DEFEAT CERTAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24491, 27 December 1940, Page 5

DEFEAT CERTAIN

THE TWO DICTATORS VITAL FACTOR IN RESULT BRITAIN'S SEA POWER (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Dec. 25. Dr 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. The German dictatorship and barbarous Nazi system of government will collapse with terrible consequences for all adventurers today maintaining it. 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 the critical moment and thus destroy its opponent's 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 in Poland and in the Balkans. All this will collapse at the given moment under the impact of the blockade and of a general air attack, as a result of the campaign of resistance and sabotage on the part of all subjected peoples and as the result of hunger and economic and industrial dislocation of both partners in the Axis as the result of unremitting material and moral blows.

" It will evidently not be long before Italy is out of the struggle. The highest point of German successes has already passed and Italy is rapidly and steadily going downhill. From next spring or summer Germany will decline no less precipitously-"