Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 20 February 1940, Page 4

Timely Topics

i "Our policy,” says the ‘'Round I Table,” “should be to compel the eni emy bv continual, raiding to use up I " petrol and machines in defence and to provoke him to re- ? taliatory measures I which will use up even more. | "We have not the same reason for ?conserving our bombers in the immcfdiate future, as we are not contemtplating forcing a decision by an alllout land offensive, at any rate not inext year. These are considerations ? bearing on the material aspect of the | situation. f “More important still are those * bearing on the moral situation. Ali lied morale, the determination of free ? peoples to resist and to vanquish an | aggressor, will — reasonable origanisation of our active and passive * defence —be intensified rather than 1 weakened by such damage as air ? raids can inflict. | "Very different will be the effect i on an overdriven and underfed people flike the Germans, whose one moral | support is the belief in the power of • their Fuehrer to protect them. To ’shake that belief by the continuous | proof of Allied ability to destroy the finstruments of Nazi military strength |in the shape of munition factories. • aerodromes, or stations, and to disf organise their national life, will be | worth, many victories in the field. ’ i * » * « f Mr Crerar, Canadian Minister for | Mines and Resources, on his return to S Ottawa from London, issued a stateI ment to the Press in which he recorded his impressions of Great Britain and France. Declaring that he could not speak too highly of the consideration given by the British Government to the reception of the Canadian First Division, he expressed the view that \ Great Britain, after a few weeks of > war, was better equipped and organised than she was even at the termination of the last war, while the cooperation with France was complete. He was greatly impressed with the development of the Air Ami, particularly on its defensive side, and was confident that the submarine menace would be brought under even greater control than had already been achieved, and that the problem of indiscriminate minelaying would be overcome He found the French nation as firm and determined as the British to emerge victorious in this titanic struggle for the preservation of freedom, liberty, and decency in international affairs. Both nations were profoundly grateful, he said, for the help given by Canada and the other parts of the Commonwealth. He felt that the Canadian people, owing to their remoteness from Europe, perhaps did not give enough thought to the consequences which would follow the triumph of the European dictatorships, but the destinies of all Canadians would be profoundly affected if the European democracies, which were now fighting for their lives, went down. The full effort which they were now making was unquestionably in the long run an effort for their own future protection.

ALLIES’ WAR POLICY ,

CANADA’S PART.