ALLIED STRATEGY

Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 3

ALLIED STRATEGY

NEED FOR SUPREME COMMANDER LONDON, October 11. The 1 Daily Mail,’ in a leader, reviews the controversy in America whether vast quantities of weapons and equipment should be retained there for the army of 10,000,000 men which the United States is planning, or whether they should be sent to sustain the existing fronts. “ ft is not only a question of sup* plies, hut of strategy,” says the article.- “ How soon are we to have the use of America’s giant production—as it comes along, or must we wait until her army has reached its peak before attempting to settle the final account with the Axis'? There is only one explanation for the different ideas now making themselves heard. It is that a settled,, determined world strategy is still nonexistent and the elaborate planning and production machinery on both sides of the Atlantic is plainly not sufficient. We still need a general staff,-with a supreme commander in the west who can see a plan of the war as a whole. “The question must not. be. allowed to drift. We must have one policy. Without it we will have not unity, hut disunity; not victory, but defeat.”