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NEW MONSTROSITY

THE macbinations of the Axis have produced another monstrosity-an utterly justified attack by Italy - on small, peace-seeking Greece and another heroic sequel which we all may hope will not end in second Poland, a clarion call to the people to defend then.. selves against the legions of the barbarians.

We can be satisfied in this instance that it was not 'British promises that, induced Greece to withstand the greedy demands of Mussolini; nor was it British violation of Greek neutrality that provoked the war. The Duce has learnt the art of fabrication or at least he has taken his finishing lessons- from his partner Hitler, and one

excuse was as good as another for him as he has only to con- vince his own people. The rest of the world looks on, hardened to shock by repeated and flagrant violations of sacred treaties, and realises that the

talk of world domination so long regarded as Democratic pro paganda, is in truth the main object of the Axis Powers.

If Greece can survive she will have played a noble' part in re- buffing that object; if she sus tains the conflict for a few weeks with British aid, she will have thrown yet another doubt on the invulnerability of the great Axis land machines in Central Eu- rope; if she defends herself for months she will light the torch that the ancient Marathon run- ners used to carry from city to city-a flame that in this case will set afire the latent spirit of Rumunia, Yugo-Slavin and Bul- garia.

ONE YEAR OF WAR:

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STRATEGICUS.

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 be designed as a nuisance, Judg- But it is evident that if ever nor the tanks to strike back; and the ing the position as objectively there were a chance of plereing Commander-in-chief purrendered. as I can, I fail to see the the German defensive positions Meawhile, before the alles had 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 Polish the main, defensive position had been irretrievably undermined through some fatal mischance which is even The anniversary of can mount against us; and front.

The attack on the front between now not fully understood, The ne the outbreak of the war all the time the Royal Air Force,

of the Meuse-Albert Canal was turn- its skill and the Moselle and the Rhine Incomparable in

never finds Britain in a very courage and in the not distant threatened to break through. The ed through the crossing of the two

future destined to be incompar- that the

French suffered from the illusion bridges opposite Manstricht. Bu was im worse was to follow, since a day ur Maginot line different position from able numerically, is dealing the pregnoble," in the sense that it could two later Sedan had fallen and Ger- any which was expected. heaviest blows at the sources at not be pierced without the sherifce man armoured divisions were per-

hls war potential.

mitied to follow General › Corap's

of a colossal number of men, and, But to reckon up the ac

they transferred this "impregnability troops across the Meuse bridge. to the West Wall.

This success was immediately ex- counts it is necessary to

It is Impossible to think that the ploited. More powerful tanks than realise that from the condi-

attack. though directed with great and yet been encountered, operating tions under which the war Still, this is not the state we skill, was ever pressed sufficiently, with low-flying acroplanes, sidvanced und south. In the former direc- broke out, it was likely that expected to be in a year after Though heavy armoured units were on they turned the extension of the the outbreak of the war, and it used, the average depth of penetra Maghot line and threatened the allied

three miles, At Germany would win all the is of importance to recognise lion never excerely less positions in Belgium. The alled

the steps by which we have come and this was where the German fer armies had to fall back. to this position.

ritory pushed a salient into Fruner. Germany feil upon Poland Some good tactical positions were

earlier successes,

She attacked Poland at her

its

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For some days they attempted

own chosen moment, without when she was fully prepared and German lines that would have been secured, giving observation over the warning: and this means Poland was only partly mobi- valuable if any rent 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 no further organised re-

off the attack but withdrew the consequently the formidableness mised her people guns in place set all law and convention at sistance the French not only broke the Polish fighting quality and of butter; and they had certain- defiance.

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

dependence on the defensive, assembled and 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- or October, determined to recover

They had thought out no means of 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 self in the ale: but at the end contracting the heavy tank and the French post-live-bomber; and they never evolved of the operations the all the commodities she might to disentangle the speed and tons were almost entirely an their one. The attempt to stem the Ger- man advance to the west consequent- require and which the British magnitude of her success from own soll once more.

ly failed, and the allied forces were barbarous ex- It was no great matter in itself; but cut in two, blockade might cut off; she had these wholly

it was ominous, and in fact from that to pedients,

German armoured divisions at once brought her war industries

time the initiative even in ralding

the Channel the peak of production.

