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PHILIP JORDAN says

I AM A WAR CORRESPONDENT

KNOW several people who and here he tells you I don't a severe wor

respondents. They gay to me: 'How can you bear to make your living out of hu- man suffering?" or 'Aren't you ashamed to serve up hor- rors, piping hot, at a penny a time every morning?

I must say that most of the people who ask that question are people who would them- selves like to be war corres- pondents if they had half a chance; and so I don't usually answer them.

The truth, of course, is that professional war correspon- dents don't make their livings out of human suffering in any more ignoble a way than, say, doctors do; and I venture to think that if we could have our way and order the world in the way we think best, we should all be permanently out of a job to-morrow-to-day;

Even.

Their job is an important job. It is to inform the public whom they serve, as ac- curately as possible, what is happening on any particular front they may happen to be covering. If their own coun- try, as mine is, happens to be engaged in war, their func- tion is, or ought to be; one of great importance. Very often they are the only means of ra- pid communication between the fighting soldier and his family; and because they are trained to observe and to des- cribe, it is possible sometimes that they can give mothers and wives and fathers and children a far more vivid and real picture of the soldier's life and way of living than the soldier can in his letter home, MAINTAINING MORALE

I don't for a montent want to Burgest-nor would I be so silly' that the war correspondent can ever take the place of the intimate family letter; but he can-and when the censor allows him to, docs-play considerable part in maintaining morale at home.

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In present circumstances sometimes takes two months or even more for a letter mailed in the Middle East to reach Britain. That is a long time for a family lo wait. But the correspondent, whether of the B.B.C. or of the newspapers, can be in touch with those familles in only a few hours.

Each correspondent, of course, has his own way of working; and I can't really talk for any of my 'colleagues, but so far as I am con-

cuite cerned I like to think that the war correspondent is the eyes and cars of the public at the front. An such, I think it is his duty not merely to report the actual pro- gress of battles, but to describe the sort of terrain on which those battles are being, fought; and in quiet moments to do what, he can to build up in the minds of his "listeners or his readers a picture of the world into which war has dumped the soldier.

something of the ex- citements, the variety, the difficulties, the sorrows, the fun of his life which he would not exchange

Was

for another.

ever going to happen. But they weren't duil, so far as I was concerned. Six days a week for five months I found something to write about that I thought would help people at home to understand something about the British sol- dier's life.

But the trouble was, of course, that there were subjects that it was impossible to write about, for what were called reasons of mill- tary security. And they were the

Only

ones that really mattered. We can talk about them now be- cause they belong to history. What I'm rying to say is that every single war correspondent In France knew perfectly well that from Sedan to the sea the Maginot Line was Imaginery; and that it the Germans attacked in 1940-as they did they would nimost cer- tainly break through. Week after week I used to drive from Atras down to Metz along the imaginary lae; and I used to know that so long as kept silent about it I should feel that I wasn't doing my Job properly.

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COMPROMISE

That is one point. The other was not so noticeable, but certain......... ly we had far too many instances of the political · unreliability of some French officers brought to our notice for us to ignore them,

Now I mention these two points because they are typical of the sort of dilemma into which war correspondents are bound to fall. It would

have meant and I think quite rightly-the expulsion of any correspondent who had tried to report these facts, not because their publication would have told the enemy anything that he didn't know already, but because they would have made difficulties be- tween the French and ourselves. And, at the time, I suppose they would have been bad for the nie, which is something the scientious war correspondent A think about when he is do-

his job.

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So far as I am concerned I did what I suppose is rather a coward- ly compromise. I ignored in print all the weaknesses I saw, and paid o quick visit to London to let my editor know the truth, And I think all my serious colleagues did' the same.

It is very difficult, almost im- possible, for a war correspondent to make serious criticisms in print. Many, of course, don't want to. and are not fiere for that

pur pose.

