German War Machine Will Collapse, Benes Predicts

Northern Advocate, 26 December 1940, Page 5

German War Machine Will Collapse, Benes Predicts

(Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, December 25. THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DR. EDUARD BENES, BROADCASTING FROM LONDON, SAID:

“During the course of the last few months, war conditions have changed to such an extent that a German victory is definitely impossible. “Germany will not subdue England. “German dictatorship and the barbarous Xatfi system of government will collapse with terrible consequences for all the adventurers today maintaining - it.

► The Winning Strokes “This war will be won by the Power which in the end retains command of the sea. “And this means Great Britain and the United States. “The war will be won by. the Power able to throw thousands of aeroplanes into the struggle at a critical moment, and thus destroy its opponents’ military forces behind the lines. “This again means Great Britain and the United States. “This war will not be decided by the masses of the German army, or by the armoured detachments as with us in Poland and in the Balkans.

“All this will collapse at a given moment under the impact of the blockade, and of a general air attack; as a result of a campaign of resistance and sabotage on the part of all subjected peoples; as a result of hunger and economic and industrial dislocation of both partners in the Axis; and, finally as a result of unremitting material and moral blows. “It will evidently not be long before Italy is out of the struggle. 'Enemy Going Downhill “The highest point of German successes has already been passed, and Italy is rapidly and steadily going down hill. v “From next spring or summer, Germany will decline no less precipitously.”