New York, Feb. 6.
"ALF of Britain's fate rides on the wings of the Royal Air Force, on her flame-seared fire fighters, her industrial workers, the sailors of the Royal Navy and the tough Australians in Africa.
The rest, the British believe, depends on the United States, on the price America is willing to pay in guns, ships, planes and food.
Few Englishmen except the locked-up fifth columnists would admit it bluntly, but the best Britain can hope for on its own is a stalemate.
There's one qualification. The British believe a Nazi attempt at invasion might be so costly in German men and material, so cruel a blow to Nazi moral that Britain with lightning strokes on the European continent, might completely wreck Chancellor Adolf Hitlers hopes.
'A stalemate between Germany and Great Britain might bring formal peace for a time. But the British believe a stalemate in realistic terms means a German victory, a German victory within the few years it would take the Nazis to forge Europe's industry, arsenals and manpower into a colossal military weapon such as the world has not seen since the days of Genghis Khan.
So much for the British viewpoint on peace, Where has Britain arrived on the bomb-spattered road that started to unwind on September 3, 1939
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