Wednesday should serve to remove any impression that Great Britain intends to remain Purely on the defensive throughout this. wat The real war will have begun when it can change from the defensive and assume the offensive and strike home at the enemy. It was one of the early mistakes of this struggle which permitted the impression to gain ground that the Allies had merely to ght a Sitzkrieg, remain ing purely on the defensive, while the blockade got in its deadly work. To that belief must bbe ascribed at least one of the causes which led to the defeat of France. It might indeed have led to the defeat of Great Britain herself, if fortunately the eyes of her leaders had not been opened in' time. For the time being Britain will have to continue to fight the German air force in its attempts to force an early surrender by carrying out widespread land. frequent bombing of the British Isles. During that time the strength of the RAF. wil continue to. grow until numerical as weill as material and personal ascendency will have been obtained over the Germans. Then will come the time for the counter-attack and from the British point of view the war will have begun. It will be remembered that during the last war command of the air passed back and forth between the combatants until the Allies finally secured it. Then and only then was it possible to commence hammering the enemy in the fashion which brought about his collapse November, 1918, The same objective the mind of the British Government, Resistance will be maintained until the British air force has complete command of the air, and when that time comes the fate of the Germany will have been sealed. Then, as Mr. Eden has rightly said, the foreign legions forming in Britain will bbe swollen into a multitude of men, demanding.
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