SECOND FRONT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20901, 29 September 1942, Page 3

SECOND FRONT

MATTER FOR EXPERTS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS •IRRESPONSIBLE’ DEMANDS (Bv Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 28. The New York Herald-Tribune's Washington correspondent says that Mr. Wendell Willkie’s second-front plea from Moscow emotionally stirred the capital, but the prevailing opinion is that the question should not be decided on sentimental grounds. Military observers doubt whether Britain and America are in a position to undertake an early full-scale invasion of the Continent. They estimate that an attacking force of 500,000 would be needed to effect a serious diversion and also question whether Britain and America have sufficient shipping available to transport and supply such a huge force. The Nazis, after the conquest of France, were unable to invade England. Experts believe that the factors militating against the Nazis crossing the Channel then would operate in their favour if the United Nations attempted it now. An Ottawa message states that though he did not directly refer to the second front, Major C. R. Attlee, m a broadcast, pointed out that the war aims of the United Nations “involve the lives of men and cannot be affected by demands made by irresponsible people. Those who. bear, the responsibility are animated by a single mirnose—that of winning the war.