Evening star., 1942-10-11
Allied Strategy Held Hit>or>Miss T
Military Men Are Agreed That Pacific Front Will
Determine Future of United Nations s-
By Constantine Br01vn.

THE day is coming when the question
OF the balance of power cannot be con-
fined to Europe alone -. It is for old
Europe lament, that she is exhausting
her energies and her resources in these
wars-remember always that England
though she is bound to Europe by tradi-
ton, by affection and by great similarity
of habits, and all those ties which time
alone can create and consecrate, is not a
mere power of the Old World. Her geo.
graphical position, her law, her Ian
guage and religion connect her as much
with the New World as with the old.
"* If ever Europe by her Short
sightedness falls into an inferior and ex-
hausted state, for England there will re-
main an illustrious future. We are
bound to the communities of the New
World, and those great States which our
own planting and colonizing energies
have created by ties and interests which
will sustain our power and enable us to
play as great part in the times yet to
come as We do in these days, and as we
have done in the past And, therefore,
say it is for Europe, and not for England,
that my heart sinks"
These quotations are not from speech
by Lord Grey, British Foreign Minister
at the outbreak Of World World I, nor
by Neville Chamberlain, Britains ap-
peasing Prime Minister, nor by the dy-
manic, but European minded, Winston
Churchill, although it might have been
more appropriate for any of them to
speak in this manner. The paragraphs
quoted above are from speech delivered
at Aylesbury in 1859 by one of Britain S
most clear-sighted statesmen, Benjamin
Disraeli, who later became Lord Beacons-
field.
Strategy Still Limps.
The strategy of Great Britain and the
United States is still limping and both
countries continue to follow a hit-and-
miss military policy, with the United
States dispensing its growing strength in
a manner which makes it impossible for
us to concentrate all our might in one
definite battle zcne. "Commitments"-
the curse of our military strategy-are
still the principal obstacle to our oper-
ating in what most of our. military men
consider the only profitable front-the
Pacific.
It is not only because the well-organ-
lied and trained Japs are easier to defeat
on account of their geographical position
that an all-out offensive in the Pacific is
desired. But, in the opinion of practical
minded and clear thinking men, the
New World. extending from the Amer
icas to the Indian Ocean, must inevitably
become the world of the future.
Europe is regarded as an incurable
drunkard by those who are not moved
by their emotions or hide-bound by ira
dition. For hundreds Of years, it was
not able to take adantage of its great
thinkers, who developed her great cul-
ture. in order to live in peace. Her
wars were not the labor pains of young
states being born, as was the case with
the American republics, but were fos-
tered by greed and intolerance.
Europe's bloodiest wars have been re-
ligious. The worst massacres and perse-
cutiors Of modern times-such as In
Russia OF the czars and Germany of the
Nazis-have been due to religious and
racial intolerance. Like the inveterate
drunkard, Europe on more than one
occasion solemnly took the pledge tc