FINAL VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 151, 27 June 1940, Page 7

FINAL VICTORY.

REASONABLE HOPES. Quiet, Well-Based British Confidence. WAR-WEARY GERMANY. British Offlelal Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.i RUGBY, June 26. Munitions and - supplies from America are now reaching Britain in large , quantities, and there is- complete disagreement in authoritative quarters here with the suggestion made in a Press statement by Senator Key Pittmaii, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, that what the United States is able to eontribute cannot affect the result of the war.

His view, tbat Britain is totally unprepared for defence, is wholly nt variance with the view of the British Government's naval, military and air advisers, whose considered opinion is that there are good and reasonable hope* of final victory. This was the basis of the decision that the war should bc>. prosecuted unremittingly, "if necessary for years, if necessary alone." Britain's Warm Appreciation. A Ministry of Information announcement to-night emphasises the warmest appreciation felt in Britain for the magnificent effort now being made in tinfactories and workshops of the United States to help the Allies in the coming struggle. Britain is facing it with confidence and is determined to carry it through to victory. This confidence was strengthened by the trustworthy information that recently reached London, that, in Germany, war-weariness i* already setting hi, and the German people, who have been living on short rations and Buffering many privations, are very tired after a difficult winter. There is also evidence that senior officers of the German forces have, as a result of Flanders fighting, acquired a healthy respect for the British Army, and the K.A.P. has estaWished.euch "a reputation for dash, that early estimates of the possibilities of reducing British resistance by air attack has recently undergone a marked niodificaE.A.P. Seized Initiative. The R.A.F. seized the initiative early in the war and has never ceased to exploit it, as almost daily and nightly bombings of key industry towns iii the north-west of Germany and the Ruhr have shown. Confidence in the strength of British defences grows stronger' here each day, while it is believed shat the Nazi leaders' second thoughts upon the invasion of Britain are probably less sanguine than in the first flush of their successes in Belgium and France, though that does not mean that an attempt will not be made. Germany's successes on land have confronted her with grave economic dif* ficulties, which, may well compel Hitler to seek a. decision -with the least poseible delay. .