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Russia Next?
NOME of Hitler's most strik- ***
SOME
ing successes have been gained by doing the unforeseen and the unexpected.
He is the prime exponent of the doctrine that surprise is the most important element in the waging of war, and he always salts the ground well ́ahend.
We
It is eminently worth keeping that fact in mind when weigh up the present situation, and being very much on the look out for a double-cross.
We have heard a great deal lately of the Axis plans for a "pincer" movement and it has been rather taken for granted that the Nazis part in it would ben drive through Turkey and Syria to Egypt, to break Britain's control of the Mediter- ranean, and at the same time to deal our prestige among the coloured races a heavy blow.
That plan may, of course, be the one that Hiller intends to operate; but there is another one which has not been exten- sively canvassed-in itself a suspicious ciréumstance-and it is that, nt long last, he will turn on Russia, thus.realising an am- bition that he has cherished for all his political lifetime.
IT
OUT OF CONTROL
By
Robert Power
T was once my disturbing ex- perience to be in a car of which control was lost. Some- thing went wrong with the steering mechanism just when we were trying to overtake a small van. When the break- down occurred, the car staggered WHEN "The Star", one of crazily from one side of the road London's evening papers, des-to the other. cribes the R.A.F. blitzkrieg raids on the invasion ports as being of "immense significance", as it did yesterday, there is every good reason to accept this assessment of Britain's new air offensive as being accurate. It is probably an understatement; for the significance is not so much that we are destroying Hitler's chances of attempting an invasion of England, as that our air force is now numerically strong enough to adopt and im- prove on Goering's Luftwaffe technique.
British bombers no longer have to carry out their raids without protection other than their own guns; they are now receiving the assistance of fighter planes, thereby adding tremendously to their striking power and effectiveness.
By Candidus
why Hiller should turn his legions against the U.S.S.R., and one reason' that towers aver all the rest-the Ukraine.
The Ukraine is a land that drips with riches and fatness; It would provide Hitler with virtually all he
to Wants, both for his military adven-
There İN definite evidence support that possibility. First, there is Mein Kampf
A very significant passage in the Nazi Bible is that in which Hitler asserts that the Bolsheviks have no Idea of forming an honourable allance or of remaining true to it if they did. (That observation, Is
"Falling a break-through to the
Enst, there is an alternative open to the Axis-the conquest of part That would provide
One or Two Things About JAPAN
If war comes in the Paci
tures and the purposes of pence. flc, how well is Japan pre- In the foregoing connection thepared to fight it out, is the Istanbul correspondent to Times" writes:-
"The question on the lips of every Japanese these days. The Nipponese realise that Ja pan's fourth year of the China incident may turn out to be the first year of a struggle for the supremacy in the Pacific, according to the information service, "Business Week."
of
Russia.
the sources of materials and food
stuffs necessary
for a long war
RUSSIANS IN MASS-Impressivo view of Russians in mass, as thousands of troops passed through Red Squero, Moscow, in observance of 23rd anniversary of October Socialist revolution. embedded in a long diatribe against Russia and its rulers.)
Its significance now Bes, In the implicit criticism it makes of the Russo-German
Japan's self-sufficiency in foodstuffs has been impaired by growing lack of labour, fertili- Hors, fuel and machinery, con- tinues the service. Output of rice, the most important food staple, has declined every year since the outbreak of the China incident, from 19,000,000 tons in 1937-38 to 17,100,000 tons in 1939-40. The 1940-41. crop is expected to fall short of last year's by more than eight per cent.
The composite Japanese in- dex. of mining and manufactur- ing production for the first five months of 1940 (all that are available) has consistently lagged behind the corresponding Agures of last year.
