WAR STALEMATE
HITLER’S DILEMMA. Turn to the enemy’s side of the present war stalemate, how will th? Germans try to cope with their tremendous dilemma? asks Mr ,1. L. Garvin (London), in a recent article. There is every sign of a division of military counsels. The desperation of Hitler’s efforts for peace by emotional hypnotism shows the anxiety of the debate. He must choose between two courses. One means a reserved defensive —rather like Wallenstein's palisades—which would stalemate the Western Front for time indefinite. Air-onslaught on the industrial vitals and civil population of Britain and France would be deferred in the same way. Meanwhile. German resources—air force, submarines and raiders—would be concentrated for attack on British shipping. We must not under-estimate this alternative. On the other hand Hitler's technical advisers have to balance risks and there can be no such "Blitzkrief" (lightning war) against France as against Poland. The failure of any immense German bid in the west would be fatal to Hitlerism and the Reich.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 8
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