A “ WHITE WAR "

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4235, 24 January 1940, Page 11

A “ WHITE WAR "

A NEW STRATEGY? “A quite different strategy from that of a, direct military offensive has c.t times been suggested: a ‘white war’ of economic attrition, ‘permanent sanctions,’ behind our sea and land defences,” writes Sir Norman Angell in “Time and Tilde.” “The pro posal is that instead of our bartering the Siegfried Line, we let the Germans batter the Maginot Line; stand on the defensive, so as to give time for there to be brought into play the full effects of (a) Our sea blockade; (lb) Internal resistance to Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland; (c) Realisation by neut-

rals of the danger that they run from a Russo-German domination of Europe, and so courage to join the democratic forces; and—most important of all, (d) Formation by the democracies, not of a mere military and naval alliance, but a. true Federation in which Western Europe, and the nations overseas which have grown out of the civilization of Western Europe, can pool their resources, economic, naval, militarv, for common defence. If Britai*', France, the Scandinavian States, the Lew Countries, the British Dominions, the United States formed one country it would, after all be impregnable and could continue the development of its civilization undismayed by Totalitarian power. It is not material force- that we lack. It is the moral capacity to use it for truly common ends.”