BOLD PLAN.
STRATEGY FOR POLAND. BRITISH GENERAL’S VISIT. LONDON, July 21. The adoption of a definite co-ordina-ted plan of military action by Britain, France and Roland in the event of war will he brought about as the result of the visit to Warsaw of General Sir Edmund Ironside, the recently-ap-nointed Inspector-General of Oversea Forces, who has been conferring with Marshal Smigly-Rydz, the InspectorGeneral of tiie Polish forces. General Stacliievicz, Chief of the General Stall’, and other staff officers. British staff officers expect that Sir Edmund ironside will suggest that if Germany adopts the defensive on the Polish front, while she throws her reserves against the French Mnginot Line, or To the south-east against Rumania, Poland must attack. Such a plan is expected to anneal to the Polish temperament. What, is more important, if the Polish offensive succeeded, Germany could not afford to remain on the defensive, since encroachment on the Baltic coast or inward Berlin or into the Czech industrial area would seriously weaken Germany’s strategic position.
Tt is believed that Sir Edmund Ironside will also discuss unity command of the British. French and Polish armies, either by appointing a single commander-in-chief, or bv establishing a committee of eminent officers, with advisory powers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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203BOLD PLAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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