HITLER NOT AFRAID

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

HITLER NOT AFRAID

WAR ON TWO FRONTS DIVISION OF EMMIES I f.VZE.F. Official News Service) London, An In mi article headed. "The Myth of the Single Front.” by "Britannieu " | the w riter says: “Because a lot of the things Jlitlei wrole in 'Mein Karnpf ■about his lusts and Ins plots have j turned out to he true, a lot of people J jump tu l lu- conclusion Hint he meant everything he said in that book That : seems a remarkable conclusion to come to about one of the most shameless and calculating liars in history, but | there it is. Above all. people lend to i accept Hitler’s declaration that he I never meant Germany to fight another ; “In actual fact, there is a great, deal ‘of evidence that Hitler is not in the J least afraid of a war on two fronts, or 20 fronts. In my opinion he likes (that sort of war, because it divides up jhis enemies and prevents them from : ccncentrating all their force at one vVeslen ! Front in the latter part of the last war. It was this very concentration on one front that eventually smashed 'the military might of Germany. "In tins war he has constantly sought new fronts. He attacked Boland in the east when Fiance and Britain were standing on the alert in the west. He may have hoped they j w ould not attack him, but I doubt it; | certainly he could not l'eel sure of it. He turned north to Scandinavia when | the war in the west was on. He sent J armies to Libya, Greece and Crete i while still holding his coastal front against Britain and lighting the war in the air. NO GUARANTEE FOR BRITAIN "He went into Russia when he knew growing rapidly and her air attacks were increasing. In the same way, the | fact that he has embarked on the war w/h Russia is no guarantee that he l would not attempt an invasion of ' Britain. “If he were able to overwhelm Russia lie would almost certainly turn his 'main strength against Britain. Even if he could merely force a stalemate iu the East, he could divert a very substantial force to the West, and. if the ■ worst from lii.s viewpoint should happen and his eastern armies should be j forced back by. the Russians, it is by ;no means impossible that he would 'withdraw to the strong defence of east Germany and attempt to force a swift ! decision in the west. For with Britain out of the way he could return to attack Russia with greatly reinforced strength. "And outside the purely military field Hitler has launched new intrigues at Dakar and Bolivia while his European war still engages all his armed force. It is true that Hitler likes to choose his own time for each big offensive and prefers to launch only one such major attack at a time. That is mere ele- ' mentary prudence. But it appears that he likes to be at war on several fronts and keep his enemies guessing regarding where his next blow will strike. BRITAIN’S FORMIDABLE STRENGTH "So it is small wonder that Britain has built up her defences to a formidable strength and kept her island garrisoned with a mighty army even while she has sent strong forces to every 1 front from equatorial Africa to Iceland and from Syria to Malaya. It is small wonder, and it should be a great comfort as much to the peoples of the overseas Empire as to the British themselves. For if Britain were to fall a salient would have been driven deep Dnto the midst of the Commonwealth. iShe is the most valuable advanced post that the other countries of the Commonwealth could even hope to have. “War, like peace, is indivisible. The African campaigns struck at Germany as surely as the bombs on Berlin, by ' crippling her main ally. The British j bombing of German military objectives I not only now but for many months past has been greatly damaging Germany’s reserve of power and so is helping the (Russians in advance. "This war can only be understood by surve> ing the entire field together. not one battlefield and one battle at a time. We must watch all the fronts and be on guard on all the fronts and attack on any and every front whenever the moment