Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1941 — Page 20

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: BIRMINGHAM, England (By Wireless).—This is city of more than a million people—the second largest city in England. Since it is a manufacturing city the Germans have tried to give it the works. They have made scars, but F they haven't been able to obliterate Birmingham. The city is damaged in about the same proportion as London's West End, which: of course is bad but not bad enough for Hitler’s purposes. Up to the moment, Birmingham is not a city that will have to be rebuilt after the war. It is a city - that will just have to be patched up. Birmingham has big factories but it is also noted for its little ones. It is a city wherein the : small individual plant still lives— pr ~ “. . where craftsmanship is a virtue. ere are more than 2000 factories in Birmingham.

} t's why Hitler would almost have to wipe out the

. ..of business. i thing for the war.

city before he could put Birmingham’s production out

these factories are making some-

. Practically all of I went to visit one small plant.

It was in a darkish old brick building, covering about

gn eighth of a block. Hitler could never find it-unless * he sent a man on a bicycle to ask a policeman.

“Czar of the Fishermen "Tom Waterhouse is the owner and manager of this t. Itis what we at home would call a machine . And it is small industry at its best. There are employees, and their average service in this concern is 25 years. ‘As I went through the shop I asked the first four 'T eame to how long they had been with the company, aiid the answers were 35, 37, 40 and 45 years! “What do you make here?” I asked Mr, Water-

He laughed and said, “We make whatever nobody else wants to make. We make hundreds of crazy things—special parts for guns and marine engines ‘and so on. There is no mass production here. - Every piece is a special piece for a special purpose, and they're made practically by hand.” Mr. Waterhouse’s office is full of age, and of things

£ ‘stacked up. On the walls hang half a dozen stuffed

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fish. Mr. Waterhouse says he just loves to fish. For ) years he has been head of the biggest fresh-water ‘fishing society in the world. He is the czar of 40,000

English fishermen.

_ Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)

"THIS IS STRICTLY an inside tip for those who yearn to get into that long-haired business of writing for a living. Do a juvenile story about an air«Pp hostess. Explain how she gets her job and - what she does, using, meantime, a minimum but noJ : ticeable amount of romance. f Some publisher may grab it up, : for there seems to be a shortage of such reading.

That's the word we get from

Miss Zella Spence, who's been children’s librarian at the Central

Library long enough to know all the ins and outs of the all-day-sucker literary trade. One publisher submitted an airplane hostess. story for Miss Spence's approval but she found i it a bit over-romantic for a 12-vear-old. At about that age, says Miss Spence, the girls start thinking about a career and although romance is quite peachy with them, mostly they want. to. know how they can be a success without g up over a kitchen stove. The time was, Miss mee explained, when the girls read stories on the me, but now it’s careers. boys, however are reading about the same gs their grown-up brothers liked. Westfonderful if the cowboys ride an airplane or d occasionally leave the horse at the hitching A little two-gun shooting from the hip doesn't ther, And speaking of shooting, Miss Spence remembers @ young man who same to Miss Helen Barber's ar story hour so heavily armed, she requested to theck his firing irons at the door. : , he capitulated without serious remon-

| And So There!

IT WAS A SAD DAY on Feb. 21 when “Inside” told how Indiana had to give up the honor of having

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—The Bethlehem Steel Jabor trouble has so vitally threatened defense work

¢ * that it may prod the Government into taking long-

“ meglected action to set up a special mediation board “for war industry. Certainly such action is sadly

needed in the judgment of many who are experienced in labor relations. Conferences have been held and the mechanics have been discussed but no action has been taken, although an executive order could be prepared and issued by President Roosevelt within 24 hours. : Nine months ago the Defense Commission was created but labor relations were left to hit-and-miss, lick - and - a - promise treatment. When trouble threatened, nobody RE knew where to go. Employers tated to William S. Knudsen and labor leaders sho Sidney Hillman, both of whom: are busy with other Work, ; © We have been lucky with labor trouble thus far.

