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Preparing For Defence

In An Atomic War

HEN The Chief of the must regard the nation as a whole.

today, when the Brigade of

W Imperial General Staff, to be protected as well as may be Guards is on parado, you will see other improvements in their feeding

relaxations

atid for co-operation Field Marshal Mont possible;

In the old-fashioned drill sergeant, or and living conditions, many of them Its now plans. It has called on the perhaps the regimental sergeant' sponsored by Lord Montgomery, who gomery, recently addressed

Anest civilian defence organisation in major, with his huge chest stuck has been by far the greatest dingle gathering of senior officers of the world, which has stood the out, his martial tread-exactly the humanizing influence In the whole the three services at the end bliterest tests with magnificent suc right length of tread according to history of the British Army. It military manual-his spiky mous was he who began speaking about of an exercise called "Bamboo,"

tache bristling, and his foghorn voice, later hours for rising in the morning, in which the enemy WOB

In which he bellows orders that are reading Ughts over beds, and better Japanese and the action in the to create much more public interest drilling. He sat once the object brow

This new, all-in exercise is bound intelligible only to the men he is beds. All of it to the rulsed eye- Pacific, he announced that next than any of its rather academic of good-natured banter and enor who

of the older type of soldier, thought that such comforts year's major exercise would be predecessors. Not only will the Ser mous respect, for it is recognised would called "Britannin," and would vice chlets be present, but Lord that, once in action, there is no course, to the accompaniment of a destroy discipline, and, of cover the whole question of Montgomery has said that he will ner discipline and no better example running chorus of banter from the

Invite representatives from civil defence for Britain in an Dominiona

the set than that of the Guards, and comedians, who showed the ser- unct from the worst no bombed of the British provincial steadfast,

ore will be braver and more geant-majors of old waiting on the atomic age.

or more to the fore of new recruits with an early morning cities and towns.

battle than the sergeant-major. cup of tea.

The tradition of an army of what we call 'square-bashers,' men who do nothing but march up and down the drill square, dies hard, and I think

This, in itself, is a minor revolu- tion for the Staff College, because it involves participation by civilians, Their job, to quote him, is "to try particularly the highly-placed civil to evolve a civil defence doctrine servants who direct our civil defence and technique which will link the

at the Home Chico, in Whitehall, civil organisation with the milltary the Field Marshal had that in mind Also, it will be the first major exercise not strictly a Service one. that has ever been held at the Staff College. Also, and this is most im- official portant of all, it is the pubile acceptance of the fact that we have entered on an age when wor must be a war of the whole people, when armed services' will be "no more in the line of battle than our women and our children.

BY RICHARD DIMBLEBY

in a BBC broadcast to North America

one in this great matter of defence. We cannot have the two things in waterlight compartments."

We thought that stage had been reached in 1930, but we were wrong. The Second World War was

So the Army and the civilians are not quite total war. Some weapons being brought together, and it is --gas and germs, for example were only in keeping with the times that not used, nor were clvillani far from the Bghting areas or out of nerlat they should be, for today, as never range very much affected, except before, attempts are being made to by the nuisances of shortage and it into something more than an in- humanise military service, to turn blackout. In countries far removed from the land battles, even these terlude in civil life-rather an in- hardships were not endured.

legal part of ordinary life and much like it as possible.

Appalling Danger

For many years our Ármy-the PUT the latest experiments with regular B

Army-for all its proud rockets and other self-propelled history and its great achievements, missiles can leave no doubt that the has been the butt of national jokes whole globe, or all of it that and general amusement. You know matters to a power waging war, now that in Britain this land of humour lies within reach. The appalling does not imply any disregard or danger threatening the ordinary, disrespect--we like to laugh at the peaceable citizen of Texas, Mastings of which we are proud. sachusetts, or New York

hardly less than that confronting the man and his family in Scotland, the Midlands, or London. It may take Д few minutes longer for the weapon to reach him, that is all.

So, the danger being to all, the Army and I speak In particular of the British Army-can no longer disregard the civilian population in planning is attack and defence. It

BRITAIN

LINCOLN, July 22.

when he sold at the Staff Collexe that commanders must Uso their Imagination, and from the first week that a new man is drafted into the him off the square and out into the Army as a conscript, they must get

country'.

GARA

"Another confounded mizup in the laundry!"

