INVASION OF BRITAIN NOW HOPELESS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 18, 16 October 1940, Page 9

INVASION OF BRITAIN NOW HOPELESS

American Expert Speaks Of Major Nazi Defeat LONDON. October 14. Tin- importance of the Battle tor Britain as a setback for the German plans was emphasized by Major George Fielding Eliot, a United States air expert, broadcasting from Philadelphia, when lie said: “While immediate attenition is now centred on the confused events in the Balkan Peninsula, the very fact that Germany is now proceeding Io the scene of sou_th-en«l Europe raises the question whether the Battle for Britain is being abandoned by Germany—whether Hie issue is not a clearcut victory for the British, and particularly for the Royal Air Force. ‘"riie evidence seems Io many minds quite clear —(hat in this Battle for Britain Hitler has at last met with a major defeat. "For the first time he has had to turn hack- from a venture upon which lie had set worth with every prospect of

success. For the first time he has made boasts and announced intentions which he has been unable to make good. Naturally every effort will be made by the Gormans to distract the attention of the world and the American people from this tremendous fact. “The failure of the Germans to achieve air superiority over Britain has made invasion of that island a hopeless project. The Axis is now compelled to recast its whole plan of war. and no man would now be bold enough to say what the result will lie A long war has been precisely the sort of war that neither Germany nor Italy was prepared to light. "As far as the war in the air is concerned, Ihe German mass production plan Ims failed.”