1 Wage demands are to be expected in time of increas-

‘ing operations. Fortunately few of the strikes have been serious. Vultee was the worst. It set production back a month. But even that experience was not sufficient warning. ;

A Crisis in Steel Strike

# . Thus it was that at this late date the threat of | the Bethlehem strike broke with no machinery for shandling it. Defense officials had to rush into the

| Crisis is the word for it, because Bethlehem is one of the indispensable defense industries. A tie-up of its plants would be a blow at the manufacture of » ships and armor plate. - A prolonged: tie-up

y Day

ASHINGTON, Thursday. —Today I shall tell you tle about the work‘ of the United States Com«for the Care of European Children, which I yesterday. I wonder if people realize that children, even ‘when they are in the homes of @ foster parents, are watched over by agencies in various parts of the country, chosen by the .U.dted States Children’s Bureau. Sometimes these agencies are state

agencies, sometimes they are pri-:

. vate ones, but they always come up to a high standard set by the Children’s Bureau and our guests from overseas are safe in their care.

No matter how careful they are + in a choice of a home, however, a child does not always .adjust and there is friction between the mempusehold.. In that case, the agency tries er home in which a happier adjustment 8. Occasionally, people undertake a rewithout realizing quite what it means face it day in and day out. - Financial , problems arise within the family and anges. All these are part of the responed by the United States committee. States committee in many cases as-

- —well, Britain has been able to go right on manu-

- the reading

By Ernie Pyle

If you think war doesn't affect the ayerage person —well, Mr. Waterhouse has not had time to go fishing since the war started. On a window ledge is # whole row of shrapnel and bomb. fragments and nose-caps off bombs. These were all picked up right @round the plant. “We used to make quite a point of collecting them,” Mr. Waterhouse says, “but now theyre so common we don’t even keep them.” Most of the Waterhouse employees are Home Guardsmen or air-raid wardens in their home suburbs, and all of them take turns as roof spotters at the plant. Mr. Waterhouse takes his turn with them. He has kept a diary ever since the war started. In it he notes the weather for each day, the number and severity of raids, and the big’ news of the day. He sees the war as concerned with only one thing—the right to live in a country where you can say what you think and do whatever you please. “Hell, man,” he said, “you couldn't even knock off to go fishing, under Hitler.” ‘So the Waterhouse plant pecks away at making everything that ether people don’t want to make, to keep the fighters going.

England Not So Small

Back home I know people have wondered how it could possibly be true that England is getting along with her factory production when Hitler has such a vast air armada and such a little distance to fly it, and when England is fo small and congested and easy to hit. I've wondered about it myself. Well, for one thing, England is not so small as you might think. It is as fer from Lands End, on the south, to John O’Groat’s, on the north, as it is from New York to Chicago, And crosswide, at the average, England is more than 200 miles wide. So you see that's quite a bit of ground. You can sprinkle a lot of factories over that much territory, and Britain has sprinkled them. If they’ve got 2000 factories in Birmingham, which they have, then they’ve got tens of thousands in other places. They are practically everywhere. If Germany knew where they all were, and could send planes over unopposed in the daytime to destroy them, it would take months just to pick them out and blow them up. But with daylight bombing completely whipped, and small spots impossible to find at night, and with even the terrific all-night blitzes getting only a fraction of the factories in a congested area, and with a smooth system of quick repairs to damaged factories

facturing through it all.

had a citizen who held the first driver's license. Believing that the first in America was issued to Elwood Haynes, Kokomo, in (1893, the Automobile Old Timers, Inc., of New York wrote to the State Bureau of Vehicles for verificatior. When the State could produce no evidence of Mr. Haynes having a license, Old Timers decided the first must have been isiued to Harold T. Birnie, New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1900. Well, that's wrong. (Doesn't that make you happy?) Seems the first was issued to Joseph H. McDuffee, Prest-O-Lite president and executive vice president of the Electric Auto Lite Co. of Toledo. An “adopted Hoosier,” Mr. McDuffee was in business here from 1920 to ’37 bus in 1900 he owneg the first auto agency and was located in New York. He sold a Stanley Steamer to Mr, Birnie and taught him how to drive it. (Mr. McDuffee was cuite a driver. Fact is, he won the first Vanderbili Cup race.) The two met at last! year’s auto show in New York and Mr. Birnie remarked to Mr, McDuffee: “Imagine them crediting me with the first license when you taught me how to drive. I know you had one.” This mixup caused us quite a few anxious days and we're glad now thét the matter is cleared up.

