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OUR NEW GREAT ARMY-SECOND ARTICLE
By
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WARFARE in 1941 is not
really as new and unor- thodox as it may seem.
are
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And the Army we have created to fight this war, the second great citizen army in
a quarter of a century, is now fully trained or in train- ing.
It is an Army of 2,000,000 men, and is representative of the nation. It contains all fit men, not in essential
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LEGAL FOG
men with established
me:
Militiamen, newly called up, report for duty, leaving their civilian lives behind them.
Watchwords:
ATTACK!
SPEED!
ORGANISATION!
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mission in any particular part of the world.
"They are being trained as an army; an army capable of tak- ing on any job. of work in face of any enemy in whatsoever part of the world the Empire's war effort may demand it.
war industries, between the grandsons of the men of biggest stories of the year 1940
"It is being trained, in the will be the way Industry bus re largest sense of the word,, for 1914-18. ages of 20 and 34.
And as the age groups
"The solid core of their equipped the Army.
"I mean the way the factories triumph on the field of battle.
"At the present time no man fall to the older cate-character is the same, but and the workshops have poured can say where will be the deci
there are notable differences. out munitions and guns, tanks, sive battlefield of this war, but more and more "The world has moved lorries, and every conceivable if that decisive battle assumes object until at this moment the the form of large-scale land civilian backgrounds and fast in twenty-five years, Army need no longer think in operations the British Army will proved civilian abilities be-and these young men are terms of withdrawals to pre- take the stage and lead the at
pared positions. come incorporated in this the children of their time.
tack. "The defensive school of "They are bettor educated great force.
thought is dead and done for: of the well-known sin of think- "Is anyone in the Army guilty What is this Army of 1941 than their fathers.
the British Army to-day is cations, Ordinance, 1918 Buch news alike, and how does it differ "They are infinitely more thinking in terms of attack,"
ing in terms of the last war?"
"No one in authority. This from the Army of 1914?
technical.
What It's Doing
is a new Army and a new War. A man who knew the old "They possess a qualifica-
The sovereign quality of warfare Army well, and is now train- tion which is very necessary ing the new one, said this to in days when one private the fact that 2,000,000 men are
I then said that, in spite of to-day is speed.
"The tempo of war in 1914- soldier with an automatic under arms in Britain, the Army 18 was to be measured in terms THE ordinary citizen has often "Since Hitler came to weapon can command the is strangely elusive and secre- of yards per annum; to-day it is to be measured in terms of wondered why Acts of Par-power German youth has fire power of one of Welling- tive. What is it doing?
"The Field Army, which is the miles per day. liament and Departmental edicts been cunningly educated for ton's battalions; and that is trained army ready to go into "This speed is reflected in must be clothed în language that war, War and the Army-individuality."
action at any moment, is still in every phase of the Army's train-. he cannot understand-language
I told him that after Dun- training," he replied, "for no ing. This is also 2 war of that often puzzles Inwyers them have been idealised. selves and causes endless litiga-
"Our own young men have kirk I noticed that men I army enn be too highly trained, technicians. It demands more "All other troops are in vari- from the individual than any tion. There seems to be no lived in a country which has knew in the B.E.F. had re- escape from this legal fog, not only striven to keep the turned with a cold hatred ous stages of training, and, as previous war.
of they become proficient, are "It is a war of organisation, though no one can give a satis peace, but has extolled all the enemy.
drafted into the Field Army, Behind every soldier are many factory explanation of why it the arts of peace.
"Many had been infuriated which is consequently growing more civilian workers necessary by the sight of machine-gunned larger every day,
to his efficiency than ever before. women and children, and all
"On the Continent the work Industry and the Army are two longed only to get to grips with of building up an army num- sides of the same coin.
bered by the million is the work "They are without illu- the enemy again.
Coupled with this was the of years under easy peace time
New Training sions. They are grim real- feeling that, man for man, the conditions. ists. Young Germans may British soldier was more than a "The British Army is faced in "We have learned much from discover that war is not all match for his adversary, I war with the task of achieving the war on the Continent, though their lenders have cracked it asked if the Army still felt like in almost as many months the some new phases of Army train- same professional-standard-of-ing-are-still-on-the-secret-list, up to be; our boys have no "The B.E.F. considered that discipline, training and organi- and cannot be discussed. romantic illusions, and are it never had a fair chance." he sation.
"The new Army Air Co-opera- therefore dangerous. replied, "and the longing it felt
tion Command is perfecting im- mediate bomber support for for- ward units based on German methods in Poland and France. "The lesson of the dive
should be so.
The latest triumphs of the Circumlocution Office are found the War Damage. Bill which, since its importance to millions of people is so obvious, should surely be expressed in the dearest language. One who has -been-studying-the-Bill-quotes-the- following as legal language at its
worst:-
"For the purpose of the preceding paragraph of this part of this schedule the pro- portion appropriate as at any date to a tenancy which at that date had still to run any period specified in the first column of the table set out in part two of this schedule is the proportion specifled in relation lo that period in that one of the succeeding columns of the table which corresponds with the proportion which the rent payable under the tenancy bears to the land comprised therein."
No Illusions
that
Two Millions
•
"So far as character goes, after Dunkirk, and still feels, to this. Army is similar to the show the enemy what it can do,
"The two million men now un- last one. How could it fail runs right through the Army
from top to bottom. to be so?
der arms are not-apart from Our younger sol- "When the history of this war certain specialised contingents bomber has not been lost on us, diers are the sons and the comes to be written one of the being trained for any special
and it may be interesting to note that dive bombing, like the tank, is a British invention!
