NEEDED FROM U.S.A.
MUCH BESIDES PLANES
PITTSBURGH, June 9,
The British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, in a speech, said: "Britain needs destroyers, anti-aircraft guns, and machine-guns as well as aeroplanes. That is why anything the United States can give us now may mean the difference between winning and losing the war. We lost almost all bur equipment in Flanders."
Furthermore, it indicates that conditions on the battlefield no longer make profitable, or even possible, the largescale co-operation between tanks and bombers which proved so telling a month ago.
„ Is a period of static warfare in sight? To suggest that it is may at this moment seem to be trading in a distant future. But it is more than suggested by recent events that the wastage of the German forces is too high to be maintained for very long, and that the stemming of this offensive by the French, the greatest feat in the history of that nation of superb defensive troops, may be followed by a Nazi collapse from exhaustion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 136, 10 June 1940, Page 10
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