Around the Town—

AN INGENIOUS LADY of our acquaintance has solved the problem of getting a seat on inbound rush hour N. Illinoig streetcars. When she gets aboard at 21st St. she spots a pair of white shoes and stands in front of them. At 16th St., she gets a seat. The white shoes usually belong to a nurse who will get out at 16th for Methodist Hospital. . . . The new $120,000 Turner hangar at the Airport is much snazzier than the Airport Administration building to the north, which used to be considered quite elegant, When Col. Roscoe and his pals go to see Nish Dienhart in the Administration Building, they greet him something like this: “Well, Nich, how are things going over in the log cabin on the north 40?”

By Raymond Clapper

would be so crippling thaf, the Government just will not permit it to happen. The Government has power to commandeer defense plants, and the possibility of having to resort to that drastic action has been considered. Officials hoped they would be able to avoid such a step, and to that end sought to persuade the management to agree to arbitration—as the union leaders agreed here earlier this week. Some in the Government have heen ready, if necessary, to force a showdown. Others counted upon Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehein, to agree to arbitration rather than force the Government to take the direct and distasteful course. This incident, with its grave implications, underlines again the need for mediation machinery. Immediately, by executive order, a war-industries labor board -could. be. set. up so that there would be a recognized body to deal with labor disputes in defense plants. i Mediation Law Sought Opinion seems to favor a board that would include representatives of both the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O,, and of the employers, and be headed by perhaps two “impartial chairmen” One chairman would be a man who was nota champion of labor but reasuring to labor, and the other, not a champion of employers but reassuring to employers. The point about the chairmen would be to have a pair of men able to work together in harmory, each having the confidence of at least one party in a dispute. Such a board would be enormously helpful in providing a recognized shoulder upon which complainants of either side could weep. The board would be able, no doubt in many cases, to bring about agreement by friendly mediation. But to be fully effective, sucn a board should as soon as possible be provided with Federal mediation legislation, requiring coolingoff periods before resorting to strike. The pattern would be the Railway Mediation Act and the Minnesota “count ten” mediation law.

Fn By Eleanor Roosevelt

steady income. For the time being, no effort is being made to bring over children from England, but there are children arriving on various steamers, sometimes entirely unaccompanied. The United States committee is notified, meels them, and arranges for reception care until they are placed in a home in this country. ‘It may be possible to bring some children from Lisbon. These children are either now in Lishon awaiting passage, or agencies hope. to bring them over in small groups. ‘They are largely refugee children of many nationalities from unoccupied France. I was surprised to learn the other day that there are still 500 childréen with their. parents in concentration camps in unoccupied France. The Red Cross is frying to help| these children. Some of them may eventually find their way to our shores, as well as others: who ‘can no longer be cared for in France by individuals and groups there. It seems to me that every child saved is just one more life for which to be thankful. - . . . I lunched with Dr. Dearborn, some of the faculty of New York University Extension Service and some of the educational people from the CCC camps in the corps area in New York City yesterday. The reading clinic of the university has conducted an experiment in one of the CCC camps in this area which reveals uncorrected eye defects in a great many of these boys and certain facts about their reading ability which point t) some needed in our educational system. [ was very much interested in anc think manyiof us would profit MY Foray soa SETA oh

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Hitler's

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Napoleon look like secondraters in the record of the ages? It doesn’t quite seem in Hitler's character, or at all practical: or wise, to have sidestepped an opportunity like that—if he really could have pulled it off. If the Nazis really had 25,000 or 30,000 warplanes (as has been reported so persistently) why didn’t they crush Britain with one terrible blow, as they said they

would do? » 2 »

Y OWN conviction is that Germany did not possess anything like a sufficient superiority in the air to pull the trick, and also that she made a sta¥t toward invasion but ‘had to give it up for a variety of reasons. In regard to the first item, here is the statement of a trained military observer, stationed in Germany until quite recently, who enjoyed the confidence of Nazi leaders. I cannot identify the man further, except to say that he is one of the most impressive citizens I have encountered anywhere since I went to

the war.

