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New War Methods Puzzling
* Before the war in Europe got
under, way most Americans
were convinced that it would
launch the most teriffic destruc
tion of life and property that
the world has experienced.
As a matter of fact, most theo
ries of the pre-war period have
been disproved. It was general
ly assumed, for example, that
Germany and Italy would im
mediately move to smash the
defense of Great Britain and
France This hasn’t worked out
and Italy has not even come in
to the struggle.
The general supposition, be
fore the war began, was that
« declaration of war would be
followed immediately by huge
squadrons of bombing planes,
raining death and destruction
upon the populations of Great
Britain and France.
So far there has been no raid
on defenseless cities and the air
plane has been used strictly
against military and naval ob
jectives. This is surprising but
explainable on the ground that
with both sides about evenly
balanced in air power each hesi
tates to start a wave of destruc
tion that would be mutually dis
astrous.
No wonder Hugh Gibson for
mer Ambassador to Belgium,
says the European situation is
“mostly a Series of question
marks for which nobody seems
to know the answers.” He says,
.says ‘‘There never was a war in
which there was so much un
certainty as to where and how
and when.”
Current Comments
Written From
Wash ington
The request of Mr. Dies that
his committee be continued until
January, 1942, should be granted
by Congress. The large amount
cf un-American activity smoke
that has been long visible has
given rise to the belief that there
was a fire somewhere. The work
of the committee has changed!
that belief into a certainty.
There are those who say that
they will “have that Dies so thor
oughly discredited in a few
months that the people in Texas
will ride him out on a rail.”
Mr. Dies has provided manyj
uncomfortable rail seats for those i
whose Americanism is to be ques.
tioned. The rail on which he is to j
make an exit has not yet been j
brought forward, nor will it be.
The United States temporarily
is in the bad graces of Russia: i
first on account of the rapid pro
gress made by the repeal of the
embargo and second because of
alleged meddling by the Presi
dent in the Finnish situation.
The Soviet Union declared it
self ready to sell to anyone who
would buy. Naturally the en
trance of a trade competitor was
not welcome. It is said that the
relations between the United
States and Cuba are not essen
tially different from those of Rus
sia and Finland. If ever a war
was prosecuted for purely altru
istic reasons, it was the Spanish
American conflict, carried on by
the United States in order that1
another and a smaller nation,
might be free. Russia has some1
task on her hands when she at- j
tempts to convince the world
1> h r aim is to make a self
i !i I C'.'ba out of Finland. ;
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According to Mother Goose,
“the King of France with ten
thousand men, marched them up
a hill and marched them down
again.” Mr. Hitler seems to be
in much the same position. He
cannot break the Maginot Line.
De does not dare repeat a fatal
World War mistake and take a
short cut through Belgium or
Ho'land. Air raids are not the
easily consumated affairs that
they were a quarter of a cen
tury ago. It is possible that the
Leader, in spite of his power at
home is beginning to feel the
pressure of a constituency forced
to sacrifice in order to maintain
a huge army, with nothing for it
to do.
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