BRITISH LAND ACTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 31, 5 August 1941, Page 7

BRITISH LAND ACTION

PRESS COMMENT

NEED FOR PREPARATION TO LAST DETAIL

LONDON, August 4.

Though evidence is accumulating oi uneasiness in Germany, it might be an exaggeration to say that the German people have the jitters. However, Nazi scoffings at an "overdue" British invasion tend to hide the general uneasiness of the population of the Reich.

So far there have been only the faintest whispers in British journals of expectations concerning British land action as a means of staging a diversion in occupied territories to re* lieve the pressure on the Russian front.

The boldest is made by the writer of tne war "Newsletter 1* in "The Sphere." He says that a section of the British public and many friends outside Britain are puzzled by the present apparent inability of the.British Army to stage such a show.

The writer points out that armchair critics cannot estimate how much diversion a large-scale raid would pro* duce, and the weeks since the Russian ■war broke out have not been overlong for planning such a diversion, the success of which depends on preparation to the last detail.

"People are beginning to ask," he adds, "whether we fear too much another failure on land, or whether our policy now is to rely entirely on air attack and to keep the home army purely for defence against an invasion. Silence is best, but thoughts are uncontrollable."