LONG DRAWNOUT WAR
PROPHETS ATTACKED BY SUNDAY PRESS (Rec. 12.45 p.m.) London, Aug. 30. Prophets of a long drawnout war are attacked by Mr Garvin in the “Sunday Express.” Some observers regard his criticism as a reply to statements made by Sir Earle Page who forecast the ar would last ten years. Mr Garvin says: “Some witnesses neither uninformed nor irresponsible begin to speak of a seven years’ or a ten years’ war. The fatalistic conception must be banished from our minds and shunned like a pestilence. That vague notion of victory, indefinitely deferred until 1950 or near it, would bring a creeping lethargy into the democratic counsels. The war for the world might end for the democracies in a dull catastrophe of stalemate. Not for a moment d*re we stomach the theory of dragging the conflict. From now on war planning and war waging must have two definite objects— (1) Nothing less than absolute victory both in arms and peace; and (2) shorten the war. If the Russians hold for two months the United Nations can triumph within two years.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 2
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