Evening star., 1941-09-08
Says Hitler Fails
If America Fights
Writer Argues Thot Victory
Is Delayed by IsoIotionists
Who Serve Nozi Purposes

Is Delayed BY lsolotIonIsfs
Who Serve Nozi Purposes
By JOHN T. WHITAKER.
Correspondence of The Star and Chicago
Daily News)
If the United States were in the war
today Hitler's days would be numbered.
Russia would turn as bleak for him as 1t
became for Napoleon. Our two fully
prepared panzer divisions would bring
French Morocco with 100000 crack
French soldiers into the democratic
camp and that would steady France,
Spain and Portugal.
The British, with the support of badly
needed American aircraft carriers and
pilots, could sweep through the Medi-
terranean, take Sicily as bomber base
against Italy-a pushover when hit-and
establish sufficient strength in the Mid
die East to bring Turkey into the war.
Hitler would founder between two
fronts, his air force caught in an inferior
position for the first time and his COM
munication lines overextended.
Such a move calls for boldness-our
Army, like all armies, is never ready
and 1t means also that the democracies
at last would wrest the initiative from
the Nazis.
Backed by America in an all-out Of
fensive, Britain could ship overseas
trained troops who must be kept immobi-
lized today in the British Isles. They
must be kept there because Britain must
be constantly on her guard against in
vasion.
Too costly already for Hitler to under
take in this phase, the invasion of Brit
ain would become impossible If Germany
were losing planes in an ,unsought Medi-
terranean struggle while Russia still re-.
mains intact
Japan's bluff would be called in all
probability, and if it were not America
could take defensive position in the
Pacific with absolute safety Once Hit
Ter is crushed Uncle Sam and John Bull
can take care Of Japan between cock
tails.
In this way the war could be won
within IL months. in the opinion of
military experts Of half dozen nation
alities-including Germans with whom
I talked, who were frightened half out
of their wits when they feared America
might do just this
The war is not going to be won that
way and there is only one reason why. A
large body Of American opinion is isola-
zionist. These men sincerely believe in
the main that this is Britain's war, not
ours.
Without realizing it they are saying
to the American people exactly what
Hitler has ordered his ubiquitous fifth
column to say. As result, the Ameri-
can Congress, in the opinion of political
experts, is unwilling to declare war.
Consequently, the future course of the
war Is as black as it is plain. Left alone
while he fights Russia, Hitler will take
Leningrad and Odessa and push on to
Baku for the oil he needs in a long
struggle against America.
With luck the Russians will be able to
maintain front and, eoualing the Chi
nese in patient heroism, the plodding
Russian peasantry should keep open a
front that will prove costly to the Nazis.
But Hitler ought to be able to consol-
date his position in Russia and be free
to turn his attention directly to Britain
and America.
Hitler has studied the innumerable
German generals who went before him,
but, like every militarily minded man, he
has also studied the campaigns of Gen.
U. S. Grant. vicksburg proving tough
Grant surrounded its approaches and
choked the city to death in classic
operation.
Britain Is too tough to invade. Hitler
is going to surround and choke of the
approaches once he has come back from
Russia with the oil and raw materials
he needs for the showdown with
America.
Hitler will try to take Africa in order
to use U-boats and long range bombers
| down the whole African nttoral to sink
all American and British shipping In the
| South Atlantic at moment; when he
| can intensity the same efforts in the
| North Atlantic.
To do this Hitler must close and bridge
the Mediterranean. At both ends of
the Mediterranean Hitler's victory-if
he winstwil be achieved not by his
army but by the American isolationists.
In the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey,
now READY to join Britain and America,
will then be cut of from Russia and
surrounded by the Germans. The Turks
must decide whether to go over to the
German camp or fight. That decision
will depend upon whether the Turks
believe that America is going into the
war and coming with an enthusiasm
that means victory. What the Turks
will do Is not hard to foresee If the
American Congress passes any more de-
tense legislation by one vote.
In the western Mediterranean, France,
Spain and Portugal will be called upon
by Hitler to provide him q fleet, bases in
the Azores and Dakar, an attack against
Gibraltar and Joint military operations
through Africa. The French, Spaniards
and Portuguese with whom have talked
told me without exception that decision
would be based on whether or not Amer
lea was coming into the war. They
mean it.
1t seems to me that Keitel and
Brauchitsch are pikers. They used 80
| billions dollars worth of armaments to