Nippon Hurries War End to Grab Allies' Asiatic Lands
DONG, YEN H.
Reich Style Krieg in China Nippon Hurries War End to Grab Allies' Asiatic Lands By YEN H. DONG (Former Professor at the Sun-Yat-Sen University in China) BRITAIN has finally aceeded to the...
...All in fun, of course, one hears rash quips around New York to the effect that many things could be worse than Hitler and the Nazis, that if the Nazis were to run New York at least the traffic problem would be solved...
...It is palpably erroneous, for example, to hold that the United States cannot be invaded and conquered...
...The public everywhere has been talked to as one may talk to a fretful child, has been advised not to be alarmed by anything, until a dangerous power of inner resistance to any eventuality has been created...
...After Poland another great commander was ready to dispose of Hitler, and his name was "General Exhaustion...
...A very large section of the trade unions were pacifist, as was the Socialist Party...
...He could not count even upon Italy...
...Only a. British victory can now save France and Europe...
...How many units of the fleet will be disabled by sabotage...
...To be sure, rustic idiots have done their best to create skepticism about these realities of our time, with a view possibly to the moral disarmament of our power of intelligent resistance...
...In the background were the reserves of Economic Collapse, Revolution, and the armies of the Allies...
...In the United States, it sits in illusory isolationism behind the "ramparts" of the ocean, failing to perceive that the dangerous flanking movement of the enemy's Fifth Column is already under way, preparatory to the larger and open engagement...
...The whole of French society...
...All that is required'to conquer the United States is to implement the correct strategy and tactics...
...The formation of the Konoye government, the sudden inspection trip to the South Sea Islands of Admiral Kichisaburo, the sudden arrival in Washington of the United States Naval Commander of the Manila Fleet, and the quiet departure of two naval columns westward from Hawaii are sure signs of real trouble ahead...
...And beware of economic experts, who live in a world of abstracted facts, who fail to take into consideration living processes...
...4mofeurs Wen, Professionals Lost IN evaluating the reassurances given on every hand one should 'also evaluate the experts themselves that give the reassurances...
...They were the French Bolsheviks of the right...
...the "common good" of the local co-operators, jr...
...The indiscriminate bombing of Chungking in particular will be increased...
...The workers were against Hitler and wanted his destruction...
...NEVERTHELESS, the war * ' could have been averted, and France and all the other nations raped by Hitler saved from their tragic fate, if the traitors in Moscow had not stabbed Europe in the back at the last, crucial moment...
...The United States is economically self-sufficient, it is said, a flat misstatement...
...The stark fact is that the "experts" know nothing about any of these factors and their opinion is worthless...
...She found it difficult to recover from the bloodletting of 1914-18...
...Hitler was to be defeated in Poland by that great strategist, "General Mud...
...Hitler can't last six months and then he will be discredited," was the word passed around...
...In one measure or another, other countries, including particularly Italy and Germany, had also experienced the same dislocations, which, in their cases, found expression in Hitlerism and Fascism...
...Wars are begun by generala who have attained their titles by a process of routine promotion...
...Behind that move were the costly setbacks the invaders were experiencing...
...Beware of political experts, especially of those who are intimately acquainted with the operations of Hitlerism but also of those who claim to know nothing of Hitlerism...
...It can't happen ¦here," was what the German intellectuals said when confronted with the possibility that Germany would follow Italy under the fascist yoke...
...it Can't Happen Her* T^HE game of reassurance was begun in Germany by a war-weary * generation before Hitler came to power...
...They were willing to fight in defense of France but their horizon was limited, their outlook provincial...
...Japanese imperialists are already taking desperate measures...
...The peasants alone retained the strength and confidence of the soil...
...tieians no worse than the, people...
...The prospect of another bloodletting appalled the people...
...Like Germany in the European conflict, she has gambled all she possesses on the Chinese war, and she must either emerge the victor or break herself in the attempt...
