GERMAN HOPE
Compromise To Avoid Defeat (Bv Telegraph.—Press Association.) (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, May 25. “It is quite impossible for any one of the services to win a modern war, sum \ir Marshal Sir Arthur Cpningham when talking to members of Spitfire squadrons under his command in the Second lactical Air Force. “There is no short cut to beating the Germans, and you cannot do it by bombing alone.” , He repeated General Eisenhower s dieturn that all the Allied forces—army, navy and air, British American nnd Allied—constituted one big team. 1 lie Allies’ plan involved pressure from three sides —from the south, from Russia, and from the west. The forces in the west were ready, under the leadership of General Eisenhower. “We are approaching a very great day on which a tremendous amount depends,'’ lie added. "You know that the German has given up hope of winning this war : all lie wants is to avoid defeat, and if he can get a compromise he avoids defeat.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 205, 27 May 1944, Page 7
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