Evening star., 1941-07-19
HitIer's Army Seen on Schedule
In Drive for Wheat and Oil
September IS Reported Fixed os DeodIine
For Conquest of Southern Russo

ascertained, that the Russian cam
paign, four weeks old tomorrow, can,
under optimum conditions, be COM
pleted in six weeks. that is, by the
beginning of August. But as usual
he has left wide margin of safety.
Even if the campaign meets snags,
Der Fuehrer calculates that given
Japanese Intervention against Rus
sia's Far Eastern army and Ameri-
can nonintervention against Japan,
the campaign can be ended within
8 to 10 weeks. Germanys absolute
deadline with or without japanese
intervention. Hitler has fixed as
September 10.
BY that time the Russian weather
will become difficult, England will
have caught her breath and formu-
lated new plans. and the United
States may have decided to take
the aggressive.
The Germans do not plan to try
to administer all of Russia and
Siberia as they have garrisoned most
OF the remainder of Europe. The
big aim of this years campaign is
simply to create a line of defense
from Leningrad Moscow Batum,
something like the division between
occupied and unoccupied France
Holding this line. Hitler is said to
believe that it will keep the Rus
slams away from oil and wheat and
the most vital manufacturing CEN
tiers as we'll as cutting off British
aid by way of Iraq.
Nazi sermons to the contrary, it
Is not planned to conquer Com
munism and kill Stalinism" too
hastily, for the existence of a rump
Soviet government beyond the Urals
furnishes Sibboleth for continu-
Gus anti-Bolshevism. 1t would be
lmprudent to let the crusade. the
only Hitlerite ideal which finds even
a f1utter of popular support in other
countries, die too soon and its value
in underlining American hesitancy
about formally entering the war has
been estimated at Berchtesgaden to
the last decimal point.
Wants Southern Russia.
Until Hitler reaches the point of
readiness for dividing Russia under
the new order, he will remain in
different as to whether the Krem-
Inns activities are located in Omsk
or TomSk, provided they are east of
the strategic diagonal from the Bal
tic tn the CaSpjap
Although what Hitler wants most
is located in southern Russia. he is
obliged to conquer the north first as
the only way of preserving it from
Soviet demolition squads. When
the time comes for a deadly stroke
at the Switchboard of the Com
munist bureaucracy, it will be de-
livered against Moscow in the hope
that the effect will be the same as
Belgrade's total disorganiZation due
to vulnerable decentralization.
But the delay in the southern ad-
vance is causing MISUNDERSTANDING
in the ill-behaved Balkan nursery
of the new order. The Hungarians
and Rumanians are squabbling over
the formers criticism of the latter's
failure to make impressive gains
across Bessarabia. even with Ger
man help. 1t will undoubtedly be
necessary for Hitler to let the Hun
garians in on the secret that the
Rumanian-German troops are ad-
vancing slowly because flaming
wheat and oil cannot be consumed
twice and it is absolutely necessary
that the Reich save something use
full from the Ukrainian shambles
or the 1941 effort will end as barren
as the Balkan campaign.
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