Evening star., 1944-01-10

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a means of stating that it will be
apparent to the whole world includ-
ing Germany during 1914 that the
NaziS cannot win.
Here are some of the reasons why
1t now is believed that the war will
not end prior to November or De-
cember, 1914, and may well 60 into
the winter of 1945:
First, air power has been depended
on mostly for the average mans be-
lief that Germany will be forced
into collapse. Several months of
steady pounding, however, do not
disclose any signs of break in the
hold of the Nazi military command
over the people.
Second, Hitler and the Nazis are
making persuasive use of the argu-
ment that the remarkable set of
fortifications in Northern France
cannot be pierced by air power and
will not be taken by ground troops.
However wrong the argument may
ultimately be proved to be, it is a
fact that until there is the beginning
of an actual demonstration of error
on this point, German morale will
stay intact.
Third, the Nazi command is TAX
ing advantage of the Allied clumsi-
ness in psychological warfare.
Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt
have not permitted any set of war
aims to be proclaimed that will af-
ford the bulk of the German people
a reason to revolt against Hitler
whereas the latter has made good
use of the Allied threats and un-
official statements interpreting these
to mean annihilation of the German
people, including the innocent non-
combatants. The war in the air is
unquestionably referred to inside
Germany to bolster the argument
that the Allies are inhumane and
that they mean to exterminate all
the German people. So last-ditch
resistance Is deemed preferable to
surrender.
Fourth, until the alternatives
available to the German people are
made known-their economic oppor-
tunity and future as distinguished
from the criminal punishment that
must be meted out to the guilty
Nazis-the average German will lis
ten to the Nazi propaganda that the
foreign foe who is bombing him out
of house and home means to be for
ever ruthless.
Fifth, as the Nazi lines grow
shorter and resistance stiffens, the
Allied lines must naturally grow
longer. This is an argument used
to urge that the German people hold
out for a negotiated" peace. In
part to support this reasoning, too,
the American presidential elections
are discussed in influential circles
in Germany with the expectation
that possible Republican strategy
will stress wartime irritations and
that the extensive protest vote will
in reality be sign of war weari-
ness. The German gamble now is
to wait it QUITO wait till after the
November elections anyway.
But the invasion is coming and
heavy casualties are inevitable and
by next summer the American peo-
pie, feeling the pain of total war as
they never have before, must
through both political parties con-
vey in unmistakable terms the spirit
and resolution of America to carry
on the war through 1914 and 1945
and as many months thereafter as
are necessary until surrender comes
There can be no straddling or zap
peasement."
AS for the date of the German
collapse, competent opinion places
1t at the time when Allied ground
troops actually have invaded Ger
man soil from both the east and
west. Only then will the German
people begin to question the broad
contention being made to them by
word of mouth propaganda and
press and radio broadcasts inside
Germany, namely that the Euro
pean fortress is impregnable, that
after four long years of war the
front lines of the Allies are nowhere
near the positions they occupied
after four long years of the World
War and that a defensive army can
fight better and at less cost with
short interior lines than can an Of