WE HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE
SEELY, Lt. Comdr. C. S.
We Have No Time To Waste By LT. COMDR. C. S. SEELY IDO not believe the war in Europe will end within a few weeks or months, as so many commentators seem to think. I believe the Nazis will make...
...German morale would quickly break, under such circumstances, and the army would deteriorate into a discouraged mob, which could not offer effective resistance to a victorious army, such jis the Russians have...
...Gsrman soldiers could not fight long in the East when they knew that enemy troops were arriving in their country from the West...
...Just as soon as possible after Hitler goes down we must transfer our men and materials to the East Asian-West Pacific war theatre...
...Should the entire German military force be sent to hold off the Russians, while we march into Germany, a most unstable situation would be created—a situation which would deteriorate rapidly...
...I believe the Nazis will make "all out" stands at both their West wall and the Rhine and that they will fight on to the bitter end against all the United Nations...
...The point here is that in no case can the Russians be kept out of Germany for more than a few weeks, or days, after we enter—and the Germans know this...
...We have no time to waste in Europe, if we are to win an early victory over Japan...
...Actually, there is no reason for believing that any German group could gain any appreciable or lasting advantage from such an invitation...
...The opinions and assertions expressed above are the private ones of the writer and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the naval service at large...
...There is little or no merit in the theory now being developed that the Germans will, as a last resort, invite us into their country to "save" them from the "bjood-thirsty Reds...
...Also it should be clear that we could hardly maintain, for any appreciable length of tmie, a large army in Germany for any purpose, and ialnly not to "protect" Germans from our allies...
...The Nazis, of course, will never invite us, for they know we would not save them from anybody...
...Every day we delay doing this will give the Japanese just that much more time to "dig in" in the occupied areas...
...All the Russians would have to do would be to wait out events, while they bring up re-inforcements...
Vol. 8 • September 1944 • No. 39
