The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-07-31

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neglected their defenses and to date only raids of the sanazaie type
o penetrate them"
In this in the Billy Conn-Joe Louis analogy Reynolds
overooks the actual point his argument No other raids
have been made than Commando raids and Commando raids
the SantNazae type have penetrated the defense why
would not fu-fledged invasion penetrate them too?
Why Hitler Didn't Invade Britain in 1910
Mr. Reynolds approaches the real heart of the whole
ment about invasion when he discusses the situation 940
when Hitler overan Western Europe and yet failed to invade
England. He writes:
they
of equipment Had the German its
eating his carrots and squash the hotel in the Strand where I'm writ
never at at
the difficulties involved He would have given million to take
losses He made the mistake oratng the British strength Today
gagged
Thus one paragraph Mr.. Reynolds states that the
British without equipment (having lost it all Dun
to Her but that Hitler didn't know this; therefore
he overrated their strength therefore he didn't dare attack
Is seriously at this late date to point
Hitler
had the Red Army at his back and afraid of second
front?
Recall the sequence of Every that Hitler
made from September L. 1889 had been counered with
anti Hitler by Russia. The German army
Poand the Red Army moved to meet the Germans held them
half In the late fall the Soviet Union acquired rights
the Baltic countries then from Finland security
for Lenngrad and naval base the gulf of Finand-a
directed against Hitler When Hitler attacked in the
west the Soviet Union quickly concluded it's preparations
the Baltic and in Besarabia extending it's antler second
front boundaries hundreds of miles Germany France
fell in June 194O Lthuana joined Soviet
ion; 16 Latvia in Eshonia Bessarabia
lowed before the month That the time Hitler
Britain suffering acutey lack of
equipment and that precisely the time Hitler recognized
that he couldn't invade because of the danger from the East
the danger of second front Yet Mr. Reynolds anew
with total disregard of the most momentous facts of recent
history the treadbare that because Hitler didn't in
wade Britain 94o Britain can't invade the continent in 1912
Mr. Reynolds air experts estimate Britain would have
to lose from 1200 to 1900 aircraft month if give
adequate protection to its invading The first
$50 what? That planes have been lost for months
end the Eastern Front But if Mr. Reynolds that
the supply is inadequate has he forgotten President Rooe
States alone producing 1000 planes month"; and
that this figure has unquesionably grown since?
The main trend of Mr. Reynolds article the
public that the Raj has already opened "a second 'front.'
spend in Kentth summer
beating of
To date casualties these bombing
mando loss"
necessary point without detracting from the
value of the Raj raids that they he greatest
world has seem Sevastopos % miles of terri
tory got much weight of bombs for 27 days of
thousands of miles of German territory have been get
ting, once in three weeks weather permitting And is be-
Allies have limited themselves this Second
'front.' of the air that Hitler has been able to concentrate al
most his entire attention the Eastern Front
Mr. Reynolds concludes:
the immediate establishment
LIE hem
white visualize
of
thought
The Don right now with thousands of bodies
Russian floating in it. Should the Red Army be
back of the Voga and forced to adopt passive de-
the Channel will red too but the red
another direction And if that happens, such de-
arguments Mr. Reynolds has hurled the ether
will have contributed to the result. c
Mr.. Reynolds is good newspaperman He has feeling
things people His heart is in the right place But
has been taken rather has permitted himself to be
venroquss dummy for those forces that would
risk fascist world victory than opportunity
weakening the Soviet Union Reynolds article has done
distinct dsservice to common cause. E