Increase in Labour Force
Japan's industrial labour force has swelled 32 per cent. aince the outbreak of the China incident in
July, 1937. In some of the defence industries the increase has been much lurger: 131 per cent in the ma- chinery and tool industry. 70 per cent in the vehicle, air- craft, and shipbuilding indus- try, and 55 per cent in the metal industry. The Govern- ment figures also reveal the strange fact that workmen in these supposedly high-genred defence industries work Tess man-hours a month now than they did three years ago, pro- there is not enough raw material, fuel, and electric power to keep the pro- ductive machinery going at full
regarding
bably because Paet. Mein Kampf
For a second or two it seemed that we might hit the van, but that moved ahead as our car lost speed. The next danger was that we should overturn in a ditch; but, changing its course again, the car charged towards a bank on the opposite side, and there the driver contrived skil- hond that Stalin also does not con- fully to end its mad career with-sider that the Russo-German Pact is out hurt to either of us.
was written years ago, but we have had ample proof that titler seldom changes his main beliefs.
An incident of very recent date seems to give colour to the likeli
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against Great Britain and the United States, and it would also remove the potential Russian menace to the flank of a German advance In the Near East. Some well-informed, circles in Turkey firmly believe that this idea was behind the conclusion of the Ger- blast. man-Italian-Japanese alliance. curious story has now Istanbul, from sources believed to stocks of raw materials is be reliable, that the German Air available beyond, vague official Ministry
has ordered from two statements that the stock posi-
3,000 puira-o!-
*tion is by no means serious," Czech-companies akis for Atting to the under But despite the slow supply of carriages of alreraft. Aircraft do not require, skis for making win- ler landings in Great Britain or Turkey, but it is not difficult to guess where skis would be use- ful,"
either strong or durable. —An-obviously-inspired-article-re--Czech- "Out of control"—the phrase cently which speculated on the form has a vivid meaning for anyone Germany would assume, and gloat-
that the "coming” .... revolution who has had an experience of it, ing over the prospect.. Are the two as applied to a piece of mechan- strange bed-fellows there has been none stranger in history-beginning to quarrel about the blankets and ism, be it an airplane, a car, or even a cycle whose brake refuses the sheels? to operate at a crítical moment.
My mind has been running on these unpleasant happenings by of Norwich on the virtues of silence. reading a line written by the Hishop Says the Blahop, "Once a word has been spoken. it is out of control."
How seldom we think of the con- speech in that way! sequences of And yet the truth of the statement is beyond question.
or
A lawyer with exceptional ex perience of actions for slander and bel unce told me that, when a lie #ets A start, no explanation apology can ever overtake it. In some places the lie will take root. and the correction will never be heard or read.
This has been the Luftwaffe's method ever since it took such a beating in the early mass raids on Britain, and the presence of escort fighters very largely ac
No sane person would dream of uttering
reckless malicious. counts for the decreased number statement into the microphone that of invading machines brought the word spoken loosely on a village serve a broadcasting system. Yet down. Now the Nazis are to green, at a ten table, or on a street
maz' travel in much
the some way as a wireless talk, being
Inclination, therefore, Jolns hands Apart from his deep hatred of with advantage, and in combination Bolshevism, there are many reasons they are irresistible.
raw materials to Industrial plants and the decreasing volume of railroad shipments, there are many reasons to sup- port the belief that Japan stil! has a considerable stockpile of industrial raw materials, built up probably at the sacrifice of immediate defence require- ments.
New U.S.Bomber: Adverse Trade
Britain Will Buy
All Made
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called the 187 F. which was meant
to combine the best features of both
attack plane and bomber and to give
Balance
Japan's international Galunce
high performance at both low and of payments has grown increas- high altitudes. By early spring lastingly adverse since 1937, main- year Martins were turning out three
of these planes a day--for the Frenchy as a result of heavy raw-ma- The machines that are now being terial imports from the Western produced for us are called 10784. Hemisphere and the British. They weigh B4 tons, have a wing Empire and mounting shipments spread of over dift.
of manufactured goods to the Bad News For Barlin
and China) which does not provide foreign exchange. Another piece of bad news for
During the first six months Hiller is that but in Burbank, California, a vast new factory of the of 1940, Japan ran up an ad- company-a Lockheed sub verse trade balance of 461," sidiary is working on another new.000.000 yen in transactions have a full dose of their own from one to another. You made for us in one of the largest twin-engined bomber, the Lockheed with countries other than Man- medicine, and the results can be cannot tell how far it will reach, or aeroplane plants in the United Vega 37, which is bigger and foster chukuo ánd. China, as
confidently predicted.
