation of Vienna; and she had mobilised Norway was largely due to treachery seemed as if the internal combustion industry for war purposes. It her armoured, divisions under and the adoption of several novel engine would win not only another was, therefore, quite inevitable the command of the experts who expedients. But the actual invasion campaign but even the war.

was THE machinations of

of considerable skilt It was at this point that the an operation that the first year's balance had trained them.

and daring. Osto seems to have Dunkirk episode came to resture Axis have produced another shect should show German' suc- Before the war began General fallen to an invasion from the air; and sanity and hope to the outlook; for monstrosity an utterly un.

cessos and allied reverses. Douhet had outlined a form of parachutists were used in various if all that had gone before seemed a triumph of the machine this was a parts of the country. justified attack by Italy on Everyone expected it; and any attack from the air which Ger- Norway's determination to resist victory of morale.

by allied other result would have been many applied almost exactly, was fortified small, pence-seeking Greece--

expedition The brilliant defences of Colais and another heroic sequel which

incredible. The unarmed man in the first hours

which attempted to prevent the con- and Boulogne were its prelude; but of the cam-solidation of the German position, the amazing battles which covered may win in the end: he cannot paign, her Air Force attacked They landed north and south of the evacuation of Dunkirk were a we all may hope will not end in

win in the beginning. a second Poland, a clarion call

every aerodrome, headquarters Trondhjem, with the intention of conclusive proof that numbers, en

and machines could be beaten to the people to defend them-

and nodal point in the country; capturing the city as a base of opera- gine

by the cool head and steady heart and as a

consequence, almost tions against Oslo.

first part of the plan should not This morale is

is not weakened but selves against the legions of the

from the outset that stream of have proved difficult; but the opera- strengthened by

iramediate barbarians.

We are not

f "beleaguered

rm of the allied force, attempt-

Germans at once fell fortress." Our communications information and direction by tive arm

allied armics stand- We can be satisfied in this

and means of which a staff turns a ing to advance upon Trondhjem from upon the are intact; we can enter

the north, suddenly, found the Ger- ing along the Samme and above the instance that it was not British

leave as we wish and need; wo Dody of troops into an army mans attacking their rear and flank Alsne to the Maginot line. In four promises that induced Greece to

from the fjord. The check proved days they had broken through the can cross the enemy's frontiers was dammed. withstand the greedy demands

Somme positions; and in another at will and strike blows at the Worse than this, the Panzer decisive.

The southern arm advancing, on four, fighting across the whole front of Mussolini; nor was it British heart of his strength. He, at divisions began to appear well the appent of the Norwegian Staff, up to the Maginot line, had convin violation of Greek neutrality-all events, recognises this so behind the Polish front. The down the Gudbrandsdal encountered ced General Weygand that all was that provoked the war.

thoroughly that he has been de German strategy involved a the Germans with artillery, armourist lost. livering an attack as resolute as double envelopment; and her cars and neroplanes. Duce has learnt the art of it is skilfully planned.

armoured divisions, cutting brigade strong and was not armed ordered to cease fighting and Mar- fabrication--or at least he has He took six weeks after the across the river lines of the ports equipped for the disembarkation The rest is anti-climax. On June 25 taken his finishing lessons French surrender to mount the Narev and the San, threatened ut tanks and artillery, no aerodromes fighting on the from his partner Hitler, and one

Air offensive, and he has been to surround the whole Polish for an adequate air force. It was ceased. The French were defeated

clash of two periods. before they gave battle. engaged on it for weeks. The force while others attempted to therefore a

The German were skilfully directed: excune was as good as another

The fatal obsession with the de- first phase of the massed attacks cut off the main field armies and, when it was seen that they had fensive, with its futile bellef in the for him as he has only to con-

on Britain was severely checked from the Vistula..

left the Osterdal, climbed the ridge "impregnability of the defenalve" vince his own people. The rest

and cut the railway between Domboos and its cvil brood of fear, mental that, apart from sporadic day The latter movements

wer and Trondhjem, the allied force was sterilliy and defeatism had run its of the world looks on, hardened attacks he has transferred his carried out ao rapidly and with withdrawn.

predestined course. Only now is it to shock by repeated and attentions to the night.

such apparent precision that, Operations continued at Narvik for fully realised that the obsession flagrant violations of sacred

His objectives are obvious. He on September 9, Marshal Goring some weeks until the port and area with the defensive in the end broods treaties, and realises that the must put out of action all the announced that "Poland with its were captured; but by this time the inability even to defend. talk of world domination so long supports of the Royal Air Force three armies is overpowered and unexpected progress that it was felt -the aerodromes, the aircraft hundreds of thousands of Polish to be wiser to evacuate Narvik also. regarded as Deniocratic pro-

factories and all munition works soldiers are throwing away their The operations at Trondhjem were doomed as soon as the naval attack paganda, is in truth the main and communications, in order to weapons."

was abandoned. object of the Axia Powers. crush the Air Force itself. He

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the

The

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has moved forward his aero-

dromes towards the Channel

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The

an

main

the

was less than

On June 16 French armies were

for such operations. There were no shal Petain asked for an armistice.