BURNS ON THE WARied
MERICA'S greatest woman com- mentator has done well to re- mind us that all the poets of the world are in arms against Hitler." If Robert Burns had been alive to-
Hehada Word for It
Goebbels he would have reminded
that:
Facts are chlels that winna ding. An' down be disputed.
On the notorious German propen- poet
truth should be heard
our
I see a cruel but able usurper, jead-sity for hiding the truth day he would have been in the very ing on the Anest army in Europe to would have commented: Some time ago the Prime front of that assembly. For he had extinguish the last spark of freedom
There's name ever feared that the Minister appealed for simple, notwithstanding popular belief to among greatly during and greatly in-
Blut they whom the truth wad direct language in official docu- the contrary sound fund of down-Jured people; on the other hand, the
indite. ments. There is little evidence right commonsense, and his oplulons desperate relies of gallant nations, that the advice has been taken
on the great political moves of his devoting themselves to rescue their
bleeding countries."
to heart, or that the Depart-time are always full of interest, To the Nazi Press, rejoicing in the
ments have produced any rivals to Mr Churchill's own pointed, Colourful style. As for the draughtsmen of Parliamentary Bills, they will presumably be the last to surrender to the simpler English movement. *This would be the easier to understand it they always achieved 100 per cent. clarity, which they seldom do,
#
Paragraphs like that quoted strengthew the case for separate Scottish
niongure, which, because of the wide differences of the legal codes of the two countries in relation to property, acems to be essential. In any case, If Parliament does not succeed in licking the Bill Into understandable shape, thou- sands of bomb victims may be scrlously affected in their pockots. That would be a poor foundation for the "new Britain" which it is hoped to build after the war.The Evening Des patol.
Often they are richly suggestive, destruction of evilian targets, Burns and it to not surprising that, when would have thundered out his stern we delve into his pages we find many rebuke: words which are so applicable to the present crisis that they might have been written yesterday.
dear
sir,"
your
these Ye hypocrites, are
pranks To murder men and le God
thanks
For shame, desist, proceed no
further,
"Have you ever, my Burns wrote to George Thomson, "felt your bosom ready to burst withi indignation on reading of those mighty villains who divide kingdom against kingdom, desolate provinces, these upheavals, the Scots and lay nations waste, out of the would have had little mercy. wantonness of ambition, or often A bluidy man I traw thou be, from sill more ignoble passions?" For monie a heart thou hast made
sair That ne'er did wrang to thing or
thee.
Fate Of Empiros
To the humourless Nazis who pose ny the liberators of oppressed nations. Burns would address himself:
O wad some Pow the title gie
us
To see oursels na others see us!
It wad free monie a blunder free
us
And foolish notion
The Fairest Flower
The ruthless treatment of the Jews
"The first dive bombing was carried out in the last war by British aircraft operating tern Desert. against the Senuasi in the Wes-
"Other activities are a link- lup between the air arm and ar- tillery. I have said enough to prove that the British Army has not been wasting its time since. the Battle of Britain began."
All Changed
"And what of the Gorman Army,"
"Apart from its armoured divisions, there is no evidence to suggest that it is in any way comparable 10 the German Army, 1914-18, which the British Army soundly thrashed in the field.
God won't recept your thanks for would have roused the anger of the "Its successful 'invasion', of.
murder!
poet, who was always the champion Western Europe was an opera- For Hitler, the arch-villain of all of oppressed peoples. "Man's in- tional and administrative trl- poet humanity to man makes countless umph, but the German Army was
thousands mourn."
Faced with the threat of German never called upon to stand up invasion, his words would have leapt to the only test that matters-- to life:
the test of prolonged, battle. The
Nith shall run to Corsincon," "It was also never called upon And Criffell sink to Solway.
to stand up to an army that was Ere we permit a foreign foo On Britain's ground to rally.
not afraid of it." Musolini he would have warned
That might have been a criticism He might have warned him of the of Hitler's policy. Or the lines inevitable reckoning: which he wrote for Mics Fontenelle, wae upon you, men of Stato.
at Dumfries in the year 1795 could That brethren rouse to deadly that: have been suggested by the events
of the past twelve months:
Europe's eye Is Alx'd on mighty
thlogs,
The fate of Empires and the fall
of Kings:
While quacks of State must each
produce his plan.
To the Earl of Buction, In the year 1794, Burns indited a letter which
liatel
As Ye
mak monie a fond heart mourn, Sno may it on your hends return. The far-famed organisation of the
dermans would not have impressed
Robble overmuch,
The best-inid schemes of mice and
men
Gang aft ogley,
Ambition is a meteor steam, Fame an idle restless dream; Peace the tenderest flower of
spring
So those of us who remember $1914 can look with affection and admiration on the Army of 1941, |conacious at the same time that [wo, can give our sons no, adviče staunchly at one with his country-everything is different.
Above all, he would have been because this time War, Army......
men in their fight against the now. tyranny which has darkened Europe:
In the cause of right engag'd Wrongs Injurious to redress,
An' len'e us nought but grief and Honour's war we strongly waged.
ls an admirable summing up of the pain present situation:: "On the one hand :: For promis'd joy.
W.
TO-MORROW
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