But those who, like myself, have always been first and fore- most political journalists, who have

been

employed to travel about the world and analyse a

well as

as report, find it very dimcult to submit to such necessary em- asculation of their funellon. Ob- viously in war it simply

would

not do to have newspapermen accredited to an army or an ex- peditionary forro criticising right and left. It would end up in

pure

anarchy. nd, in any caso, British war correspondent is just sumclently part of the military machine to make it Impossible for, „him even to want to

I have watched war and near- war all over the place in the last Ave years; and I've always found that the variety and Incident of everyday life in battle zones have been an unending source of oppor tunity for the correspondent. If I look back now and wonder what was the most difcult of all the war Jobs I've ever had, I am Kuro It was the first five months of this war when I was in France with -the British Expeditionary Forces

Those were the days of the Phoney-war Nothing happening indeed a though netting

in

undermine

the confidence of the men (who. nre, his readers and listeners also) -.

their lenders. A Brillah wnra correspondent is subject to mill- tory Inw and has the status' of an officer; and hè accepts · the 'jòb knowing that these limitations are placed on him."

THOSE BRICK WALLS

Sometimes, of course, the altua- tion becomes almost). Intolerable,. for although there is now for better understanding of the fm portance of the war correspondent than there was at the beginning of the war, there are occasions when you run up against brick all, and usually fun yourself;

But in spite of all the truths that you must leave unsáid, It is a life of tremendous fun and ex- cllement. In actual battles you БОС your fellowmen in a new light; and you forget the horror and misery that war brings to innocent men and women; you only know suddenly all that is good in a man, and all that is ne and noble, and you are tremend- ously glad that you lived to see auch, goodness.

When I say this I am not think- Ing of Dunkirk, beenuse I was in Egypt at that time and missed it.. I am thinking of the civil war In lived in Madrid and Spain when went out into the countryside and lved in the trenches with the men. But

sure am quite that I should have found the same thing in France had I

been there in June of last

And I am year, thinking of London during the great night raids last year; and the people of Prague on the day that the Munich pact was signed by Chamberlain and Hitler. I sat in that

hut lovely city them take a beatind watched just as surely as though they were in actual battle. And always when I've seen people in a altuation like that, they have always been the same-finer and more generous than in their normal daily lives.

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COMPENSATION

That is one of the great com- pensations that the correspondent hos for all the times he is snatched suddenly from his home and told to go off towards the ends of the earth.

suitcases.

You never know where you will be to-morrow morning; and you live in a couple of Most people,

1 Imagine, would hate that kind of life, but a day seldom-passe-

-in-which-I--don't-

meet someone who envies me. Certainly I wouldn't change with any of them, for since this wor began I have been in France, got ready to go to Scandinavia, flown to Egypt, been all over Syria, Iraq and part of Arabia, heen to the borders of Libys, flown from Cairo to Cape Town, and now am off again..

I ought not to be in Britain at all. Last week, after getting all my papers in order, gelting exit permilts, visas, filling up a million forms, getting one sultcase covered In huge scorlet seals by the censor and getting Inoculated, too, I came down, from my hotel room to catch a taxi to the station. I was bound for Syrla again, via Cape Town.

Just as I was ready to go I hnd

a telephone call, saying, 'Don't ga: we want you to go to Russia Instead, So here I am waiting for all the formulities to be gone through again.

BETTER WORLD

You either like that sort of life or you don't. It suits me down to the ground, although one day I hope that there won't be, any need of wor correspondents any more. Then I would like to be a peacs correspondent and move about the world telling my readers that men are happy and prosperous, But in. the meantime, who would not be excited to know that at any mo- ment ho may be on his way to a new, part of the world, to see new friends Aghting-heroically against the enemy of us all, to see a new way of fer new buildings and. new people? That seems to me to be one of the great happinesses, of life..

So, I weigh all the many frustrations, nil the rows with censors, and all the sorrow I see, against the pictures of mon and women... fighting and sacrificing that the world may one day have anot another chance of being a bolter place to live in, I know which side is the heavier of the two, For, in a way, If there is no люге war after this, I aholi

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have

will not know, and thations

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the, poorer for not knowing. I shall have seen the human spirit. in its greatest splendour, and shall have helped, It only in the

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