The Nome nugget., 1941-10-17
HITLER'S PLUNGE IN EAST
 IS GREAT AID TO BRITAIN
Russia's Stiff Resistance Plus Craver Prospects in Middle East Should
 Occupy Him for a Long Time
GERMAN LAUNDERING VICTIMS
By CHARLES M. LINCOLN


 Germany's invasion of Russia was long in the plan ming. Months ago Hitler asked his diplomats ln Moscow and Ankara how much time would be requlr- ed for German armies to reach Lenngrad and KleV, with Moscow little later He received vague, cautious replies He asked his military attaches in those two capitals From them he received estimates to his liking. Three Weeks-at most His top-rankng gen. erals hot for the invasion, named month. Eight weeks have passed Events have not been brought to pass according to plan The technique that OVerWhelm ed France has been thoroughly scrambled by rough tough and exceedingly uncouth Russian soldiers who have countered the German conceptions of attack with patterns of their own, both of offense and defense
 The destruction of Russia as an armed force is very far from accomplished Russia has 100000 soldiers in the field and millions yet in reserve These forces must be destroyed immObiliZed before Hitler can proceed with his grandiOSe plans for the east There no signs today of imminent Russian collapse That may come. No one can tell. But having already per formed superby, if Russia can hold out until winter, the coming of snow may alter the whole situation.
 Much Yet Lies Ahead
 Hitler is to attempt to fully carry through his nOunced program for the east he is going be fully occupied, for long time long way from England. Russia holds one-SXth of the land of this planet 8000 GOO square miles, and Onetenth of it's population. Hit fer may achieve an amount, perhaps a considerable amount of military mastery over Russia; but granting him that he would yet have much to do before he could return to the West and Britain There would be the enormous task of organizing his occupation; the transformation of Russian territory into German States and definitely of course that extinction of bOsheVism which he has promised to the world To attend to this little matter he might well have to go to Novo-Sbrsll the Siberian capital and that is a long way from where he is now.
 There also yet lies ahead of him the taking of the oil fields of Russian Caucasus And Hitler wants that oil His uggernaut in Russia today eating oil at the rate o 100000 tons month He may send his forces across Southern Russia He may use Turkey He will if the Turks do not fight So far they have refused him pas sage and Germany is now politely requesting permis sion to send food across Turkey But if and when the Germans get the Caucasus they will find 500 900 Russian soldiers waiting for them They will also per ceiVe the denoted" WaVell moving northWestward with 100000 300,000 first-cass Indian fighters and they will know that there are 500000 British troops not far to the west ready for the great fight for the control of the Near and Middle East which is in the books of both of the great adversares Atogether what is going in Russia today with what promises to follow it would to indicate that the Battle of Britain lies some distance in the future
 Bsmark's Spirit Lives
 Today, German armies stand in eighteen foreign" countries in addition to Russia. Seventy years ago Bis mark pitched the iron tune for the Germany of the ever since and for the Germany of today "A nation exist only in virtue of the number of soldiers it can place in line The weak were made to be devoured by the strong After al there may not be so very much that is really new" in Hitler He carries on The Ger man State must make of the German nation the ruler of the world Around Germany will not be equal part ners but Vassa States" What Germany is doing today to deVour and make "vassals of her small neighbors would fill several books She is extracting four and half billion dollars annually from countries whose only crime lay in the fact that they existed She is robbng them of their food paying for such resources she squeeze out of them with ersatz marks value less outside the countries in which they are issued She is charging France $8OO0OO0 day for "cost of OCCupatiOn It is the story varvino deoronc