Show m iU 1 Allies Hol Holding ing Offensive f- f Have Invasion Advantage I. I it t u. u Po Por n r Veritas Veritas Famed British Military Expert Sees Nazis Handicapped by Being Pinned Inside Defense Circle I iI vs fl B By BAUKHAGE If News Analyst and Commentator f tt Service Ice Union Trust Building Washington D. D C. C What happens when the coiled l springs of action are released inthe in inthe the cataclysm of invasion Europe is enveloped in the smoke and confusion of battle and only occasionally occasionally oc oc- docs does this fog lift showing showing showing show ing the swaying forms of vast armies art ar- ar t S. mies amid the screaming clatter of mechanized combat It descends again blotting out the view and 1 leaving us uncertain as to the shape of the plan That is the observation of one of the keenest British military experts Veritas whose privately circulated ed anal analyses es are cabled to this country country country coun coun- try and eagerly scanned by persons most interested in the conflict now going on And Veritas reminds us that we can only maintain our sense of perspective and arid proportion if we keep carefully in mind certain f fundamental fun fundamental fun fun- D- D aspects of the military situa situation sit sit- ua tion from the German standpoint This likewise applies to the political political cal aspects A well known psychologist Dr Norman Maier Maler of the University of Michigan who predicted the failure of the Munich appeasement program I by demonstrating in advance that T r r according to psychological 11 pies it could not succeed recently I made some interesting observations v I He said that Hitler would be liquidated liquidated liquidated dated and a revolution would take place in Germany as soon as thelast the theTO thelast I TO last of nf the tho myths created by the German propagandists for the me the purpose purpose pur- pur pose of lulling the Germans into a false sense of security were ed The Germans he explains belong belong belong be be- long to a frustrated society Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler cured their frustration with aggression aggression aggression ag ag- ag- ag when aggression is frustrated frustrated frus frus- nothing else will be left Revised Propaganda This type of security propaganda da being fed to the German people had to be revised recently So much had been said about th the strength of Nazi fortifications that the leaders realized the people had developed S. S I what they called a Maginot mind In other words they had become reassured to the point of compla compla- S Therefore the more recent propaganda foreshadowed success success- successful ful landings by the Allies and played up the second line of defense S For instance it was stated that the city of Lyons was fortified to resist resist resist re re- re- re operations in case it became the center of the conflict Lyons is miles inland Thus the effort was made to preserve preserve pre pre- preserve serve the myth of security up to the thelast thelast last moment As to the possibility of revolution before desperation n seizes the Germans that is slight It is probable that the Germans might oust the Nazis now if they theyS S dared but it is doubtful if anything S short of the sheer desperation following following fol fol- S lowing defeat will turn them against t the guns of the black shirts S A Swiss who returned from Berlin L just before the day and night bombing bombing bomb bomb- S ing jag of Germany began said There can be no thought of revo S lution The Gestapo and the SS e S t are arc too powerful He recited this incident S An Ari Italian worker who was passing passing pass pass- s. s ing through the e was just about to pick up after the thc ie bombing of a cigarette factory on one ie S of the many boxes of cigarettes ly ly- y f ing around on the ground Nearby jv P PS S S was a young SS man armed with arS an m S automa automatic tic pistol without an any iy 7 S. S S previous warning he aim anc and I shot the Italian down This is said to be a typical incident inci mci j. j dent and the Swiss declared that a 1 German woman who drops her pocketbook pocketbook pocketbook pock pock- k does docs not dare to stoop over ove er r rand and pick it up The Military Aspects The military aspects are a ver very ry different matter The great strength of German strategy built on in in- in tenor lines has been turned to i a a weakness A nation on the offensive Ive which which can strike overpowering blows blow ws S Sat S at any point it chooses along the th e perimeter of the territory it ft co con on- on L- L troIs has a great geat advantage Its lines are short they are pro iro- iro S they move from the center cente ter r outward like the radii of a circle le The opposing power must laborious ius- ius ly follow the circumference witness cIrcumference witness ess s the supply lines from the Allies i t to 0 Russia which have to sweep aroun around d I I all of Europe to 1 or allaround allaround all allaround S around Africa to the Middle East But interior lines become a weakness weakness weak weak- ness when a nation goes on the de dc- As a matter of fact General General Gen Gen- eral cral von Clausewitz who wrote one of the most authoritative books on strategy said When you ou have to go on the defensive defensive de de- it is too late to go on the e defensive When you do so interior lines 3 make it all the worse Veritas comments on the position n L of the enemy in the present situation situation situa situa- tion as follows 1 the fact that he is inside a circumference which he must maintain main main- tam tain is a deadly disadvantage because be be- cause he is pinned down at every point on the circle whereas his opponents opponents op op- are free to exploit their latent latent la Ia la- la tent advantages of exterior lines by hitting everywhere at at once 1 if they choose Therefore in viewing the present situation in Europe we must bear these two factors in mind First the Nazis can hold down the revolution within until the Germans realize that their last myth of security security se se- is exploded But second th the S strategic position of the Allies coupled coupled cou cou- pled with their superiority in manpower manpower manpower man man- power air power and amount of ol equipment gives them a decided ad ad- vantage Through the fog of the battle the occasional glimpse we catch must be interpreted in the light of these 50 fundamentals S I Training for Farmers Recently the Office of Defense S Ti Tilie Transportation announced that public public pub pub- lic tic vocational vocation l training schools in ci cities throughout the country were tu turning over to the automotive in industry industry in- in industry di a constantly increasing nt number of workers trained in one or more phases of automotive indus indus- try The United States Office of Education Education Edu Edu- cation is sponsoring the automotive maintenance training program They are trying tring to help fill the gapIn gapIn gap gapin in automotive maintenance personnel personnel person person- nd nel caused by the war But what many people do not realize is that it is also conducting courses that directly touch the farm Congress appropriated I for the food production war training program which the Office of Education Education tion administers The minimum age limits for tor both school out and school in-school persons have now been removed and all courses are now offered to urban as aswell aswell aswell well as rural persons two Twenty-two courses are being offered offered offered of of- in which the farmer is interested interested inter inter- ested and they run all the way from I the operation care and repair of tractors trucks and automobiles to soil and water conservation And besides the various handiworks in inthe inthe inthe the mechanical line around the farm such as machinery repair woodworking woodworking wood wood- I working elementary electricity and construction of farm machinery and equipment there are arc special courses in milk production poultry production production tion eggs pork beef mutton lamb wool soybeans peanuts and various commercial vegetable production There is general training for farm workers production of fruit and nuts vegetable gardening and pretty pretty pret- pret ty nearly everything that one has to know how to do around a farm These courses are conducted through the cooperation of the public pub- pub lie lic schools and are responsible to the state board for vocational edu edu- cation William T. T chief of the division for vocational agriculture says he believes th that t on a for dollar dollar basis no appropriations made by congress to stimulate increased food production have contributed more to this end than has been true of the appropriations already made to the U. U S. S Office of Education for these specific vocational training programs Practically all of our local departments of vocational agriculture agriculture ture scattered widely throughout the entire country says Mr Span- Span t ton ton n have available on the local school ground a well equipped farm shop hop building where courses In farm machinery repair arc given to farmers farmers farm- farm ers and where at the same time their needed much farm machinery and equipment can and is being actually actually ac ac- overhauled and repaired |