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...citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...
...Balkans was that Italy might be knocked out. The minimum hope was that a heavy cost might be inflicted on the Germans. By last week it was certain that the minimum rather than the maximum hope would be realized. The Germans had already counterattacked across Libya and developed a threat to the Suez Canal (see p. 23). They accomplished this, in spite of the British Fleet, by flying some troops to Tripoli. The British suspected that the French had helped the Germans supply their Libyan Army...
Meanwhile the British Government warned: "In view of the German threat to bomb Athens and Cairo, His Majesty's Government wish it to be understood that if either of these two cities is molested, they will commence a systematic bombing of Rome. Once it has begun it will continue as convenient till the end of the war. The greatest care will be taken not to bomb the Vatican City." Benito ("War Is the Normal State of the People") Mussolini was again on a spot...
Whereas in World War I the "submarine menace" was the only thing to fear, the threat this time has come from all these new factors. A recent breakdown of British sea losses by cause...
...trouble in the Balkans, Great Britain last week was afraid that she had trouble in Paradise as well. By week's end this month's uprising in Iraq, traditional site of the Garden of Eden, showed no signs of normal simmering down, seemed instead a nasty threat to the carotid artery of the British Empire, the Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline...