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A UNITED FRONT

March 12,

1941.

Ninth Article in this Important "Telegraph" Series

RIDDLES OF 1941

Kipling's "Light That Fake the correspondient of

a Grent Dally fifty years Rgo prophesies continually "Trouble in the Balkans Next Spring.".

Even then, the Balkans were notorious as the powder maga- zine of Europe, and though that unhappy continent has now it- self become one vast high-explo- sive dump its detonating point eastward, from Moscow to the Persian Gulf, is-still-the Bal- kans.

What Next

In

The Balkans?

by Sir Ronald Storrs

other claims for the general adjust- ment of the Peace,

This

Alert Turkey

It is, therefore, of prime interest and significance to learn that ០៧ December 27 the Foreign Minister.. Under that collective name we should count five small States: as much of Transylvania as Giant Pincers upon Egypt, and M. Filoff, not only rejected the pro-. posal of the Fascist ex-Prime Minis- Hungary, on the middle Daunbe, suited German tactical require- the Suez Canal,

Thus had the scene been ter that Bulgaria should officially Jugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgarla ments, with scant regard to the

join the Axis, but expressed the "desire of the Bulgarian Parliament and Greece. To these we must economic or cultural claims of staged.

But the gambler's luck had for the country to remain absolutely add Turkey, on the extreme favoured Hungary or victimised south-east of the landl (and Rumania. `

turned, and the cards began to neutral, and to develop friendly re- run, always more heavily, against Intions with all Fowers" Crooks' Cross water) of Europe, and dominat-

neutrality, which could him. He began to run himself ing in Asia Minor the gateway

Ilitler then "guaranteed" out of invaded Greece, and hardly have been thus reaffirmed without the tacit approval of Russia, to the continent of Asia.

Rumania what was left-and seaward from violated Albania, was (amusingly) stigmatised by Nazi Individually, the five have over-ran that little with a Ger- while the remnant of his navy spokesmen as "inconsistent with the been, and must always be, help- man Army.

ran northwards out of Taranto, spirit of the New Order in Europe." The wisdom of the Bulgarian less against the pressure of Ger- Raminia thus became an occu- and his diminished Libyan Army Cabinet has been assisted by the many or Russia (to say nothing pied, as Hungary is an unoccu- westward out of Egypt.

watchful alertness of their potent He has secured the Aegean air Eastern of the combined pressure of pied, province of greater Ger-

neighbour.

Turkey - A those two Powers). They were many. Their Press and radio and sea bases for Great Bri- well-wisher.

And over-

r-adventurous Bulgar even helpless it had been as-

may release only Axia news; tain; who, but for his flaunting

"forwards" are well aware that they sumed-against Italy alone. their foreign and economic poli- of Greece's honourable neutra- "forwa

are being

"mrked" by a well-trained United, and backed by cies are controlled by Ribben- lity, would never have occupied team, ready and able to take the

them.

game under control on the first sign pence-loving Turkey, they could trop.

Once more,

in her three at its getting out of hand, have opposed to any of the Big Neither country likes it, but

In addition to the

to the forts and other millenniums of history, Greece, Three resistance formidable neither can help it. enough to give pause to the most The arrival of the Crooks' by overthrowing the calculations defences of the Dardanelles, Turkey pean lines: Adrianople-Kirk Killase ruthless aggressor.

Cross upon the shores of the of bullies and of tyrants has has three strongly protected Euro- Black Sea, separated only by an heartened and inspired the civi- (a continuation of the Greek gystem),

Bulair and Chátalja. lised world. ambiguous Bulgaria from our

In Jugoslavia, despite certain Turkish and Greek Allies, made

Rival Policies

- Great Britain and France, real friends and not the less real be- cause they were themselves in terested in the maintenance of

a serious difference in their, and Axis sympathies among politi- cians and Croatians, the Serbian our, situation.

the people and the fine Army would Was This, accordingly, peace everywhere-had for years moment chosen (true to form) resist encroachment by every been urging upon them some by Mussolini for his display of means in their power. such understanding.

"Dynamism," when, after assur- Bulgaria?

The Army is urged from without

On all of these her strength grows 'dolly.

So What?

Turkey's own rear is secured by

pacts with Iraq, Iran and Afghanic tan, fellow Moslem States which nave not yet shown any tendency to sub- stitute Hiller for Allah.

Any one of three events may bring The Axis, concerned only to ing the Greeks of his peaceful In Bulgaria, on the other keep them divided and weak, had intentions, he invaded Greece in hand, it is the Army, with a few Turkey into the war during 1341:- attack upon herself by any WITH Germany's occupation of viciously opposed the idea, and the dead of night without pre- Ministers and ex-Ministers, that Power. Bulgaria and the massing of her

had sapped it by every weapon text or provocation.

is pro-German.

An attack upon Greece by Bul- troops on the Greetan front the full in their arsenals of bribery, It was to be, as with France,

The Bulgars as a nation are farta.

Axis interest- An attack by any victories in

a walk over: "Sine pulvere still faithful to Russia the

as significance of British

cajolery and blackmail.

upors

Turkey's southern, neighbour, So when, after the first-three pulma"-the palm of victory historic protector (against Ger- Syria, which she does not covet for Africa becomes more apparent. The

months of the war, the common without the dust of battle.

manism) of the Slavs, but they herself, but where she would not Axis, in their eagerness to seize

The naval and air bases of the are not therefore necessarily, tolerate Axis occupation. I what they could while they could, dunger seemed to be drawing all

though

Though Mussolini has let Hitler six together, few were surprised Aegean would fall into his hands, Communistic - even

let have definitely overreached them-

by a menace, megaphoned from and with them the command of Uncle Ivan has dyed his beard down, Hitler, cannot afford to

Mussolini down any longer, selves. As a result Italy is no longer

Rome on December 16, 1939, that the Eastern Mediterranean- Red."

may let him out of the war altogether an entity to be feared white Hitler is "Italy did not consider that the Mare Nostrum at last.

and have reason to remember the forced to do what he has always tried

constitution of a hlóc of any kind Jugoslavia, terrorised from (and urging within) that now is the story of how Mr Hore Belishe, on to nvold doing-stage a war on two could be profitable to the coun- North and South, must "go time to strike at Greece, "redeem" his last visit to Rome, presented his Bulgarian Macedonia, and force n host with a couple of Belisha beacons tries of the Danubian and Bal- Axis," fronts. Even, should he prove suc

Bulgarian corridor down to the to help him over his double-cross- Bulgaria, kan regions,'

thus encouraged, along which it is easy to inge! cessful in overrunning Greece and

Hitler must strike again, and soon. Naturlich!

might imitate his French coup imagine whose would be the first the odds are he will not be, it would

But where and how? The collapse of France, co by stabbing Greece in the back troops to be carried.

Africa would be most welcome to bent a tremendous cost of men and

Against such intrigues, the stead- guarantor with Great Britain of after which Turkey would no materials. It is not known whether

Rumania, finally overthrew the longer be in a position to resist fast prudence of King Boris and his ally but, across a British Mediter-

Lical. Mussolini started hla Grecian ad-

crazy, unstable Balkan equili- an Axis demand to stand and de- some of his elder statesmen has bad ranean, is, savo by air, least prac-

to pass through difficult moments, venture with the approval of Hitler. brium.

liver railway transit-of-their- Both he and they remember only German bombers and fighters have 100 well the fierce curtailments reached Italy: most probably for use but in any case the result has been a

Russia seized not only Bes- forces.

twice endured by Bulgaria through against the British Navy. But is that distinct and deadly blow to Axis sarabia but Bukavina, Bulgaria Gambler's Luck

King Ferdinand's too wide opening enough to stop the Italian rot?

Titer under

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strike of his mouth in 1912, and, These would occupy French German influence, in 1915.

Greece

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The campaign in Africa is not yet ended, but with the collapse of

Libya and Italian Somaliland, Hallan resistance is no longer effective. The speed with which the Italian forces have been annihilated and driven in full retreat from post to post in East the out- Africa, is entirely due to standing strategy of General Cun- ningham and to the valour, discipline and endurance of the forces under him. The African campaign is an

And a Nazi Diklat sliced away

Hannen Swaffer:

"THE

Will

saluting

win the war?

THE Aussies are the finest

Every private and every aircraft-exactly the sort of man who would fighting troops on earth." man saluted as he passed. Each humanise the Army. It may, or may not, be true-time, the poor blinking ofeer had to

acknowledge it. but, anyway, the phrase is once

Yet not one Commonwealth private

M

But this immediate offensive, un- ess he can terrorise the Jugoslays or

into allowing his troops pas Bulgars wage, would not only upset his Balkeri supply system, It would involve war on a second front, and that under conditions

to" 0s unfavourable mechanised troops as were the ley mountain passes of Albania,

True, there is said to be an advance German G.HQ, in Rumania within In few miles of the Jugoslavian fron- tier, and King Boris is once more en- during the turn of the screw.

True, that although a spring cam THEN, although Ancurin Bevan re-

e winter assault should therefore be War the admission that a soldier was less probable, for that very reason allowed to communicate with his

Instance of the solidarity of the British Empire, a fact which Hitter, again being used 'beenuse of from oversens took the slightest (cently wrung from the Secretary of Paign would suit him far better, and

according to reliable sources, always refused to admit, probably

because

one of his mentality could not con- ceive of such unity without force. South Africans. Autralians, New Zealanders fought side by side with

Indion and British troops. The entire campaign will become a classic example of what can be achieved by people in spite of varying political opinions, when motivated by one common desire.

their exploits in Libya.

notice!

