R.A.F. VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 44, 15 November 1940, Page 7

R.A.F. VICTORY

First Great German Plan Thwarted NEW MENACE ARISES (British OUicial Wireless.) (Received November 14, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 13. Speaking in London the Secretary for 'lndia, Mr. Amery, described German policy over the past years as “a military design aimed as a blow at our heart.” Poland, Mr. Amery continued, was destroyed to clear Hitler’s rear and the conquest of the Low Countries and France were successive steps to bring Britain within range of lighter aircraft so that an overwhelming blow might be delivered at British production after destroying the R.A.F. “The courage of a few thousand well-trained young men and the spirit of a great nation wrecked that plan," Mr. Amery said.

He described the battle which the R.A.F. won as the one which in this war would figure as the Battle of the Marne dill in Hie last. Though invasion might be tried, it now had a very much slighter chance of success. 'Pirn lirst design against Britain having failed, what .Mr. Amery described as "the second great design" was now being staged. For its success much depended on who could be called, bribed or bullied into taking part with the Axis Powers. Extending from Gibralter to Singapore, from Morocco to Indo-Chimi. Hie main plan constituted a terrible menace which must not be under-est iinated.

Though Hie lirst move—llw Niizilicalion of Rumania —had succeeded, the Italian effort against Greece “was becoming somewhat agitated.” Mussolini, while posing as a Roman warrior restoring the glories of ancient Rome, forgot that Hie Roman Empire had grown by character and that her distinguishing feature was law. not lawlessness.

"He also forgot." said Mr. Amery, "that before there was an ancient Roman Empire there was an ancient Greece, the spirit of which still lives.”