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CURRENT COMMENT....

The light of Greece glows brightly, garrison her frontiers a force of 20,- and even more brightly as a result 800 wounded, legless and ormless, of the arduous campaign in Albania. bloody and bandaged, to welcome it? So far from Fielding to the onslaught Will there be on army to strike at of the Italians and the blandishment such a garrison Small or great, the of the Germans, instead of being free army of Greeks will cowed by the threats to her national Thrace as it stood in Epirus. It will life by the advance of the Nazi forces fight. It will die there too. In

her borders Thrace it will awalit sixty miles

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within the In Thrace, she refuses to consider any of that runner from Berlin dishonourable surrender. reply to who come five years ago and

should nie

Ger-

Hitler's demand that peare with Italy, and accept man "protection" after sending the British from her shores, the editor of the Greek newspaper "Kuthemerine" addressed an open letter to Hitler on March 8.

After tracing the strenuous efforts of the Greek Government to avoid all possibility of friction with Italy prior to the invasion, and sub- sequent precautions to avoid pro- voking Germany, the writer takes up the German demand that Greece must trust Germany and get rid of

the British.

"Your Excellency: There are some Infamles which are not done by Greece. We

We can send away nether the dead nor the living. Instead we shall stand beside them till some ray of light shines again and the storm finally passes. And you? They al- ways say you will try to invade Greece. We do not belleve that in army with history and tradition will want to soil itself by such despicable action.

"What will your army do, your ex- cellency, if instead of divisions of in fantry and artillery, Greece sent to

Continuing H. V. MORTON'S description of

OUR GREAT NEW ARMY

Beach Troops are

the

READY

modern

"TELEGRAPH”

SATURDAY

FEATURE

eceived the Olymple torch which will have been changed into a bonfire to bring death and destruction to a country small in size but now made great and which after teaching the world how to live must now teach the world how to die."

By Scrutineer By

Their action has not only weakened the Axis powers, but it has streng- thened the position of the Allies both militarily and morally.

A free people rejects Nazi domina- on, and in doing so they reveal it in its true colours. That is why Hitler is extremely angry.

BLACK BIRD OF

ILL OMEN

Matsuoka, the black bird of ill emen, as the Chinese call him, must have felt that he was representing his country in Rome as a mourner rather than as a diplomat. The ghosts that were present at the banquets at none were far more numerous than the guests. There was no reality in the proceedings; everyone was talk- ing with his tongue in his cheek. It could not be otherwise with the fair of Asmara, the capital of the much treasured Eritren, with Libya lost to Italy and Abyssinia practically re- gained by the imperial forces of Britain and Haile Selassie and, above all, with the crushing defeat of the Commenting on this letter "The Italian navy. How could Matsuoka Times" correspondent at Athens do anything else but speak formal wrote: "The letter electrified the words that lacked sincerity? public and all day crowds thronged understood that Mussolini had com- Constitution Square. Only these titted blunders that were quite be-

t attuned to the peculiar Instantaneous yond Italy's power to retrieve. atmosphere which binds the poople living at the foot of the Acropolls can divine with that subtle communica- tive Instinct that all Athenians knew immediately that March 8 was a great day in the history of Resurgent Hellas".

YUGO-SLAVIA

DEFIANT

when

He

Before Mussolin! set out on his career of crime in June last year, for which he had been preparing since the Fascists came into power, he likened the British Empire to a stranded whale from which he could cut as much blubber as he wished. His satellites are now explaining

their defeat by saying that the un- -fortunate Italian forces, by sea, land

necessary

There is no doubt that Ribbentrop and air, are up against the greatest overplayed his hand

he and strongest Empire the work has coerced those ministers of Yugo- ever seen. It is a pity that it was to destroy the whole Slavia into signing the Axis pact. Ital

