CALL ON PLANES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 June 1942, Page 3

CALL ON PLANES

NAVY SHOULD BE GIVEN PRIORITY ACCORDING TO BRITISH M.P. GOEBBELS DERIDES SECOND FRONT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 13. The Churchillian strategy of tanks and bombers should give way to the production of ships and fighting planes, said Mr R. R. Stokes (Labour member for Ipswich) in a speech. The first call on planes, he said, should be given to the Navy, and not to lunatics who thought Germany could be bombed into subjection. ' “I believe,” he said, “that the bombing of Cologne was morally wrong and that no real effort was made to limit the targets to military objectives. We must make it clear to the Germans that decent-minded Britishers do not agree with the policy of hate and revenge, also that we recognise Hitlerism as an effect and not a cause and are determined to remove the economic injustices which gave Hitler the opportunity of snatching power.” * “Now that a decision has been taken concerning a second front, the preparation of another B.E.F. must be the Government’s first purpose and main concern,” says the “Daily Express.” “The Government should get on the job with speed, urgency and dynamic force. There is no time to be wasted.” Dr. Goebbels, writing in the Berlin news “Das Reich,” says: “Churchill is enraged about his military failures. He is unable to open a second front to help the Bolshevists, knowing as well as we do that an attempted landing in any part of the Continent would merely become a second and worse Dunkirk. So. there is nothing for him to do but throw about dark warnings and threats that the Russians’ daily demands will be met in a less dangerous way by R.A.F. raids against the civilian population of Germany. It is senseless to assume that such raids will decisively hit our war industry. However, we will return these blows. Terror will only be answered by terror.”