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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1939, Page 3

A quite different strategy from that of a direct military offensive has at times been suggested; a “white war” of economic attrition, "permanent sanctions,” behind our sea and land defences, writes Sir Norman Angell in “Time and Tide.” The proposal is that instead of our battering the Siegfried Line, we let the Germans batter the Maginot Line stand on the defensive. so as to give time for there to be brought into play the full effects of (a) our sea blockade; (b) internal resistance in Germany. Austria. Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia. Poland; (c) realisation by neutrals of the danger that they run from a Russo-German domination of Europe, and so courage to join the democratic forces; and—most important of all—(d) formation by the democracies, not of a more military and naval alliance, but a true Federation in which Western Europe, and the nations overseas which have grown out of the civilisation of Western Europe, can pool their resources, economic, naval, military, for common defence.