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The War in Finland

ether with a particulation, month, would have conse-to see concluded between the

wholly or in

arrangement

War In Retrospect

I can be sold with confidence that the war to far has gone much better for the Allies than they had reason to expect.

The outstanding fact, which may

have already determined the ultimate issue, is that the threatened German Blitzkrieg on land and n the air has

not even been attempted.

The lightning stroke was the cen- tral feature of Nazi military strategy. But in order to give real hope of success the stroke had to be delivered at once, before the enemy was able to assemble his Immediate military resources to meet it....

Against Poland-relatively weak, unable to receive material support from her Allies in the West, and her

armles 1 directed by the High Com- mand-the lightning war went with a bang.

The world then awalted with bated breath a repetition of the fatal stroke against France and Britain,

Day after day Dr. Goebbels warned us that zero hour was at hand. These warnings, however, proved 'tu be no more than a dévelopment of

the war of nerves.

In spite of Hitler's frantic anxiety

THE Soviet invasion of non-aggression treaty with the Soviet Union very similar to Finland, I wrote at that which the Army officers, the beginning of last urged on by Germany, wanted

Soviet Union and Japan? And quences at least as great as have not the people of the those which followed the United States taken a stronger Nazi invasion of Czecho-line against the Russian attack on Finland than against any Slovakia.

other warlike development in Europe since the last Great

This was certainly no exag war. geration, Far away in Japan the And, since the American- newspapers have been discover- Japanesa trade agreement comes ing that there is a racial link to an end in a few days, and between the Japanese and the might so easily be replaced by one which kept further essential Finnish peoples.

American supplies away from Only a few weeks ago there Japanese ports, is it not im

May

End the War in

wag a strong move in favour of a Tokyo - Moscow. agreement; now there is a notable swing back towards the democracies.

There is of course a profound cleavage in Japanese public opinion. Very roughly, the Court circles, the Navy and the business men want a settle- ment of the

for a swift and dramatic finale, his Chinese war in agree- milliary chiefs declined to take the ment with Great responsibility of sacrificing a million Britain, the United German lives in a frontal attack on States and France, the formidable Maginot defences. while Army officers They knew that if this dangerous and a section of the gamble did not come off the German | bureaucracy are—or cause would be. hopelessly compro- | were-pro-Nazi and in mised.

favour of still further

As on land, so in the air. All the adventures in China unoffelal German boasting of the while the Western havoc 'that was to be wrought

en Powers are too busy! English towns, and the paralyals that elsewhere to object. was to fall on English life, by In-

But that would pre- cessant large-scale air attacks, come

suppose to nothing-not for reasons of human-i ily, us Field-Marshal Goering has Jocularly suggested, but beenuse Į British and French bombing

many's pseudo-ally Russia.

peace

with

says

VERNON BARTLETT

China

of three and a half million men, way towards solving. the grave

with another two and a half problem of transport.

million partially trained and

some three or four million ready

to go off to training camps when

there is room for them.

The Japanese hope of a victory is therefore as remote as

Apart from these armies, over. Their hope that an ar- there are according to the well- rangement can be made with informed

corres- Wang Ching-wei which will save Chungking pondent of the "New York their face, restore peace, and yet Times," well over a million and leave them with considerable a half men organised for guerilla control in China is not so brght warfare behind the Japanese as it was, for he wants more lines.

money and a more nearly inde pendent Chinese army than the "The question of exhausting Japanese generals daro to give the nation's man power," he him.

writes, "need not even be con- sidered for 20 years." But can

Besides, it is not at all certain

these men

be armed? And that the British Government, what about the oil that is essen- despite the partiality shown by tial for all the thousands of some of its members to aggres lorries that bump along that sers, would recognise Wang

miracle

of engineering, the Ching-wel as the ruler of any Burma highway? And the part of China. By doing so it doings of Wang Ching-wei, the would not only thrust Chiang one important deserter from the Kafshek into the arms of Mos

also offend Nationalist camp since the cow it would

American opinion at a time- Japanese invasion began?

when it must be most anxious. The competition for arma-

to win American sympathy. ments has become so widespread and keen that, even if most avenues of supply had not been closed, China would have had to

The Russian attack on Fin- squadrons were stationed on the door the Soviet Union, which alone portant that the Tokyo Govern- depend more and more upon her land, then, has made it almost step of Germany's great industrial

Imperative for Japan to con areas and could give an good as Lon-supplies Chiang Kai-shek with ment should close its ears to own resources.

considerable war materials and the hotheads in the Army?

clude the Chinese, adventure, don got and "erhaps a little more.

but the difficulty of concluding The only land war now in pro-whose past disputes with Japan

it still remains. The British gress is being fought out in arctic have immobilised hundreds of

But she can supply enough and Americans each rofuse to bo conditions between Finland and Ger-thousands of the best Japanese And so it comes about that machine-guns and rifles to keep drawn into negotiations which troops along the frontier that the campaign in favour of n her armies going, and auch might involve other signatories At this point we enter the realm of divide, Siberia from Manchukuo. settlement of the Sino-Japanese artillery as Chiang Kai-shek has to the Washington Nino-Power speculation. No one can any yet

war with Anglo-American advice obtained from Russia and other treaty. The law remains al whether the apparently unequal contest, in the for North

and help has become so strong countrica has been carefully pre- though it has been flouted. And will bring

But, the Japanese now ask that probably it could be check- served for use in the 1940 nationalism in China, the fear Russia and Germany closer together In the war against the democracies themselves, had not Finlanda ed only by one of those revolu- offensive.

of which drove the Japanese to or will Increase their mutunl

tions the Japanese Army 80 Despite the valuable raw their invasion, is doveloping an Auspicions,

often organises against the materials that she has lost to a result of it.

Japan sho.still has certain orcs, The other harassed members But, as many a militarist such as wolfram, which the of the international trade union

It is certain that Russia did not ex-will Tussla be, with no grant margin Japanese politiciang. ** pect and had not provided against of essential war supplies, for an so sturdy'n deflance.

venture against Rumania or Turkey'

ad-

It is certain that, without prompt for Iraq and the regions of the Middle leader has discovered in the British, for example, should be of aggressors who have done on and substantial aid, Finland cannot East in which Britalt in specially, it is infinitely easier to anxious to buy lest they should well for themselves since the hope to withstand the invaders for Interested, and the more confident start a war than to end ane.

be sent via Russia to Germany. Japanese attack on Manchuria many weeks.

In association with the Grind Höfel ang Wrenne 176, Paki

the

will all the threatened countrion of The Chinese National Govern. And thiore in apparently a newly- in 1991 will see no encouragin It is equally certain that the longer South-Eastern Europe be in their ment can claim that it now has developed oilfield in the province light if they turn Chalk ovaal

able to hold out the less ready ability to zmuah the advinture, “ a fully-trained conscript army of Kansu which should go some towards the East.