Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review As one news commentator put it stalin is the last and most impressive example of the utter folly of trying to appease the onetime one time viennese house painter who has become master of a continent the russians obviously afraid did everything ery thing in their power to mollify the nazis they mey signed a non ag egression gres sion and collaboration pact they agreed to deliver to germany ouan quantities of vital raw materia according to reliable writers they 1 P permitted ermit ted german technicians to come into russian industry in an all attempt to speed up production and ana transport they did nothing to prevent any of hillers Hit lers territorial ac but all this was not enough and the oft given warnings of winston churchill at last came true when hitler was ready he str struck uck at russia despite the pact despite all pledges ot of friendship hillers Hit lers spoken reasons for war against the soviet are his usual ones he claimed that russia was not living up to her agreements that russian agents were seeking the fie downfall of the reich and that he was simply acting to europe from the blight of comman ism no one that these amount to more than an easy alibi for the wanton breakage of another treaty russia has in abundance bun dance what hitler most sorely lacks grain to feed the german people oil to propel the german war machine and on top of that 1 if russia could be destroyed as a military power hitler would no longer have to fear attack from the east he could then concentrate all his weapons for the final assault on the british isles it is clear to anyone that hitler has taken a gigantic gamble russia as napoleon found out has been the graveyard of empires belore it is a vast land and much of it is geographically and climatically unfriendly in the little corpor als phrase empires die of indigestion and russia is the biggest bite that any conqueror could attempt hitler certainly must have felt there was no other solution ta his problems before deriding deciding to give the marching order to his leg ions along the 1500 mile faunt fi that hat extends from narvik barvik to fo thecae ahe tai path pat hians lans from the military point of view view you can find about any opinion 0 on n the quality of the russian army you want russia gives out few figures concerning the red army how ever it is generally believed that at least 12 million men have been given military training and that lully mobilized her regular arrn army y plus reserves woula total 5 million or more estimates place her air force at planes though there is doubt as to their quality it is known that she has gigantic quantities of tanks motorized artillery pr and other mechanical arms but again many think them of poor quality by comparison with the nazis z S tools of destruction of all the nations russia and this couer coubry are the nearest to being self sus ta ining so far as resources are concerned however russian industry indu itry has been notoriously inefficient and so she cannot make the most mos of what she possesses even so she is a tremendous antagonist tag onist for any power and it Is known that during the last year stalin has been working feverishly to overhaul his forces the mor ale destroying political commissars commissary commis sars who were stationed with army units and who had the power to overrule commanding officers have been largely abolished in truth the russian army has been reorganized much in u ch on the lines of capitalist armies the poor soviet soviet transportation system may delay full mobilization for a month or more but as time wears on and if hitler is not able to defeat russia in a hurry the germans should find this campaign the most difficult they have attempted I 1 mr Chur chills finely phrased speech of june 22 was of exception al inte interest resL no statesman has been more anticommunist anti communist he has fought the soviet idea for 25 years lie he said he would take nothing back that he has said before but he said the one aim of british policy now is the complete destruction of therefore he be added england regards russia as an ally and will give her all possible aid I 1 ill I 1 I 1 that is likely to ge be the attitude of our government though it may not be expressed so franky washington trust moscow and high officials have said lately that defense strikes were communistic in however mr Roosevel ts policy like mr Chur chills is the overthrow ot of 11 in that tn en deavor any ally is welcomed especially ally so powerful a one as russia if hitler subdues russia he will has all he needs the blockade will no longer be important and he will have taken a long step toward mastery of asia as well as europe if hitler loses in russia he will be finished the fate of much of the world may be decided in the wheat fields of the ukraine and the oil lands of the Carpathia ns |