The Archive · 1941

Britain's Turn Next

"Hitler has not the training of a Channel swimmer yet, and so another plan matured in his brain, Believing that he had secured himself a de facto trace in the west. he decided to hold a Blitzkrieg, lightning war, in the east, in order' immediately after~ wards to fall with all his strength upon Great Britain and finish her off, "He hoped at the same time to prevent simultaneous action against himself in the west and the east by driving between them an ideological "It is already clear that Hitler wa: out of his reckoning both as to the lightning quality of his blow in the east and as to the miraculous power his ideological propaganda, Mr. Winston Churchill, the Prime Mini ster of Great Britain, "with that statesmanlike acumen which is characteristic of him, immediately informed the. world that he was not taken in by Hitler's wiles, declaring that a victory over the Soviet Union by Hider would be fraught with innumerable disasters and catastrophics for the British Empire, We also Fealise the menace which' a Hitler victory in the west would constitute for us."

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