She had prepared the ground activity was abandoned almost en- began to advance up

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solidation

On the other hand, the allies for her attack by carefully strip rely to the enemy. The allies et 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 offensive spirit, without was made by General Gort, and it nor in the least inxious to en- flank which an independent and the

The Germans had immense failed. which no war is won, frittered un.

superiorily in the air. Their armour- gage in it. France, as we now Czecho-Slovakin provided. By noted nway. know, was short of aeroplanes so doing she was able to place About a month after the end of ed detachments were dominant.

I was even noted by a French and heavy tanks; 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 as "brilliant" that rst could make no defence and she artillery could check tanks! The idea tions and no Air Force of a size fensive lines. On the flanks too featured in the German plan only as of ring point blank seemed almost The Belgium army proportionate to her risks. she had concentrated two large Iarrier

the gate of the Baltic, no inteligency. In neither country was there air armies, at Konigsberg and The of organised resistance in were driven to surrender; and it ery secmed as if the internal combustion any sign of the mobilisation of Vienna; and she had mobilised Norway was largely due to treachery engine would win not only neother Industry for war purposes. ther armoured divisions under and the adoption of several novel

It was was an operation of considerable lull

at this point that the was, therefore, quite inevitable the command of the experts who expedients. But the actual invasion campaign but even the war. that the first year's balance had trained them.

und doring. Oslo Ereme

to have Dunkirk episode enme to restore sheet should show German suc- Before the war began General fallen to an invasion from the air; and sanity and hope to the outlook; for used in various if all that had gone before seemed a parachutists were cesses and ullied

reverses. Douhet had outlined a form of parts of the country,

triumph of the machine this was p Everyone expected it; and any attack from the air which Ger- Norway's determination to resist victory of morale. other result would have been

The brilliant defences of Calais many applied almost exactly, was fortified by an allled expedition Incredible. The unarmed man In the first hours of the cam- which attempted to prevent the con- and Boulogne were its prelude, but 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 win in the beginning.

every aerodrome, headquarters Trondhjem, with the intention of conclusive proof that numbers, en- and nodal point in the country: capturing the city as a base of opera- gines and machines could be beaten and as a

by the cool head and steady heart. consequence, almost The first part of the plan should, not

tions agulist Oslo.

Tuls morale is not weakened but by the Immediate "beleaguered from the outset that stream of have proved difficult; but the opern- strengthened by We are not fortress." Our communications information and direction by tive arm of the allied force, attempt sequel. The Germans at once fell are întact; we can enter and means of which a staff turns a ing to advance upon Trondhjem from upon the main allied armies stand- the north, suddenly found the Gering along the Somme and above the leave as we wish and need; we body of troops

mans attacking their rear and flank - Aisne to the Maginot line. In four from the fjord. The check proved days they had broken through the can cross the enemy's frontiers was dummed. at will and strike blows at the Worse than this, the Panzer decisive.

Somme positions; and in another The southern arm advancing on four, fighting across the whole front at divisions began to appear well the appeal of the Norwegian Staff, up to the Maginot line, had convin- heart of his strength. He, all-events-recognises-this-so-behind the Polish front. The down-the-Gudbrandsdal encountered-red-General-Weygand that all was

the Germans with artillery, armoured lost. thoroughly that he has been de- German strategy involved

On June 16 French armies were livering an attack as resolute as double envelopment; and her cars and croplanes. It was less than

divisions, armoured

brigade strong and was not armed ordered to reuse fighting and Mar- cutting it is skilfully planned.

for such operations. There were no shal Petain asked for an armistice. 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 western front French surrender to mount the Narev and the San, threatened of tanks and artillery, no aerodromes ghting on the Air offensive, and he has been to surround the whole Polish for an adequate air force. It was reased. The French were defeated

therefore a clash of two periods. before they gave battle, engaged on it for weeks. The force while others attempted to The German were skilfully directed; 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 on Britain was severely checked from the Vistula..

left the Osterdal, climbed the ridge "Impregnability of the defensive” The latter movements

were and cut the railway between Dombuus and its cvil brood of fear, mental that, apart from sporadic day

and Trondhjem, the allied force was

und defeatism had run its attacks he has transferred his carried out so rapidly and with withdrawn.

Only now is it attentions to the night.

such apparent precision that,

Operations continued at Narvilt for fully realised that the obsession His objectives are obvious. He on September 9, Marshal Goring some weeks until the port and area with the defensive in the end broods must put out of action all the announced that "Poland with its were centured; but by this time the inability even to defend.

offensive in the west had mude such supports of the Royal Air Force three armies is overpowered and unexpected progress tint it was felt the aerodromes, the aircraft hundreds of thousands of Polish to be wiser to evacuate Narvik also. factories and all munition works soldiers are throwing away their The operations al Trondhjem were and communications, in order to weapons." crush the Air Force itself. He hus moved forward his acro-

the Channel. dromes towards

into

an army

n

doomed as soon as the naval ollack was abandoned.

tries.

