NAZIS KNOW WAR IS LOST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1942, Page 5

NAZIS KNOW WAR IS LOST

Last Effort This Year

NEW YORK, March 26,

Information has reached the State Department from a secret source in Germany that the German people no longer expect victory, said the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. A. A. Berle. He added: "Our information proves that the Germans know they have lost the war unless a miraculous victory is possible for Germany in 1942.

"The Nazis have not made any provision for 1943. They no longer repair worn-out machines and tools.

"Furthermore, they are sending skilled workers and engineers to the front. Altogether, they are entirely concentrating their efforts on the moment while they have abandoned any hope for tomorrow."

and active Parliamentary government, and a free Press. We have done that under conditions which at times were more strained and convulsive than ever before beset a civilised State. But there is only one limit which I must ask must be respected. I cannot allow, while I bear responsibility, propaganda to disturb the Army, which is now strong and solid, or to weaken the confidence of the country jor the armed forces in the quality and character of the devoted corps of officers, to whom we must all look as leaders of our audacious enterprise abroad and as an indispensable weapon against invasion at home." POST-WAR REBUILDING. In reference to rebuilding the postwar world, Mr. Churchill said: "Two weeks ago one of our leading iritel- | lectuals was asked in public whether I was working for a new England or the old. We are working for both. It is a new England or a new Britain, and it is by the union and interplay, of new impulses and great traditions*-1 both working together, that we have managed to solve peacefully problems that have rent the unity for ever of many a famous State. It is by this dual process that we have tried to build up over the generations individual rights and tolerance, individual freedom and collective association, and, above all, with its infinite power of self-improvement, the national progress of our island -life, >vhich the broad masses of our people cherish, and for which they now themselves are prepared to fight and, if 'need be, I die.

"This is a very hard war. Its enormous and fearful problems reach down to the very foundations of human society. It involves all nations, and every man, woman, and child in them. Strategy and economics are , inter-