Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-29
Killers Talk
Spells Doom
Of Germany
through by November
u. S. Aides Believe
BY PAUL MALION

ship is probably forecast by the
Hitler speech. A guess is that
either Himmler, overload of the
secret police, or Goebbels, the
propaganda, may go, TO create
a fresh political front at home
TO replace the present fading
one.
Hitler spoke in a new calm,
appealing tone when he asked
the Reichstag to give him the
legal right TO remove any one
from office, but the tone was
hollow. He controls both the
ReichStag and the office holders.
He already had the right he asks.
The only excuse for him TO
mention the matter in such
way was TO seek popular sup
-port-for- another bo0tkicKing
custer from high Nazi chairs.
AS pudgy Herr Goering seems
TO be-,in favor for the moment,
il looks like Himmler or Goeb-
bells have reason TO feel uneasy.
nER boss has shaken the army
~ until all its top teeth have
fallen out, and asked no ones
authority. He fired Won Lieb
from the Leningrad front, Won
Beck from the center. Won Run
Stedt from the south Shifting
him to France as a mere police
mani, Won Brauchitsch, the gen.
eralissimo Che went back only
in an advisory capacity and not
as head of the armies) and even
Keitel, his right-hand man.
No one knows who replaced
these generals. All that is
known is that General Jodl is
now doing Hitlers military
brainwork.
But the biggest point of the
speech, point evident in nearly
every paragraph except one, was
that Hitler himself is on the de-
fensive.
RElWEEN the lines you could
~ plainly read evidence that
he is enmeshing himself in a
new type of defeat, just as he
offered the world a new type of
war in the blitz. 1t is not a de-
feat in the field, crushing blow
from a lost battle, but a defeat
based on the diminution of vital
ity in the brilliantly efficient
German military machine and in
moral stamina and industrial
production.
The speech cheered some Off
Gals here so much they now are
convinced der fuehrer will be
through by November. They ex-
pect he will not be able to defeat
the Russians and will not get
through Syria to oil.
That may be overly optimis-
tic, but the tone he assumed was
certainly further evidence that
the German nation as a whole is
capable now of only a limited
remaining effort. has only a di-
minished store of resources, both
human and material. The ire
mendous pace of the military
machine is gone.
Everything in Germany has
gone into the army, the best of
food, men and raw materials.
Now the machinery is wearing
down. manpower is running out,
unrest and its problems confront
him everywhere in occupied
countries. AS one official de-
scribes it. Germany now is like
a piece of wood which still looks
good on the outside but is full of
termites underneath.
British air spoilers have no.
ticed the German de sive
trend on their front in many
ways. Concrete air posts have
been built in airfields w here
Nazi bomberS formerly took off
to attack England. Thousands
of concrete pill boxes have been
constructed along the occupied
stretch of coast. So many Nazi
troops have been removed from
that area. all talk of invasion of
England has been forgotten.
EIELD M A r S HAL GOER-
Il ING'S recent trip to Rome
was for the purpose of drawing
further to the limit on Italian
manpower. Transportation diff
ficulties now are so great Ger
many has abandoned shipments
of coal, iron and other materials
10 Italy. Nazi freight cars and
locomotives are serving troops
at the Russian front.
How hard pressed is Rome,
was evident in the recent decree
subjecting all men between Is
and 35 10 civilian labor service.
Working time in many factories
has been reduced due to insuffi-
cicnt electric power, so appar-
entity the draft is to draw work.
ers into Germany. Italy has
fallen so low in the economic
order she has added to her list
of exports-men.
Germans are getting an aver
age of only $500 calories a day,
Italians /, 700, and as the soldiers
at the front need more than this
to live and are getting it, the
rations of those at home are
hardly enough 10 sustain health.
Italy is closer 10 starvation than
all the other countries in Europe
except Greece and Belgium.
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