C.V.R. Thompson

Not Waste Of Time Wind from

THERE was all a bar racit build-

done. Many of the barracit ings housing the Army-are hope- lessly out of date, but our rehousing and building situation is so critical that such places must wait their turn for improvement.

the South

NEW YORK. THE THEY are getting out their nightshirts Again in. America's Southlands..

secret

Meanwhile, the Army is selling Itself to the public as a new, healthy For the first time since the 20's occupation which should not be re-

the Ku-Klux-Klan, hooded garded by the civilian drafted in society pledged to uphold the-creed under the National Service Bill at of white supremacy, is mobilising where the the age of 10 as a waste of time nor nut in the open down as a year lost in his civilian carcer, Swanee Ribber flowe

A few months 140 even many Southerners would have condemned

man in the

For, today, every Army is a specialista mechanic, Atter, radlo operator, cook, moler driver, or a trained clerk; and now their that more than 40 trades are recog

them. But today the whole South

la angry.

Northern politicians, they claim,- Lord Montgomery, "that in

"It is immensely Important," sald

are interfering in their own bus- ness how to get on with the training we should aim to retain nised by the Trades Unions, he can Negro--just to win Negro votes in their interest and make the whole lake his place in the appropriate ono

Northern territory. thing great fun. This is more im- as soon as he leaves the service. portant than following slavishly a

And all Southerners cheer as regular syllabus of training, which

Samuel Green,

Greend

Dragon of is often somewhat dult."

L

CCORDING

As much as this had been done the Klan, proclaims on a Georgia. by the beginning of the year. The mountainside: "The KKK is de- anxious situation abroad then took termined to maintain white supre- our rainds off the immediate prob-macy by peaceful means if possible, The process of humanising the lems of the Army, We were more but by force if necessary." Army and it is the Army which concerned with the work being Services with their specialized in- Army, and overseas, rather than at has needed it more than the other done by the trained men in the

to America's top terest in flying or the sea-this pro- home. Some of us, perhaps, were industrial magazine, Fortune, it cess began several years ago and has wondering whether we

might not

bo soon

America which: MAY matured slowly. Almost the

first need move was the development of the need a big army again, sooner than will be calling in Britain for in-

we could provide it. Because industrial imnow-how and advice, battle dress the easy-going blouso spite of the big campaigns, recruiting For in the middle of the big War, our comedians and humorous tune with the high, Ught collar and far behind, and still is.

But, never since the First World and trousers which succeeded the for the regular Army was dropping argument over Sir Stafford Cripps's writers film producers, too-have the irksome putters wound round the

Anglo-American Industrial Council, this magazine suggests that at this always portrayed the Army as an leg. Our soldiers wore next allowed

very moment Britain-not America. old-fashioned, tough outfit, given to to wear collar and ties like their ridiculous custome

may be ploncering the second: and staffed by overglown bullies shoes, when off duty, to wear soft traditions, officers, to wear shoes, even brown

industrial revolution. who shout all the time. All this is forage caps-worn fore and based on a certain amount of truth, Instead of service caps--though the

Fortune describes for its indue-

the all-electronic,. or was.

A actual figure as 20,000 below re-trialist readers Guards keep the latter.

quirements, If we are to attain the all-automatic radio set factory, de regular fully trained force of 200,000 veloped by: engineer John Sargrove men that Lord Montgomery wants in a shed at Wallon-on-Thames, by the spring next year. And Surrey, one of the main reasons for this lag in numbers, according to our Sunday Times, is the lack of married quar- ters of which there are 16,000 too Hiew.

and

aft.

GOES BACK 6 YEARS

BRA

night-the first time they have It been allowed out of their camp-WALKER,

Lieutenant

of

BILL

to

Lag In Numbers

GENERAL estimate gives the

sett

more

Explaining that Sargrovo's ma-- chine with a factory staff of only 50 could possibly out-produce 1,500- workers using present U.S. tech- niques, Fortune described it as "the. offered merely a group

men gramophone, and a large notice dis-

first genuine precursor"

of the I took the invading Ameri- drinking together. But they knew played over the entranco warned This basic total of 200,000 has no-machines-without-men age.

two hours and ten on in the town.

American there must be something else going them that the lighting of Groworks thing to do with the annual intake cans

radio engineers. are- was not permitted.

of conscripts, of course. It is de already looking into Sargrove's ma- minutes to capture the city last

signed to be the regular force that chine to sco it can be adapted to will train the recruits, and, part!-| manufacture television Half an hour later-when the cularly, of Indianapolis, who

the Territorial Army of cheaply and more quickly than their nows had "unexplainably been part-time soldiers-civilians who existing methods. at Scampton in large numbers remembered the open sesamo

diversion. From the High Street

flashed round to the bars in the give up their week-ends and other since, they arrived five days kerb he called "Tax)" whispered to Saracen's Head, the White Hart, the free time to military training.

