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Italy Stays Hand
Until Completion
Of Battleships
Squadron of Six Units
Will Moke II Duce Power
To Be Reckoned With
By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.
The Italian press takes occasion
to reaffirm Italy 's Insistence on being
treated as an equal by France and
Great Britain in the solution of
Mediterranean problems. These
problems are vital to Italy and at
the moment her position imposes
upon her the necessity for remain
ing neutral, whether her rulers so
desire on other grounds or not.
Basically, Italy’s military position
is chiefly concerned with the con
trol of sea communications, which
for Italy means the Mediterranean
communications. She produces
neither coal nor oil, and very little
iron. These are the fundamental
necessities of modern industry and
of modern war. The capacity of
Italian railroads and the source of
supply In neighboring countries are
both inadequate to permit Italy's
needs to be met by land transport.
Italy cannot, thesefore, make war;
Indeed, she can hardly continue to
function as a going concern In time
of peace, unlesss she can be assured
of receiving regular supplies by
water. These supplies must come
through the Mediterranean, though
largely from sources outside that
Inclosed sea.
Italy is thus the most vulnerable
of all of the continental powers
of Europe to blockade, and she can
be blockaded merely by holding the
three gateways to the Mediter
ranean—the Strait of Gibraltar, the
Suez Canal and the Dardanelles.
Light naval forces, submarine and
aircraft can do very little to break
such a blockade. What is necessary
is a well-balanced fleet based upon
an adequate battleship squadron
which can-go forth and fight for
the control of the sea routes and can
defeat any force which seeks to op
pose it. Italy does not at present
possess such a battleship force. She
has two old battleships which have
recently undergone extensive re
construction and modernization.
Work on two others of this type
should have been completed this
year, but apparently has been much
delayed. In addition, Italy has
four new 35,000-ton battleships
under construction, two of which
(the Littorio and Vittorio Veneto)
have been launched and are due
for completion early in 1940. When
these ships are finished Italy will
have an excellent battle squadron
of six units, and the naval situa
tion in the Mediterranean will be
drastically allied in her favor.
At present the western gateway of
that sea is held by the French
Mediterranean fleet which includes
five old but still serviceable battle
ships, probably reinforced by at least
one British battleship. The eastern
gateways are guarded by the British
Mediterranean fleet with three very
good battleships of the Warsplte
class, reinforced by a Turkish battle
cruiser. Both of these forces are
strongly superior to the two Italian
battleshipes now available. Either of
them would be inferior to the
Italian squadron of six ships as
above outlined.
Few Allied Reinforcements.
What are the possibilities of the
allied forces being strengthened in
the west, the only other available
French battleships are the new high
speed Dunkerque and Strasburg, be
longing to the Atlantic Fleet and
now slated to be at sea in pursuit of
German raiders. While these raid
ers remain out, not only is it unlikely
that the fast French battleships can
be sent to the Mediterranean, but
the British battleships of the home
fleet will be needed for blockade and
convoy duties while the British
battle cruisers must also sweep the
seas searching for the German
pocket battleships. In the east, there
is little likelihood of any reinforce
ment oeinff available for the British
Mediterranean fleet until recon
struction work is completed on the
other two battleships of the War
spite class (Queen Elizabeth and
Valiant), which will certainly not be
for some months. Moreover, there
must be considered the ever present
possibility of German raiders ap
pearing in the Indian Ocean or the
Pacific, as well as of Japanese ac
tivities in the Far East, such as a
move into the Dutch East Indies
which would urgently demand Brit
ish naval action.
Italy's quiescence at * the present
moment is easy to understand be
cause there is nothing else she can
do but to stay out of trouble. What
her attitude will be when the com
pletion of her battle squadron
brings about so great a change in
the Mediterranean naval situation
is, of course, another matter. It
seems very likely that it is just the
completion of these battleships for
which Mussolini is waiting. This
aoes nor, oi course, imply by any
means that Italy will thereupon be
come a belligerent on the side of
Germany. The perils of so doing
would not be extinguished by her
increase in naval power. But it does
mean that to a very large extent
she will regain a freedom of action
which she does not now possess and
will be able to drive a far better
bargain with the allies, either for
continued neutrality or for partici
pation in the war on the allies’ side.
Problem Is Naval One.
When, therefore, we hear that
Mussolini is biding his time, that
he is capitalizing on his present
popularity due to having kept Italy
at peace, while not abandoning his
purpose of using his armaments to
further his ends when the right
moment arrives, we should bear in
mind that his problem is primarily
a naval one and Is chiefly dependent
upon the speed with which his in
complete battleships can be com
missioned.
While these battleships remain
inert and unfinished masses of use
less steel, Italy is at the mercy of
the sea powers, not only as to her
vital Imports but as to her tenure
of her African colonies. When the
battleships are finished her position
will be a very different one and her
naval strength will be a factor
which the. allies will have to take
gravely Into account. It will cer-.
tainly be preferable from their
point of view to make every rea
sonable concession to assure Italian
neutrality or gain Italian friend
ship. Almost certainly it is Upon
the size and nature of these pros
pective concessions that the wise
and far-seeing eyes of II Duce are
now fixed. While he labors to build
up an Italian influenced bloc in the
Balkans, while he endeavors to im
prove Italo-Turkish relations, while
he observes with misgiving indica
tions of Russian moves to the south,
he has not, we may be sure, forgot
ten that neither in the Balkans nor
the Black Sea will Italy's fate be
decided, but on the blue waters of
the Mediterranean.
(Coprrifht. 1939, New York Her»ld
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Many Little Details
Forgotten by British
In Rush to War
Mail, Wives' Allowances
And Entertainment Lack
Cause Tommy to Grouse
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN.
Chicago Dally News Foreign Corregpondent.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
PRANCE, Nov. 16.—If anybody any
where—let us say In Ecuador—is
making tentative plans for a pos
sible expeditionary force to Prance,
he may save himself a great deal of
trouble by examining the record of
the British expeditionary force.
The British expeditionary force in
france is relatively well-equipped
and it seems to have all it needs in
the way of suppliesfend equipment.
But in the grand process of nulling
the army to France a good many
■mall, unessential and yet pretty
Important things were not done.
The first “grouse” of the British
Army when it arrived was that it
was not getting its mail; we have
even heard a lieutenant colonel com
plaining about it. That problem was
pretty well corrected within one
month.
The second complaint in order of
loudness was that many soldiers’
wives were not getting their allow
ances on time. Eventually this dlf
Acuity was straightened out, too
Another nuisance has been the
shortage of rubber boots and kero
sene stoves.
All these petty difficulties have
been straightened out or are being
straightened out, but admittedly it
would have been better if they had
never arisen.
(Copyright, 1939. Chicago Dally News. Inc.)
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