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March 31, 1941.

OUR NEW GREAT ARMY-SECOND ARTICLE

By

H. V. Morton

WARFARE in 1941 is not

really as new and unor- thodox as it may seem.

Only the weapons are new. Otherwise, the war itself is a return to old- time methods to movement and surprise, to ambuscades and spies, to generals in the front line.

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than, say, General Gamelin did..

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

more

men with established

Militiamen, newly called up, report for duty, leaving their civilian lives behind them.

Watchwords:

SPEED!

ATTACK!

ORGANISATION!

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.

"It is being trained, in the will be the way Industry has re- largest sense of the word, for equipped the Army.

"At the present time no man

war industries, between the grandsons of the men of biggest stories of the year 1940

1914-18. ages of 20 and 34.

And as the age groups

"The solid core of thei) "I mean the way the factories triumph on the field of battle. fall to the older cate-character is the same, but and the workshops have poured can say where will be the deci Hongkong Telegraph.gories more and there are notable differences, out munitions and guns, tanks, sive battlefield of this war, but "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- come incorporated in this the children of their time.

"They are better educated great force.

What is this Army of 1941 than their fathers. callons Ordinkuce, 1936. Such news alike, and how does it differ "They are infinitely more

technical.

"They possess a qualifica-

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the United Press Anaciations, who re- nerve all rights and forbid republications, Bither wholly or in part without previous arrangement

LEGAL FOG-

THE ordinary citizen has often wondered why Acts of Par liament and Departmental edicts must be clothed in language that he cannot understand-language that often puzzles lawyers them- selves and causes endless litiga- tion. There seems to be no escape from this legal fog, though no one can give a satis- inctory explanation of why it should be so.

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pared positions.

"The defensive school. of thought is dead and done for: the British Army to-day is thinking in terms of attack."

What. It's Doing

tack.

"Is anyone in the Army guilty of the well-known sin of think- ing in terms of the last war?"

"No one in authority. This is a new Army and a new War. The sovereign quality of warfare to-day is speed.

from the Army of 19147,

A man who knew the old Army well, and is now train- tion which is very necessary. I then said that, in spite of ing the new one, said this to in days when one private the fact that 2,000,000 men are

"The tempo of war in 1914- soldier with an automatic under arms in Britain, the Army 18 was to be measured in terms 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 tive. What is it doing? power German youth has fire power of one of Welling. The Field Army, which is the miles per day. been cunningly educated for ton's battalions; and that is trained army ready to go into "This speed is reflected in - war. War and the Army-individuality."

action at any moment, is still in every phase of the Army's train- have been idealised.

I told him that after Dun- training," he replied, "for no ing. This is also a war of "Our own young men have kirk I noticed that men I army can be too highly trained. technicians. It demands more "All other troops are in vari- from the individual than any lived in a country which has knew in the B.E.F. had re-

they become proficient, are not only striven to keep the turned with a cold hatred of us stages of training, and, as previous war.

"It is a war of organisation. peace, but has extolled all the enemy.

drafted into the Field Army, Behind every soldier are many 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

No Illusions

that.

"We have learned much from

The latest triumphs of the Circumlocution Office are found in the War Damage Bill which, "They are without illu- the enemy again.

Coupled with this was the of years under easy pence time New Training since its importance to millions sions. They are grim real feeling that, man for man, the conditions. of people is so obvious, should ists. Young Germans may British soldier was more than a "The British Army is faced in eurely be expressed in the discover that war is not all match for lis adversary. I war with the task of achieving the war on the Continent, though dearest language. One who has been studying the Bill quotes the their leaders have cracked it-ked 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, following as legal language at its 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.

tion Command is perfecting im- replied. "and the longing it felt

mediate bomber support for for- ward units based on German methods in Poland and France. "The lesson of the dive bomber has not been lost on us, and it may be interesting to note that dive bombing, like the tank, is a British Invention!

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 specified in relation to 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."

Some time ago the Prime Minister appealed for simple, direct language in official docu- ments. There is little evidence that the advice has been taken

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,

runs right through the Army "The two million men now un last one. How could it fail from top to bottom.

der arms are not--apart from to be so? Our younger sol- "When the history of this war certain specialised contingents- diers are the sons and the comes to be written one of the being trained for any special

BURNS ON THE WAR

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.

