WORN-OUT TRADITIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 6

WORN-OUT TRADITIONS

"WHY WE HAVE LOST TO DATE” Sydney. May 6. The Chief oi the Least-Lend mission I to Australia, Mr. W. S. Wesserman. | addressing the American Association ' to-day, gave a fexx examples of "why ( ue have lost to date.' He cited delay in undertaking essential war works and the failure io scrap the traditions of the last war. | In particular, he stressed the need for meeting the changed conditions created by the tremendous developments of I air power. "We have been beaten so ; far,” he said, "because we still insist j on thinking of this war in terms of ! previous wars. We still have the habit i of two-dimensional warfare when it. has become three-dimensional, with the third, namely the air. the most, important. Our enemies have won be-i cause they were the first to recognise< the change and because they werewilling to scrap worn-out traditions! and leaded. We have not realised that time is almost our mo.-t precious commodity. which the enemy has used to the greatest advantage. We are up against a tight where no sacrifice and' no effort on the part of our enemies; is too great "One thing has slm tied me. In many| quarters i have found, instead of hope for the new dawn that may arise torr mankind as a result of Allied victory J merely an unenthusiastic resignationto the’ fact that the world has < nanged] and that one has to make the best ■ the changed word.”