Chown abilly to stem the Ger- into Prypt, the an advance news of the evacuation of Crete would be as dark ns that in which the Nazis pushed across Cyrenaica
to place themselves about
nules. From the Suez Canal
Mates
450
But
the British resistance at Tobruk and Sollum, and
the next step
after Crete. raises important diffi-
culties for the Nazis.
The
DOES IT FIT?
They'll Never Quit
answer
resistance they To break this
black the will have tu move heavier forces
would be the conse-1 shall have to arm to the teeth, and now-no matter how and increased supplies across the WHAT
quences of an Axis victory", stay that way. We shall have to Joutlook may be.
The accept a lower standard of living Mediterranean and along a thou-
is simple.
Who Calls the Tune? sand-mile line open to attack by
consequences of an Axis victory! That budget never will get bal-
It took the British eight years It is going to take money.
for The very length of such might well be catastrophic for the fanced. SOU
and lots of it, to put 20.000 or to get themselves organised deplete the future of the United States. a march tends to
The aggressor powers have al-30,000 planes into the air, sup-defence, if they ever let go, until striking power of the torres mak-
Hitler can afford to accept al- The ing it.
British can mean-ready told us what they have inport a two-ocean navy and keep victory is achieved, they are sunk.
a couple of million men constantly
The It would under arms,
be murt.must any kind of a peace. while strengthen their own forces mind. They have been very ex- The explicit, plent, painfully
British would demobilise; the lion from evacuated with troops
Japanese want the Orient; Hitler simpler not to wait.
would go to sleep again; Britain's Crete.
wants Europe; and he and Musso- It appears that the English have remaining allies would evaporate. In together want Afrien. "A now scraped the bottom of the till. Then, some day, over some tri- the land in sight I take for myself; If we have any sepse, we won'tvial incident, Hitler would strike all the land not in sight 1 take for worry about money; we will just again. He almost got Britain the
That's al give them whatever they need. Absalom."
last time; there wouldn't be any there is to it. That's what they
Fifty thousand aeroplanes. 1,000 doubt about the result if he could merchant ships and a couple of get then to drop their guard and mean by the "New Order."
long way toward winning the war. hundred naval vessels will go a give him another chance.
It is a small price to
for pay security. Suppose we give them $10,000,000,000 worth of muni- tions; that's what
will he spending every year if we have to face the Axis alone. Even the
This is not to say the risks are all with the
Britain's Nazis.
Alexandria great naval base at
German air is within range of attack, as is the Suez Canal. The
must the Nazis
Im
to close the British fleet's eastern entrance to the Mediterranean by
or capturing
destruying
the
RAY
On
It may be a New Order to then.. but it is an old, old order to the rest of Us. Just whack your
neighbour over the head and turn out his pockets. If he squawks. jamous "ditch." The loss of Greece take his wife, if he continues to eurtail the squawk, drop. bomb 门 Hu
air power, children.
tenrix to
and Crete operations of British
in the Mediterranean, thus expos- ing Britain's sea forces to increas-
What would be the consequences of an Axis victory? First
utf.
ed dangers from the German air Hitler's hold on the Continent of
arm.
over
Europe would become permanent. The Japanese, unless stopped by the Russia. would take
the Moreover, the outcome of
(if he lasted Balkan campaign makes Turkey's Orient. Mussolini
New oppor-long enough to be in at the kill) position precarious. tunities for Nazi terrorism, civil-would get his Mare Nostrum.
infiltration
Hitler, with all Europe under such
as that
his control, would be the ian"
most powerful man on earth. He would which took place in Iraq, Fifth- Column activities and other forms have at his command shipyards exist with now
a capacity of five or six of political bribery,
times that of the United States throughout the Near East.
He could outbuild us in the air movement for the next year or two at least, pincer through Turkey on the one hand by five to one.
or by sea and air by-passing Turkey--and on the other hand through Egypt, might develop. It would come as no surprise should
Thus
a
British Isles' ocean route.
western ap~ | secure
in their
we
By Harvey Klemmer
isolationists are now whooping it If we have up for armaments. no stake in this war, if we have nothing to fear from the Axis, why should we build up our defences? This is a blitzkrieg. We must
next generation. Henry Ford
claims he
It sounds plausible to say "we shall have to negotiate a peace eventually; why not do it now?" Certainly, but it makes a lot of 11 difference who calls the tune. hurts me to say it, but I don't see any way out of this war except to fight it through to the bitter end And that, in my opinion, is just what Britain will do. One side or. the other has got to be vanquish- ed. The stalemate which so in- trigues Colonel Lindbergh would be the worst possible solution.