This expert told me: . “The Germans failed in their attack on Britain primarily because the British refused to let their fighter craft be drawn. out and destroyed. “The Nazis possessed about 10,000 pursuit planes against some 2500 which they credited to the British’ at that time. They sent their bombers over in successive heavy waves in mid-September. They thought they would pull hundreds of English fighters into the air and then destroy them. “Instead, the British let their towns and cities take cruel bombing punishment—but they never allowed their fighter defense to be crippled or cut in half as Berlin had hoped. That was strategy in the grand style. anything else, it made it impossible for the Nazis to invade Britain.” 2 mec MY RT Ae 8

Why the Invasion Failed

ATER on, a highly placed officer of the Royal Air Force gave me a frank confirmation of

the essence of this declaration. Somewhere, in my recent wanderings, I also encountered a foreign military authority who had been in Germany a long time. He said: “The Germans tried a September invasion. They had prepared it for weeks in the coastal ports

and they even showed some of us:

just what they were doing. Hundreds of barges, packed with thousands of Nazi troops, were sunk in Dutch, Belgian or French ports.” Somewhere, an R. A. F. flier described to me how he had flown over ports, jammed tight with barges and convoys, and how every bomb had to be a hit. The words of these witnesses had the ring of authenticity. On the other hand, if the Germans ssuffered a very considerable disaster of this kind, I don’t pretend to know why the British Government did not make publicity out of it at the time. What is certainly far more important and much more convincing is the fact that Nazis all over the Balkans spent the summer telling us they would be in London in September, and then suddenly carefully avoided that subject when autumn came,

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Only Few Moves Left

ITLER did not invade the British Isles. It was his greatest chance. But he didn’t do it because he couldn’t pull. it off. It seems impossible to escape this conclusion. With these elements for background, what about Hitler's alternatives today? Admittedly, there remain only

a few places in Europe where Nazi

armed might can move.. It can move in the following directions: 1. Straight ahead and all out against the British Isles. 2. Against Greece, Jugoslavia or Turkey. 3 3. Into Spain and Portugal as preparation for an attack upon

4. Into Ukraine “breadbasket” and the Baku oil fields of Soviet Russia.

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The: Why of Bulgaria

EGARDING the first alterna-

tive, there can be no doubt

that Nazi Germany, having failed to invade Britain last autumn, must make a powerful attempt to

" do so sometime during these next

few months—if Hitler ever expects to occupy the British Isles before they become forbiddingly, peptiaps hopelessly strong. It would seem the Nazis must strike there this spring, prefer‘ably before July. For Britain's defensive and offensive powers are increasing every week (just as they have weekly since September) and the flow of American war materials will make an enormous difference by mid-summer. : Hitler knows two things: very well: That he cannot win or survive & long war, and that he

More than

Europeans in subservience on the continent unless: he knocks out Great Britain. But to launch the greatest in-

vasion attempt against Britain

since the Spanish armada, Hitler will need to use every weapon at his command. He must have quiet behind his back and an uninterrupted flow of war materials and food supplies from Hungary, Rumania, Russia, Bulgeria and Jugoslavia. This is why Hitler has had to move into Bulgaria, put pressure on the Jugoslavs and take great risks to impose a dictated peace upon the Greeks. He may possibly succeed in all this (it’s never safe to make predictions about those granite-hearted Greeks). Nevertheless, it’s still true that Hitler has had his hand forced. He never wanted to risk a paralyzing blitzkrieg move in southeastern Europe and he has - been compelled to move with desperate speed. ? So Hitler is trying posthaste to close the back door to the Balkans. Without venturing upon rash forecasts let us consider certain

possibilities. » # »

Too Much Ground to Cover

\UPPOSING the Greeks had to resign themselves and the Nazis got control of Salonika, with or without armed intervention. Anything like that would be the worst that could happen to the gallant Greeks. In such a case Hitler would presumably have his hands free once more to turn west against Britain. His armies of occupation throughout eastern and southeastern Europe, however, would probably exceed 2,000,000 men, if they do not surpass that total already. The drain upon the spreadout Nazi war machine would be greater than ever, especially since scores of divisions must always stand ready opposite the long Soviet frontiers and those of Turkey. It would be folly for Hitler to try to wrest the Dardanelles from the Turks right now, though of course he intends to grab these strategic straits some day. It's quite possible that he will be able to do that before the year ends. But without. naval control of the Mediterranean, possession of the Dardanelles would not apappreciably advance - Germany's war potentialities. Their seizure would also cost plenty—too much, "if Hitler is going to strike in the west. . We hear much speculation about the Nazi army striking through ' Turkey, crossing Syria, invading Palestine and so smashing Sova upon the Suez Canal by nd. For a long while to come, by land constitutes about the. only chance the Germans would have of reaching the Suez. But several factors’ are overlooked in this popular speculation. First, it seems absolutely certain that the Turks will fight if they are attacked—and, extremely probable. that the Soviets will encourage them to resist, perhaps supplying them with war materials. .

