Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-08

Greece.
On the seas, British raid.
ing planes have demolished
substantial part of the
Italian Navy III its safe y fair
At laramie; the British air
craft carrier WHStriouS has
been put out Of action for
months by German dive
bomber attack near the
stronghold Of Malta the Ger
man pocket battles h p s
ScharnhOrSt and Gne,sendn
have been riddled by English
air bombers at their docks in
French port the world S
most powerful fighting ship.
the Bismarck, vanquisher Of
the mighty battle cruiser
Hood, has been trapped and
torpedoed and, in effect,
sunk, III the mid Atlantic by
British airplanes; in the east
ern Mediterranean, German
air bombers have DESTROYED a
very fleet of British cruisers
and destroyerS; while by day
and by night the conveyed ar
gosles Of merchant ships,
bearing foodstuffs and NUM-
tions which England MUST
HAVE to live and to fight.
creep precariously to their
damaged English harbors
through recurrent and inces-
SAINT barrages of German air
bombs.
Across the Straits of Sicily,
Nazi and Fascist soldiers and
weapons are ferried by air
from Italy TO Africa, TO drive
the temporarily victorious
British and Amaze veterans
out of Llhya; out of the main
land of the Peloponnesus an
alr-borne German host literal
~ falls upon Crete from the
skies and overruns its area i;
and all along the shores of
Great Britain millions of men
stand ceaselesslv at arms. on
guard against the perils and
terrorS of possible German
invasion by air.
These are the dread events
happening NOW in Europe.
And these are the terrible
events, in kind, against which
America must swiftly and eff
fectively ARM.
Until NOW. our main de-
pendence against attack has
been our Navy
IiQei3s now. yirs22sHy Re5faYnc
has been done 10 provide an
AIR DEFENSE which would
really DEFEND America-and
the Americas
Those who have been in power
at Washington. the Admirals
especially. have been stupidity
and obstinately Unwilling 10
have II otherwise.
They would not believe. until
NOW when they have the
CHASTITY panorama of Europe
before their incredulous eyes.
that WAR would never again be
as It was in 1918.
They would not believe until
NOW that the airplane was
sure 10 become the ONE
WEAPON that could crush all
other weapons. disperse whole
armies anywhere. capsize navies.
even IN their fortified Ravens
OF refuge wipe centers of civil
lzatlOn out OF eXiStence-in
brief the MOST POWERFUL
and vet potentially the MOST
NUMEROUS weapon Of CON-
QUEST and INVASION ever
contrived
Neither would the admirals
believe until NOW that the air
plane was sure to become also
he one INDISPENSABLE
weapon Of DEFENSE that could
assure a nations safety or its
liberty.
And still. they were WARNED,
for all these dire things have
been FORETOLD
Any one who has read the
Hearst newspapers at any time
since the World War has read
IN these columns the accurate
prophecies OF what has NOW
so ttrrifyingly come 10 pass.
LIKEWISE these events and oc-
eurrences were even DEMON
STRATED TO the skeptic Ad-
mirals years ago-demonstrated
when. in 1923. General Billy"
Mitchell was PREDICTING and
DESCRIBING the warfare OF
the future" and when soldiers OF
the United States Army by
dropping relatively LITTLE
bombs from relatively PRIMITIVE
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