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Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewtd fey CARTER FIELD United Nations Eating Away at Nazi Morale . . . India Still a Big Headache for England Bell Syndicate WNU Features. WASHINGTON. Reports of the pounding of German objectives by bombers, and air activities in general gen-eral against the Nazis, are not exaggerations. exag-gerations. Nor are reports about aid to Russia. President Roosevelt seems to be playing a dirty sort of trick on the Japanese. He is doing exactly what he said he would! Meaning that he promised right after Pearl Harbor that he would not permit Hitler's Far Eastern ally to play the Nazi strategy by diverting divert-ing all American aid to the Southwest South-west Pacific. As any Nazi spy who is active enough can find out, planes are still pouring to Britain and Russia, Rus-sia, and this is the real explanation of Germany's present troubles. The increased tempo of the air attacks at-tacks has diverted a tremendous amount of German air strength from the Russian front, and according to the London reports the United Nations Na-tions are using their newly obtained superiority. Frequently nowadays the British reports admit more losses of their own than of the enemy. Fortunately, Fortunate-ly, these reports are not to be accepted ac-cepted without a bit of translation because of the extraordinary conservatism con-servatism of the British claims about enemy planes shot down one can always al-ways be sure that the number of enemy losses claimed is a minimum, not a maximum. Once She's Knocked Out: Obviously the United Nations are concentrating on Germany, certain that if they once knock her out, the remainder of the war is only a question ques-tion of time. With increasing air superiority, both on the Russian and the Atlantic fronts, it is not so much a question of military achievement as it is of destruction of German morale. In appraising the judgment of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in thus concentrating con-centrating on Germany, and letting let-ting Japan, for the time being, get away with murder, one should remember that it was the collapse of German morale in the last war which brought peace, rather than smashing military victories. The German armies were never driven back to their own soil. They were still on a line deep in France when the armistice was signed. In short the present campaign is directed at bringing about a collapse col-lapse inside Germany. The effort is to take advantage of the weakness clearly shown in Hitler's last broadcast, broad-cast, which incidentally merely reinforces re-inforces all the grapevine reports extending across the borders. Hope here is that when December comes, and the gloom of another German winter, the end of the war, so far as Europe is concerned, may be brought about. Enormous Racial and Religious Difficulties India is proving a bigger headache head-ache for Britain than Palestine was before the war. In the huge area stretching down from the "Top of the World," Mt. Everest, to the point opposite Ceylon, there are racial and religious difficulties even more devastating dev-astating to any proposed application of rhyme or reason than were those which so worried the British government govern-ment about "Zion." There is one important difference, which probably makes the solution harder than the Palestine problem. It was generally recognized with respect re-spect to Palestine that if the British government would simply take its hands off, and leave the whole thing to work itself out (self-determination, to use Woodrow Wilson's phrase) there was no doubt about what would happen. The Arabs would have started programs which would make those of Poland half a century ago look like picnics. There would not have been any Jews left in Palestine in a little while. This picture made it obvious, even to the most cantankerous critic of British policy in Palestine, that Britain Brit-ain simply could not get out. But in India there is no such certainty. cer-tainty. The Hindoos outnumber the Moslems roughly around three to one. But there are many shrewd observers, among them Rep. George H. Tinkham of Massachusetts, who has spent a great deal of time in India; they believe that one Moslem can whip at least five hindoos. Sn if a cat and dog fight should develop between these two great groups there is no certainty as to who would be the final victor. All that is sure is that millions of both groups would be killed before one side conquered, or both dropped from exhaustion. India is more complicated, on a big scale, than Ireland. The Free State people contend, of course, that they ought to have Ulster the British, Brit-ish, that they should not. There is a minority in Ulster who want to Join the Free State, but it is very clear that a majority in Ulster do not |
