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DARDANELLES.

SYRIA

"WHAT THE STARS FORETELL

Awakening At Last

By Joseph Alsop And Robert Kintner

in the N.Y. "Herald Tribune."

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Army and Navy auxiliary The beginings of an atmos, morale, but argues that Britain's | In Egypt, the British Mediter-

important as brute strength will soon be ex-

ranean buse, the British arc vessels. commissioning per change as

that which led to the lease tend Iausted if no greater help comes.

lighting ધ campaign against what remains of the laid-law are now clearly perceptible ; President Conant's mision of ex-

scientific information numericaЛly superior German- up fleets of United States in Washington. In the period be-changing

tween the lease-lond law's enart- with the British gave him wide | Italian force. Ir. French North merchant ships and, pos- ment and the Balican tragedy, and easy access in Lundun,

He Africa. Weygand's position has some even the bollest members of the is understood to have told mem- sibly, diverting

been already

seriously under- Admnistration. tended to regard bers of the Admnistration here Great Lakes carriers to American

German agents aid for Britam with that this country had only a few mined.

are in probably until the end | virtually full control of Casa the coastal and inter-considerable complacency. Enough months

Wie being done, was the attitude; of summer at the outside

to Biwa.

In Spain, Gen. Franco is coastal trade.

and when

dernie whether required, Was

to "put up or Now, how shut up."

resisting German demands against odds. And in France there are signs that the Vichy regime may be preparing Jor a Anal sur render.

110re

Plainly the programmere would be done.

ever, this complacency has

is not merely intended to vanished like must provide more tonnage but ornng.

to obtain the maximum of effective use of the ton- nage that is available. To achieve this it

un H hot

Hopes Pinned

This is painting the picture

as it can b purposely as dark made. Actually, our military ex-

must go| tain's power to resist indefinitely have been pinned on the Unitect perts give the British better than

beyond strictly maritime

limits.

without far more substantial help

A second school, centred in the War Department, affirms the It has been dispelled by a magnificence of the British pro- deeply significant new note in re-pie's courage, but points out that ports from Britain fi recent

the well-spring of courage is weeks a note of doubt of Bri-

hope, and that Britain's hopes States for many months.

an even chance to meet the dan. If these

the Mediterranean. ger in hopes are disappointed, the second

is that the Mediter- the point school suys, the worst can easily ranean may go. American policy happen. The British leaders may must be calculated on that pos- refuse to sustain a suicidal war. Sibility. The possibility means, in The British war effort may falter turn, that Germans may obtain One from internal weakness. However supplies, including oil for of such

long war. And the effect of

than is now being given.

observers,

The note has been struck by a The highest efficiency half dozen returning in the use of available both official and unofficial, but

extremely competent. shipping requires that the school, best represented by the it happens, the end will be a

brillant president of Harvard, negotiated peace, leaving Ger- James Bryant Conant, does not many the strongest nation in the question the resilience of British | world, with Britain exhausted and subservient, and the United States standing alone.

among

Bu!

a prospect on British strength and British morale can easiy be understood.

Tipping The Scale

points. They should be field, above all others, a large American

force. It is simply a hard-head-store the balance now.

case

Bal-

the

flow of war materials by land from their points of origin to the docks must be co-ordinated with the movement of ships. Sup-been insufficient CO-

This is not defeatism of the

Pitifully little active assistance plies must move quickly ordination

the Lindbergh sort. Not one of the from this country would have re- Ship- and smoothly to the har- various elements.

men whose reports have caused stored the balance in the Medi- such disquiet here questions for terranean, preventing all but the bours so as to avoid delays ping is the most critical an instant that the war can be comparatively meaningless

United kan tragedy, which would be far in the loading and con- phase of the effort to win won if Britain and the

States will stand together as fight- from effects on the will to resist gestion at shipping this war. It is the one ing partners. Nor is it a call for in other countries. Pitifully lit- expeditionary the active assistance would re- It is the routed to those harbours where desperate shortage ed assessment of the pressing same most of the major war which make possible the and urgent need permit can action to meet such problems margin is slight between success-

need for bold and decisive Amer- situations. In each shortest ocean passage, no inefficiency or lack of as that of the Atlantic, that offul resistance and defeat. But in even if this means longer co-ordination to be toler-North Africa, and that of the Far each case, because

East. and more expensive ated. The President has movement by rail. No taken an excellent step in

In Britain, the men responsible ship should be allowed to providing for the mobi-

The Mediterranean - North for their country's present plight sail without a full cargo; lisation of a 2,000,000-ton African situation is the best case have merely been put into a sort no ship should be kept pool of ships. It is in point. At present, the state of of Coventry. The worst that Sir affairs is critical. After the Bal- John Simon, Sir Horace Wilson waiting for its cargo to be earnestly to be hoped that kan disaster, Turkey has turned and their sort have had to face is and may give German a few velled or open insults when assembled; no ship should, he will follow this by soggy,

forces the right of transit to at- they appear in public. But those. be permitted to waste establishing "a unified tack the oil fields of Iraq. The American leaders who are now. time in going to distant authority, in close liaison Russians, whose pressure Turkey doing all in their power to pre- can hardly resist, have just vont the crucial margin from ports if its cargo can be with the British Govern-signed a pact with Japan at Ger- being covered had best remem

A chunk of her that the temper of our people

Situation Critical

this country will not cover the margin, defeat comes in the end.

brought alongside in ports ment, to co-ordinate the many's direction,

Persia was always to be one of is not so easy, polite and for-

closer to the ultimate entire movement on both their rewards for adherence to giving as that of the British. destination.

land and sea of the freight the Axis, and the Russo-Persian They had best ask themselves, border is now reported closed: "When we stand, isolated and at The principal weakness traffic essential to defence Iraq itself, although. British bay, in a world whose masters of America's entire and to the winning of the troops have landed, is still in the are our enemies, shall I be held

harids of a pro-German govern- to blame? And if I am, defence effort to date has battle of the Atlantic:

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