There used to be only one question which the world asked: what Is Hiller going to_do next? No better indication of the improved position of {he-Ailles could be got then the avestion which now beginning to be asked: what is Brit going to to next? A certain amount of initiative gens of course, remain with the Axis Powers, bat ie has very' greatly been diminished during the lost few months. Since. the failure. ofthe ian attack on Grocee and the Tlalian defeat Afrien, the Axis has been definitely put. the defensive: There fe talk fu Berlin o¢ having {o take time {o organize the "new order" in Europe, which was originally to have been of anized only aiter a complete" Nawl victory, hat Berlin is so keen to get this "now order" working at present iva testimony to the anxiety Felt in the Wilhelmsirasse over tke outcome of the struggle It the shew order" is not in force before the' time the British take the offensive, then it can be counted out. The opposition of the Peoples of the counttes conccened, Tes Inforeed by British ection from. without, will hho. enough to take Hitler's alleged reforms impossible. is significant thatthe neutral press is how asking what the next British move will be; "not what "Hitler i planning. Of. course, there ie the usual surmise over what the Nazis fre cooking up forthe world inthe. Balkans, but even there, t seems to be the. general im: pression that they wil have to move quickly they are to move at all effectively. In the eir= chmetances, Millers. well developed. technique for sowing disruption in the countries he me tends eventually to occupy, is proving a little {oo slow. It in also. well recognized throughout the world, and countries immediately the path of any possible Taxi advance are no Tonget Aeceived; they have been forewarned, and they Sre forearmed. It has been widely mooted that the increase in German activity the Mediter= Fonean is an indiction of some offensive moves ment which ig forthcoming. It is much more Probable that it Is proof that the Nazis realize that "they are being, put ch" the defensive. Through their air arm alone they cannot expest {o accomplish much, They can have no hopes of uble to redeem the situation In Libya, oF efiost the talion feet. But they do" seo the Sanger fo Womselves of permitting the Brit to ake undisputed. sway over. the inland sea. They seo. that Ht Is imperative. that. the Axis should sit be able fo exert His influence fu that fares, and that they are perilously close to being heted out of Ht altogether. The arrival Eutiwarte in the Mediterranean, therefore, may be taken ar an indication of the gravity of the nation there insofar as fe concerns the Axis, Whatever. Hitler: may "be planning. to doin Bulgaria or Yugoslavia, and there are plenty fof indications that he has. something up. his sleeve in those regions, it will be in the nature of preventing some other move which he fears Britain is preparing. The initiative has, therefore, definitely passed out of hig hands, and he is in the unenviable position which he has formerly managed to make the position of his opponents. He does not know where the next attack is coming from.
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