ABILITY TO HOLD OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8

ABILITY TO HOLD OUT

EVIDENCE IN LONDON

PLANS FOR WINTER

(Rec. 1.45 p:m.) RUGBY, August 17. The tone of the messages which various newspapers have been receiving from their special correspondents in Moscow would seem to bear out the great confidence which President Roosevelt expressed in the ability of the Soviet forces to continue their resistance. These messages suggest that the

lssue of - the Nazi-Soviet war is

now more remote than ever, and

that there are numerous indica-

tions that both sides have prepared.

for a winter campaign,

Thousands of Russian athletes are preparing for training in north Russia as ski troops,'reports one such correspondent. The news which has been received in London that the Germans have begun to dig themselves in; about the Smolensk sector can also be adduced in support of this belief.

NAZI VICTORY UNLIKELY. Mr. J. L. Garvin, the distinguished editor of "The, Observer," in a review of the meeting of Mr. Churchill and President Rdosevelt and of the war in the east, also gives it as his opinion that "In this ninth week of resistance, it is improbable that the invaders can conquer the Soviet Union before winter. If they cannot, then that winter wilt seal their fate."

Earlier in the article Mr. Garvin had^written: "Since- the-political separation of Britain and America 160 years ago there has been nothing to equal the conference at sea between the American President and the British Prime Minister. More than any other system, democracy in crisis depends on dynamic leadership. We may thank God that on each side of the Atlantic, in the supreme hour, the emergency has brought forth a man ranking with the greatest of the past." A WAR TO END WAR. After discussion of the Eight-Point Charter, Mr. Garvin says: "This is a real war to end war. Last time we did not know enough. Hitler taught us, This time, when Britain and the United States say 'never again,' they mean it with every fibre of their being.

"For that above all, by God's help, they will fight together—as we dare to predict—and fight through."— 8.0. W.