THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS

Manchester, Lancashire, England

20 April 1939

(page 8)

PORTENTS.

One of only two Britons invited to Hitler’s birthday party is, I see, Major-General J. F. C. Fuller.

General Fuller, Territorial Army pioneer, was one of those who were remarkably wrong about the Abyssinian war. An apostle of mechanization in the British Army, he left the War Office because of his impatience at the delay in reorganizing the army along those lines.

Off he went to Abyssinia; saw his own theories being put into practice by the Italians, and predicted certain and speedy defeat for them.

Recently his pronouncement that we should give Germany back her colonies, made in the “Deutsche Zeitung-am-Mittag,” brought him prominently back into the news.

The General may fight St. George’s under Mosley’s banner at the next election.