Show I NATIONAL NA AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Predict European Euro Conflict Will r ill End in ill Full Fall 1943 Timing liming Kimmel awl and Shorts Short's Court Martin Martial hel Syndicate Service WASHINGTON How flow long the tin war will last is perhaps the Ule mos most vital question to every man woman and child chUd In America always assuming as suming that we KNOW the answer to an on obviously more vital question Who Is going to hr win Most lost of the answers to the first firs have been very discouraging The They run from three to ten years everybody everybody every every- body from rom Roosevelt and Churchill down clown assuming that we are arc going tc to tobe tobe be on the Die receiving end of attacks attack during most of the present year nut Hut two men nien In Washington whose voices have been heen listened tc to with more and more respect ns thi war has developed have a n more cheerful view Unfortunately th the writer cannot name them If Ir he i could the words of either cither alone in this connection would make male UK the front page of every newspaper from Eastport Maine 1 to San Diego I are arc predicting now Unit Brat the I Iwar war In l Europe will end by the hill fal of 1 1 Bolls men know theIr heir I Europe In In In- One Is best known as ns r a 1 diplomat and the other as an an econn in mist 1st but both base their opinion as to how long the war will last on or economic and morale factors In t a a nutshell neither thought any par part of Europe can cnn stand another winter of this war without cracking ant and this includes Germany The economist was telling friends last fall tall that he thought Germany German would crack In the fall lall of 1012 1912 He lie changed his view after aCter Japans Japan's Ual victories lie He now thinks the hope given the Germans by Japans Japan's successes against both bOUl the British and the United States will postpone the crackup perhaps crackup perhaps through one ono more winter But Dut the German people people peo peo- pIc he Insists will not be able to tc face tace winter on top of Ula that t. t Depends on ou Nazi Offensive The diplomat Is actually a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more optimistic than the tho economist He is still talking about all Europe cracking In nine months which brings us to the fall lall of 1942 1042 lie He concedes however that It is possible ble Ule especially if the Nazis should make Eke a successful offensive offensive- this titis k s summer summer and the Jap sue successes esses should continue in the Southwest est Pacific that the Germans might stand one more win winter tel But NEVER NEV ER two he insists Both men admit the war is just as ashard ashard ashard hard If not harder on most of 01 theother the Ule theother other allier people in Europe as it is on the Germans But the other peoples of Europe have very little to say about It All tills this leaves out the British but there is no question about what they Uley will do so far lar as continuing to fight Is concerned The diplomats diplomat's version is that the Germans will crack TillS THIS fall full and that the Job of the Ue United Nations then will be to concentrate on Ja Jo Japan pan which he figures would be just justa a question of time after aCter the German menace is removed Boar Hou think Russia would be eager to remove the Japanese threat In Inthe inthe Inthe the Far Tar East once and for all ull and that Stalin's air power hitting the Japanese both in China and in their home islands would make that phase of the war a mopping up op up- All 11 of which Is presented because of or the writers writer's high opinion of or the thc Judgment of the tho two mm cited plus the fact tact that it is a little more cheerful than Ulan the actual war news Three Clashing Opinions Concerning Officers Officers' Trials There are three violently clashing opinions about the Ule timing of the courts martial of the Ue army and navy commanders held responsible for foi forthe the Ule Pearl Harbor debacle The most generally general held is that thai the trials of Maj laj Gen Walter C C. Short and Rear Hear Adm Mm Husband E. E Kimmel should be postponed until after the war The Tho second is that it would be cruel to the o officers and their families lies to keep them under such u LI cloud considering cloud considering possibly that a acourt acourt acourt court martial might hold them guiltless guilt guilt- less less for for what hat may be a very long tong period The third is a combination of the motives actuating both the Ule other groups and would provide for a secret court martial so that the Uw de ct dk tense lense would be able to present all sorts of ot testimony or argument which for strategic reasons should not bo be made public In his defense of his own o conduct of the war it will be recalled Churchill laid a great deal of the responsibility for the tall fall of Hong Uong- kong and Singapore on Pearl Harbor liar Har bor He lie mentioned also of at course the loss toss of at the Prince of 01 Wales and Repulse and left the clear implied lion that If It It had not b been cn for tor those two disasters both of ot which critics allege are direct lY y due to the conviction of so many admirals that airplanes could not sink battleships the whole story of ot the Southwest Pacific operations might have been very different |