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red course.

Italy entered the war on June 10 when it was obvious that France was beaten, and in less than a month had seized Kassala

our

sound

Coast; and he is varying the The statement was premature:

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. The massed Air attacks in the armies west of the Vistula were in the west against Holland, advance on Khartum; and in an- south of England, where alone partly enveloped, and in spite of Belgium and Luxembourg; and other month had taken Moyale he can use his fighters, have their desperate struggle the been exchanged for widespread position at the end of the second as Schlieffen had foreseen the in Kenya and the whole of

our week appeared to be beyond the struggle in the Low Coun- Egyptian front have so far been to

allies were at once drawn into British Somaliland,

But all the exchanges on the raids, in order to weaken

advantage; and it is concentration. He has inevitably hope. achieved some success. He has But the Russian intervention In his later plun, he had provided sense as well as sound strategy to damaged some of our -aero- put an end to organised resis- for a step he regarded as inevitable, concentrate on the main front, dromes; but we know from un- tance. The internal combustion politically it was, by preparing to With evident skill and obvious reso- strike between Namur and Sedan, lutlon Italy has begun to carry out happy experience at Stavanger engine had claimed its first vic- break through, and, holding off the her role; but there are strong forces that it is almost impossible to tim. Yet the Poles had fought section cast of the breach, envelop the in the Near East and the real test damage an aerodrome so severe- with auch stubborn heroism and forces in Belgium.

has yet to come.

war Britain stands rapidly. As for the rest neither pletely misled the French Staff this plan; but it seems more probable stripped of illusion, with her arms 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.. Turkey will do. Handicapped as she editions 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 tactics of infiltration,

bility is the logical implication of the impeded her as it ruined France.

No one is Inclined to think-she present, army could have achieved но But the campaign in the west was hus not lost much in the defection merely occasional at

much if the mechanised attack not only notable for the now familier of France. But she realises that her dependence upon treachery and main strategy is intact, though the the absence of specific war alms; had been very formidable. can be broadly stated as a desire to "They were the more disposed and but also for the rapidity pressure of the blockade is weaken-

Ita 'and novelty of development. ed in some directions. She has smaali the Totalitarian Governments to accept this conclualon since Holland was reduced in five days by discovered that in spite of plt the and to restore the security of other they were experimenting with the c force landed from the air specious reasoning man is master of

The world also waits to see what

is by doubts ns to Russia's real in- tentions, Turkey may take no more than a passive role at first, but it is doubtful whether Stalin can afford. to continue playing blind mun's buif with his partners by what may be politely called in his case 'defensive aggression," now that the fate of his own country is seriously involved.

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

Happily, we in England and the British Empire have a clear cut pur- pose in fighting the enemy which, in

ly that it cannot be repaired fighting ability that they com- General von Brauchitsch followed year of the

It is interesting to note how closely So on the threshold of the second

democratic nations. In that Alm wo Ignore Russia'z stand because she these very tactics on the western in the rear of its main water defen- the machine, that numbers are not sive line. In a comparatively small necessarily decisive except when has allowed herself to be aligned front, and making no great head; aren about Rotterdam points were the disparity with the aggressors.

the position.

is extreme,

that

So far as we know she is ready way with them. It must be seized by parachutists on the first day, quality is more thurs quantity, to step, in and grab the weakened remembered that Britain and of the offensive and troops were These are truisms, but they had Central European States for herself, France did not go to war until landed from aeroplanes to consolidate been overlaid by much sophiatry

She recognises that she has only when the combatents, are exhausted, three days after the opening of Then, while a force was advancing herself to depend upon, but reasons Therefore, until she declares herself the Polish campaign and the fowards the centre of the Inundated that she is strategically so placed and proves her declaration by facts French, upon whom at first the area at Utrecht, an armoured division, that defent la inconceivable and -we expect, no help from Russia and she takes the risk of being the brunt of the fighting must fall, broke through across North Brabant that, with the wise offensive use of to join the fored. In the Rotterdam her powers, she"cán "bring, hem did not complete their mobilien- area; and, to put a term to the re- chemies to ruin; Apprent eventuni victim of the Axis.