NAZI HOPES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1941, Page 6

NAZI HOPES

OF WINNING ATLANTIC BATTLE KILLED BY AMERICAN DECISION. MR A. GREENWOOD’S SURVEY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 15. Speaking in Staffordshire, Mr Arthur Greenwood, merpber of the War Cabinet without portfolio, described the revision of the United States Neutrality Act as an event of tremendous importance, sounding the death-knell of Hitler's already waning hopes of winning the Battle of the Atlantic. “Hitler knows, beyond all doubt, that Germany cannot possibly win that battle and that, on the contrary, she must lose it finally .and irretrievably,” A i Mr Greenwood said. “He knows that America will not only make the tools of democratic victory but also that she is going to deliver them where they can best be used to smash the aggressors. “America has an enormous mercantile navy. When the plans for its expansion have been earned through it will be the largest mercantile marine in the world, and it is going to be used to help bring about the destruction of Hitler and all Hitlerism stands for. It would be easy to imagine Hitler’s arrogant boasts were Germany able to secure the backing of such vast carrying resources and of the enormous supplies which American ships will convey. It would be easy to imagine his spiteful gibes at Britain had the American Congress withheld this vital assistance from the freedom-loving nations by refusing to amend the Neutrality Act. “It is really easy to imagine how savagely he will gnash his teeth in arrogant fury in the knowledge that the delivery lines of America’s war output are to run direct across the oceans to the free-fighting ■ nations and that planes, guns, tanks, food and other war essentials will be carried in evergrowing quantities in American ships and unloaded in Britain, Russia or wherever else they are required for effective service. “Russia’s epic resistance and America’s cordial aassociation with the fighting democracies cannot but produce a serious shock in the already strained morale of the German people. For us, let us see to it that they are but an incentive to a still greater war effort.”