HOLD EVERYTHING

3 Second, there can be no blitzkrieg across Turkish Asia Minor. » ” »

Turkey Much Too Tough

OME of the shrewdest military experts in the Balkans insist that a German attempt to drive

through Turkey's Taurus Mountains would be “military folly.” They point out that only one single-tracked railroad traverses this wild region. It would require 35 trains to transport one German division and its equipment across Turkish Asia Minor—or three days for one division of about 15,000 men—and this, if the Turks made no resistance whatever. Since the Turks would surely dynamite scores of bridges and

miles of track, it is almost incon-.

ceivable that the Nazis could reach Syria and Palestine through Turkey. It seems quite as inconceivable that the Turks would not fight desperately to hold the Dardanelles, and if they failed in that they would still be fighting savagely for the life of their nation. The Turks are the only Balkan people who have been really tough about expelling Nazi agents ever since the war began. Altogether, it seems extremely unlikely that Hitler will take on the Turks hefore he has {ried a decisive blow against Britain.

That brings us to Hitler's third alternative, passage - of troops through Spain to Gibraltar’s rear and possible occupation of Portugal. Certain military attaches in the Balkans, who have been close to the Nazis for months, insist that Germany must choke off every. Atlantic port from the British before attempting an invasion. : In their ‘opinion, this would mean Nazi occupation of all Spanish Atlantic ports and also occupation of Lisbon and of Portugal's important port of Lagos, down near Gibraltar.

In Lisbon, on my way home,’

Portuguese expressed a great deal of concern about just such a move as this. Many Portuguese are obsessed with fear that this is going to happen. . . .

What Hitler 'Has to Do’

AST October, one of Field

Marshal Hermann Goering’s

closest advisers had a long talk with a friendly journalist in a

* Balkan carital.

He said flatly that Germany must control the entire Atlantic Coast from the tip of Norway far down to Dakar in French West Africa, that Germany must control all this coastline “against the Anglo-Saxon world.” About that time I sought the opinion of a military attache who had been 100 per cent right in predicting exactly what German arms did in Holland, Belgium and France., He is probably the bestinformed man an Nazi military policies and plans of anyone of his profession anywhere in the Balkans. He was equally convinced that

Hitler must seize the naval bases in Spain and Portugal and cut off Gibraltar as completely as -possible — BEFORE attacking the British Isles. The Nazis’ job, he said, was to knock out Britain before American aid could prevent it. He believed Hitler would smash at the British Isles from all sides simultaneously, and “pick up the little apples later” — if he succeeded. Since September this officer had become notably cautious about making outright predictions about the outcome. . ” ” ”

Spain Bound to Be Balky

Fou indirect Nazi sources and * from ‘knowledge of Hitler's strategy it is possible, therefore, to build up a strong case for a German move into Spain and Portugal, and this as a final step

. Preparatory to blitzkrieging over

the English Channel, Against this possibility, or probability, several factors can be ranged. Such as Franco’s demonstrated aversion to becoming involved in the World War. Such as the inflamed opposition and resentment which the Spanish people would feel toward a German army of occupation. Most important of all, such as the cruel fact that Spain today is the most starved nation in Eufope and mililons of Spaniards can only be kept alive so long as Britain and the Americas send them enough food to keep death from the door.

If the Nazis go in, these absolutely essential food suplies will stop. Over Spain’s disorganized, warwrecked railroads Hitler would also have .a terrific job trying to ship in sufficient food and war materials for even two or three German divisions in the south of Spain.

