Allies Have "Every man has a Advantage Stevenson, but, judging by the somewhere," wrote 3 broadcasts from the German rádio stations and the recent sperch of Field-Marshal Goering, the present leaders of Germany are the exceptions which prove the rule, says "Horse and Hound." It has been obvious from the start that the Nazi leaders planned to overrun Poland, and then, having burgled the safe, were confident in their ability to make terms with Great Britain and France. The reply of the British Cabinet was couched in the only words likely to be understood; we are to organize on the assumption that hostilities will last for three years. At the present time our troops are Bghting on German territory on the Western Front, and, for practically the first time since Frederick the Great, Germany is experiencing what war is like upon her own land. On the subject of domestic economy the Field-Marshal was delightfully vague, but unfortunately for him it will take more than catch-words and grandiose phrases to provide the sinews of war for his troops and food ior the civil population, It does no good to our cause to spread rumours about the seriousness of the internal situation within the Reich, The German is as capable of tightening his belt as any man, and his country's supplies of war material are far from being exhausted. The attitude of both Italy and Russia in the next year will also be of vital importance, particularly in view of the immense resources of the Soviet Union, On balance, however, we can soberly calculate that we possess the advantage. I cannot do better than to quote the words spoken this week by Mr, Anthony Eden:—"We have no quarrel with the German people; but there can be no lasting peace until Nazism and all it stands for, in oppression, cruelty, and broken faith, is banished from the earth. The people of this country are ready to fight a very long war to the bitter end, if that must be, to rid the world of Hitlerism and all that Hitlerism implies."
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