the driver, and thus became the first Northern, and others, and the local American to discover the weekly girls had somehow received a mess-

age by "grapevine"--the Hoor dance.

crowded with couples,,iving to band wearing full evening dress.

in Lincoln since the publicity he Lieutenant "ED MAYES, famous skunk, ROSE, and now the recipient of a

ago,

by

Was

#

TF AND WHEN he is elected

I president, Tom Dewey,

the

Lord Montgomery has announced Until then the townspeoplo

ambitious plans for this force, too. Republican candidate, will try to persuada General Eisenhower to had been only vaguely aware

He intends to give it an equal share act as his personal Chief of Staff. Close behind him came the group

in a tri-partite National Army, split that they were around. They of his fellow officers,

into the Regulars, the National Ser- were seen, but not stared at, as seized the next taxi, sried: "Follow

Territorials, rally depend Lieutenant ROY WATHAM, who

threatening to vice and the Terriers, as we call the a few of them walked around in that cab."

of the investigate a report that British twos and trios.

Terriers, naturally, on the comedians are buying American liking that the conscripts have for comedians best jokes in the black the Army when they go back into market. It is said the Americans 'civilian like.

in London, are representing the material as "original"

the first objective seized and

got over his quarantined

dally bag of fan-letters, mado took

The Drill Hall in Broadgate was Lincoln had been briskly

porsonal appearance and con- won over to the American way of corned only with its race days, life. The change-over was quick bow. which started yesterday. The almost unbelievably quick. hotels, full and busy with book-

A

And by midnight, when the dance makers and racegoers from all over When Lieutenants Walker, Watham, ended, most of the 500 Americans the country suddenly found and company paid their half-crown had found a girl to walk home, hundreds of extra customers aak- adraleslon just” after 9 o'clock. they, ing for food

and

drink and saw a large, almost empty, mission- usually getting it.

like ball. Inside, a few couples (several of them unpartnered girla)

to Rainbow Corner has moved about despondently

Hittle stono bridge over Waterside in front of

But now

moved north to the

the Corn Exchange.

The great Americanising move- ment began around 7:30 p.m. Tho busloads from the camp blazed in. The city was back six years to 1042 (and then tho nearest American base was more than

miles away).

20

Five hundred men (out of D total of 1,500) in as many different uniforms as they could ring the changes with--but all soldiers of the U. §. Army-with a single problem: what to do on their arst night of freedom.

Their A. “B. 7, hosts had told them that, thở city had good hotela and a cathedral. They went to tho cathedral and found it closed. They discovered that the holela hero

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Only ONE VILLAGE has been affected by the Americans hero Waddington, four miles from

BROADWAY is

The Field Marshal wants the local

VIVILIANS called up for military drill hall to be the best club in the district, and regular military ex-service in peace time will not ercises without troops to bo planned,

Goldiers, warned sur make good and worked out in congenial

former US. general, Robert. John-- roundings like the village inn, where

son, today. The only way, ho men get together over their beer and

argued, was to attract men willingly, talk things out.

and the only way to do that would ho to do away with all brass, braid, and officer insignia, give every pri- vate his own room, and the right to leave the service any time he

Part And Parcel

Lincoln; 600 Americans are at the LL in all, it looks as though wanted to. enly base which has a village near A Montgomery intends to make

by.

So SALLY, daughter of Mr military training and an under-

Rowe, the village newsagent, now standing of the Army part and WASINGTON says it was, the has to cycle to the camp every day parcel of our normal lives. I think

sell 50 New York

Herald

European edition.

TribuneS at-your-earliest

we must take this as an example of the opinion of the Government that of "please-send-me- we can no longer separate war from

letters weto peacа V-mailed to the States yesterday morning from the G.I.s who not

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State Department, and not the weather, which held up the U.S. Jet planes until Britain's jets had made the first Atlantic crossing. Saya Washington: "They felt the British should have the honour."

that tho THE ASSUMPTION more dollars US tourists epend on cigarettes and gum...RESULTS: cannot be banished from the world Yesterday at cricket R.AF, beat and it is the duty of any Chief of abroad the less taxpayers will bays Marshall plan; Americans (who had never played it Staff to be prepared in case it ro- to raise for the before) 50-30; at baseball, Ame turns we must resign curselves to Washington will push foreign trave

a life of strength and preparedness; in the next. four years,, even at ricans beat ILAF (who had never and to preparing, as will undoubted-expense of grumbling home ref played it before) 16-12..

ly be done in "Exercise Britannia" Present target is for touristso Eve Perrick for Britain.

next year, the best possible defence spend £142,000,000 in Britain bo-

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