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British Individuals
And War Agencies
Carry On Unheralded
Ministry of Economic
Warfare Is Typical
Of Unheard-Of Units
By H. J. J. SARGINT.
LONDON, Peb. 12 (C.N.P.) .—It Is
a truism tQ. say of this country that
one of its characteristics is to con
ceal or ignore details about many
of the most important individuals
and organizations which help to
govern England and more parti
cularly at the present moment to
fight the war to, it is hoped, a suc
cessful conclusion.
Does any one know, for instance,
that Prime Minister Chamberlain
has a son and a daughter and what
the daughter’s married name is?
They are never mentioned in the
press and I am sure that nine people
out of 10 do not even know that they
exist. What can the public tell
about the immense concentration
of scientific talent which has been
got together by the government in
order to defeat the German offen
sive by invention, if such an ex
pression is allowed? Nothing at all.
The magnetic mine, for instance,
had about a fortnight’s successful
life before the measure of it had
been taken and its sting removed;
but no one knows exactly who^the
people were who studied and
countered this new weapon and,
truth to tell, this strange British
public does not care.
France Is Different.
I could develop this idea at almost
any length an4 I could say without
much hesitation-that in France,
where people take more interest in
the doings of their clever folk,
the defeat of the magnetic mine
would probably have been made the
subject of many articles in the news
papers and would have led, I am
sure, to the distribution of many
decorations. Was a single man
decorated for this job in England?
Not one.
To get to a more far-reaching
subject, I would say that one of
the government organizations on
which the limelight has not been
turned to any extent is the min
istry of economic warfare. I am
prepared to state on oath that if I
were to go out of the room in which
I am writing this article, which
overlooks Fleet street, and ask six
consecutive passers-by whether they
knew of the ministry of economic
warfare I should be given a nega
tive reply. I will go further and
declare that if I were to ask 100
consecutive people for the name of
the minister of economic warfare
I should not be given It more than
possibly once or twice. As it hap
pens the gentleman's name is Ron
ald Cross.
Work to Indispensable.
And yet that ministry is doing
work without which I am certain
the allies could not win the war,
however effective the military side
of their effort might be. Both this
country and France had the sense
to set up ministries of that kind
Immediately upon the outbreak of
war. That was an improvement on
what happened in the first World
War, when the British government
waited until 1916 to set up what was
then called the ministry of block
ade, .under Lord Robert Cecil, who
afterward received a peerage and
Is now Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
A shadow ministry of economic
warfare had been set up before
September 3. A certain number of
officials from various goveghment
offices had been told off to form
the framework of the department
and a number of retired officials,
who were experts in foreign affairs
and trade questions, were asked to
serve in the new ministry for the
- duration of the war. The closest
co-operation with France had been
decided upon in principle and in
fact high officials of the correspond
ing ministry in Paris are now serv
ing in London while men from the
British ministry have been sec
onded for work in France.
In accordance with age-old tradi
tion the British Navy, immediately
war was declared, put a strangle
hold on the enemy’s seaborne trade
and reduced it, as the world knows,
to a mere trickle both as regards
Imports and exports, but that was
the seaborne trade only and it has
to be remembered that Germany
has far greater opportunities for
obtaining supplies by land routes
than she had in 1914-1918. It became
the business of the ministry of eco
nomic warfare to see that as far as
possible those land routes were as
effectively blocked as the sea lanes.
Thanks to the enormous financial
strength of the British treasury and
the world-wide power of the British
banking system, it has become pos
sible to buy up much of what would
otherwise have gone to Germany
from neutral countries. This is no
secret. In fact. Ronald Cross, the
minister, said only a few days ago
in Parliament that this country had
concluded or was discussing com
mercial agreements to that very end
with no less than 14 neutral coun
tries and that after less than five
months of war Germany was in
economic straits not unlike those in
which she found herself after two
years of the last war.
This is not a bad record for the
economic warfare people. Perhaps
one of the reasons that they labor
unseen and unsung is that nobody
attacks them. In fact, Hugh Dal
ton, a great leader of the Labor op
position, who was foreign under
secretary in the last Labor govern
ment, actually went so far as to say
in the House of Commons that he
doubted whether serious criticism of
our blockade could be offered.
nisnop criticizes Acts.
Nevertheless there has been criti
cism and from no less a person than
a member of the Bench of Bishops.
Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham,
thinks that the holding up of food
stuffs is wrong and that such com
modities should be allowed into
Germany in accordance with the
precept, “If thine enemy hunger,
feed him.” Dr. Barnes had evi
dently forgotten Field Marshal
Goering’s wisecrack to the effect
that Germans preferred guns to
butter. The Archbishop of Canter
bury, head of the Church of Eng
land, replied, not inappropriately,
that Germany could provide food
for her population if she was pre
pared to make that the first charge
upon her food resources. He added
that the world must leave it to Ger- ■
many to choose between providing
food for her people and food for her
guns.
