CRUCIAL DAYS AHEAD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 186, 28 November 1941, Page 4

CRUCIAL DAYS AHEAD

GREAT issues loom ahead of the world to-day. After the long period of quiesence, punctuated with fitful minor actions the armies of the major powers are gathering themselves for the greatest and final test which in effect will spell the outcome of the titanic war of the nations. The Russian campaign still reflects the two gigantic military powers locked in a life and death struggle. The battle is slowly ticking towards its sixth month. The British Collosus (traditionally the slowest) is awakening and Libyans battlefield assumes a growing importance clay by day. In Europe the Berlin papers are printing the alarming reports of the attempted British landing on the French coast —testing operations for greater things in the near future. The days are pregnant with events to come, the results of which will decide the course of world history. In the Far East, the landhungry Japanese hesitate before choosing the course which will plunge their nation into a disastrous war with the U.S.A. If there is any foundation for the story of Armageddon (the final war which will embroil all peoples on earth) there now appears to be. substantial proof of its near approach. Both the new world and the old have drifted far along the road of hopelessness. The greatest clash of all lies ahead, and the test will be the test of manhood, courage and sacrifice which alone can defy the finest armaments ever made.