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Great Britain replied obliquely last week to increasing pressure for a new expeditionary force. The reply: 36 pages of dispatches by General the Viscount Gort, sent while he was achieving the "Miracle of Dunkirk" in May 1940. There was no trace of the eloquence of the Dunkirk battleground in his reports, only plain speaking with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses...
Russia is a classic battleground. As Adolf Hitler's drive passed its initial phase last week, the new conqueror showed by the routes he chose and the techniques he used that he had studied hard the hard lessons of previous incursions...
...British nowhere put up real resistance. They claimed they evacuated Bengasi without losing a man. The British communiqué stated that British advance forces had withdrawn "to choose our own battleground." The British were evidently perfectly willing to cede territory, since in desert warfare, as in sea warfare, the destruction of enemy fighting units is the only thing that counts...
Adolf Hitler's chosen battleground is the British Isles. Both his Propaganda Minister, wry little Paul Joseph Goebbels, and his Deputy Party Leader, hairy Rudolph Hess, warned Britain last week that the blow was coming soon. Dr. Goebbels' foreboding was particularly ominous. All enemies of the Fuhrer are given a last warning, said he: "Bruning, Schuschnigg, Benes, Beck, Daladier and Reynaud all received that warning. Mr. Churchill belongs to that category . . . and Germany only grants him a last respite before the sentence is executed...
...partisan calculation of prospective votes clearly showed the magnitude of Willkie's task. He must not only win all the doubtful States' votes-and in many of these he was momentarily ahead-but cut deeply into comparatively safe Roosevelt territory. The battleground was obviously the East and Midwest...