Italian Empire in order to bring that Had he been content with formal adherence and not demanded any sort truth home. Italy is now a vassal of military conecsalon, he would have state, and Mussolini is merely Hitler's been able to impress Matsuoka. But gauleiter in Italy in exactly the same the demand that Germany should be way as Quisling is in Norway, given right of way roused the patrio- THE STRIKES IN ile spirit

of Yugo-Slavia and turned acquiescence into defiance. Ribben- trop must have been sadly-led astray

AMERICA

Roosevelt was elected for his third by, his secret service in Yugo-Slavin term of office with practically the Just as Mussolini was by his agents in whole population of the United States Greece,

behind him on his foreign policy. The votes cast for Wilkie were in that respect for him too, but these votes had another meaning, namely that a large number wished to keep the struc ture of industry as it had been in the past and did not want government interference.

foreign Unfortunately, Roosevelt's coming up ogainst polley cannot be carried out without come and there strikes that are der curring show how these two policies

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Willkic's social

THE wind, blowing in from the sea, is always definitely in the line, which others: we are manninit a

brought with it a thin, sleety rain is, by the way, the only front line yet version of the Martello tower; we are ibat melted oa it touched

dark observabie. In this war

ringing the coast with obstacles; we are

No doubt there is division in Yugo- In addition to the unremitting watch watching, day and night, as men did in water, Under a grey sky, the beach. which was never nice one looked-on-the-cossi-from-dozens of vantage the days of Nelson and Wellington Slavin, and it is this which Hitler is as horrible as only a beach on the points within the battalion's area, there

trying as usual to exploit. Prince When we look back at that age of annny south coast can look on 'n wet is the perpetual task of repairing and day in January. Railway carriages improving the fixed defences: the miles stage coaches, wooden ships, Mortello Paul, who evidently agreed to the

of DIC poet in Viennn, Ohings, towers, newly raised yeomanry regt- signing without wheels stood, about the deso- of barbed wire, and other

chief regent, is now in exile in Greece, late shingle, painted in regrettable which make Britain to-day o kind of ments, gally dressed Militia: when we shades of apple green, and bearing such porcupine.

remember the bonfires on every hill-nurios, the last war he left Serbia Good Com-

Where the battallon's area ends, an- alde laid repdy, as in the earlier days grand names as "Ye

of the Armadu, to flash the news of in- and retired to Rome. He had, there panions"

other battalion area begins.

From this tower you have an admir- vasion from the South Downs to the fore, neither part nor lot in the war against the Central powers, nor could Here and there the high-water line

he share in the final victory. was occupied by small, Insecure look- able view of our deferees," said the Pennines and northwards to the Tweed,

The Republicans are not in favour He was never truly representative ing bungalows and wooden shacks, on colonel, and proceeded to indicate & we think of it as an exciting and one of which I read the words, "The hundred secrets with the aid of a little romantic England, the England of Pitt and Nelson; yet how like it is to this

of the Yugo-Slav people, but never, of the New Deal, and as they are fairly Gay Adventure": though what adven- cane.

England of ours to-day.

he so was

far out of the current of numerous It follows that the differences public feeling as when he teled to will not be easy to bridge. The real question is, can the vest rearmament come to terms with Ribbentrop.

programme be carried out on the old But he certainly rendered a great system? In past years, workmen were service to the Allies by his action, in no position to bargain because of for the widespread unemployment, but now since he made it possible people who otherwise might not have they will seize the opportunity to get the best possible terms because of demon- scarcity of labour. Hence the strikes, been roused to action to strate In no uncertain manner which are the growing pains, of the their determination to maintain their social order. Independence as a state.

ture or what galety it offered on that SAYS THE COLONEL. grey morning, I leave to your imagina

tion.

world rose a

and

WATCHING,

It was a watch tower of a Beach Battalion whose activities i had come to study.

