HITLER’S MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 9

HITLER’S MOVE

WAR OF NERVES CONTINUES. When a state of war was declared ! last September there were some people in Britain who heaved a sigh of relief —not, Heaven knows, because they desired war. but because doubt was resolved and the mind was composed for action, says the "Spectator.” They realised that war as Hitler understands it had already been going on in Europe for at least a year, and now it had only come into the open with its more grim realities exposed. And yet. even today, after six months, it has not come fully into the open. The Allies have taken the initiative on their side in applying the full force of the naval blockade, but still await the military action which Hitler is expected to start, and he still keeps us guessing as to when or where his blow will be delivered; and more than that, he keeps all the neutrals guessing as to whether they are cast for the part of his next enemies, or whether they may continue to possess their souls as neutrals. None of us in the Allied countries doubts that the major battles will soon be joined, but the necessity of their coming does not alter the fact that for the first six months at least Herr Hitler has been waging a war similar to that which he was waging before —a so-called “war of nerves.”