...I No doubt this concession on the part of the ••'"-'British Government has temporarily lessened the -' tension between ^he two conflicting powers in the ¦¦' ftr East, but there is considerable question ^"whether this concession will help to bring about amelioration of conditions in the Far East, as -" the British hope it will...
...to the end has been manifest by their three • long years of gallant,resistance...
...With this attitude, China, at the same time she fights Japan, is embarking on large-scale industrialization, is training an army of three million new soldiers, in addition to the three millons already Under arms and is active in the field, building new roads—and a new society...
...In France, this mind rested in false assurance behind the Maginot Line...
...is the fact that constant air and water raiding can disorganise England and destroy the will to resist in the people...
...Instead the Japanese invasion has given birth to a "Free China...
...France is the last country} to yield to reaction as the consequence of intellectual, social1 and political disintegration...
...Then will begin the second phase of the French tragedy...
...k AT this time, with her two most important lines of communication with the outside i;.World cut off, will China submit to peace on 5 Japanese terms...
...One hope in the current situation is that England's military endeavor is ruled by a rank amateur, Winston Churchill, whose amateur brain in the last war conceived the masterly Gallipoli attack, which failed only because Churchill's requirement for an attack in force was disregarded in favor of an economical attack, that was bound to fail...
...This act, more than any other, destroyed all hope of successful French resistance...
...At the outbreak of the present war there were 2,000,000 more women than men in France...
...At no time—not even at Appomattox—was he considered the peer of Lee...
...The expressed object of such reassurances is that the country not prepare itself for any large eventuality...
...The latest center of these co-operatives ', has been established in the northwestern sec-vfion...
...Then there is the large protective ocean between us and the Nazis...
...But even if Hitler had such designs they would get...
...the amateur who wins wars tells us what is possible...
...Such a factor is entirely left out of all military considerations, although it obviously has a bearing upon the military situation...
...As for the Bolsheviks of the right and of the left—both knew how to take advantage with diabolical cunning, each for their own purpose, of the bourgeois smugness of the nation...
...The French revolution was similarly fought, and with similar result The American Civil War was_ fought on the Federal side by amateurs after the disastrous opening months, and a man, low in his class at West Point, who stood behind the plough at the beginning of the war, was general-in-chief of the armies...
...The penetration of devious totalitarian elements into our leading social associations has been very deep...
...The Russian revolution was fought by amateurs against professional generals...
...The history of military affairs has been the history of the triumph of the amateur over the professional, and it is only when the amateur has turned professional and has come to over-estimate his powers that he has met his Waterloo...
...One does not know, affirmatively or negatively, but one does know that the will to undertake vast conquests does exist in the world...
...The immediate result of the Japanese move was that not a single military!leader or important government official deserted Chaing Kai...
...set forth by the Japanese militarists as prerequisites for Wang's *«• installation as head of the puppet government...
...In thje northern front the Japanese offensives to capture Sian, the headquarters of the Chinese Northwestern army, had failed...
...The Chungking-Kumning-Burma highway construction was classed as one of the most colossal engineering undertakings, considering the fact that most of the construction was done by har.V, by thousands of men, women and children...
...France and Russia ready and able to give him battle...
...5pm vlt has been emphasized repeatedly by the . Chinese government that the only condition under v which she is willing to negotiate a peace with ¦V?auan is the complete withdrawal of Japanese ¦j^.troops from Chinese territory...
...France had -become bourgeois In the worst sense of the word...
...A reasonable motive exists for the invasion of the United States...
...Japanese armies of the Central front were 1 Oh the defensive...
...Laval & Co...
...I don't know who it was, for example, that organized the Pittsburgh "parashoot" corps, but the step was so fantastically ridiculous that it may well have been inspired in Berlin...
...The Socialists, terrorized by Communist demagogy, opposed the advance of French troops into the Rhineland in 1936 because the people cried "No war...
...The newly organized Ministry of Economic Warfare, headed by T. V. Soong who is now in the United States, is further evidence of China's - determination to adequately prepare herself for a long fight...
