'FATALISTIC VIEW'

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 4

'FATALISTIC VIEW'

DRAWN-OUT WAR MR. GARVIN IN REPLY WITHIN TWO YEARS—IF—(By Telegraph— Press Assn.— Copyright.) ,2 o m ) LONDON, Aug. 30. Vropnets of a long-drawn-out war are attacked by Mr. .J. L. Garvin, in me Sunday Express. Some observers regard nis criticism as a reply to tne statements made uy Bir Lane Page, who iorecci.st thut th.G war would lust lor lu years. Mr. Garvin says; “Some witnesses, neither uninformed nor irresponsible, begin to speak of a seven-year or iuyear war. That fatalistic conception must be banished from our minus and shunned like a pestilence. Inal vague notion of victory indefinitely delerred until 1950. or near it, would bring creeping lethargy into tne democratic counsels. The war lor world freedom might end for the democracies in the dull catastrophe of stalemate. Not for a moment dare we stomach the theory of a dragging conflict.

“From now on war planning and war waging must have two definite objects—first, nothing less than absolute victory, both in arms and peace; and, second, to shorten the war. 11 Russia holds for two months, the United Nations' can triumph within two years.”