Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-25

DdlCn 10 JOllIfs
MY right Is exposed, my left
Is heavily attacked, my center Is
unable to hold. cannot redis-
tribute my forces. The situation
II excellent. I shall attack"
Nor is the scheme exclusive.
The Nazl general. Rommel, is
working IT on the British in
IlbAd noM.
MACARTHUR would probably
WI call the blltz-stopping tech
niQue a battle Of maneuVer' in
contrast to the old battle OF po-
sition." But between all of us
nonexpertS. ii is simply the
scheme of counter-attack.
Hitler marched into Russia
with the toughest army in the
history of the world. He plunged
according 10 plan" up TO the
line OF Leningrad, Kiev. Smo-
lenSk. but then he had to stop
-te-bring up tank maintenance
supplies, airplane parts, gasoline
The French would have
started digging in right there,
pilln Cup earth~ofkS, tank
traps, building pillboxes. The
Reds counter-attacked. They
did not have much. but il was
enough 10 throw the blitz out
OF gear.
Again in the south. Hitler
marShalled initial superior
strength against Budyenny. then
commanding the Red forces i'm
the Ukraine. Budyenny gave
ground, but the moment Hitler
decided 10 try TO take Moscow
before winter and shifted forces
northward for that effort. the
Red Ukrainian troops, now under
Timoshenko, threw everything
they had right back AT him.
They had only n few tanks and
fewer airplaneS. but t he r
counter-attackS were successful.
The winter which II litter
thought would stop hoStilities
came on. but the Reds did not
dig in. They attacked.
60 ALSO with Macarthur
~ when the Jap general
Homma. figured out a way 10
drive him off Bataan lthe same
way the laps beat the British
IN Malayal by Snraking around
by sea 10 his rear. Macarthur
could not stop that infiltration.
could not shift sufficient men
through the iungles to clean out
the rear tlanking force. So he
attacked. straight ahead where
he could reach the JapS.
The attack was wholly uneX-
pected Jap soldiers were
lounging there in front. wait
ing until their thanking force
had ruined Macarthur so they
could walk VIGOROUSLY in upon
him The JapS had TO abandon
the flank movement TO save
themselves.
The brilliant Nazi tank gen.
eral ROmmcl was Int by Brit
iSh blitz which drove him half
way across Libya. but the mo-
ment the British paused for air.
no was IN upon them with 4 sue
CcSStul counter-attaCk
4 NEW book i out called
~ Defense VIII Not Win the
War BY Lieut.. Col. w. +. Ker-
nan. an artillery officer with
degrees from Tulane and Har-
ward. but not from the leading
military schools. Herman implies
the British are still clinging To
4 losing defense strategy by
trying 10 mass superior weight
Of metal for big blow. He is
afraid We arc. too.
He wants "a ma ior offensive
in Europe: he wants 1t this
spring. and he thinks the place
20 try il is Hltler'S weakest spot
Italy
Hitler'S whole strategy IS
based on the expectation that
the democracicS will continue 10
act defenSively. this hook main
tainS II is not too late 10
upset his calculations the
defense hypothesis has been
fatal 50 far the democ-
raCieS never concentrated for
attack: all over the world they
elected to defend
Invasion of Italy. he says.
would take 100000 mon 10 start
with. and another 2O0.0O0 TO fol-
low every month until victory IS
achieved. II would take three
fourthS Of the fleet, at least half
The British fleet. every bombing
plane and every transport of
both nations.
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