Rather 2112 Axis victory. now than a stalemate which would be only a breathing spell leading to a new and greater conflict later on. The Axis nations have made a bil The chal- for world supremacy.
They They
lenge must be met. Britain and her supporters have a good chance of stopping the Axis now. They are finished if they ever let down
They know that. They won't Mr. Churchill said they I don't for a moment imagine/think in terms of to-day, not the let down.
would fight on the beaches. In the could fields, and in the streets. that he would try to move imme- diately against the United States, but there is always the possibility make 1.000 planes a day in his will do more than that. that these fellows, realising that plant alone. All I can say is: will, if necessary, fight on the stás Hitler may at the same they could never be completely What the hell are we waiting for? and across the seas. the Nazis attempt
When these aggressor's have succeed in occupying the British; Ume to close the
conquests with
to Isles but that will not be the end proaches to the Mediterranean by America sitting implacably be-been stopped, we can begin
The Navy will steam! tween the Atlantic and Pacific worry about the bright new world of the war. attack on Gibraltar.
Oceans, might try to knook us off where evil will be no more and away. So will the hundreds of
where goodness will win its just merchant vessels; constantly lying,|| The British have reckoned for before we had time to arm.
The long-range viewpoint is reward. Until then, the British-in, port in Britain.
They will be loaded with mili-. many months with the possibility of getbacks along their Mediter- much the more serious. I can't and all who have a community of
them had better tary men and technicians chosen а very happy future for interest with
for their value in carrying on the ranean "life Une." To-day it is see
The bombers will fly There is no point in getting struggle.. Hitler and Mussolint and the Jap- not really a life line. Most of the America in a world dominated by keep their minds on their work.
supplies take the anese generals, It is just asinine, sentimental about this thing. I away to new bases. Fighter pilot
their But the route via to my way of thinking, to imagine think we are making a great mis-will hurl themselves
this machines to destruction against Suez is a highroad of British pres- that the Axis powers with half take in attempting to make tige as well as a supply line for the world in their hands would another Holy War in defence of the rank of the invader.
Everything that cannot be re- → British forces in the Near East ignore the richest prizes of all. democracy. The English like to
and Africa. To be driven out of When we are talking about em- romanticise about their wars. They moved will be destroyed: Stare pires, let's, hot forget that the are really fighting for their lives vation and serfdom will be the lot Mediterranean,. moreover,
the und. in fighting for their lives, of those who remain, but the war United States is sitting on would mean for Britain the 1056 most highly concentrated piece of they are probably fighting for will go on. I don't think Hitler of important oil supplies which wealth on this earth; that another ours. I don't see why they have is going to take Britain but this would then become accessible to prize lies, rich and defenceless, to any other objective. I don't know what will happen if he does..
Lord Lothian,, In the last words the north of us; and that, in addi- any better thing to fight for than the Nazis.
which he addressed to the Ameri tion, we have undertaken to de- the right to live. Britain would fond:20 undeveloped republics to The people who worry about can people, said that In backding . Yet, even 50, have its last battle-the one, that the south some of which art war alms also seem to think that, Britain we were not backing quit- Britons always win stil to auch closer to Europe, and the if the British weren't so blood-ters. fight. A Mediterranean, journey philosophies of Europe, than they thirsty, it would be possible to Lothian was delay lilly The negotiate some kind of a peace British may be slaughtered; their to new successes will, not bringare to us
with the Axis. That, in my hum-air force may be, wiped out; their, ble opinion, is nonsenso. The cities may be destroyed; their British have committed many army may be driven into the beau blunders in the last few years but They will carry, un,They wil Yat, it looks like tough sledding they aren't crazy enough to com- fight, if need be, around the world. for Americh If the Axis wins! Womit the final blunder of chiving ifi, and® back "again"
the
Hitler home. He will still have What Are We Waiting to fight the Battle of the Atlantic,
To matter where his Nazi hordes wander on the Continent, or east ward-444
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