Meanwhile, the ministry of eco
nomic warfare, with the help of its
opposite number in Paris and backed
by the British and French fleets,
gets on with its job.
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Politics Adjourned as Canada
Mourns Lord Tweedsmuir
Governor General*
Dies After Third
Operation
By the Auoclated Press.
MONTREAL. Feb. 12.—Political
activity halted today as the Do
minion mourned the death of 64
year-old Lord Tweedsmuir, Gov
ernor General of Canada since 1935,
novelist, lawyer and newspaperman.
Lord Tweedsmuir died last night
in the Montreal Neurological Insti
tute after the third operation since
a fall last Tuesday. Five attending
physicians said the blocking of a
small artery in the brain caused
him to fall, “thereby adding a
concussion of the brain.”
Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie
King recalled all his ministers who
are campaigning in the coming
general elections and governmental
activity throughout the Dominion
was suspended.
Among hundreds of messages re
ceived by Lady Tweedsmuir was
one from President Roosevelt say
ing he was “shocked and greatly
grieved” at her hsuband's death.
The President met Lord Tweeds
muir twice in 1936.
Body to Lie in SUte.
The body of the Governor Gen
eral will lie in state at Ottawa
in the Senate chamber before fu
neral services Wednesday. Burial
will be in Great Britain. A special
train will take the body to Ottawa
tomorrow.
The government proclaimed a
seven-day period of public mourn
ing, beginning today.
The Prime Minister said, in part:
"In the passing of his excellency,
the people of Canada have lost one
of the greatest and most revered
of their governors general, and a
friend who from the day of his ar
rival in this country dedicated his
life to their service.”
v/nit:i ausuce laiei uatn.
Pending the appointment of a
successor, the Governor General's
duties were taken over by the chief
justice of Canada, Sir Lyman Duff.
The chief justice took the oaths of
the governor general’s office last
night.
King George VI will appoint the
new governor general.
While the British press has men
tioned names of three men as pos
sible successors to Lord Tweeds
muir, the wishes of Canada likely
will bear great weight. It is cus
tomary for the Ottawa cabinet to
make a recommendation to the
King.
Among those mentioned are the
Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess
of Aberdeen and the Earl of Ath
lone.
The Duke of Devonshire is under
secretary of state for the Dominions
in the Chamberlain government. He
is the son of the late former gov
ernor general of Canada from 1916
to 1921, the ninth Duke of Devon
shire.
Born in Border Country.
John Buchan, later to become
Lord Tweedsmutr of Elsfleld, was
born in the Scottish borderland
country, August 26, 1875. His father,
the Rev. John Masterton Buchan,
was minister of the Pree Church
at Broughton Green in Peebles
shire.
Reared among the rolling hills and
gorse-grown moorlands he early im
bibed a love of nature which was to
express itself later in many of his
writings. He studied first at Glas
gow University and then passed on
to Oxford, where he won several
prizes.
While at Oxford he published
some works and was president of
the Oxford Union in 1899. Two years
later he was admitted to the Eng
lish Bar in the Middle Temple.
But he was destined for other
fields. He went to South Africa as
secretary to Lord Milner in the diffi
cult years following the Boer War.
Returning to England, he joined
the publishing firm of Thomas Nel
son & Son, London.
Manager Publishing Firm.
Installed in the active manage
ment of the company, he was re
sponsible for many of its successes
while at the same time he wrote
biographies, novels and history.
Then came the World War. He
joined the British headquarters staff,
becoming liaison officer between
G. H. Q. and the government. Even
tually he was advanced to the post
of director of information.
He was a member of the House
of Commons In 1927 for the Scottish
Universities and Lord High Com
missioner to the Church of Scotland
in 1933-34.
The late King George V made him
a Companion of Honor in 1932 and
three years later he was raised to
the peerage as first Baron Tweeds
muir of Elsfleld.
He went to Canada in November,
1935. Less than three months after
his arrival he visited mining areas
in Northern Ontario and Quebec.
The summer of 1937 found him on
the Arctic rim, questioning Eskimos
and pilots who had flown him to
the North.
During his sojourn at Rideau HaD
he entertained many world figures,
including King George and Queen
Elizabeth on their trip through
Canada last year, President Roose
velt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull
of the United States and Prince
Chicibu of Japan and his wife.
Wide Range of Books.
Lord Tweedmuir’s • writings—he
wrote nearly 60 volumes before he
became Governor General—ranged
Widow of Two Miners
Receives Compensation
By the Associated Preaa.
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Feb. 12.—
A 21-year-old woman, twice widowed
by mine accidents—the second time
after a two-month marriage—was
receiving compensation today from
the West Virginia Workmen’s Com
pensation Commission.
Mrs. Margie Cook Ray's first hus
band, Tennis Elmadollar, 31, was
killed in a slate fall in 1935 in
Raleigh County. Mrs. Ray then
was 17.
