The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Sun. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942. WAR PROSPECTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 175, 27 July 1942, Page 2

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News and The Sun. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942. WAR PROSPECTS

Hitler's armies batter the Russians farther back, and the peoples of the United Nations wonder when and where and how decisive action will be taken to relieve the pressure on a hard-pressed ally the conclusion is forced upon many of us, reluctantly, that this war, which s nearly three years old, is likely to last much longer. No one doubts tnat the potential resources of the United Nations are fast being transormed mto actual, available resources, stupendous in quantity, but the root difficulty is to bring them to bear against the Axis. The successive oerman campaigns, in Norway, Flanders, France, the Balkans and Kussia the Japanese rampage through Malaya, Burma and the NetherJands East Indies, and the current campaigns In Russia and North Africa, have gained for our enemies strategical positions which make evei more difficult the task cf attacking them at the sources of their Pnvo?ve*i -° engase the enemy on land, except in Russia, , e o . f shi PP>ng. usually over long distances and even in the Russian campaign ship-borne supplies are playing an important cart t SSh Ki,i B Vh e 1 \° m . aimain ma 6nificent resistance. In^general looklnJ in wh ff* KI" . thi . B war fU the . U P ited Nations are on the outside, the atlvantaffpq nf tho ft' S ? n '"side, full y realising and exploiting removing thP fioiri l? r l° r < P? sltlon ' and continually engaged in of the m»• , c . onfl I lct farther from his centres. The problem , United Nations leaders is to devise a method of breaking into th Ju circle, to strike at the heart. If they cannot devise a wav then the war will become a long and costly war y ' lonewn? l lot?f t ?f e fHHnn m 'i in cpi t ni .°"' iI J? to ° earJ y y et to ass ume that this jong war ot attrition is certainly before us. Tremendous as nrp thf collapse SX ln R » are St L U inconc ' usive - In 1918, after the controlled w-vf resistance ' u the area which the German armies nf m uf ?u 8 great as that wh 'ch, except for the operations of Soviet guerillas, they control now. The line ran from near I enineraH Lee'n "knocked oStof ° f , i ZOV ' Ro^ov^Rulsia^aS K nocKea out of the war, and the resources of a huee and fprtii** after h^retl^ lly i J at the Germans' disposal Yefthe Germans after eliminating the Russian front," failed to win the war TheJ westTn ie Mareh m m8 B asd t? 6 colo^f i l eff ° rt „ of their offensive in the Uio by f<fur 10 years^ o fighting :o arui deprivation due to the Allies' blockade, made it impossible for them to p ° p n i" u f war proved that, although the cSmans are caJablS of tremendous, long-sustained effort, there is a limit to what they can do. It may be that in this war, as in the last their limif will are G nlfhtinS e # X h PeCtedly and , sudden ly. The Russians have fought them are flghtin? them now, and will continue to fight them verv hard No thamlnto the r Caucasus Si^nd? l^v Sy th Even if further victories should take time they are obliged to watch over all the coasts of Eurone tn hniH not ranow^tSm 3 to SSts§SS|g the plans are necessarily withheld from us—we may feel assured th?t S e tL a l P , re fl pa r at i ons of the Unlted Nations are not designed for execution hand wtipn future. There will come a time, which may b! close at win the German war effort will be at maximum stretch when it ♦Tili a r u S P,5 e or recuperation and reorganisation That will be the time when the United Nations should be ready to strike.