New York, Oct. 23.
"News filtering daily through the fresh evidence Jak less precau says the Cleveland "Plain Dealer" today. "The time seems not far off, if it has not already arrived, when it may be that the Axis has failed to win a blitzkrieg and now faces the far more difficult task of winning a long war.
"There is the belated but heartening announcement verifying that the Royal Air Force has destroyed the Nazi invading force... There is the shake-up in the High Command of the British Navy... There is the glowing account of the British defence system published in the Soviet Army's official organ... There is the revelation by the irish that they have been holding in reserve great numbers of new and faster fighter and bomber planes... There is the knowledge that the British Navy still rules the Mediterranean... And in the Far East England is strong enough to reopen the Burma Road in defiance of the new Axis alliance with Japan."
The paper continues: "While none of this indicates that England yet has the upper hand, it does justify the feeling that this is not to be the short war on which Berlin and Rome pinned so much hope.
'The -down process seems to' have begun and in this sort of contest the British are right at home.—Reuter.
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