The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-03-05
Economic F.
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National and International Problems
Inseparable from Local Welfare

is lHlS NlClOIy BeioIlSS 10 llS dSSlCo-
sor-to the nation which carries the
battle to the enemy. Hitler and his
Axis mates have consistently followed
that principle. They have not hesitat-
ed to take the greatest risks if the
possible gain was worth the gamble.
Theirs is the most daring plan of war
fare in the history of armed conflict.
The grave losses which the United
Nations have taken may be laid, in
part, to the Once-commOnly held belief
that it would be possible to fight a de-
fensiye war and still win. France
pinned her faith ON the Maginot Line
which her military leaders said was
impregnable-an today she is a
beaten, starving, slave nation. Eng
land at first thought she could bring
Hitler to his knees through the use of
that classic weapon, the blockade-and
today Hitler is master of all Europe,
and eXploiter of all it's resources. At
the beginning Russia too placed her
hopes on defensive positions, such as
the So-called "Stalin Line" and saw
them destroyed by the invader, almost
as if they were made of paper. Not
until the fine Russian troops took the
offensive was the legend of Nazi in
vincbility shattered. The last example
and one of the most tragic eX-
amples-of the fallacy of defensive
warfare is found in the fall of Singa-
pore, the greatest naval base ever
built in the world. The English be-
lieved the Maylayan jungles would
make land attack on this baStiOn i'm
possible. The Japs proved otherwise.
Here in our own country, most of us
have been defense minded instead of
war minded" The great natural bar
rier provided by our oceans has been
our solace. We took pride in our latent
power, and thought that no nation,
least of all Japan, would dare attack
us. And so, at last, decades of defen-
sive, wiShful hiniing-decades of in
action, decades Of avoiding unpleasant
tluthS-have resulted in the grim
series of dcbacles to which we and our
Allies have been subjected.
We are changing our views fast
now. In military circles, and to ii
lesser extent in the public mind, the
fact that defensive war is losing war
lis being fully accepted and realized.
I'rhe blucprintS are being made for TAX
ing the battle to the foe once our pO-
Itentially limitlesS power in men and
weapons can be organized. 1t is sig
nificant that our airplane-building pro-
gram calls for relatively small pro-
portion of pursuit planes, which are
primarily instruments off defense. and
for Il high proportion of long-range
bomberS and dive bombers, which are
Icntirely instruments of oflensc.
Where will the United Nations
strike? No man can answer that now.
Much will depend on what further
successes the Axis achieves. Now that
| Singapore is gone, tremendous mum
bcrS of Jap troops, fully equipped, can
be used for the assault on the Dutch
East Indies, India, and even Australia
Every position Japan has taken or will
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