Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review it is obvious that the purpose ol of antish strategy now is to eliminate taly as a major belligerent in the th ar that thou thought ht unquestionably ind erlay the recent british naval r of the adriatic sea a body if f water which on the basis of fight ng ships and manpower italy hould be able to control with case england is rapidly liquidating ital an military influence in africa there seems to be little doubt hat mussolini is on the down grade nd that the magnificent fascist em ire he envisioned has small chance if f being realized real iced ill III duce has but wo alternatives both of them un dleasant ilea Iea sant from his point of view he must either surrender to england or ask hitler to save him the he first alternative is extremely unlikely germany could not per nit it without risking a tremendous oss loss of pr prestige estive the second alter native means german domination if italy the italian people going iy ay the judgment of the best observes rs will not like that but there vill be little they can do about it unconfirmed reports say that apo agents are already in rome nd it is known that the german lir air force is convoying troops to albania it looks as if from now on mussolini will be only hillers Hit lers if england does succeed in elim bating or greatly reducing italian and naval kaval power it will ie e a major victory at the same ime it will bring with it increase d danger of a german attempt at riva ding Er england gland the british block ide is extremely effective and the oart of europe the fuhrer controls s running short of essential sup olies so when churchill said the aher day in commons that he expected an all out german attack two months he was not talk ing through his hat it is the logian move for hitler to make and he fact that the german air force las substantially reduced the intensity of its raids over britain also aads ads cads to the belief that germany s preparing for a decisive blow a ainest eng england I 1 and england is superbly prepared to desist invasion even though she is s yet inadequately prepared to a rry arry the war to germany on the continent onti nent expert opinion general r r holds that hillers Hit lers great anity was directly attar after the evac ton alton of Dunkirk that england uld not have successfully resist i a determined invasion them at ic e present time they think briton has all she needs to ke keep ep an ag ressor from her shores 1 washington is more encouraged oncoming ning british chances of even bally winning the war our future alicy will probably be to give eng nd md almost anything sue she wanis here is little doubt that the laws re venting loans to england will be pealed when her cash runs out the suggestion 1 recently made by british cabinet maker that hat f the J S turn over to england german nd italian ships which are tied up n our harbors has caused a good cal of excitement in berlin nazi officials say that that would be an t of war and would be regarded regard d s such so far our government h has as nade no official comment on the proposal En glands greatest danger now is ruction est of her merchant A ng the british isles are colsum rs not producers without ocean a they could sustain them lives tor for only a limited period of ime the german submarine and surface raider attack hasteen has been da dan n porously erous ly effective it is likely that england will soon tell us that tha t she leeds eds freighters even more than t an he needs planes and guns and other implements of war warranty deeds for sale at the times rimes office |