The Invasion of Portugal? ERHAPS Hitler would merely demand transit facilities, so that he could: occupy Portugal— not a difficult task. Nazi occupa= tion forces might manage to live on Portugal's limited fat for a short time. It would be quite a big gamble, yet Hitler may have to take it: Especially if he feels it is necessary for Germany to use Portuguese ports against both G'braltar and thé British Isles. If Hitler has certain doubts about successfully invading Brit ain — something which the evidence indicates he must be plagued with to a considerable degree—then a possible Nazi move in the Iberian Peninsula .cannot ~be discounted during the coming months. Should ¥t be taken, however, it can only be inaugurated in the face of serious handicaps and risks

As a fourth alternative, one.

question remains: Will Hitler in-

' vade some portion of Soviet Rus-

sia? In December, advices reaching Athens from both Bucharest and Berlin indicated that such an attack was under preparation and

some people believed this might

happen before next summer. That seems much less of a probability today—unless Hitler should find that he had to abandon a frontal attack on Britain. But this does not mean that Nazi Germany has no intention of-smashing the Red Army some day or other. Far

from it. a ”n ” EJ

Food Problem Stupendous

N a previous article I have discussed Stalin’s justified fears and the reasons for them in cansiderable ‘detail. One or two -elaborations may be pertinent here. “we With Nazi occupation of the low countries and much of France the problem of feeding Hitler's “subject peoples” has become stupendous. With the near-collapse of Fascist Italy the Nazis must also ship ‘large’ quantities of gasoline into Italy, if Fascist aviation is to remain active on an important scale. . With every extension of Germany’s armed forces the strain upon continental supply lines and supplies increases ominously. This is why and how Hitler's armed forces’ handicapped by a very heavy economic ball and

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In the Balkans it is also stated that the Nazis are faced with a . serious shortage of heavy lubri-, cating oils for use in airplanes and submarines. The Rumanian . oil fields produce comparatively little of this kind of oil, but it is most abundant in the gigantie Baku fields of the Russian .Caucasus. Therefore, the one place where Hitler could get a tremendous lot of both wheat and lubricating oils is in southeastern and southern Russia. Wheat and oil would be the great prizes for a blitzkrieg through the Ukraine. '

Ukraine the Best Bet

F Hitler cannot occupy the British Isles this spring, or if he has to adjourn the attempt, he will have to do something startling somewhere,

Spain and Portugal wouldn't take long, though their cost might be long indeed. . Turkey, including Asia Minor, would be much too long and even the cost of the Dardanelles might be exorbitant.

The Ukraine, on the other hand, i Bas and open and temptingly ch.

Nazi divisions, tanks and aire planes could always strike there with a maximum of speed and efficiency and—a notable item— also with a maximum of confie dence. The Ukraine must be kept in mind as the only comparatively cheap and highly remunerative blitzkrieg that Hitler can now find anywhere to fight. Yet it would seem that Hitler, if he entertains any hope of occupying England and sharing the distinction of William the Conqueror, may have to try to invade Britain first.

» s It's Now or Never!

Tus is an objective survey * and as close an analysis as my 17 months in all corners of Europe at war enable me to make, From such a survey one fact, I think, stands out very clearly. Aside from staking all on an ine vasion of Great Britain, Hitler has extremely few alternatives left. There can be no doubt that he must deal Britain a mortal blow within a few months or Naziism will be fighting a defensive battle all over Europe.

If Hitler fails against Britain, or sidesteps Britain, between now and August, he will know all too well that he has lost the war.

That possibility is definitely greater than many Americans have been led to believe. In the Balkan countries — and this is neither by chance nor by wishful thinking—this same possibility has been very widely recognized for many months. . Indeed, most Balkan inhabitants of all walks of life regard Nazi Germany's even. tual defeat as a probability and many of them as a certainty. Suppose, for a moment, that Hitler throws all against the British Isles, yet fails to strike a dee cisive blow. Then he would have only two or three remaining alternatives, he would be compelled to act violently somewhere, yet’ any alternative would be fraught with extremely grave dangers of

. overexpansion.

* victories because he has

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-gerously low.

Hitler might very well conquer the Ukraine and shatter Stalinism and still lose the war. Even a perfect army of 4,000,000 or. 5,000,000 men cannot be spread too thinly across all of Europe and parts of Western Asia.

Gamble Running Low

TOR: HITLER the hour of decision is close at hand, but the clockhands of final reckoning threaten to strike close ‘mehind. Without underestimating for a moment how closely the balance wheel in the west may hang, it would be a great error to over look or to minimize this fact. For Hitler, in the greatest and most fateful gamble of many centuries, liberty of action is running -dan-

Hitler has piled up amazing always been able to choose when where to strike next. Now he becoming straitjacketed by cire cumstance and geography. You may logically lo whether this fact may emerge, before many months, the turning point ‘of the secor