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Show COMMENTS exploit of all resources. At the beginning, Russia too placed her hopes, on defensive positions, such as the so-called "Stalin Line," - and saw them destroyed by the invader, almost al-most as if they were made of paper. Not until un-til the first Russian troops took the offensive offen-sive was the legend of Nazi invincibility shattered. The last examples of the fallacy of defensive warfare is found in the fall of Singapore, the greatest naval base ever ruilt in the world. The English believed that May-Iayan May-Iayan jungles would make land attack on this bastion impossible. The Japs proved otherwise. other-wise. Sentiment for sales tax grows in Congressional Con-gressional circles. Reason: there is ti;rave doubt if sufficient increases in individual and corporate taxes to meet current needs are possible. S A GREAT LESSON LEARNED The great lesson of the World War II, is this: victory belongs to the agressor--to the nation that carries the battle to the enemy . Hitler and his Axis mates have consistentlv followed that principal. They have not hesitated hesi-tated to take the greatest risks if the possible possi-ble gain was worth the gamble. Theirs is the most daring plan of warfare in the history of armed conflict. The grave losses which the United Nations Na-tions have taken may be laid, in part, to the once commonly held belief that it would be. possible to fight a defensive war and still win France pinned her faith on the Maginot Line which her military leaders said was impregnable impreg-nable and today she is beaten, starving, slave nation. England at first thought she could bring Hitler to his knees through the use of that classic weapon, the blockade and today Hitler is master of all Europe, and |