WHEN NAZIS ATTACK

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 11

WHEN NAZIS ATTACK

LIKELY DIRECTION

THROUGH NEUTRAL STATES

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received January 20, 10.80 a.m.)

RUGBY, January 19. In a leading article headed "Tension Relaxed," "The Times" writes:—

"The wintry weather,, with poor visibility and snowed-up roads, has probably settled for the moment, at any rate, the question whether the Nazi High Command is or is not about to launch an assault on the Western Front via Holland and Belgium. Surprise being one of Herr Hitler's favourite weapons in war, as in diplomacy, y it can never be said for certain that no prospect of such an attack exists. Herr Hitler is ready to attack any neighbour at any moment, and since he has no regard for a given pledge, the fact that he has formally assured both the Dutch and Belgian Governments that he has no designs against them only makes it more likely that if and when a general offensive in, the West is or-

dered from Berlin it should be carried out through the neutral countries on either flank of the Maginot defensive system."