GAMBLE INVOLVED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 4

GAMBLE INVOLVED

IN OPENING SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE BUT POLICY OF INACTION DANGEROUS. AMERICAN .WRITER'S VIEW. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 26. Mr Hanson Baldwin, writing in the “New York Times,” says a secnod front at this stage would be more of a gamble than a deliberate choice, but the history of war is full of gambles. If Russia were to collapse, an eventual Allied victory would be in doubt. ■CRUCIAL QUESTION FOR BRITAIN & UNITED STATES. NEED OF QUICK ACTION TO AID RUSSIA. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. “The crucial question for England and the United States is how to implement in time their pledges to Russia,” says Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the “Sunday Express.” “The two mations’ measureless resources for 1943 and 1944 are pipe dreams compared with instant necessities. The Allies’ dominant air power will ravage Germany through and through, but this vanguard of a Western offensive will have to be followed, at all costs, by the military organisation of second front, somehow and somewhere. “it is a palpable possibility,” Mr Garvin continues, “that the destinies of mankind for centuries to:come may be settled within the next three months. A deadly danger menaces Russia. If Russia survived without any great British or American attempt to come to her aid, their default would never be forgotten nor forgiven.” Mr Vernon Bartlett (Ind. M.P. for Bridgewater) said: “We are in such desperate danger of losing the war that anything not affecting the war does not matter. . . . Most of the world’s raw materials are now at the disposal of the enemy. We may find in a few days the Russians pushed back so far .that they will be unable to carry out .a counter-offensive. The feeling of frustration will become very dangerous unless we are soon , able to do something appreciable to distract the attention of the Germans from the Eastern front.”