He had a Wordfor It

"The first dive bombing was carried out in the last war by British aircraft operating against the Senussi in the Wes-

Goebbels he would have reminded tern Desert.

that:

Facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

would have comumented;

"Other 'activitles are a link- up between the air arm'and ar-

On the notorious German propen-tillery. I have said enough to our poet prove that the British Army has There's name ever feared that the not been wasting its time since

the Battle of Britain began.” But they wham the truth wad

indite

truth should be heard

If Robert Burns had been alive to I see a cruel but able usurper, lead- sily for hiding the truth day he would have been in the very ing on the finest army in Europe to front of that assembly. For he had extinguish, the last spark of freedom notwithstanding popular belief to among greatly daring and greatly in- the contrary-a sound fund of down- jured people; on the other hand, the right commonsense, and his opinions desperate relics of galiant nations, 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 Fress, rejoicing in the

ments have produced any rivals to Mr Churchill's own pointed, colourful style. As for the draughtsmen of Parliamentary Billa, they will presumably be the last to surrendor to the simpler English movement,

This would be the easier to understand if they always achieved 100 per cent. clarity, which they seldom do.

Paragraphs like that quoted strengthen the case for a

.

Often they are richly suggestive, destruction of civilian targets, Burns und li is not surprising that, when would have thundered out his stern we delve into his pages we find many rebuke:

Yo hypocrites, Are these your words which are so applicable to the

pranks present crisis that they might have been written yesterday,

To murder men. and gie God

thanks?

For shame, desist, proceed no

further

To the humourless Nazis who pose

as the liberators of oppressed nations. Burns would address himself:

Q wad some Pow'r the giftic gic

ELS

To see oursels as others see ust

All Changed

"And what of the German

Army,"

"Apart from its armoured divisions, there is no evidence It wad frae monte a blunder free to. suggest that it is in any way

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And foolish notion

The Fairest Flower

The ruthless treatment of the Jews

comparable to the German Army, 1914-18, which the British Army Roundly thrashed in the field.

God won't accept your thanks for would have roused the anger of the

"Its 'successful invasion of murderi

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 tri- poet bumanity to man makes countless umph, but the German Army was

thousands mourn."

Have you ever, my dear sir," Burns wrote to George Thomson, "felt your bosum ready to burst with indignation on reading of those mighty villains who divide kingdom

gainst 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 trow thou be, from still more ignoble passions?" For nonlo a heart thou hast made

separate Scottish measure, Fate Of Empires 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 understandablo shape, thou- sands of bomb victims may be seriously affected in thoir pockets. That would be a poor foundation for the "new Britain" which it is hoped to build after the war.-The Evening Des- patch.

That might have been a criticism of Hitler's policy. Or the lines which he wrote for Miss Fontenelle. at Dumfries in the year 1793 could have been suggested by the events of the past twelve months:

Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty

things,

The fate of Empires and the foll

of Kings: While quacks of State must each

produce his plon,

To the Earl of Buchan, in the year 1704, Burns indited a latter which. in an admirable summing up of the. present situatlon: "On the one hand

sair That ne'er did wrong to thing or

thee.

He might have warned him of the inevitable reckoning:

O, wae upon you, men o' State, That brethren rouse to deadly

hatel

An ye mak monie a fond heart

mourn,

Saa may it on your heads return. The far-famed organisation of the Germans would not have impressed Robbie overmuch.

1

The best-lald schemes o' mleo and

men

Gahg aft ngloy,

An' len'e us nought but grief and

paln

For promis'd joy.

Faced with the threat of German ever called upon to stand up invasion, his words would have leapt to the only test that matters- to life:

[the test of prolonged battle.

"It was also never called, upon to stand up to an army that was Inot afraid of it."

The Nith shall run to Corsincon, And Criffell sink to Solway. Ero we permit a foreign for On Britain's ground to rally. Mussolini ho would have warned that:

Ambition is a meteor gleam, Fame an Idle restless dream;

the tenderest flower Peace

spring.

of

Above all, ho would have been staunchly at one with his country men in their fight against the new tyranny which has darkened Europor

In the cause of right engag'd Wrongs injurious to redress, Honour's war we strongly wogod.

A. W.

So those of us who remember 1014 can look with affection and admiration on the Army of 1941, conscious at the same time that wo can give our sons no advice because this time War, Army----- everything is different.

TO-MORROW:

A Visit to a Young Soldiers' Battalion