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HITLERS PLUNGE IN EAST
IS GREAT AID TO BRITAIN
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Russia's Stifl Resistance Plus Graver j
Prospects in Middle East Should
Occupy Him for a Long Time
GERMAN PLUNDERING VICTIMS
By CHARLES M. LINCOLN
Germany’s invasion of Russia was long in the plan
ning. Months ago Hitler asked his diplomats in
Moscow and Ankara how much time would be requir
ed for German armies to reach Leningrad and Kiev,
with Moscow a little later. He received vague, cautious;
replies. He asked his military attaches in those two
capitals. From them he received estimates more to his1
liking. “Three weeks—at most. His top-ranking gen
erals, hot for the invasion, named a month. Eight
weeks have passed. Events have not been brought to
pass according to plan. The technique that overwhelm
ed France has been thoroughly scrambled bv rough,
tough and exceedingly uncouth Russian soldiers who
have countered the German conceptions of attack with
patterns of their own, both of offense and defense.
The destruction of Russia as an armed force is very
far from accomplished. Russia has 4.000.000 soldiers in
the field and more millions yet in reserve. These forces
must be destroyed or immobilized before Hitler can
proceed with his grandiose plans for the east. There are
no signs today, of an imminent Russian collapse. That
may come. No one can tell. But, having already per
formed superbly, if Russia can hold out until winter,
the coming of snow may alter the whole situation.
Much Yet Lies Ahead
If Hitler is to attempt to fully carry through his an
nounced program for the east, he is going to be fully
occupied, for a long time, a long way from England.
Russia holds one-sixth of the land of this planet, 8.000,
000 square miles, and one-tenth of its population. Hit
ler may achieve an amount, perhaps a considerable 1
amount, of military mastery over Russia; but granting
him that, he would yet have much to do before he
could return to the West and Britain. There would be
the enormous task of organizing his occupation; the
transformation of Russian territory into German States
and definitely of course, that extinction of bolshevism
which he has promised to the world. To attend to this
3:ttle matter he might well have to go to Novo-Sibirsk,
the new Siberian capital, and that is a long way from
where he is now.
There also yet lies ahead of him the taking of the oil
fields of Russian Caucasus. And Hitler wants that oil.
His juggernaut in Russia today is eating oil at the rate
of 400.000 tons a month. He may send his forces acrosts
Southern Russia. He may use Turkey. He will, if the
Tuiks do not fight. So far, they have refused him pas
sage, and Germany is now politely requesting permis
sion to send food across Turkey/ But if and when
the Germans get to the Caucasus they will find 500,000
Russian soldiers waiting for them. They will also per
ceive the ‘demoted’’ Wavell moving northwestward
with 200,000 or 300,000 first-class Indian fighters,
and they will know that there are 500.000 British
troops not far to the west, ready for the great fight for
the control of the Near and Middle East which is in
the books of both of the great adversaries. Altogether,
what is going on in Russia today with what promises
to follow it would seem to indicate that the “Battle of
Britain” lies some distance in the future.
Bismark’s Spirit Lives
Today, German armies stand in eighteen “foreign”
countries in addition to Russia. Seventy years ago Bis
mark pitched the iron tune for the Germany of the
ever since and for the Germany of today. “A nation
exist only in virtue of the number of soldiers it can
place in line. The weak were made to be devoured by
the strong.” After all, there may not be so very much
that is really “new” in Hitler. He carries on. “The Ger
man State must make of the German nation the ruler
of the world Around Germany will not be equal part
ners, but vassal States.” What Germany is doing today
to “devour” and make “vassals” of her small neighbors
would fill several books. She is extracting four and a!
half billion dollars, annually, from countries whose
only crime lay in the fact that they existed. She is
robbing them of their food, paying for such resources
es she can squeeze out of them with ersatz marks value
less outside the countries in which they are issued.
She is charging France $8,000,000 a day for “cost of
occupation.” It is the same story, in varying degrees,
WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING
STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY
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for all of the occupied countries.
Germany boasts that the British blockade is a joke.
It is not. And she knows it. In spite of what she is
grabbing in all directions outside her borders, and
what she may eventually get from Russia, she will con
tinue to lack many things. Wool in Germany today is
not far from platinum rating. Germany will lose 2.000,-!
000 tons of grain from Russia this year and 200.000
tons of Trans-Siberian supplies. One of her leading
economists has just warned: “It is vital to Germany
to bring into her possession European reserves of all
i kinds. We are already using our reserves and we must
see to it that they are replaced and enlarged.”
See No End This Year
The people of Germany are not happy. Docile, stolid,
they have murmured little during seven years of de- i
privation. Today, they are uneasy. The pride of a year
ago in the rushing conquests of their Fuehrer’s le
gions has largely evaporated. Their “Archangel of Hu-1
manity” promised them, solemnly, the end of the war
this year. They know, now, that this promise will not
be kept. The outside world knew it, long ago. They
know, now, that there is a real war on.
Two hundred and sixty “heavy” raids have been
made by British planes in the last six weeks. The Ger
man people do not know the number, and of course
they do not know that in the first seven months of this |
year the Axis lost 2,537 planes while the British lost
1,033. Nor do they know that British-American plane
production already surpasses their own and that the
margin is steadily increasing. If this war is to be set
tled from the skies there will be only one answer. But
bombing may not settle it. Britain took it. Perhaps
Germany can. Who knows?
Evidence is growing of clashes in the upper circles
| of Germany. There was a downright fight over the
question of invading Russia. But that was inevitable
and the army won. Today there is a hot fued on be
tween Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and Himmler, head
of the Secret Police and of the Elite Body Guard
Troops. And reports persist that von Papen, “the Fox,”
greatest expert in all-around skulduggery that Ger
many possesses, is in a certain degree of eclipse
because of his failure, thus far, to get Turkey in the
bag.
Hate-England Cult
However, with all their absorption in the war with1
Russia and their internal affairs the Germans do not
neglect to whip up hatred of England — to them the
basic cause of all their unhappiness — and how those j
people can hate! Two recent illustrations. This, from ;
Hitler’s own “Voelkischer Beobachter”: “We will
bring to England a revolution of blood and tears which j
as a punishment will reduce the British population to
degradation and poverty.” This, from Munich’s “Nach-:
richten”: “Germany must tear the British Empire i
apart, bit by bit, and must not be influenced by the
slightest feeling of pity. Britain must be made to bleed
and every wound reopened until she bleeds to death.”
But a year ago Britain was much better off than she
was two years ago. Today she is in much better case;
than she was a year ago, and now the United States is I
distinctly with her. j
SHOD BY MARS —Trust a Paris designer to turn even a
wartime shortage of leather and silk into something ehic. These
straw shoes (not recommended for winter wear) appear with
| hand-knitted cotton stockings now worn by some Paris women.
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