Daily Post - 16.02.1943, Blaðsíða 3

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Increase The Bombing Of Brítlsb RoadS
Germany!
by Baymond Glapper
Washington, Febr. 12th.
The new American Commander of the European Theater,
Lieut. Gen. Frank AncLrews, says that his first job will be to iv-
creáse the bombing of Germany and thus to complete the soften-
ing-up process.
The idea that Germany could
be defeated from the air has
never been seriously held ex-
cept by a limited number, but it
is accepted that a daily raid on
the scale of the Colonge raid
would so completely disorgan-
ize and depress Germany that a
few of them would bring her
half. way towards defeat. Russia
is now doing the job cn the
ground. There may be much
groundwork for us to do before
it is all over, but every bomb
dropped now will do work that
otherwise soldiers will have to
do later.
Everý bomb dropped in Ger-
many has a double force. It
does its actual physical destruc-
tion and it adds its blow to the
German spirits that are already
so low over the defeat in Rus-
sia.
Obviously we have sent a
considerable airforce to North
Africa, and the fact that Gen.
Spaatz is remaining in Africa
indicates that extensive opera-
tions are in mind there. That
has necessarily checked the
amount of air power that we
can put against Germany itself
for the time being. But con-
sidering our production along
with the pilot training program
we should have literally thous-
ands of planes available for use
against Germany within a very
short time.
If Germany can be given a
Cologne raid every 24 hours
for a while, the state mourning
that occurred over the Stalin-
grad disaster will be indefini-
tely extended.
ODD BEHAVIOUR
Unquestionably Germany is
shaken inside. There is odd be-
haviour going on there—fun-
eral dirges, strange silence from
Hitler, a frantic note in the
voices of once cocky proþa-
gandists, a hurried dashing a-
bout of the General Staff in the
Balkans since Churchill’s visit
to Turkey. All these things add
up to a home front echo of the
bad ,ews from the whole Rus-
sian frcnt.
There are so many strange
parallels that have occurred
between Hitler’s war against
Russia and Napoleon’s war a-
gainst Russia that one is temp-
ted to think that perhaps an-
other parallel might be found.
HITLER'S BORODINO?
After Napoleon had won the
battle of Borodino and thus
opened the way to Moscow, he
had the Russians falling back
and everything looked easy. —
But strangely the French Army
suddenly began to disintsgrate.
The Russian guerilla warfare
spread confusion and harassed
the French so that within six
weeks the victorious French
were in a state of collapse and
began their disastrous retreat.
The French had not been de-
feated in battle at all. At the
peak of their triumph they
went to pieces and then were
easily driven out.
Is anything like that happ-
ening in Russia now? For the
moment the news from there
begins to suggest it. We must
remember that the Germans
are now back approximately to
the line where they began their
advance last June. But the Nazi
structure is so built around
Hitler’s prestige, his claims of
infallibility, that no’one can be
sure it will stand very long a-
gainst such disaster as has ov-
ertaken the German armies. —
We can prepare for anything in
Germany.
ROMMEL ESCAPES BY A
HAIR!
Cairo.
It was reported today that
Marshal Erwin Rommel of the
German Afrika Korps escaped
capture by only 20 minutes
‘when the Eighth Army broke
through Axis defences at E1
Alamein last November.
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ways be a bridge and a series
of "amps arranged to feed traf-
fic from one road to the other
directly into its correct lane
without crossing the path of
any traffic going the other way
The “clover-leaf” crossing i. e.
a bridge and four spiral ramps-
sees to this, and there are ad-
aptations of it to fit any known
form of junction. With suit-
able treeplanting and land-
scaping, and with a well design
ed-bridge, a clover-leaf crossing
can be a very beautiful thing.
Those on most of the Ameriean
parkways are well designed and
fit well into countryside which
is in many cases similar to the
English countryside.
SEPARATION FROM PEDE-
STRIANS
One of the best points in the
Engineers’ report was the pro-
posal to keep pedestrians and
cyclists off as many of the new
main roads as possiHe. Clearly
there will have to be many ex-
ceptions on roads feeding the
main roads, but the objective
is worth while. It should be
possible to have roads restric-
ted likewise for cyclists and
pedestrians, using the old road
systems. They can wind in and
out of the corners of the coun-
tryside where the motor road
doés not and they can pass
under or over it by bridges. —
With efficient and far-sighted
planning at the top there are in
fact limitless possibilities both
for making a good road system
and for doing so with the min-
imum waste of countryside.
4$-Mour Week
President Roosevelt last
night ordered a 48-hour work
week for all American war
workers. The people were in-
formed that the order is an in-
tegral part of the war plans
calling for an invasion of Eu-
rope this year.
James Byrnes, National Di-
rector of Economic Stabilizati-
on and one of the key war lea-
ders, announced the action in
a nation-wide radio address.
The 48-hour work week al-
ready exists in many industri-
es, but its application has been
optional. The new step was tak
en on the advice of many Ame-
rican labor leaders.

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