TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Allies' War Policy “ Our policy,” says the Round Table. “ should be to compel the enemy by continual raiding to use up petrol and machines in defence and to piovoke him to retaliatory measures which will use up even more. We have not the same reason for conserving our bombers in the immediate future, as we are not contemplating forcing a decision by an all-out land offensive, at any rate not next year. These are considerations bearing on the material aspect of the situation. More important still are those bearing on the moral situation. Allied morale, the determination of free peoples to resist and to vanquish an aggressor, will—given reasonable organisation of our active and passive defence—be intensified rather than weakened by such damage as air raids can inflict. Very different will be the effect on an overdriven and underfed people like the Germans, whose one moral support is the belief in the power of their Fuehrer to protect them. To shake that belief by the continuous proof of Allied ability to destroy the instruments of Nazi military strength in the shape of munition factories, aerodromes, or stations, and to disorganise their national life, will be worth many victories in the field.”