AIM OF AGGRESSORS
OVERTHROW OF BRITISH EMPIRE 1 NAZIS AND SOVIET AGREE POSSIBILITIES OF JOINT ACTION VIEWS OF SIR ERNEST SWINTON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. January 4. Major-General Sir Ernest Swinton, in bis weekly broadcast said: “The most striking- feature of the events of the New Y(*ar on I lie Continent. has'been Hie further disastrous setbacks suffered by the Russians north of Lake Ladoga and on the Karelian Peninsula. 1 use the word , setback advisedly, because unless Ihe defenders receive some sort of help from outside, they cannot for ever go on resisting the endless hordes which are bound to be hurled against them.” Referring to the report that M Stalin had appealed to Herr Hitler to supply him with German technicians, Sir Ernest said he considered it would be true and would foreshadow not only a closer German-Russian rapprochement, but even possibly joint action to gain control of Baltic and Scandinavian court-, tries, and eventually Holland and Belgium. “As I see things,” he said, “however much Germans and Russians may disagree between themselves in the future, the immediate goal of both Herr Hitler and M Stalin is the destruction of the British Empire, which is the chief obstacle to successful attainment of their ultimate ambitions.” Turning to the position in the Allies’ theatre of war, Sir Ernest stated that British anti-submarine forces had been trebled since the outbreak of war and U-boats were now being driven further and further afield. Measures against enemy mine-laying operations also were proving successful, and fewer vessels had been sunk last week than in any week since the beginning of the war—4699 tons of British and neutral merchant'shipping was sunk. The most significant factor in the war at sea was the slow but inexorable strangulation being applied to German’s economic life. At the same time the safe arrival of Canadian convoys, Australian airmen, Indian troops and a large number of merchant vessels in i British ports proved that the British merchant service was carrying on virtually without interruption, while German merchant shipping was either captured, scuttled or immobilised. Concluding. Sir Ernest elaborated the theory that engineering was the principal foundation upon which modern warfare was based.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1940, Page 6
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