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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
-WINDSOR HOUSE
THE GRAND ALLIANCE
"There is going to be a united and altogether successful effort in the production of defence materials in the United States to be used by our- selves, by Great Britain and by Greece and China. I have
по misgiving
about the outcome of this war." Thus Mr.
Harry'
Hopkins, personal envoy of President Roosevelt.
It is commonplace to- day. How fantastic it would have appeared nine months ago! Nine months of endurance worked this mighty change. Seven months more and an equal trans- formation may be pre- sented to our gaze. For Mr. Hopkins says that by 1942 American production. may have reached its peak, and President Roosevelt, in the most
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Bates
DAVID AND GOLIATH
A Great Chance
Lost
this
direct and far-reaching of his propositions, demands The pachology of the Britons the means to achieve it. is deed very preuliar During Those months will sum- four long months they have en- mon from us stiffer en- dured the fiercest bombing raids durance and fiercer hard-¦
suffered by any Country with imperturbable spirit. For ship. Yet we have they the last few weeks most of the moment because he did not push promise to beckon 1ation population have ceased to his offensive then against
i go down to the refuges. We have, country, the new British Ambas- through,
not had any night raids and very | sador in Washington was probably few day alerts for the last week.¦ right, specially it in that moment a¦ and people are asking themselves he was thinking of the Mediter- what new Blitz the term Blitz theless, that if Germany could not bali monally and half anxiously; ranean :ituation. I believe, never-
having become comic word destroy the British Anny in Dun- is Hit- kik it could not have defeated among sudinary people - fer preparing" As though it could ị it at home, even in those days of be possible to surpass the already maximum defencelessness, known. Of course there is al- way the possibility of gas. But so far it is not likely,
The pos sibility of reprisals is to be bome in mind, and the Germans know
il
Was there ever such convulsion in the affairs of men? "Those who sur- vey with a curious
eye the revolutions of mankind," wrote Gibbon,
"may ob- serve that the gardens and circus of Nero on the Vatican, which were pol- luted with the blood of the first Christians, have
its climate will Germany a better target. been rendered still more Anything can be expected from
perfectly well that the British gasses will not be inferior to make
theirs and that
famous by the triumph but so far
the Nazis' last desperate throw.
and by the abuse of the distant. persecuted religion. On
the same spot a
that moment is yet
for this tom-
The explanation temple porary lull is to be searched in the displacement of the war. The
which far surpasses the battle is no longer concentrated in
ancient glories
of the the North Seas but in the Medi-
its attack deriving concentrated
come a
which transferred the war to the Mediterranean just when he had reassembled his forces, must bit- terly regret his bad move, re- membering that in June 1940 all the trump cards were in his hand, and that he lost for ever a unique and marvellous opportunity.
But now it is too late. Too late to save Italy and her Empire: too late to withdraw from Greece and
to