The second husband, Stanley Ray,
26, whom she married September 16,
1939, was killed in a mine explosion
which also took the lives of two
other men at Otsego last Novem
ber 5.
Commission Actuary Clyde L.
Ferguson said Mrs. Ray now Is re
ceiving $30 a month. She was paid
$1,490.81 as the beneficiary in the
death of her first husband and be
fore her remarriage.
LORD TWEEDSMUIR.
from biographies to history, belles
lettres and romances.
He wrote illuminatlngly on many
topics. His biography of Sir Walter
Scott—his favorite novelist—is con
sidered one of the best. He pro
duced a classic life of Oliver Crom
well, interpreted Julius Caesar in
a vignette that disclosed his com
plete familiarity with Roman his
tory. He completed “Augustus
Caesar” when he was Governor Gen
eral.
He called his romantic writings
his recreation. The spirt of the boy
grown up reflected Itself in these
novels. “Prester John,” "Courts
of the Morning,” “Greenmantle,”
“Hunting Tower,” “The Three
Hostages” and other similar works
of Action were intended to be emi
nently diverting, he said.
Lord Tweedsmuir was married in
1907 to Susan Charlotte, daughter of
the late Hon. Norman Grosvenor,
herself a writer of charm. They had
three sons and a daughter.
Capture of 16 Forts
In Isthmus Fighting
Claimed by Soviet
Minor Infantry Clashes
Are Reported North
Of Lake Ladoga
By the Associated Prese.
MOSCOW, Feb. 12.—Capture of
"16 defensive fortifications” on Fin
land's Karelian Isthmus line was
reported today In the Red Army
communique.
Apparently this claim was in ad
dition to that 6f last Thursday re
porting seizure of 13 forts in the
Mannerhelm Line, since it was in
cluded in the report of military op
erations for yesterday.
rne communique, issued irom Len
ingrad, major base of the Finnish
campaign, told of artillery dueling
on the Isthmus, or Mannerhelm Line
and combat between infantry units
“which resulted in the enemy being
repulsed and Soviet advance units
capturing 16 defensive fortifications,
Including eight Iron and concrete
artillery forts.”
The Leningrad headquarters re
ported minor Infantry clashes north
of Lake Ladoga, scouting activity
and artillery action In other uni
dentified sectors and “reconnoltering
and bombing flights” by Red air
men.
Meanwhile, in face of rumors that
United States Ambassador Laurence
A. Stelnhardt was on a special mis
sion to Riga, Latvia, the Embassy
spokesman Insisted that the trip,
started three days ago, was purely
a "personal excursion.”
Article Attracts Attention.
The press attracted foreigners’ at
tention with publication of a Ru
manian magazine article declaring
Finland’s fortifications facing Rus
sia were built in the / past four
yeajs by the German Army in co
operation with France and Great
Britain.
The Russian papers refrained
from comment as regards Germany,
ostensibly in the light of the new
found friendship between Russia
and the Reich. The article, how
ever, included this Rumanian ob
servation:
“Such inner ‘fraternity’ of the
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great powers was cerated because
they all were anti-Soviet.”
Filling in between the lines of
sparsely worded army communiques
of recent days, newspapers described
the fighting in the Finnish cam
paign. One account, in part,
touched upon the rigors of war
fare on the snowbound front:
"Soviet troops sleep in open tents.
The cold is frightful and troops
must improvise stoves. They must
organize communications with the
rear and center. This inevitably
slows down the tempo of the ad
vance."
Trud, official organ of Russian
trade unions, assailed William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, as "a fierce
enemy of the U. S. S. R. and a
faithful hireling of the reactionary
bourgeoisie who are helping (for
mer President) Hoover organize aid
for Finland, while drawing the
United States into a second im
perialistic war.”
Oil Man Who Escaped
Chair, Then Life Term, Dies
B, th» Associated Press.
TULSA. Feb. 12.—Albert T.
Patrick, 74, who beat back the execu
tioner for four years, won a pardon
after six more years in Sing Sing
and then beat his way back to
business prominence, died last night.
He was convicted of murdering
William Marsh Rice, eccentric Texas
multimillionaire, in New York City
in 1900. Patrick, then an attorney
in New York, always maintained
he was innocent. Prosecutors charged
Patrick persuaded the wealthy
octogenarian’s valet to chloroform
him.
Gov. John A. Dix pardoned Patrick
in 1912, six years after Gov. Frank
Higgins saved him by commuting
sentence. Gov. Dix said he believed
Mr. Rice, 82, died a natural death
after eating nine bananas.
Patrick came to Tulsa to direct
oil interests of the late John T.
Millikin, St. Louis chemical manu
facturer, a brother-in-law. He later
engaged in independent oil opera
tions.
Much of the Rice wealth went to
establish Rice Institute in Houston,
Tex.
——
In August, 1939, soon after pedes
trian control regulations were put j
into effect, 139 pedestrians were In- j
Jured. The total injured in January, ]
1940, was 85, a decrease of 54.
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