Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1941 — Page 11

(FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1941"

y GREEKS TO HOLD ON,

U.N. EXPERTS SAY

Britain Needs Ally in Keeping Turkey Out of Hitler's , ‘Arms, and Is Expected to Give Adequate Aid in Vital Battle for Control of Aegean.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Confidence that Greece and Britain will not give Hitler the Balkan-Aegean stronghold without a fight continues to grow in informed circles here.

“Arrival at Cairo of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden and Chief of Staff Gen. Sir John Dill, from London, and the reported British occupation of Lemnos and other strategic islands dominating Salonika and the Dardanelles, seem to confirm Washington's faith

. in British action in that area. .Washington from the beginning has refused to accept the almost a unanimous European interpretations t hat Nazi penetration - and the BulgarTurkish friendship pact forecast a . Greek peace and Hitler mastery there. Of course Greece will have to fold if Britain continues to Mr Denny withhold largescale aid. But that is a big “if”"—so big that it involves inconceivable London stupidity or deliberate British sacrifice of the eastern Mediterranean.

New War Front Wanted

If Britain is ready to run, or Greece is ready to quit, Washington is completely misinformed. That is possible, but not probable. Whether Britain could win the battle of Salonika and the Aegean would depend on many undeveloped factors, including the size of Hitler's forces. Therefore it is anybody's guess. But that_ Britain has sufficient forces in the Near East to \ make it an effective “war of diver- . sion,” thus shattering Hitler's hope of concentrating all on the British * Isles, is assumed here. And that is the test. The urgent need of opening a second : front to divide the Nazi spring blitz, however, is not . the only reason Prime Minister Winston Churchill must try to save Greece.

Dangerous to Retreat

Here are some .other potent reasons why it is more dangerous for the British to retreat than to fight: 1. Greek surrender or “peace” would revive crippled Italy, and more than cancel out the Axis loss

of eastern JLibya. 2. British sacrifice of Greece would force Turkey into Nazi arms, and hand Hitler the key to the Near East and Midle East—including Mosul oil. 3. To desert Greece would be to give up the only British land base for attack on Hitler in all Europe. Whether Britain could get another

effective invasion base, even at the|§

cost of many months and divisions

of slaughtered troops, is uncertain. Whoever forgets Gallipoli, it is not apt to be Churchill. 4. If and when Greece goes to Hitler, British control of the Mediterranean and Suez will hang in the balance. Greece is the perfect bombgr and submarine base for step-by-step destruction of the British fleet and assault on Suez.

In Position for Aegean Fight

Unlike Italy’s Libyan bases— which the British considered such a threat to Suez, and which Il Duce could not maintain because of broken supply lines across long deserts and sea — Hitler's Greek bases would be serviced by direct, internal, secure supply lines. Hitler probably could put a deadly submarine fleet overland into the Aegean and Mediterranean. At least he seems to have had no difficulty shipping overland knocked-down submarines to Rumania for assembly in the Black Sea; and Russia apparently has used the same method at Vladivostok. But if Britain intends to fight for the Aegean, as expected, she is in an excellent position to do so. Her present control of it is complete, now that she has Lemnos and the northern islands as well as Crete at the south. Although she has not yet captured the Dodecanese Islands from the Italians, she has them under siege and bombardment. The only excuse for British failure to give Greece adequate aid this winter for Albanian victory was not lack of men and machines, but use of the British Army of the Nile and fleet elsewhere. The conquest of eastern Libya, however, was completed almost two weeks ago. Britain still could concentrate on distant Tripoli, but she is now free to defend Greece if she desires.

SELL BLITZ ERA ART TO HELP. BABY FUND

NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (U. P).— A sample of Britain’s blitzkrieg era art, the bronze head, shoulders and outstretehed arms of a baby, done by Jacob Epstein in his bombdamaged Hyde Park Gate studio, was displayed privately today. Edith Lutyens, niece of Sir Edward Landseer Lutyens, designer of ‘the Cenotaph that honors Britain's World War dead, brought the bronze here on the liner Georgic a week ago with a commission from Epstein to sell ‘it and give the money to some organization working for the relief of bombed British babies.

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