Forner.
By Robert Waithman YOU may be hearing soon, and before long you may be seeing, a new plane that is being
com-
In the event of a war pitch- ing the United States, Grent Britain, the Netherlands, and
We have agreed to buy all planes French Ship Held China against Japan, Tokyo's
of this type Martins can make be-] tween now and the end of 1941.
In New York
than the Lockheed Hudson that has how It may be distorted in the tell- States.
served us so well and which has pared with 394,000,000 yen ing.
striking new devices to give it greater for the like period of 1989 and As fighters, always at a nu-
Were we in broad upon the dun- It will be called the Baltimore offensive power and greater immunity 1988. In the process Japan gers of the spoken word, we might, Bomber, British air experts in from attack. We have placed an sacrificed nearly all of her merical disadvantage, British from fear, become silent and unso-America think enough of it to order for £0,000,000 worth of these negotiable gold reserves.
clable. The safeguard is so to con- and Empire aviators have proved trol the tongue that you acquire a have placed with the Glenn L. new bombers. time and again that they are with discretion, and of persons with strangely-worded contract.
reputation for speakings of things Martin Company of Baltimore a superlor to the Germans; as chority; and thus the word that goes bombers our men have demon-crashing out of control can never be
attributed to you strated that they are very much more accurate than the Huns. to victory against fantastic odds; Given, therefore, similar conditions within few weeks we can expect to those enjoyed by the Germans up them to have reduced those odds to to the present-escort fighter planes negligibility and thus to consolidale and masses of bombers-the battle their earlier achievements. As day for air supremacy is as good ns won succeeds day, Hitler's prospects of This is not boasting; the claim is invading England become dimmer;
But the facts are available, on" n The action claims that the British materials on these three terri- substantiated by cold and sober facts, his bases have long been taking an bomber which the Marin Company Ministry of Supply shipped 1,000 tories, besides China, Manchu The time appears to have arrived awful battering; now his troops are has been and still is making for tons of spoitaa form of zinc kuo, Soviet Russly, and, to when Britain finds herself in the being bombed out of existence. Britain, and it may be reasonable to aboard the French freighter San some very small extent, Ger- position to challenge the Germans Britain, the Empire, and the rest of guess that the new Baltimore Bomb- Jose from Vancouver for Le Havre many and Italy.The entire in the air on more or less equal the Democracies can take renewed er will turn out to be fast, and a early last Junie.
Western Hemisphero, Asia west terms; the thought must be a fright heart in the knowledge that the air more deadly version of this already Subsequently the plaintiff con of Singapore and Oceania
fast and deadly! plane, ening one for Goering's Luftwaffe. war is steadily going against the
The Martin Company began large-cargo, by pulling Into Com Blanes, would most likely be inaccesat..... Our men have battled their way Nazis,
scale production in 1930 of a machine! Morocco, Instead of Le Havre. ble to Japanese merchantment..
economic "Lebensraum would undergo a drastic curtailment.. Detalls of production plans are confined to the announcement that A
Assuming a successful Japan- A writ of attachment is holding the planes will be turned out. "in the French steamer Fort de France
cao thrust into, the Philippine. volume, that engineering work is in New York pending trial of a libel Islands and Dutch East Indies, virtually complete, and that pro action for $145,000 damages which and complete mastery of duction will start "shortly."
the British Government says it dus French Indo-China, tained by the alleged "conversion" would be able to draw for war Japan of a cargo by another French ship,
Fastor, Deadlier · ·
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