UNEASINESS IN GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 5

UNEASINESS IN GERMANY

r SCOFFING OVER INVASION e h LITTLE COMMENT IN BRITISH P PRESS London, Aug. 4 Though evidence is accumulating , of uneasiness in Germany, it might be an exaggeration to say that the German people have the jitters. r However. Nazi scoffings at an “overdue” British invasion tend to hide the general uneasiness of the population of the Reich. n' So far there have been only the t faintest whispers in British journals 11 of expectations -concerning British 1 i land action as a means of staging a e diversion in occupied territories to relieve the pressure on the Russian front. ' The boldest comment is made by the " writer of the "Sphere’s” war “Newsletter.” who says that a section of the British public and many friends out- -*! side Britain are puzzled by the present I 1! apparent inability of the British Army I to stage such a show. CAREFUL PLANNING NEEDED The writer points out that armchair , i critics cannot estimate how much dii version a large-scale raid would proj j duce, and the weeks since the Russian rf war broke out have not been overlong J for planning such a diversion, whose . success depends on preparation to the j last detail. J "People are beginning to ask whe- . ther we fear too much another failure s j or land, or whether our policy now is a: to rely entirely on air attack and to -1 keep the home army purely for de--2 j fence against an invasion. Silence is , best, but thoughts are uncontrollable,” i he adds.—U.P.A.