Show Nazi Strategists Fool I Allies ies Says Chaplin Editors Editor's note Back in America on leave lean after six months with the British expeditionary force on the western front in France V. W. v. v W. W Chaplin tells in this uncensored uncensored uncensored un- un censored article fifth of a series of six six how how the allies misjudged misjudged misjudged mis mis- judged the purpose and significance significance significance cance of a major feature of nazi strat strategy gy W. W CHAPLIN NEW YORK INS What INS What the allies believed at first to be bp their greatest good geed fortune in the European European Euro Euro- war has turned out to have been a definite disadvantage But Rut i they are still confident of victory When I first went to France at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of the war both bath British and French military men were gloating over the fact that Chancellor Hitler had restrained himself from launching the expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex blitzkrieg Every day of af waiting he lets us have is a day nearer to allied victory was the commonest phrase in trenches and f forts ts in France The allies ames were glad of af the respite respite respite res res- pite because it gave France time timeto to mobilize England opportunity to send an expeditionary force farce to the western front frant They also believed believed believed be be- that Germany was ill- ill equipped to keep going for an ex ex- ex- ex tended period under blockade con con- Hitler's delay did let France mobilize and did allow England to send the cream of af her expanding army to France but that merely meant that Hitler had succeeded in quarantining millions of his principal enemies behind the unbreakable unbreakable un un- breakable d deadlock on the western front And Germany proved that actually she was prepared to carry carryon on her particular type of af war month after month despite the allied blockade Allied n WilT will generally admit now that they were wrong in ill their ei e early Judgment of the Hitler strategy but they all insist that no serious damage has been done their cause and that eventual French Anglo victory is still a certainty The Hitler strategy as now disclosed disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed by the Scandinavian aggression aggression aggression ag ag- ag- ag has been simply to try to lull the allies into a false sense of security by inaction and then strike where attack was least ex ex- ex- ex After immobilizing the great French Anglo fighting forces anthe on an the western front by failing to attack there the German high command let the rumor rumer run that Rumania was next on the nazi schedule and so helped draw the mighty French army and the British to the east Then Hitler struck in Scandinavia |