Evening star., 1941-03-05


til after this week-at all costs
and they have dug in and sabotaged
as we'll as they could against Brit
ish and American morale-a dis
graceful procedure which future
historians will write about.
Japan's uItimatum TO France has
expired, but Toxic reports that the
truce" between Siam (after all,
why call it "Thailand"?) and French
Indo-China will expire on March 7.
The NaZis have rounded up the
little yellow brothers of the New
Europe at Vienna for a last-minute,
sign the -dotted-line addition TO
the overworked axis. This now has
become polyledron - including
Nazi Germany, Nazi Italy, Nazi
Hungary, Nazi Bulgaria, Nazi Yugo-
Aryan)-Japan. Terrible things are
about to happen in the Mediter-
ranean, says Mussolini, who ought
to know, since most of them have
happened to him.
Defense Program Speeded.
Our defense program is speeding
up and our fleet is in the Western
Pacific watching the japanese ef-
forts to promote the New Order
in Asia.
Spain is too hungry to do any,
thing in the war. Unoccupied France
and Weygand's North African Army
and the French Navy are still out
of Hitlers control. Syria will go
British at the drop of a hat, and
the French and British may fight
side by side again in Asia, Africa
and Europe.
1t is the moment before the kick
off, the calm before the storm.
Hitler has had all winter to pre-
| pare for the invasion of England.
He has 'wolf-packs" of submarines,
new warships, about 25.000 war;
planes, and an Army which is be-
coming restless under the blockade
and the failure of the New Europe"
to arise from the Berchtesgaden
pipe-dream. Italy is about ready to
collapse and the occupied countries
! are a headache. Spain, oldest of
Hitler's colonies, is out of action.
Time is working against the Reichs-
fuehrer, who completely miScalcu-
lated the American factor and who
does not understand British valor
or the influence of sea-poWer on
history.
Prophecies for 1941.
Prophecy is proverbially danger
ous-but here is my prophecy for
1941.
Hitler will fail to conquer Eng
land. His pSychopathic attempt at
invasion will be bloodily repulsed.
His sea-warfare will be frustrated.
His Luftwaffe will be outfought and
smashed by the r. A F. His propa-
| ganda of frightfulness will begin to
look as silly as Mussolini's ballyhoo
after the capture of Tobruk by the
Army of the Nile. Italy will do an
exclude me out" by next summer,
as her entire empire is swallowed up.
Japan will not enter the war on
the side of the Axis-unless she is
convinced that America will not
fight.
America will fight. We will be
in the war by April for all practical
purposes, and probably without a
declaration of war.
The British will take punishment
which would smash the Third Reich
into a congeries of whimpering sup
plants. The little Americans will
be swept away in surge of savage
realism which will discredit them
forever, as the American people rise
to meet the challenge of destiny.
BY September, the German gen.
eral staff will decide that the war is
lost and the German crack-up will
begin. BY January of 1912, Ger
many will be in revolution and as
the conquered people rise and turn
upon the NaZis there will be blood
purge of Germans which will startle
the world and end for a thousand
years the German dream of con-
quest. Peace will come about June
of 1912 and then America and
Britain together will begin to re-
make a better world-order than this
planet has ever known, better than
we have ever cared or dared to
enviSage.
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