CONCLUSION OF THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 5

CONCLUSION OF THE WAR

DIFFERING OPINIONS

WASHINGTON, September 1. The real reporting of the Quebec decisions will be done by war correspondents from the fronts in the next three to six months, the British Minister of Information, Mr. Brendan Bracken, told a Prelss conference. There was no chance of destroying Germany in 1943, he added, and it ■would also take some time to "give the tough Japanese people the licking they deserve." Indeed, the Allies were facing a long and hard war. Italy was the only Axis nation likely to fall before the end of the year. Commenting on the air raids, Mr. Bracken said that the "adult education system established by the bombings of the Reich- may achieve very good results," but though Allied airmen believed air power could win the war, it would be foolish to start reducing our armies and navies. The German war will be over in a very few months, the German author, Emil Ludwig, told reporters. He added: "It is no longer a question of supplies, but psychology. The Germans have not the nerves for defence that the English have. You can say I am a very bad psychologist if the German war is not finished in 1943."'

Mr. Ludwig also predicted that a German revolution would start on the Russian front, whereupon the generals and industrialists would promise everything in attempting a compromise peace.