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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 25, 1941.

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VICTORY

where he was brought into the closest touch with prob- lems affecting possible operations in every country in the world. On promotion to lieutenant- general he vacated this important post, but, before he had time, for

Chief of the British Ex- more than a few weeks' rest he was hurriedly sent to peditionary Force.

Palestine in command of the Let us pass to May 26, two divisions quickly made 1940, when General Sir John available there. This coun- Dill became C: I. G. S. The try was thus being denuded Norwegian expedition had of the troops most ready for come to its sad but gallant war.

end; Boulogne had fallen In Palestine he obtained three days before, and Calais at first hand an insight into was about to suffer the same Middle East conditions. He fate; the B.E.F., battered was then appointed to the but not bettered; was Aldershot Command, the struggling slowly back to most important exécutive" the beaches at Dunkirk. Has command in the Army at a soldier ever assumed home. All seemed set fain supreme military respon- for the highest post in due

afforded by a crowd. He A Study of General Sir John Dill

has no shelter from the

cold winds of criticism:

the voices of his advisers

Chief of the Imperial General Staff

By

come up to him fitfully when there was only one sister service. With the from the lower slopes, arrival of a second sis- Lt-Gen. Sir Douglas Brownrigg and sometimes reach ter the position became sibility at a sterner moment course, when in 1937 a new him in the confused roar more difficult.

Hongkong Telegraph of contrary opinions. He But when var comes Army?

Friday, April 25, 1941.

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WORTHY OF SUPPORT

A correspondent to-day puts

a quick and substantial. contri- bution towards the Bomber

Fund.

in the history of the British Secretary of State for Wart arrived at the War Office alone must make the de- the British public for- The passage of events with new ideas. The upper cisions on which military gets past parsimonies, brought him no relief. It is age limit for high command plans will be based and and is apt to expect a true that the miracle of was drastically reduced, and on which thousands of large and efficient army Dunkirk saved seven-eighths one younger and junior to to take the field as of the British Expeditionary himself was chosen to be lives will depend.

Force. But all its equipment C.I.G.S. quickly as the Fleet can was gone. The 51st High- Fate Intervenes If his decisions are take the sea. The man land Division went down

Sir John Dill seemed now sound, and the results who is Chief of the Im-fighting at St Valery, and a

to be shut out from the other wholly or in part witsidus previous successful, those who perial General Staff at few days later France signed position for which the whole proffered advice can the outbreak of war an Armistice. It was a ter- share in the warmth of knows that he is about rible moment for the C.I.G.S. career had been a prepara- Sir John Dill finished the tion. On the outbreak of popular approval. If to shoulder a burden last war

as a brigadier- war he went to France in forward a suggestion for raising failure ensues, the man which his muscles are general on the General Staff Command of the Second Corps. Fate then gave a on the height must meet unfit to support. When at the age of thirty-seven. twist to the wheel, and he His idea-the voluntary alone the icy blasts of war broke out in 1914 He then held a series of ap; found himself where he donating of 25 per cent. of one disapproval, while his Lord Kitchener became pointments which promised month's salary by Britons-is advisers on the lower Secretary of State for to bring him to the highest might well have been months

circumstances. commanded a brigade at by Hollanders in the N.E.I. Its the contours of the hill. of his reputation as a Aldershot, had a brigadier's will he seems to have overcome not novel; it has been employed slopes are sheltered by War, and the immensity position in the Army. He before, but in very altered By a great effort of work and soldier afforded a pro-appointment on the General the disadvantages he inherited chief merits are that it consti- Lonely Eminence

tective covering for the Staff in India, was the first in that position. His whole tutes a spontaneous and gener- The position occupied C.I.G.S. But there was military instructor at the training has taught him to look 100 per cent. of Britons in by the Chief of the Im-no such protection for newly open Imperial De ahead and not be led astray by Hongkong, will net a consider-perial General Staff at Sir Edmund Ironside fence College, and was ap- any form of opportunism. As able sum of money, certainly the War Office is as cold (now Baron Ironside) pointed Commandant of the

Staff College. and lonely as any posi-when he sat for the first' One possible complaint will be tion in the State. The time in his chilly chair that again the same people, who Army, since history has on the day this war was..

to the key post on the Gen- battles left this country in July in the past have given as been written, has in declared, and Lord Gort eral Staff at the War Office and August for Egypt, travel- generously as they felt capable, times of peace always gladly vacated it to be- as Director of Military seeing act could only have been will be asked to put their hands been a Cinderella, even come Commander - in - Operations and Intelligence, deep into their pockets, while many others, who have ignored their obligations, will continue

ous gesture, and if adopted by

_many_lakhs..

to do so. To a certain extent

this is true, but it is reasonable

To expect a man to contribute at one time 26 per cent. of his month's salary may sound rather forbidding. But the cor- respondent mooting this scheme has wisely suggested the quali-

In-Palestine-

From there he was moved

-TURKEY NEXT?—

a leading newspaper in Ankara. "Would you", I said, "com-

fication that where a man has pare Kemal Ataturk with Mus-By John Daly family remittances to make, solini or Hitler?"

these should first be deducted

and the 25 per cent. contribu-

રમ personal sacrifice for one

an example of

planning we may ngwintance

Prime Minister's statement in the House of Commons when he told us that the tanks and guns for General Wavell's December

ling via the Cape. That far- the result of General Dill's deci- sion that the risk should be taken. He was right, but what if he had been wrong?