After you," said the colonel, waving me towards a perilous ladder that lay against the tower and rested for above en a bed of sandbags.

before I

ก

If I had turned to the Bttle Cockney As the Censor would have a fit if he High above those relics of another read what the colonel said. I will save sergeant on the Mariello tower (1941 hero, and some day in the future people tower of concrete on him that experience by censoring the pattern) and had said. "You are

"You see from here the way the will look back and thinks how thrilling whose summit could be seen a few colonel myseit. steel helmets

the barrels of

Navy has (blue pencil), and that it must have been to be you-you who machine-guns, pointing upwards and

swings right round until it meets the pre helping to guard the coast of Eng- cutwards.

southern extremity of the point over land against Hitler's invasioni": if I

had said that to him. I can well ima there.

"Now, in addition to that, we have gine--and so, no doubi, can you the the blue pencil), which links up with shattering neidity of his reply. the (blue pencil), so that it is impossi-

"MIND THE STEP" the enemy to (blue pencil) ble for

What I did say to him, without getting Into a bit of a mess.

"Now look over there! Our machine- climbed over the top,, was: gun posts require a tile explanation. "Well: so long, sergeant. You've got

pencil.

'Bluo a nasty Job here." I climbed the ladder, and was helped (Blue

And what he replied was this: over the top by a little sergeant ad pencil.)

"it ain't so bad. I come from Ber- "If, by any chance, the enemy pene- obviously a Cockney that, when I grasped his hand and looked into his trated the first line of defence, or if mondsey, see? And my missus hos fronic twinkling eyes and heard him air attack destroyed the Bne of tblue been bombed out twice. They don't say, "Good morning, air," I thought he pencil), he would then find himself grumble up there, not likely, and I

faced with the problem of encounter. don't grumble here. had said, "What cheer, cocky?

I'd get a "But I didn't think "You've a nice warm billet up here, ing the (blue pencil), which has been

charnst to pay back them Jerries for very skilfully contrived, sergeant," I said. "

"Not arf it ain't, sir," he replied.

what they've gorn and done to London; "Enough to freeze the

well-I'd jump right orf this 'ere tower of Babel and break me blinkin' neck; and that's straight, that is. Good day to you, sir, and-mind the step!"

So, no doubt, ali heroes have spoken in moments of frankness.

"But you've got a view that Hitler would pay pounds to see, haven't you? All those dragon's teeth and things."

Dluc

pencil.

"So, on the whole, I think you'll agree that we should be able to pre- vent a landing on this bit of coast."

"I WAS THERE”

"Itlor!" and the sergeant. "Wouldn't There come moments, but not often,

bloke."

that

Just as the signing of the agree ment was hailed, and rightly so, as a very great triumph for Hitler, the practical repudiation of it was a greater victory for the democratie, powers. It revealed as never before the nature of the new order as The understood by

by tree peoples. Yugo-Slavs are obviously

prepared to face the horrors of war with Ger- many rather than sink into servitude. The Greeks set the example, and the Yugo-Sinys have followed it.

trying to those in danger of sea-sick-

nes.

.....

clash.

Employers say that public control of business has fluctuated for the last fifty years from a casual to an intensive system of regulation, from an outery against monopoly and price fixing to an indefensible attack on efficiency and low costs to the consumer, The Inboar leaders say that Henry Ford to the representative and a survival of the old Individual employer, who is de termined to brook no interference with

paternal way with.men. He pays the management of his works. He has good wages and does not exploit his workmen with regard to liours of the results of efficiency in his factories labour, and moreover he has passed on to the consumer by reducing the price. of his cars.

Yet there is a feeling that workmen ought to be allowed to organise them- selves into trade unions and not be at the separately and individually mercy oven at a benevolent employer. The independence, security and dignity of the worker is not possible when he stands alonë, since he has no reserves. He therefore must have some kind of protection. There is, of course, the danger that the tyranny of the em player, or federation of einployers, may be replaced by the tyranny of the trade. union. It is at this point that the gov crument must alep in, and adjudicate upon the issuer."

