LONG WAR PROPHETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 August 1942, Page 4

LONG WAR PROPHETS

ATTACKED BY MR GARVIN IDEAS THAT WOULD BRING LETHARGY. DEMAND FOR SPIRITED ACTION. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) ' (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 30. Prophets of a long drawn out war are attacked by Mr Garvin, in the “Sunday Express.” Some observers regard his criticism as a reply to statements made by Sir Earle Page, who made a forecast that the war would last for ten years. Mr Garvin says: “Some witnesses, neither uninformed nor irresponsible, begin to speak of a seven years’ or ten years’ war. That fatalistic conception must be banished from our minds and shunned like a pestilence. That vague notion of victory indefinitely deferred until 1950 or near it would bring a creeping lethargy into the Democratic counsels. The war for the world might end for the Democracies in the dull catastrophe of stalemate. Not for a moment dare we stomach the theory of dragging on the conflict. From now on; war planning and war waging must have two definite objects. First, nothing less than absolute victory, both in arms and in peace, and second, to shorten the war. If the Russians hold for two months, the United Nations can triumph within two years.”