Seeing Ahead

As another example of seeing ahead. I mention an incident which occurred in France. Early in September, 1989, I was "It is for the sake of other talking to General Dill at the men's wealth and luxury that Bourse de Commerce at Le

Sir John Dill's reply was sim-

to hope that a lead such as this A few months before the prised to meet German experts man past ought to remember the will encourage the less public outbreak of war I spent a short as technicians and professors, words of Tiberious Gracchus, 21 spirited members of the com-time in Turkey, and it was then Sorrie made no secret of Nazi centuries ago: munity to come forward and do that I first understood why Ger- their share.

many, if she ever bullied her sympathies; some were ostensi

through the Balkans, would bly refugees. Just province, Italians go to the wars and give Mans, which housed a portion of receive a rude shock when she at an international conference, I their lives. They are called G.H.Q. during the period of con- tried conclusions with the Turks. had met an intelligent young Lords of the World, and they centration in the forward area. I recall a long and interesting Brazilian from Rio Grande do have not a single clod of earth Indulging in the wishful think-

to call their own." conversation with the editor of

ing that was so popular in the And now Turkey is to be the early days of the war, I was next victim. "Let the Ghazi, speculating on the difficulties and his successors, create a new confronting Hitler, still engaged Turkey, and, I, Hitler, will flat-in Poland and with the winter ter him for it--and take it." He looked rather shocked, and

ahend of him difficulties, I Mussolini once informed the mean, in staging an attack I realised too late that there are Sul, whose father I had known. blunders which are worse than As he spoke to me of the "in- world that he was not a collec- against France. tion made from the residue. In crimes.

nocent activities" of certain Ger- tor of deserts. Your real rob- this way a man will be making "The Ghazi", he said, "is in man teachers, and merchants in ber-tyrant isn't. He is a collec- month, but not at the expense a different category. He was Brazil, he betrayed an anxious tor of other people's countries, ple: "It is only a question of

continent or of his dependents. For those our lender, not because he wasted uneasiness. I could not help of republies, or provinces, and whether Hitler launches a full- two. Hitler, scale attack with one hundred who put the proposal into effect, it our energies, but because he wondering if another "pro- a

not with much good sense, in con-divisions this autumn or waits will mean sacrificing some pleasures proved his personal courage and tective occupation" and luxuries for a month, or possi- generalship in the field. We being then prepared in Turkey. tent to let America build fac-till the spring to do it with two bly longer, but this is the sort of trusted him, and he always It seemed a far cry from Porto tories, make roads, raise cities. hundred." And it was so!

Alegre to Anatolia, but Nazism When the house is well fur- Successful generals in the giving which has become part and proved worthy of a nation's con- is the same, cast and west, and nished it only remains for him field get the glory which is their parcel of people's lives in England

Turkey lying on the main rond to demand the keys. to-day, and they fulfil their obliga-fidence.”

just due, and the troops have the tlong not only willingly, but joyfully. I visited the new institutions both to Egypt and to the oil- Turkey, vory understandably, joy of achievement, but few give treating it as a privilege to accom-

of the new capital, the Agrical fields is a useful country to does not see why her 20 years' a thought to the soldier at the plish something vital for a great tural College, the School of Art, "protect".

achievements in new schools, War Office who neither seeks the factories, and I was not sur-

And the cunning of it all was new factories, and renovated nor expects recognition for his → „clear. Wherever some brave ports, should be written off us share in the victories. But it is bring it within the bounds of prac and the entire proceeds forwarded general, some architect of na- so much slave-labour for GerArst and foremost General Sir ticability for everyone. Thus, if a to the Bomber Fund by the company tional achievement, some shrewd many. When she realised what John Dill who in seven months person felt ho could not afford to

on behalf of the subscribers.

and far-sighted statesman had was in the wind, she began to has raised the Army' at home,

Д Additionally, it should be stressed, won now wealth for his country, show her suspicions of the from part with 25 per cent. of a month's

state of comparative salary at one time, he could, through that although our correspondent ad- Naziam's covetous eyes found it technicians. Now she is stif- nakedness and doubt to one of a "promise to pay", make his con- vances the suggestion specifically for tribution in two instalments. Bu- Britons, it is obvious that he hopes out. Let someone else discover fening her back and looking her readiness and confidence, and siness houses could encourage their that all other sections of the con- the mine, Nazism will collect adversary in the face. Hor at has had the courage to take staffs by offering to assume the res- munity will follow the lead and make the gold. Mussolini is finding titude is suggestive, if Indepen- great risks in supplying the

proposal ponsibility of collecting; donations their contributions. The could bo deducted from

deserves the enthusiastic support of it to his cost. But a man so dence and national dignity are Army overseas with the sinows anlary

fascinated by the glorious Ro- still treasured amongst men. of victory. cheques, in one or more instalments, everyone.

cause.

Our correspondent has advanced n constructive suggestion, and every- thing possible should be done to

was