German War Will be Over in Few Months!

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 208, 2 September 1943, Page 5

German War Will be Over in Few Months!

CONFLICTING VIEWS OF AUTHORITIES (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.' Received Wednesday, 10.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. The real reporting of the Quebec decisions will ue done by war correspondents from the fronts in tne next three to six months, wie British Minister of information (Mr. Brenden Bracken) told a press conference. He added: “There is no chance of destroying Germany in 1943. xt will aiso some time to give the tough Japanese people the licking they deserve, indeed, the Allies are facing a long, hard war. Italy was the only Axis nation likely to fall before the end of the year. ’ ’

Commenting on the air raids, Mr. Brenden Bracken said: “The adult education system established by the bombings of the Keich may achieve very good results,” hut although Allied airmen believe air power can win the war, it would he foolish to start reducing our armies and navies.

“The German war will he over in a very few months,” Dr. Emil Ludwig, the noted German historian, told reporters, He added: “It is no longer a question of supplies but psychology. The Germans have not the English nerves for defence. You can say I am* a very bad psychologist if the German war is not finished in 1943.” Dr. Ludwig also predicted that a German revolution would start on the Russian front whereupon the generals and industrialists would promise everything in an attempt to achieve a compromise peace.