Show j Churchill's Refusal to Open New War Front Brings Criticism Victory In Western Europe Would Bo Miraculous Tonic for Democracies It is significant that the most aggressive opposition to Winston Churchill in England has developed from his refusal to open a new front in The demand for this has largely come from Labor M. but they have been given the support of a number of Conservatives and The feeling is growing in many quarters that Hitler's Russian campaign for the first sufficiently diverted his energies and resources so that it may be possible to carry the war to The military problems involved in this are and no layman is in a position to discuss There a problem of morale involved which is of the utmost Unrest in the nations which Hitler has occupied is obviously The horrible toll of executions in occupied France is evidence of that Hitler's henchmen aren't killing French citizens for but because they endanger the purposes and policies of the So it Is argued that If the Allies could start an aggressive military campaign against Hitler on the the subjugated peoples would be immensely and would increase the extent and scope of their Miraculous Tonic There is little doubt but what that argument has for British troops could effect a landing on French soil and push the Germans the democratic world would take it as a miraculous But it is apparent that Churchill and his high even though I they realize believe that the time is not And here a as well as a military problem is The hard truth is that England has had nothing but failure in her land operations against Germany during this Her navy and air force have done Her infantry and her artillery and her mechanized on the other have been completely unable to cope with their German This is no criticism of courage or resolve of Tommy Kipling's red line of still But Britain simply hasn't the and we haven't been able to deliver it to her in sufficient The German whether like it or is still the best in the Better Equipped England's debacles at Dunkirk and in Crete and Norway tell the There soldiers did all and more than could be expected of But a man with a gun in his hand is no match for a A trooper with a few months training can't equal a ruthless superbly trained soldier of the with seven or more years of intensive military development behind finest British pilot can't last long in a British pilot can't last long in a sky which holds twenty planes for each one of the Churchill's much criticized policy is thus easy to He is apparently conserving all the military resources England can As he said some time the difficulties Hitler is experiencing in the Russian campaign provides no guarantee that Germany will not attempt a major invasion of the British Isles before England i is sending planes and tanks to j Churchill and his ad-i know that the British pub-i lie must not be unnecessarily sub- to the morale damaging t effects which follows a African Job On top of England has a t big Job to do in Here Hit- Ier Is The Italian troops In Africa have proven themselves i easily And no man can rule the as German militarists have written for unless he first rules General ablest of the British is in charge In the And rumor has it that the British war which is headed by Nazi-hating Anthony is planning a surprise move in in con-Junction with the Free French In the the Allies are encouraged by the terrible losses Hitler is taking In Even if you discount Soviet claims of wounded and captured to the it is apparent that many of the finest Nazi troops have died in the endless spaces of the The hope remains that the news of this will eventually filter despite Herr Goebbels' propaganda and the work of the Gestapo There is certainly no reason now for believing that the German civilian population will But a civilian population which is disillusioned and without enthusiasm is of little service to the kind of military machine Hitler must Those who argue that this war can be won without the dispatch of millions of Allied troops to base their argument on the supposition that in time the German people get a bellyful and will simply give That happened in World War But there is no guarantee that it will happen this |