...The efficiency of the war in-diistries was seriously undermined by the presence in the trade unions of some 2,000,000 Communists, a gift of the late-lamented Popular Front...
...itself...
...Grant was a farmer when the war began, was a farmer during the war, and was a farmer (in spirit) at the end of the war and when he was President...
...Big Industrialists Preferred Defeat •"PHE divisions in the working * class had its counterpart in the middle classes...
...Hitler wisely retired all the generals—von Seeckt, von Blom-berg and von Fritsch...
...The antics of the Communists under the Popular Front served to fan this illusion...
...In 1940 there was threat of assassination of the leader of French Socialism by members of his own party...
...What do any of our military experts know of the honeycombing of American society with elements responsive only to the dictates of foreign capitals—Rome, Berlin, Moscow...
...The defense proved inadequate because psychologically, socially and politically...
...In the far south the Japanese were encountering stiff resistance which checked thoir advance beyond Nanking.' . » * » j ' WJAVING encountered mounting difficulties and costly campaigns without having made any !'~ decisive gains, Japan's mili-tarists.niad...
...The Stalinist penetration, it can be proven by all the laws of evidence, is very great, and exists only to serve the interests of Moscow...
...The military expert tells us what is impossible...
...She now considers the war against Japanese aggression a permanent conflict...
...The entire .campaign will be patterned after the blitzkrieg, .. for the Japanese yearn to Jmitate everything . German...
...Joint . Partments, and thus to arrange for the pro- Committees of the CIC, which do educational auction of goods to be consumed by members work and are in charge of expenditures for •f the industrial co-operatives...
...These circumstances were the poisonous outgrowth of a process of decomposition to which Russia had succumbed, in the last war and which had furnished the soil for Bolshevism...
...One reason is that Japan cannot afford to lose face...
...Another, and a more compelling one, is that Japan has engaged too whole-heartedly in this war, to back out without causing national collapse in Japan itself...
...The time has arrived to feel intelligently alarmed, and to prepare for any eventuality...
...Only one man in France, had he been heeded, was capable of defeating Hitler and he was Colonel Charles de Gaulle, inventor of the very tactics by which France was defeated...
...Its conclusion was announced at the very moment when war could no longer be avoided...
...The object of the reassurances in every case was to allay "hysteria" and to bolster disintegrating morale...
...Fearful of a repetition of this debauch, intellectuals everywhere have unconsciously, guiltily, taken upon themselves the responsibility for lulling the public into blissful unawareness of impending doom...
...In one sense, the United States has already been conquered by the totalitarians, and this fact is evidenced in the apparent willingness of large bodies of people to come to an "understanding" with the totalitarian states and to emulate totalitarian practices...
...The big bourgeoisie and the heavy industrialists of the Comit...
...Chinese Co-ops "^ALL over war-torn China a chain of industrial co-operatives, estimated at from 1,200 to 1,700, have beenijset up to provide 'JSS harried nation with essential commodities and to provide employment for the thousands '.'Of peasants and laborers who have become ref-Jh?«es...
...According to the law governing co-operative are voluntarily setting aside 10% of their '"hr-Chma, five per cent of the profits must be profits for the fund...
...To cap it all, Germany was short of butter...
...117HY don't the Japanese generals withdraw "* from China, knowing as they certainly do that they can never bring China to her knees...
...Gigantic road projects are being rushed...
...The deep aversion to the necessity of fighting another war so soon after the last conditioned France in her policy of fighting a "defensive" war, which might have been wise in itself provided there had been an adequate defense...
...1 a By this slogan they seek to brand the preceding governments as solely responsible for the defeat of France...
...The mood of self-deluding reassurance that has grown up throughout the world is a reflex to the emotional debauch of the war of 1914-18, when all sense and sensibility was thrown to the four winds...
...Both the right and the left in France had failed...
...Lee could only win battles...
...Europe's Tragedy 'The Maginot Mind', Not Democracy, Beat France By MALCOLM HASTINGS IN a previous article dealing with the collapse of France, we discussed the immediate causes: lack of national unity and purpose, faulty organization—or rather almost complete lack of organization, absence of leadership and enthusiasm, the crippling of the nation's capacity for defense, moral and material, treachery and sabotage...
