Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXVI, Number 21, 17 September 1941 — Britain's Force Begins To Surge After Setbacks [ARTICLE]

Britain's Force Begins To Surge After Setbacks

LONDON - Britain moves into the third year of the war on a surge of hope that, together, the three greatest political units on earth could find the combination to beat the greatest military power in history. By a strange paradox, it was not her own progress in

w diMih, and wltli a b!t nior*> rewrvM to throw 1n TOlght have broken thronjrh to Snez. Oeatt ln Jugosfavia <>fT»r»#oy overmn Jtreos!avin hefw arnty could oonsoli<!ate on the boe3s of its coap d*etat. It w««he<l <?rpe«* and wliat forceF the Britt«h hnd heen ahie to secd, ia Wttere<st flfthtlng tt?e war ftad Tt *•»* the r»M of atr imn»ia«»r, a wr nnp*rtomT ln ma*fi of tnxit>s'. W]iilprsjp?st and firp power, nnd « < ru«hii)g ovenreigl)t Iri In «n «ll*out wjtli alr honae tPOOp?, (Jemmny snatrl>e«l ,Oete fron) a small defpndtnß force. The navv lieat bat-fe nn attejnpt at ffia-bonip invaKif>n, btit wlth heary lo«sefi of !ts o*m. Creto prored th»t no foroe. land or s»ea. ean oper«te ln pKched battle tin<!er mo4.«?ru war couditlous \vitTiout adO' .iiuate sui>piirt in llie a!r. J lu Ethivi'ia, tlie Ttalians a?raln iwere Ueaien, ]>y a r.ri!i>h aml Tn|diau furce iibout <ine tbeit iSiae, ana Haile Pe3as,ti- : - ■w ent Ivaol ito hig throne. for. īmj ttie j>aiM= t u£ revult 1e Jraq. and ther. strTklng i&t Rashid Ali bi'fur<» OerMtanj" iLq positīon to glvē hlni real ass!sone ?uuroe «->f trf««Me 'n thf .Levant wus I;Quitlated. Th*> Syrlan <.>? istvv>>.tty* largt-ly n | *ki4 gloves" :iffa!r Wi v ause r,'t t .f relatl.'r.- «!th I*l .'hy, re ?mov(w! anotl»>r I S<rtte»cW« Not Mirimlzed | of fki*ap p<vtM onnipen<tatt* frr^«h«' *where, Pwhaiw ;! L o >?«ilitorr<irivSiī 'campsigns i.l ; ' s 'hv <lersnsui ttmetsWe. P * '*> n,y>n ;n Engsand o>B'' ii' *ct»! il.r Oernis n ,«.rsc -ev«*»v tr nree.-e r.iul Orete, and tbe £ovemnsent mme c!osser ts\a cris!> ov.>r "l.eni rh n it ever had l*ffore. In the atr, attsc%s <i«n?hiaed throaph i >h- »īnrer rilghV->,t ed l>y the great ral»f i«n !,«•;.ih-i. #nd the t*-o M£j?est; h?i!- «'ia -Vv in hlstory, «f A.jirH "n •»;,<* ",0 of thss y«tr. After May tO h\£ rst<!< oea«Kl etuire!v Tho was he£tnnl&K to «atl»er *«< v»rf' cth for t?K» R«srfan Ak.,! th-> R A F . «tartlnc In m!d-Jftin»» i!« o«ii crowinir, r..<n-stop ofTvn<hv. Hfs rt*y over «h» <-os»eta* inenwn ?t 3

beating back the Nazi assault in the Atlantic, or the assurance from Wahington that the "arsenal of Democracy" could and would get the planes and guns through to her, which provided the first ray of light since the days of optimism when France invades the Warndt Forest and everyone "knew" the Maginot Line would hold. It was a huge battle 1,500 miles away. No Briton has permitted himself to doubt in the second year of the war, any more than he did during its first year, that the war would be won. Until Hitler attacked Russia, nobody knew how. Nobody could say how Britain, with the forces her allies were able to salvage, could ever get at the overwhelming military machine which successively had eliminated every foothold for attack. Entire Situation Changed The invasion of Russia changed all that. It threw against Hitler's army the only military force which conceivably might stop it. It raised the hope that, however deeply the German army might penetrate into the Soviet Union, it would always face a succession of new fronts farther back. It raised a hope tbat Russian resistance would impair. if it did not destroy the temper of the military weapon forged by Hitler which had gained him nine nations and forced four others into his continental system. Britain's hopes were keyed up

further when. on Aug. 14, it was revealed that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had held a conference at sea and drafted an eight-point program covering war aims. The joint declaration of the two powers offered to all countries the solemn assurance that they would have a share in a better world in which Hitlerism would not exist. Air Blows Returned At the end of the war's second year, Russia apparently had pointed a way by which the struggle might be won. American production was beginning to hit its peak. Britain was sending crashing blows into the industrial heart of Germany, in the form of constant air raids. The Royal Navy had pushed the battle line of the Atlantic out toward the west, and seemed possibly to have gotten the upper hand at last over the Nazi threat to the lifeline. American warships were cooperating. Nobody in England looked for an easy time in the third year, or the fourth. There were new waves of air raids in prospect, and a possible extension of the war to the Far East . But the British Empire was in a better position to defend itself than ever before. The second year of the war was a hard one. It began with Britain virtually alone as far as effective, immediate assistance was concerned. The island was desperately trying to retrieve the loss in guns and tanks suffered at Dunkirk. It lacked fully trained men. Its forti fications were improvised, at the best. Across the channel was thee German army and the luftwaffe and the invasion barges were gathering in the ports captured on the continent. Dark Days Last Fall The Battle for Britain was working up to its screaming climax as sadly outnumbered Spitfire and Hurricane pilots drove themselves and their machines in exhaustion against his waves of bombers th<? £SL:"h .*&v . | S#i>watvi\ *UĀ tht» Sr>t W<f of TU*>y prvn*d ih*x HilW oouUi w fcw tfc<* P*w of fcrtt*t» v *ot t>>t 1 maw fc*> T\?*sVst fi,vr TV' WNr*#V»N Aa* *>Ifc>iv*Tvr *»* vo ! Vjr V*m« t>v«t tV <Vr ' w** tw ' ■■1 <*** of Ov3V^sx>,' *YUI tw *Wit* o? wl' srs'.xy. cv«aM©Aa *U&' \r;• \tj6\YVs ' ffcr*njrfc t- * 1t!& ?W: \ tv *Mw AS*\\ IV \J ?fv.v *V>r.y\* ir.v V, f<qv>*»,-v.*rv ?otv, \wu iW TW. 4 **»* l "**n *o»tM<«v s *t «*an*n ] msx\«*! Ms i hvm*> J

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