NEED FOR A DIVERSION
British Aid to Russia
\ (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 18. "We liave not given Russia as much help as we gave Norway and Greece," says the "News Chronicle," in demanding greater British aid for the Soviet. "The British people are becoming increasingly restive because we have not made any effective diversion in the west. A British invasion of the Continent will not be any easier in two years' time if the Russian resistance has been broken through lack of a timely diversion now."
gium, and Holland. It is believed that there is not a single fully-armoured division in the whole of western Europe.
The military correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says it is hot lack of- trained and equipped troops which is holding back a British invasion of western Europe but inability to divert sufficient shipping and simultaneously, to keep open the supply routes to the* Middle East and Russia and from America. However, many quarters believe, that the advantages of large-scale in-and-out ..raids would out-weigh the temporary diminution of the supply of shipping.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1941, Page 5
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