World Battlefronts: One Fell Stroke

The Berlin radio broadcast the Nazis’ latest threat : The German High Command “intends by one fell, drastic stroke to end the unbridled mass murder. . . . Mankind is not far from the point where it can, at will, blow up half the globe. The retaliation will be so powerful and will be started at such a psychologically opportune moment as to influence the development of the war.” But the Germans could no longer promise bomb for bomb. Said Berlin: “It would be superfluous to retaliate for ruins with ruins. The sense of retaliation will find quite a different and surprising expression spiritually as well as politically.”

Last week the Nazis, via Stockholm, threatened England with a whole barrage of cross-Channel rockets. Asked the British Institute of Public Opinion: Do you think the Nazis are bluffing or telling the truth about their secret weapon? Of those questioned, 59% answered: Bluffing. The British military kept their opinion to themselves.