Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-04-17
Might Be
|Wrong--BUT|
by P. G. Stromberg:

by +. u. StrOmDerg=
With the Ford strike ended
and the steel strike averted,
wishful thinking leads us to
hope that the average citizen
won one big point in these I'M
fortunate controversies. That
point is the focusing of public
attention on the terrific delays
caused in our defense effort.
If these outrageous displays of
our lack of unity, coordination
and production result in a plan
to avoid a repetition in the
future then, despite the cost,
the public might finally be the
winner.
= = .
With the domestic fog lifted
we can again see the war some
what clearer. And what a pic
ture we get. Not many reports
have been encouraging. In a
week the Maxi war machine has
overrun Yugoslavia and q part
of Greece. and driven the Brit
ish out of Libya. At the same
time several British towns have
been the object of heavy bomb
ing attacks and the tonnage
loss in both ships and cargoes
has mounted to staggering fig
ures. Then Russia and Japan
sign a neutrality pact" which,
even though dismissed as of no
real consequence, must be ac-
cepted as mot friendly" to
either Great Britain or the
United States.
IF strength comes from adj
versity then the British should
be immeasurabIy strengthened
in this war. "She seldom wins
q battle but never loses war"
is an old statement frequently
mentioned today by those who
try to CLEAN some ray of hope
from war reports.
Poor old Prime Minister
Chamberlain did his level best
to induce all the small countries
to gang up" on the German
bully. But each country felt
secure in maintaining a neu-
trality so strict that Fifth Col
umns took them over at a
signal from Berlin, or else, as
with Holland and Belgium last
year and Yugoslavia this year,
the Nazi war machine overran
the country in a few days.
If all the countries now under
Nazi domination had put up a
united front each could have
maintained her national boun.
daries. But, one by one, these
countries have fallen. Only the
battling Greeks, remnants of
the Yugoslavian forces and
whatever support England has
in the Balkans remains on the
European continent except Tur-
key, Spain, Russia, Portugal,
Sweden, Switzerland and little
Finland. Finland has been out
ragged; Sweden is known to be
under Nazi domination; Spain
is exhausted; Portugal and
Switzerland are small and I'M
important and Russia is a Ger
man ally. Turkey is the only
hope, and why she hasn't come
into the battle is hard to faith
ON. She will ultimately have
to acquiesce to diplomatic pres
sure or will find herself alone
in offering military resistance.
Any thought Of the Nazis
being brought to their knees
through lack of food and raw
materials Is out. They have the
entire continent from which to
draw and can probably survive
for years If need be. It follows,
to win this war it must be won
against a country drunk with
one success after another and
having superiority on land and
in the air and capable of doing
unreasonable damage at sea.
Mastery for England and her
allies in the air is possibly only
through United States aid. We
have cast our lot with Britain.
We should prove that we can
give her air supremacy. We
ask only that she ''hold that line"
until our tools are delivered.
Experts say that Germany must
win in 1871. England says