ALLIES TOO SLOW !

Grey River Argus, 7 May 1942, Page 5

ALLIES TOO SLOW !

Says American Official

EXPLANATION OF DEFEATS

(Rec. 11.40.) SYDNEY, May 6. The Chief of the U.S. rease-Lend Mission to Australia, Mr. W. S. Wasserman, addressed the American Association here to-day. and he gave “a few examples of why we have lost to date.” He cited a delay in the undertaking of essential war works, and a failure to scrap tfie traditions of the last war. In particular, he stressed the need for meeting changed conditions created by the tremendous developments of air power, he said: "We have been beaten so tar because we still insist on thinking o this war in the terms of previous wars. We still have the habit ot two dimensional warfare, when i has become three, with rne namely, air, the most important. Oui enemies have won, because they were the first to recognise the change, and because they were willing to scrap worn-out traditions and leaders. W have not realised that time is almost our most precious commodity, wmcn the enemy has used to the greatest, advantage. We are up against a fignt where no sacrifice and no effort on the part of the enemies is too great. One thing has startled me. In many quarters, I have found there is, instead of a hope for a new dawn, that may arise for mankind as a result of an Allied victory, merely an unenthusiastic resignation to the fact that the world has changed, and one has to make the best of the changed world.” 1