Who, I wondered, were the in:MP., he assures me that while lettere fit should not be absolutely ruled out.

Then why is it that our home- grown Army has imposed on its ferior soldiers? ranks, discipline to which no Australian soldier would sub- mit?

THE rigidity of the rule is worse for officers than for the men,

they reach

On Guard

addressed to Members of Parliament by soldiers are not opened before

Nevertheless, it is more likely that they leave the camps, the replies, it arriving in envelopes bearing the the Goebbels' alarums and excursions of Nazi troop-trains rushing through "House of Commons" imprint. AIC In London, it is such a curse that often opened and inspected before Hungary, and of troopships steaming imen holding commissions frequently

stage by that

maestro to edge Balkan AMONG the Aussles, oMeers and rush into civvier when on leave in natin the men to whom they are down the Adriatic, are projected off-

order to escape the necessity for hav-

And, in sume camps and barracks, nerves and to ease British nerves ing to acknowledge a salute every offers still tell the men that they away from the real Invasion, which is planned not from the south-eastern dlozen yards.

must not write to M.P.a.

certain end of Europe, but from the north- constant Officially, soldiers have

west. citizen rights. Omcially, in spite of that, they are told they have none.

men fraternise freely. They drink together. Saluting is reduced to a minimum.

that

Yet, in some English towns, you

You can't tell me read shop notices: "Only omcers saluting wins wars. It perpetuates and members of the public served." the caste system and it's out of date A private cannot buy anything in in an age when some of the privates these sucred storest

officers.

✩

The future welfare of the world now lies to a large extent in the hands of those countries included in the Commonwealth of Nations.

Moreover, many hotels are barredare better educated than most of the During the last world war the same

to all but the commissioned ranks, forces came into play, but more as

And, everywhere, the monotony of supporting units and not as now self-saluting, saluting, saluting, goes on. supporting armies-prepared to share the responsibility and pay the price. India too has played a moré definite role than ever before. This fact does not in any way minimise the valour

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:

So that to-day we should look, not so much to the Balkans, as to our own guard, our guns, and our gas- masks.

I HEAR, too, of a young craftsman [Editor's Note:--Since this article in the Tank Corps who, unused to fuss written, the Bulgarian Govern-

TO-MORROW What Next · În

I HEARD recently of an incident!itary life, wrote a long letter to ment has declared its adherence to his colonel, telling him what he the Axis, and German troops are now un a South Wales railway station. thought was wrong with the Army! reported to be massed on the borders A young lieutenant, seeing two pri- He told him, for one thing, that the of Greece. The position of Yugo-, I WALKED, the other day, down vates, shouted at them: "Here, you men should have explained to them stavia has not changed.]

the reason for all sorts of orders. the Strand, behind a British officer. men, put my baggage on the train."

The officer was the son of local These they resented, because they of the Indian troops who in 1914-1918 which will be handed down in the publican in whose pub the men were could not understand why they were

in the habit of drinking. A few as outstanding weeks before, they called him by his

given. fought to gallantly, but it is un-records of this war

Fortunately for this young soldier, doubtedly true that to-day India is examples of heroism and devotion. Christian name. But now, he was on his colonel had a sense of humour. taking her place in the British com- Over and above these spontaneous

acts of bravery.

He sent for him and, twinkling. munity of nations in a way which shown themselves to be possessors

the Indian troops have officer.

☆

said: "Yours was a most interesting can never be forgotten.

and revealing document. Becaute one of the most valuabie.

qualities

I HEAR, too, of over-punishment. of we may find it necessary to

it, Every dispatch from the battle front of which human beings are capable

Twenty-seven men, rinking trouble, alter the Army regulations. But, lins contained reference to the Indian has inspired confidence wherever they have written to an M.P., nil signing reliability. This characteristic alone troopa, either in regard to their have been sent and means that to-day their names, complaining that they time, you must wrile to your then you might not got it, of endurance under great they are assuming as much respon had been sentenced to 28 days C.B. strain or to their coolness under Breibility for the successful outcome of without pay for overstaying their air," replied the man. and to their initiative. A telegram the war as any other unit of the leave by one day to which they all "Oh, I'll have this letter typed recently received gave a list of heroic Allied forces now fighting aggression understood they were entitled

out," said the colonel, hiding a smile. deeds by individual Indian soldiers, and domination.

I do not think David Margeston is "Then I can memorise it.".

powers

of

captain."

The

Air

War?

on interview with SIR ARCHIBALD

SINCLAIR (Minister, for. Air)