TREND OF WAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 7

TREND OF WAR.

PROPHECIES UNFULFILLED. LONDON. July 22. The'Spanish Press in past weeks has insisted that Britain’s defeat was imminent, and pointed out that, as the British Fleet fled from the Italian Navy, Britain no longer ruled the seas.” The entire Press so lacked a sense of proportion that newspapers at present are “astonished at Britain » audacity and stubbornness. _ They find difficulty in explaining their previous statements. . _ , , The Madrid newspaper A. 8.0., stated yesterday: “Perhaps the war will not end as soon as some impatient people expect, hut Germany is prepared for a long war.’ All previous Press forecasts in Spain said that the attack and campaign against Britain would be light-ning-like. ' . „ , , The comment of the \cm Saba i sums up Turkish Press opinion. It Germany wanted a peace based on justice and right, she would have stated her conditions long ago, thereby wresting the principal moral weapon from Britain,” the Yeni Sabah states. Only one Turkish newspaper suggests that, in view of past experiences, it would perhaps bo opportune to consider a peace offer seriously. Turkish newspapers generally suggest that Hitler’s reference to the Soviet in his speech to the Iteichstag Oil Friday indicates that Germany has given Russia a free hand in the Near East, and they declare: “This is not worrying, because, despite German propaganda efforts, Turko-Soviet relations continue to be friendly and mutually confident.”