NAZI COLLAPSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5

NAZI COLLAPSE

ANTICIPATED BY BENES INEVITABLE ENEMY DECLINE. FACTORS OF SEA & AIR POWER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 25. The head of the Czechoslovak National Committee, Dr. Benes, broadcasting from London, said: — “During the last few months war conditions have changed to such an extent that German victory is definitely impossible. Germany will not subdue England. The German dictatorship and the barbarous Nazi system of government will collapse, with terrible consequences for all the adventurers who are today maintaining it., “This war will be won by the Power which in the end retains command of the sea, and this means Great Britain and the United States. This war will be won by the Power which is able to throw thousands of aeroplanes into the struggle at the critical moment and thus destroy its opponents’ military forces behind the lines. This again means Great Britain and the United States. .

“This wai' will not be decided by the masses of the German army or by the armoured detachments, as with us in Poland and in the Balkans. All this will collapse at a given moment under the impact of the blockade and of general air attack, as a result of a campaign of all the subject peoples, as a result of hunger and economic and industrial dislocation of both partners in the Axis, as a result of unremitting material and moral blows. “It will evidently not be long before Italy is out of the struggle. The highest point of German successes has already passed and Italy is rapidly and steadily going downhill. From next spring or summer Germany will decline no less precipitously.”