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Show 'I """ : : I 1 The March of Mars . , No. 1- Mqny Surprises in New Style War . , Thoughts for Today And gee if there be any wicked way In me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalma 130:24. ! Before God can deliver us, we must ; .undeceive ourselves. Augustine. ' and uncompromising application of totalitarian warfare by both sldea In iu moat vicious form and along the lines where It la moat -effective. There la no whir of wlnn over Europe; there are no battered arm lea stumbling futile ly through the frown mud of the Rhlneland. Those things may come; almost certainly they will come In soma form when men ' controlling mighty military machine get desperate. des-perate. Under any circumstances, the tempo of war Is considered certain to Increase next spring. But so far this has been and fundamentally Is likely to be war on the well-substantiated theory that In modern times economic weapons not only decide the outcome out-come of a great military struggle but achieve the far' more Important Impor-tant goal of totally destroying the enemy as a factor in world economy. Editor's seta Here Is the first f three dispatches tracing the Mama ef Man aarees Eanpe la terms ef what It has snesnt ta the psspla aaa gevaraeaaats Involved la the eeafliet. By JOE ALEX MOBKIS failed rreas rarelga News Editor This war has brought many surprises. It has shattered many predictions. Perhaps most significant sig-nificant of all. it has dwarfed the towering personalities who dominated the preflghtlng period ef today'! struggle. The men who enacted a day-by-day story as bizarre as any disaster that ever changed the course of world history, have been pushed aside by more powerful forces. A year ago the people of many lands read their future in the decisions of a few men whose hands fumbled papers of state across a conference table at Munich, Geneva, Godesberg. Today the nazl U-boat not the voice of Adolf Hitler makes the blackest headlines. Today the guns of the British fleet speak In tones more commanding than Neville Chamberlain. Preasare Slowly Increases That, rather than the costly military victories of the first three years of the World war. Is the goal of both sides in western Europe, and it is a "total war" that sooner or later will reach every family in every belligerent country. The effects are not yet strongly apparent. Months may pass before they begin to emerge before the pincers of economic "desperation or even confidence of 1 a successful military blow prompts one side or the other to seek a decision. Europe's political alignment, shifting constantly and with unprecedented un-precedented speed, may bring an overnight change In tactics that will force the fighting suddenly or, conversely, make fighting on a vast scale unnecessary. There are more and bigger surprises ahead. But there is today no Immediate Imme-diate prospect of a successful effort ef-fort toward peace among Europe's present governments. On the contrary, the evidence piles up day after day that total warfare across the face of Europe will bring changes incomparably in-comparably greater than those that resulted from the World war at the conference table at Versailles. (Tomorrow An estimate of the objectives on both tides and how far the warring nations have advanced toward those objectives.) Armed Might TalUs Sow For the present and probably for as long as there are battle-fronts, battle-fronts, the thunder of marching men and moving machines drowns out the words from chancelleries chan-celleries and thrones; men in the mass become the power that eventually regardless of the "slow motion" war on the western west-ern front must decide the outcome. out-come. The future of nations depends de-pends now less on diplomatic skill than on fighting power and that power will decide when and whether the statesmen again take command. A Paramount result, then, of this first phase of war haa been to open the way for fulfillment of Neville Chamberlain's eve-of-war prophecy that the conflict would result In a world unlike , anything we had ever seen before. be-fore. For, above all, while there is a war of surprises, it is not a phony war. The surprises are easiest to see. Let's look at some of them: No Civilian Bombardment 1. Contrary to general prediction, predic-tion, there has been no all-out bombardment of civilian populations. popula-tions. 2. Economic conflict In its most severe form has overshadowed aggressive armed combat. 3. Instead of lining up Immediately Imme-diately with her German ally, Italy, which offers the most feasible route for an allied attack on the relch, has remained neutral. neu-tral. 4. Germany has chosen to strike hardest at sea, where the nazl power is least and the British Brit-ish power greatest. . 5. Finland, for the moment at least, has given a fighting answer an-swer to Europe's greatest military mili-tary mystery the power of the red army. Fanny, but Not Fake, War Of these surprises, perhaps the greatest popular misunderstanding misunderstand-ing has centered around tactics chosen by both Germany and the allied powers In western Europe. It had been considered certain, because of the nazi air strength and the superior resources of the allies, that the outbreak of war would coincide with a locust-like flight of bombing planes across European skies; with vast civilian and military casualties and perhaps per-haps even an onslaught by German Ger-man armies through Belgium in. an effort to strike furiously before be-fore either Britain or France was ready. That was the theory of "lightning "light-ning war" attributed to the German Ger-man high command and employed em-ployed In Poland. It was a picture pic-ture of "total" war that had been drawn vividly and which, as usual, proved far different In application ap-plication on a big scale. This difference created a general suspicion sus-picion that it was a "fake" war. Is Economle Struggle As a matter of fact, the struggle strug-gle In Europe is an intelligent |