...The time has long since passed when one might with any reasonableness feel reassured...
...One writer reports that so bitter, wjs.the opposition in the ranks of the Socialists that for a time there was fear of the assassination of Blum by members of his own party...
...In the German army nobody was in command whose rank topped that of captain a few yean ago...
...Many military and naval officers have testified, for example, that no force can cross the Atlantic, that the United States cannot be assailed either by air bombers or by submarines, that the Navy can handle any attacking force...
...But now that Britain is thoroughly occupied in defending her home shores, Japan is determined to risk an attack on the Dutch East Indies.' If Japan should succeed in occupying the East Indie* without having to fight the United States fleet, she will have won the greatest victory in the history of Japanese imperialism...
...The determination of the Chinese to fight this war...
...They could not see the struggle as a mighty and decisive conflict between two I worlds, between two conceptions j of life and thought...
...The "Maginot mind"—we have its counterpart in the United States—preferred "defense" to attack, "economy" to sacrifice, illusion to clear thinking, half-heartedness to determination, dilatoriness to organization and discipline, complacency to passionate concern for liberty and the life of the nation...
...We have reason to believe that there will soon "_.bea*more intensive .campaign of bombing China's v open cities...
...Overlooked (maliciously...
...In August, 1939, Hitler was virtually isolated in Europe...
...No expert alive can say that such correct strategy and tactics will not be discovered by a person interested in the problem...
...The English, too, after all, had suffered terribly in the last conflict, both physically and economically, but they have preserved their capacity for fight and survival by virtue of their Anglo-Saxon grit and political genius...
...The politicians of the left reflected the demoralization, irresolute-ness, bewilderment and confusion of the people...
...The people were no bettir man the politicians and the poji...
...France was a deeply disunited country...
...f Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, the central sponsoring organization, plans also to^expand ™to the field of consumer co-operation...
...Vl" The deserters declared him a traitor and ex* posed the conditions for peace...
...of the Republic in the final stages...
...Here China has not merely rebuilt her munitions factories, but has built them on scattered mobile bases in order to save costly transportation expenses and to be near field operating units...
...Today France is ruled by an interim government of reactionary capitulationists, who in every act and in every pronouncement ?re doing the will of Berlin...
...It was England and France, in fact,-that were conniving to "spread the war" by involving Scandinavia, the Balkans, the Near East...
...not Parliament but the parliamentarians...
...Throughout the period when Hitler strengthened his hold over Germany reassurances came thick and fast We were told that, once secure, he would let up on his persecution of the Jews...
...To be sure, they were always frank, avowed reactionaries...
...The Balkan nations were ready to fall into line against him, provided there was a united coalition of England...
...Although they are on the government payroll they are not working at their profession, are merely warehouse and supply superintendents and janitors in uniform...
...we have a new set of reassurances waiting for us...
...The CIC hopes to forge a link with marketing cooperatives, through supply and marketing de- devoted to a "Common Good Fund...
...China now no longer plan's her war of resistance as a matter of one or two years...
...When they shall have completed the task assigned to them by the conqueror, they will have to give way to an unconcealed Fascist regime, headed, perhaps, by the renegade Doriot or some such scoundrel...
...been espe-j- eially anxious to bring the "China Incident" to an end so tb,at she may be free to throw her - military and naval power into the struggle for .: the possession of the rich South ?Sea colonies...
...Japan has been eagerly trying to bring the . 'war with China to a close...
...But to achieve this end they, too, made their contribution to the defeat, which they secretly regarded as the road to such "understanding...
...This one fact alone illumines with uragic light the psychologic situation in France at the outbreak of the war...
...This was true of both the working and middle classes, and of the nation as a whole...
...That general was Grant, who was considered no soldier at all and who, in fact, was not a soldier in the professional sense...
...Hitler, too, is an amateur, and is surrounded by amateurs who have made fools of the Gamelms and Weygands...