offensive in the west had made auch

western front

Italy entered the war on June,

10 when it was obvious that France was beaten, and in less than a month had seized Kassala

on

If Greece can survive she will have played a noble part in re-

Coast: and he is varying the The statement was premature; baffing that object; if she sus-

It was on May 10 that Ger- and Gallibat in the Sudan which form of his attack daily. but it was true that the three many opened her great offensive offer good starting points for an taina the conflict for a few weeks

The massed Air attacks in the armies west of the Vistula were in the west against Holland, advance on Khartum; and in an- with British aid, she will have

south of England, where alone partly enveloped, and in spite of Belgium and Luxembourg; and other month had taken Moyale of thrown yet another doubt on the he can use his fighters, have their desperate struggle. the as Schlieffen had foreseen the in Kenya and the whole invulnerability of the great Axis been exchanged for widespread position at the end of the second allies were at once drawn into British Somaliland.

our week appeared to be beyond the struggle in the Low Coun- Egyption front have so far been to But all the exchanges on the land machines in Central Eu- raids, in order to weaken

concentration. Ho has inevitably hope.

tries. rope; if she defends herself for

our advantage; and it is sound achieved some success. Ho hns But the Russian intervention In his later, plan he had provided sense as well as sound strategy to months she will light the torch

damaged some of

tho main front. our nero- put an end to organised resis- for a step he regarded as inevitable, cuncentruic that the ancient Marathon run-dromes; but we know from un- tance. The internal combustion as politically it was, by preparing to With evident skill and obvious reso- strike between Namur and Sedan, Iution Italy has begun to carry out ners used to carry, from city to happy experience at Stavanger engine had claimed its first vic break through, and, holding off the her role; but there are strong forces city-a flame that in this case that it is almost Impossible to tim. Yet the Poles had fought section east of the breach, envelop the in the Near East and the real test

has yet to come. will set aftre the latent spirit of damage an aerodrome so severe- with such stubborn herolam and forces in Belgium.

So on the threshold of the second ly that it cannot be repaired fighting ability that they com- It is Interesting to note how closely Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Bui-

General von Brauchitsch followed, year of the war Britain stands rapidly. As for the rest neither pletely misled the French Staff this plan; but it seems mare probable stripped of illusion, with her arms. garia.

his day raids nor his night ex- who, recognising under what that it was not the original design, in her hand and faith in herself. peditions have done any great great handicaps they had suf- Opportunism is the essence of the She has jettisoned much of the bag- damage.

fered, thought it inconceivable German strategy. An extreme flexi gage train that would. have fatally The night raids, weak and that an only partly mobilised bility is the logical implication of the impeded her as it ruined France.

No one is inclined to think she than a passive role at first, but it is merely occasional at present, army could have achieved 80 Bul the campaign in the west was has not lost much in the defection much if the mechanised attack not only notable for the now familiar, of France. But she realises that her dependence upon treachery and main strategy Is Intact, though the the absence of specifle war alms, had been very formidable.

terrorlam but also for the rapidity pressure of the blockade is weaken- can be broadly stated as a desire to They were the more disposed and novelly of its development, ed in some directions. She has smash the Totalitarian Governments and to restore the security of other to accept this conclusion since Holland was reduced in five days by discovered that in spite of all the is master of democratic nations. In that aim we they were experimenting with means of force landed from the air specious reasoning man is ma

in the rear of its main water defen- the machine, that numbers are not imore Russin's. stand because she these very tactics on the western sive line. In a comparatively small necessarily decisive except when has allowed herself to be aligned, front, and making no great head- area about. Rotterdam points were the disparity, is extr

extreine, that with the aggressors,

There

..

The world also welts to see what Turkey will do. Handicapped as she is by doubts as to Russia's real in- tentions, Turkey may take no more

doubtful whether Stalin can afford

to continue playing blind man's buff with his partners by what may be politely called in his case "defensivo- aggression," now that the fate of his "own" country. Is seriously involved.

The Axis will certainly not attack Russia until it has disposed of, or made peace with Great Britain, and it would appear that Stalin has as much confidence in our ability to 'defend ourselves as we have, or he would not leave so much to chance.

Happily we in Englind and the Belish Empire have a clear cut pur- 'powò in fighting the eriemy (which, in.

to

step In

tactles of infiltration.

the position.

So far as we know she is ready Way with them... It must be seized by parachutists on the first day, quality more than quan.

grab the weakened remembered that Britain and of the offensive, and troops were

by much, sophistry overlaid Central States for herself. France' did not go to war until landed from deroplanes to consolidate bere trulsms," but they

She recognises that she has only when the combatants are exhausted, three days after the opening of Then, while a force was advancing herself to depend upon, but reasons Therefore,

unul the declares herself the Polish campaign and the towards the centre of the Inimdated that she is strategically placed and proves her declaration by facts French, upon whom at first the area at Utrecht, an armoured division that defeat. is Inconceivable and we expect no help from Russia brunt of the fighting must fall, to join the force in the Rotterdam, her powers, she can bring her broke through seross North Brabant, that, with the wise offensive use of and she takes the risk of being the did not complete their mobilisa area; and, to put a term to the re enemies to ruin...

eventual victim of the Axis..

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