As the President has several times brought io the attention of the entire country, once have merees energetic a! gradually work itself north, and before ong: the crash of enemy bombs will resound in the Canal Zone. Facing such a prospect, what should be done to minimize the danger?
The stamps were, therefore, the property of his employers. What did he do? Did he walk smilingly up to the managing director and report the discovery, receiving half-a-crown for his perspicacity, or did he "snitch" that sheet and convert it to his own use?
Much depends upon the answers to those questions. If he did the correct thing, it is possible that he still remains with the old firm polishing a high stool and getting his hands messed up with red ink. If he behaved like a child of this world, the chances are that he is a captain of industry now. Of course if he put the cost of the sheet back into the petty cash his employers would not be harmed in any way, but office boys do not usually carry such a sum with them. Indeed, it would take them more than a week fo earn it. In fact the whole episode may have been the ruination of the lad. Who knows? He may even now be buying three-ha'penny stamps in the hope of pulling off another many-thousands-to-one chance. arms of Hitler, move of their own accord, the Führer will embrace them with his usual "protective" grip, These islands, however, can be taken and it does not really greatly matter about Spain and Portugal, Hitler has refrained from molesting them thus far merely because it has suited his convenien Another base or tw in Iberian waters will, with the exception of paving the way for an attack on Gibraltar, make little difference, Dakar is another story.
Vichy is on Berlin's lead strong, and it would seem that there is no possibility for the United States to obtain peaceful entry unless Marshal Petain should become outraged by Hitler's broken promises and as-a last defiant gesture, provide entree, Failing peaceful entry we would have to take the place, The repulse of the ill-timed Free French and British expedition which attacked Dakar last September proved the port to be sufficiently well fortified to repel raids which are advertised in advance, Advice to Il Duce "Get out while the going is good" is a piece of sound advice that Benito Mussolini would do well to follow if he has the courage to defy Nazi ma: Since coming in on the side of Germany at an hour when the latter's victory in the European war seemed likely to be only a matter of months, perhaps weeks, Italians have been shown in no uncertain manner that Mussolini's greed and lust for power, which sent him hurtling into the conflict on Hitler's side when nice juicy pickings seemed to be just around the corner, will lead to the reduction British colony, Bathurst is only 80 miles south of Dakar, Any campaign, however, in tropical Africa is a major undertaking in every sense of the word, and"should not be attempted unless all other methods prove unavailing, of their country from a first class Power to a second rate nation. When Mussolini took the plunge Italy had an empire. Today there is no empire. Italy's colonies in Africa, with the exception of Libya, which is now a battlefield and more or less under Nazi control, have been lost fo the British Imperial Forces and the fate of Libya hangs in the balance. More galling still to the average Italian is the fact that Italy, once a proud nation, has become nothing more than one of Germany's many vassal states. Hitler, seizing Italy's weakness as a pretext to extend aid to his Italian partner, has done nothing less than occupy the country with his troops and, worse still, with his Gestapo agents, who see to it that Benito Mussolini does their bidding no matter how sick the Italian people feel about this war, which was not to their living in the first place. That there is a growing weariness of war in occupied Italy cannot be denied. The writing is on the wall for Mussolini. To get out now would be a wise move on Italy's part, If Mussolini has the courage to defy Hitler he can be certain that the Italian people will back him to the limit and he may rest' assured that he will receive more favourable terms from Britain and her Allies than. he
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