...She could have fought this w»r without Russia, if she could have mustered the will to mobilize her vast imperial resources and pulled herself up morally by her bootstraps...
...In summary, beware of experts...
...Eg Nothing is more hypocritical than the cry of the politicians, how in power, Laval & Co.,—tie Sy "Down with the politicians...
...These are all very valuable reassurances, very valuable, politically, to Hitler, and to no one else...
...The people of ~~ -China are confident now more than ever that ^.Japanese military power alone cannot subjugate, "f ""China...
...Under these circumstances, defeat was inevitable...
...As part of this game of reassurance and levity, ridicule is directed at the valid concepts of the "Fifth Column" and the "Trojan Horse...
...Some persons may believe that once such an understanding is reached the totalitarians will rest on their oars, but the whole history of these states shows their motto to be: "One step backward and two forward...
...All these reassurances have been vitiated by events, but...
...The population decline could not be halted...
...They had openly opposed the war and advocated "understanding" with Hitler...
...Entirely disregarded is the fact that the country is impregnated with totalitarian doctrine and a reckless spirit o? narrow selfishness that will, in time, prove self-defeating...
...The bourgeois parties,' Ice the Socialist Party and the \ &ade unions, had lost confidente j is themselves...
...It had lost its soul...
...The idea was too fantastic to be entertained...
...A more stable situation so far as Britain is concerned, would exist in compelling China to ask for peace, thus save British interests from further Japanese menace...
...That victory may yet come, with or without American participation...
...was debilitated by an' ultra-I ©fined scepticism, cynisism and disbelief—the -degenerate opposite of the period of enlightenment which preceded and prepared the Great Revolution...
...It betrayed itself...
...On the war issue Leon Blum spoke only for a section of the party...
...onee he got Danzig all would be well...
...Grant's were crude, uncouth, unworthy of an officer and a gentleman...
...Out of a population of 40,000,000 she had lost more than 1,500,000 of her young men...
...In her case the effects of the last war were especially severe as regards man power and drain of the physical organism...
...The nation as 'a: whole ha'd ceased to believe in...
...They fought the alliance with England, believing they could find security in understanding and cooperation with Germany, even Nazi Gessaany...
...This idea implies that one can fight by running away, by being driven off the field...
...And when it comes, the soul of France will be resurrected, and those who were the real criminals will face the tribunal of the French people...
...The amateure won...
...Thp only difference between Grant and Lee was fhat Grant won the war...
...They are finished by corporals, lieutenants and captains—and civilians— who have learned their business in actual war...
...Does the will to invade it anywhere exist...
...The Communists were the most smug and most unprincipled of all...
...The • disease hit the working classes...
...Beware of military experts, for they have had no experience at all...
...France could have fought this war with the help of Russia, by whom she was deserted...
...At no time was Grant a professional military man...
...Japan knows that the weight of British influence .. in the Far East depends on the outcome of the total war in Europe...
...I Their guiding instinct became wh|t Jnssian revolutionary intellects...
...The military men of peacetime are actually unemployed...
...was no Gambetta, np Clemencea'i, no Jaures, not even a Brianid...
...Certainly we do know that the United States is not being left out of the calculations of the totalitarian dictators, who make every effort to influence public opinion here and to penetrate into our social associations and into our industries via trade unions and organizations formed to support various worthy "causes...
...Who opposed military action against Hitler when he invaded the Rhineland, in March, 1936, the one great opportunity that had presented itself to smash him when he was yet weak, and thus avoid the war...
...once the Spanish loyalists were routed he and Mussolini would get together with France'and England...
...After three years of a costly and largely futile war, Japan finds that her lack of essential raw materials is cripping her war machine...
...j . Last but not least, there was...
...But if England goes, there will still be the British fleet, which can retire to Canada and wage long-range war on Hitler...
...Since the outbreak i: of :the new World War, Japan fhas...
...In vain do they hope, however, to save anything for themselves...