"Here you see another side of a Beach Battalion's work.", said the I give pahnds to put me 'ands on that when one is acutely conscious of living Having reached the ground, I saw colonel "You have seen beach com old-So-and-so-keepin' me up are all in history, almost as if one's ghost were that the colonel was waiting for me pantes. Now you see anti-parachute these blinkin' months! I'll tell you looking over the shoulders of a child in a strange and unfriendly looking troops." what I'd like to do wiy';'im; and I've reading a history book in a hundred vehicle known as a Brea carrier, I looked around the peaceful coun always been a kind-carted, sort of years time and whispering: "1 was I have often seen them skittering tryside, but could see nothing unusual.

there."

a plough about the country, but I had never be. Three horses harnessed to The feeling came to me on AND WAITING

ware slowly coming ever a curve of The vehicle was driven by an officer the downs; screaming flocks of gulls I was sorry that the colonel's head tower, as the little Cockney sergeant fore been taken for a ride in one.

stood in the background and the who wore the ribbon of the DC.M. were following. should have appeared over the parapet, colonel pointed with his cane over the which he won last year in France: "I don't understand," I said. "I can't at, that moment, cesting a chill over stormy searcape.. A few miles to the when he was in the ranks,

see any troops, the conversation; for what that. ser- south Iny German France.

His hatred for, or contempt of, the

"Right!" said the colonel, rising in geant would have done to Hitler and There are fille Ashing towns over Brent carrier was not at first obvious the vehicle and waving his arm. This associates would havo ended the there where some of us have spent while we were running along a road, ̈. Suddenly the earth gave up armed The Urilted Biates has latinghed upon summer holidays, going out in the but when we mounted a hill and turn! man. They sprang up from near and "You wero a bus conductor," I whis evening with the shrimp fishermen, ed off across the downs he began to far and began to converge on pered to the sergeant. He was naton- sitting in the evening at cafe tables on do things to that unfortunate Bren car. Nothing could happen in all that wide Babed.

you know that one. Fobbled squares, watching the quiet rier that horse-breakers do to Argen expanse of country without attracting "Blimey, how did you know that one, French life slip past.

their instant attention

But that Lan't all said the colonel; Birt”VERS LATTERRA VANS MA Now, if we made that short voyage, From the amused glances of the

"I've heard you many; a time, ser- we should find ourselves in a Nazi colonel I gathered that au altempt, was "I am now going to take you to.. geant, in traffic jams at the Bank. It's world; a world that is as determined being made to maim- me, but this I

But, with deference to the feelings of the Genser, I must, here pass into to conquer and subject us to its will (rustrated by keeping an eye on the unmistakablel" aja

The Colonel then began to explain as we are determined to realst that road thoad and rising in the saddio silence the work of a Beach Battalion, "which will and that conquest.

when wohlt: any Unusually - large ⠀ So, in this fatefal year of 1941, the is a battalion specialising in beach de

coasts of Britain wait for the frat sign obstruction, fence. All round the coasts of Britain

·of Hitler's Armadi.

war in about ten minutes, - -

PAST AND PRESENT

tine bronchos.

are similar battalions, whose taak it Hitler lies waiting to spring upon this CENTRAL HEATING

is to observe signs of an invasion by leland from the shores of France, just I discovered that the'-Bren carrier. sea and to fro the first shots in de as Napolean did over a hundred years is centrally heated: a warm current of fence of this island..

do así sirvigrip purpostal" circulation from the

ast is hard and arduous work, and "And on this side of the Channel Woengine;" although the strong smell of leave is not frequent. The battalion are repeating the deeds of our fore- hot paint that comes with it must be

MONDAY: Training the Army Tradesmen

TLX.

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There is a good deal to be said on both sides. I la inevitable that the problem should have to be faced now, but it is a pity that it should be to, since the last thing wanted to-day la that friction which stopg the wheels of Industry. A solution is, sure to be found, however, for, the Autericans are |pre-eminently a people of practical

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