Word: maye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Unknowns. That outline is not yet definitive because there are several big imponderables. It is not known for certain who may fight whom; in stacking up the armed forces of the world against each other it is not certain for example whether Japan is to be counted as one of the Axis powers, or because of her involvement in China she may remain neutral ; it is equally uncertain whether Russia may belong to the Democratic front or be a neutral; it is even uncertain whether the U. S. will be a neutral or a member of the Democratic front...
...nations which may be lined up against each other can be guessed, it is possible to make a reasonably accurate estimate of their fighting strength in men, guns, ships, planes. But such an estimate though quantitatively correct may be in total error from the qualitative standpoint...
...Totals. Like the last, the next great European war is not likely to be fought between only two nations. Most of Europe will choose sides and victory may well go to the weakest nation if it is on the stronger side...
With the U. S. S. R. added to the Allies, the Axis superiority would vanish, for the Russians have 4,500 first-line planes and some 6,000 in reserve, plus a replacement capacity of 580 a month. The above fig ures for Allied replacements may be high but purchases from the United States might swell the Allied replacement total...
...conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...