WAR OUTLOOK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1940, Page 5

WAR OUTLOOK

NEWSPAPER OPINION IN U.S.A. NAZI MACHINE GOING BACKWARDS. TRIBUTES TO BRITAIN’S EPIC RESISTANCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. September 1. United States newspapers today take the first, year of the war as the subject of their main editorials, and the general consensus of opinion is that the prospects of Britain and her allies are favourable.

The “New York Herald-Tribune” says that one year of war leaves Hitler’s triumph shaken. It remarks that the events of the first year have left the international scene unrecognisable and have for the first time made the United States aware of its peril. The newspaper also points out that the domestic workings of democracy have been deeply affected, and declares that the British have cast aside vested interests and special privileges to build a new unity and purpose in defence of democratic freedom. Everywhere where freedom is still cherished something of the same kind is happening. Herr Hitler, without intending it, has worked some changes that are wholly advantageous. The “New York Times,” in its review of the events of the past year, comments that the collapse of France finally proved the falsity of much of the thinking of the democracies, but that the epic resistance of Great Britain may yet prove in the same way the falsity of Hitler’s belief that he could conquer Europe and dominate the world.

The Berlin correspondent of the “New York Times” says that after the hard winter of last year it would be a bitter disappointment to Germany if the advent of this winter found the British still unconquered. It adds that the events of the spring and the summer had wiped out the doubts of the Germans about the war.

The general tone of the comment indicates that most of the United States newspapers agree with the recent declaration of the “Christian Science Monitor” that the Nazi machine is geared for attack and must keep going forward, whereas in effect it is going backwards. Every day that Germany is not counting a victory Britain is winning the war.

Some of the newspapers give great prominence to the air battles over London and the British raids on Berlin. Possibly because American correspondents have more freedom here, most of the stories come from London.

A test- of public opinion in the United States has shown that most United States citizens are opposed to any plan for sending food to Germanoccupied Europe in American ships; In a nation-wide poll conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion, 64 per cent of the replies are against sending food.