The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-01-17

ton.
For Yankee guns, ammunition
guns and other wartime supplies.
OF course. Britain. Russia. the Chi
nese and the East Indian Dutch
clamor necessarily. They all need
our naval aid, too. our merchant
shipping's invaluable TO EN- also.
Their demands on US or American
aviators likewise are Unsuitable.
We have, additionally. some
grounding army specialists, IT. va
rious lines, who could be, in their
midst. very helpful to them, but
not In sufficient numbers 10 be de-
scribed, collectively. as an AEF.
II we could send such bodies of
troops as simply to swamp the to-
talitarians, naturally they'd be in
fnitely welcome TO the anti-AXis-
ties. However, that would be a
practical impossibiiity, Besides, It
probably would so depiete us as TO
reduce our capacity for military
supplies production, and the anti
AXIS folks necessity for having US
maintain that at maximum Is
more urgent than their need for a
larger-sized soldiery, unless the in
crease could be huge beyond the
bounds Of availability.
It's recognized that few
token" AEF outfits might be good
for anti.Axis morale. However. a
token isn't the genuine article.
Tine Not Ripe Yet
The real thing may be in order.
10 help EN-. II ard when countries
Ike France and the smaller democ-
racies, now under the Axis thumb.
are ripe for revolt against It's pres
sure, but Sthat time hasn't come
vet. Presumably II will, as soon as
the Axis starts TO cruT1ble. Thus
far IL hasn't begun 10 do so--un-
less Herr Hitlers reverses in Rus
STA are the beginning OF II. I'll!
take a bit longer TO estimate that
situations proportions as an anti
Axis asset.
An AEF TO Japan is discussed
more or less, but the consensus is
that the Japs can be better attend
ed TO navelly and aviatorially thar
BY a land invasion OF their islands
II they're bottled up by sea anc
mercilessly bombed from overhead
at home. competent strategists
predict that they shortly will peter
out in the Philippines and as
menace to the Dutch Indies. Aus.
tralasia and Hawaii. with Chang
Kai-shek holding his own against
'en on the Asiatic mainland.
There are couple OF fields
though. In which it's calculated
that a pair Of AEFs are pretty
peremptorily called for.
ones in North Africa, az the
eastern end Of the Mediterranean
There the Fascists and their Nazi
partners already are gtoggy under
British attack and an AEF would
have a first rate chance TO knock
EN- out completely in jig time
Still, IL may not be necessary. Per.
haps John Bull will have finished
EN- before an AEF could get there
The other locale is at and around
Dakar, in Senegal, French West
Africa, at the continents extreme
bulge into the Atlantic.
Dakar hardly requires descrip-
ton, since it has been so freguent-
ly mentioned of late as a danger.
GUS taking off place for Herr Hitler
into the South Atlantic and TOWARD
the Latin American east coast
The point is that there are increas.
ing indications Of Adolf's planning
TO get to il. through beaten France
through Spain. with a pro-Axi:
dictator in Caudillo Franco. acros.
Gibraltar strait and on dowr
across the Dark Continental north
western desert.
Now. Dakars a place where Il
would be tremendously gratifying
to have an AEF waiting for hin
as a reception committee.
Beat Hitler TO Dakar?
Getting an AEF TO Japan woulC
be terribly difficult. it's so far off
and the Japs are right there, il
advance Of us. Getting an AEE
into continental Europe or north
eastern Africa, by way Of the Med
iterranesn, would involve a cork
ingly long haul also, with the enc
my on the job ahead Of US. likewise
But Dakar rather easier for VI