TURN OF TIDE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 9

TURN OF TIDE

AGAINST GERMANY RUSSIAN RESISTANCE HEAVY TEST TO COME (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 11, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 10. Mr. John Gordon, writing in the Sunday Express, says: “I back Russia to win. The German dream of a quick victory is fading. The battle of Britain was a shock. The battle of Russia is a great shock, but the nightly crashing of bombs on German towns is probably the greatest shock of all to Hitler.” Writing in the Observer, Mr. J. L. Garvin says: “Russia’s resistance turned the tide against Hitlerism. The Russians know that their heaviest tests are still to come, but they are more confident than ever that they will win. “Next month, as we enter the third year of war, the supreme effort of the British commonwealth and the United States will be to organise the bulk of mankind to ensure the world’s deliverance and the great peace. Hitlerism will have died hard, but its fate is forewritten.” Captain B. H. Liddel Hart, in a speech, said that prior to the Russian entry into the war there was no reasonable ground for talk of victory in which political leaders had indulged. “Hitler has now altered his strategic plans of war, as a result of which, for the first time since the outbreak, there is a possibility of our victory in a substantial sense as distinct from the mere frustration of Germany,” he stated.