SIX MONTHS OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1940, Page 5

SIX MONTHS OF WAR

REVIEWED BY ALLIED STATESMEN Warning Against False Hopes of Cheap Victory DALADIER ON BOLSHEVISM AND NAZISM PROBABLE GERMAN DESIGNS LN WEST (Press Association and British Official Wireless.) LONDON. March 2. Broadcasting tonight on the eve of the opening tomorrow of the second six months of the war, the Chancellor ol the Exchequer, Sir .John Simon, said that the first six months had been a 'period when immensely powerful, forces which might, have been expected instantly to engage had remained quiescent. There had been no air attack on British or French towns. No French village was in German hands. There was not a bend, nor a twist. and not, a. dent in the fortifications that defended France from Belgium to Switzerland. The Allies, Sir -John Simon remarked, had been able to make good use of the six months’ respite. lie gave a warning against false hopes of a cheap victory against. Ihe military power of Hitlerism and declared that there could be no limit to the price the Allied peoples were prepared to pay to retain their menaced freedom. “France will carry through the war to the end,”, the Premier of France, M. Daladier, told a party ol Japanese journalists. The Premier expressed the opinion that it was possible that, the Germans would shrink from the considerable human sacrifice which an attack against (lie French fortifications would represent, deferring to Russia, he said he could see no difference between Bolshevism and Nazism, except the difference between the plague and cholera. Finland’s resistance had struck a mortal blow at Bolshevist, propaganda. , The Hamburg (Germany) radio announcer, reviewing the first, six months of the war, said that the German forces were waiting fully prepared to deal a decisive blow, which would surpass in effectiveness anything ever dreamt, of. The one-time British War Minister, Mr Alfred Duff Cooper, today predicted that. Germany would attack in the spring through Holland and Belgium, because if she won in the West she could dominate the Balkans without, striking a. blow.