"NEVER-AGAIN" PEACE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 07, Issue 93, 25 July 1944, Page 2

"NEVER-AGAIN" PEACE

THREAT TO INSULAR STATES MUST NOT BE REPEATED While explosives in on '-tor parcels are being delivered mechanically in London an„d in parts of southern England from German dispatching stations in France, American pilots in •super-bombers a-e delivering explosives in Kyushu (Japan) from land bases. Two systems o:' explosive-delivery are thus, undo test., the targets in each case being an insular State, but the aiming methods, entirely different, in each case the armies of the insular State are active in the nearby cont.nent, and one of their military objectives is to capture by land the airiields from which the explosive-can ying aeroplanes tly, or the dispatching stations from which the flying bombs are launched. If the Japanese armies in China can occupy all airfields up to the extended rangelimit of the American super-bomb-ers, and if the Anglo-Amorican armies in France can occupy all the dispatching stations in Europe within flying-bomb range of Englan l, those I two chapters of this war will be closed, unless the technicians can extend the ranges, says the Wellington. Evening Post. The Flying Bomb The (lying bomb saves human material (pilots and crew) biu repiesents a tremendous expenditure ot other material if Hying bombs are to be delivered in decisive numbers. Some day the technicians, analysing the achievements of the airman am) the so-caller robot, will be able, to publish authentic figures as to their respective capacities for delivery of explosives on military targets, their comparative costs (in far effort) per ton delivered, and the aggregate results that can be secured by the two systems in competition. But all such data arc now hidden in the fog of war. If it should be found, in the last analysis, that the only amjwcf to the aeroplane 1 and to the flying bomb —or to either of them —is army-concjucst. by land, the effect on military strategy,, also on political policy, will be profound. Germany and the Channel For one thing, Britain must never again allow Germany to occupy the other side of the Channel. IVi its present application;, the Hying bomb cannot create in England a condition "soft" enough for armed invasion of England, and cannot attain the alternative (moral) objective by panicking the people who refused to be panicked in 194.0. But evacuation of children from London will restore in English people the spirit of 1910' —determination to win, and determination to impose on Germany a "nevcr-again" peace.