SECOND FRONT?

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1942, Page 5

SECOND FRONT?

LONDON'S MEETINGS

German Army Shaken By War In Russia

United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, May 24

A crowded meeting in the London Hippodrome, organised by the Daily Express, passed a resolution welcoming the Government declaration that it would open a second front and adding: "This meeting declares itself in favour of attacking Germany at the earliest possible moment with all possible vigour and strength believing that in such a policy lies the promise of victory" It is estimated that 50,000 attended a Communist demonstration in Trafalgar Square, which acclaimed the demand for a second front. The annual conference of the Communist party passed a resolution that the immediate opening of a second front was imperative to secure victory in 1942.

The fates are running against Hitler, says the editor of the Sunday Express, Mr. John Gordon. For the first time since the outbreak Hitler has let a year pass without either a military or a diplomatic victory. Hitler has tried his generals and his intuition. Now he has put his intuition back in the cupboard and brought out his generals again. Much of the fighting power of the German Army was destroyed last winter and not all Hitler's intuition nor all his generals can make that shattered and shaken army do this year what it could not do last year. The mass of the people of this country see that this year is a great chance come to us. They believe that two nations attacking Germany simultaneously are better than one and that Hitler now is so securely in the grip of Stalin that his back is open, or soon will be open, to a fatal stab. To deliver it needs strength, but more than strength— it needs courage, and that is our quality.