...they had only, recently suffered 'a disastrous defeat in a major campaign to cap-' ture Chengsha...
...And so on...
...As for the United States, we are all safe here...
...These reactionary middle class elements opposed also the League of Nations and all ideas of collective security...
...Reserves of food and war materials have been built up for the past two years, so that now> it is authoritatively reported that China has sufficient am-mution to fight Japan for nine months even with all ouside sources of supply cut off...
...the amateur with deeds...
...not Socialism but the Socialists...
...Beware ol .Experts I Nazis9 Young Generals Plan Invasion of U. S. , By Ferdinand Lundberg ' Author of "America's Sixty Families" T^OR several years now the world has been living on the reassurances of "experts" and every one of these reassurances has been exploded by events...
...It was while pretending to participate in such a coalition that Stalin secretly negotiated his treaty with Hitler...
...The country is exceedingly rich...
...not the Third Republic but the republicans...
...Those in the provinces were strongly anti-fascist, devoted to the democratic idea, but in the urban centres, particularly in and around Paris, the middle classes were demoralized by Fascist conceptions, having learned nothing from the experience of their class confreres in Germany and Italy, where large propertied elements had cooperated in the destruction of the democratic regimes in the false belief that Hitlerism and Fascism would emancipate them from working class "domination...
...But to say that democracy, parliamentarism are responsible is to deliberately distort the truth...
...But I cant help observing that all high military officers who have come to position in time of peace are inevitably discarded once war begins...
...If England should be overwhelmed by German force, Japan would then claim her share of the.spoils, as Italy did with France...
...It took China less than two years to open the Burma road to traffic...
...Seniority and routine kept de Gaulle, inventor of mass tank tactics, in the lower ranks...
...I have no doubt that the experts mean well and believe their own theories...
...The military expert deals with words...
...Stalin, too, it will be noted, got rid of all his generals and instead of making a mistake (from the miBtary point of view), as it has been widely argued, probably made no mistake at all...
...All the military geniuses of modern times have been amateur civilians or corporals, and it is a lesson worth observing...
...To be sure, leading politicians of the left likewise fought these measures, each for reasons of their own...
...To what extent will ground crews, made up of mechanics many of whom have been subjected to Stalinist and Nazi influence, hinder the service of the planes...
...Furthermore, poolroom loafers would be put to work on rock piles...
...of Kwantung...
...no less than the propertied ele- j vents...
...Z"'' Japan's primary aim in J establishing this puppet gov5^'fchiment was to cause dis--\ unity in the rank of the Chunking, and if this' should fail, to have the puppet gov-eminent act as go-between win peace negotiations between the Japanese army and the» Chungking authorities...
...W*HO opposed the extension of ™ the Maginot Line to the sea —Laval & Co...
...The France that knew how to throw into the faces of the kings of Europe the head of a king had ceased to exist...
...It is these men who begin any war invariably by resuming the conduct of the previous war...
...Do any of the "experts" know...
...In 1914, Jaures was assassinated by a reactionary...
...And when Hitler was on the point of stepping into the government the theory of Von Papen that governmental responsibility would tame the firebrand ratcatcher of Branau was given wide circulation...
...once he had shown that Germany was free of the shackles of Versailles he would become a responsible actor in international affairs...
...Just as Euiope betrayed itself by failing in the period after 1918 to organize itself on a European basis...
...Hitler would not take Scandinavia...
...On the contrary, many .close followers of ' ' Wang Ching-Wei deserted Want...
...Fully fifty per cent of the membership supported Paul Faure in his ill-concealed opposition to the war...
...It dealt the final blow to French morale and opened for Hitler the road to triumph...
...onee he had achieved anschluss with Austria he would settle beer* "to peaceful cooperation with the international comnuutity...
...Shek...
...They, too, cannot escape responsibility...
...Should England triumph over Germany, Japan would have to fight the powerful English fleet alone...
...Beware, finally, of any professional expert who at this point in history gives reassurances and proves that everybody may now go home and enjoy a good night's sleep...
