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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

"WINDSOR HOUSE

SECOND SPRING

There can be no come- back for Italy in this war. and this means that as a military weapon the Axis. is broken. The threat of the double-edged sword works no longer. Ten months after the black week when Britain was left to carry on the com- bat without allies Ger-¡ many reached the point where she too must fight alone. Not one of the pacts Hitler has schemed to achieve, from the deal with the Soviets to the boomerang treaty with The Yugoslavs, has given him another ally. Now, deprived of the aid of Italy, even as a decoy tol hold the British fleet in! the Mediterranean. Ger- many must rely entirely on her own armed forces. This is a fact of capital importance, comparable only to the fall of France. In the first Spring of the war, few would have dared predict that the second Spring would open on a turning of the tables as

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This collapse cannot be retrieved by retaking out- posts in the Libyan de»; sert. The British forces]

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