FEARS IN GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1941, Page 5

FEARS IN GERMANY

TALK OF OVERDUE BRITISH INVASION UNEASINESS HIDDEN BY SCOFFING. POSSIBILITIES MENTIONED IN LONDON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 4. Though evidence is accumulating of uneasiness in Germany, it might be an exaggeration io say that the .German people have the jitters. However, Nazi scuffings at an “overdue” British invasion tend to hide the general uneasiness of the population of the Reich. So far there have been only the faintest whispers in British journals of expectations concerning British land action as a means of staging a diversion in, occupied territories to relieve the pressure on the Russian front.

The boldest comment is made by the writer of the “Sphere’s” war newsletter. who says that a section of the British public are puzzled by the present apparent inability of the British Army to stage such, a show. The writer points cut that armchair critics cannot estimate how much diversion a large-scale raid would produce, and the weeks since the Russian war broke out have not been overlong for planning such a diversion, whose success depends on preparation to the last detail.

‘‘People are beginning to ask whe, ther we fear too much another failure on land, or whether our policy now is to rely entirely on air attack and to keep the home army purely for defence against an invasion. Silence is best, but thoughts are uncontrollable,” he adds.’