...I am quite sure, for my own part, that if the Nazis were to prevail on this sid^ of the ocean (as they did prevail in fact within the Chamberlain Cabinet) there would be no dry sweeping permitted and visible street numbers would be universally required...
...When the war actually began reassurances again came thick and fast...
...No matter how A? desirous .the Japanese are to...
...The pacifists opposed it for the same reason...
...This propaganda did its destructive work both at the front and in the rear...
...CREE CHINA" is the embodiment of hope for * . the future- of'China.'-'Out of a poverty-stricken land there now rises the structure of modern industry.'Szechwan, still free from Japanese occupation, is the birthplace of the Industrial Co-operatives, the most powerful economic factor of strength in this war of resistance...
...Additionally, Germany did not have enough high-test airplane gasoline to carry on effective warfare, and German weapons were not up to par...
...Us, crucified by the Bolsheviks, failed "shknrnichestvo"—"skinf - ' ism," concern for one's own in* dividual and class skin...
...They will remain in power not a moment longer than Hitler wills...
...e#»c* he got the Sudetenland he would be good...
...Experts Like Ostriches KTEGATrVE predictions are always sheer speculation, but the *^ Military experts freely hand out negative predictions...
...wanted the defeat of France and waited for it...
...They have learned nothing from experience in war because they have had no experience with war...
...des Forges went even further, preferring defeat to victory because the victory of a democratic France was tantamount in their minds to certainty of "revolution," to more comprehensive social and economic reform for which they would have to pay...
...Owing to the influences that have been brought to bear for many years upon our people the plain fact is that no military expert can predict how our forces would function against a totalitarian onslaught...
...To what extent will the American army, air force and navy be penetrated by disloyal elements...
...The Russian civil war, we should not forget was won by a rank amateur, a pamphleteer and street-corner orator...
...We repeat: it was not democracy that failed in France but the democrats...
...The consequence was "the Maginot mind," the belief on the part of both people and politicians that the Maginot Line was sufficient for the defense of the country, and the consequent failure to prepare an alternative...
...But they themselves contributed in great measure to the defeat...
...bun nowhere, for there were the Maginot Line, the great French army, the British navy, the formidable defenses of Holland and Belgium, and the economic resources of the United States to be considered...
...Laval & Co...
...Hitler will net be able to subdue England, for the Channel will prevent the transportation of his army...
...But they were confused and bewildered by Communist propaganda against the war as an "imperialist" war...
...Reich Style Krieg in China Nippon Hurries War End to Grab Allies' Asiatic Lands By YEN H. DONG (Former Professor at the Sun-Yat-Sen University in China) BRITAIN has finally aceeded to the Japanese 1 demand that the Burma Road, supply line of ~l-the Chinese Government, be closed for three ' 'months, during which time Japan will seek a negotiated peace with China...
...Peacetime Generals Inept As soon as they are confronted on the field by intelligent civilians, corporals, lieutenants and captains, their ineptitude becomes plain, and they are retired to their old taska of superintending warehouses and measuring red tape...
...Hitler, the story went, was really interested in limiting the war, and in closing it up quickly to the satisfaction of everybody...
...Stalin gave him the signal and a free hand...
...erais would never accept such a condition...
...Without his pact with Stalin, Hitler would have never dared to start the war...
...no leadership in France.- There...
...We should not rule out of consideration the possibility that Stalinists and Nazis may be behind the ridiculous statements and measures of many paperweight patriotic organizations...
...The French army was led by long-established generals...
...a second pence!* overture, this time by installing the puppet Wang ~\ Ching-Wei in Nanking, and *''openly" inviting members of I3".'tne Chunking (Chiang Kai-'"'-.Sbek) government to par-f^St?pate...
...end the war and .«heve the increased suffering at home, her gen-f...
...Lee's movements were beautiful...
...The experts still write that Lee was the military superior of Grant, had more finesse, could achieve more with greater economy of action and of men...
...The spirit of the Great Revolution had gone out of France...
...All they know about war they have learned from textbooks...
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