Everything?

How can Hitler win? Probably not by bombing alone. Hitler is a politician, playing loyalty against loyalty, and power against power, aiming always to confuse and disintegrate before he calls upon his military machine. Perhaps the world's eyes have been too closely focused on the narrow Channel. Perhaps he would spring from Norway. Last week Swedish newshawks reported a German transport torpedoed in the Kattegat, bound for Norway with 4,000 men aboard. Swedes have also reported troop and transport concentrations at Bergen and Stavanger. Perhaps Hitler would use Eire, which has declared it would resist British "protection" with force. Perhaps he would come by air.*

But there was still plenty of evidence for the direct Channel attack. Big guns were not rolled up to Boulogne and other points to pock the barren cliffs of Kent; they were probably there to protect a landing. The Luftwaffe was very definitely still trying to knock out coastal airports to push back fighter resistance.

Best bet was that Hitler would use everything--all these methods and more as yet unheard of. Last week's news dispelled the wishful thinking of those who thought delay meant defeat; Adolf Hitler may want bad weather to cover his invasion. One thing was certain: just as Hitler used parachutists to confuse the enemy's rear in the Lowlands, and tanks to confuse their rear in France, he was using mass air raids to do the same thing in Britain. When the rear is in panic, Adolf Hitler strikes at the front.

* Wiseacres in Manhattan bars last week decided Hitler was digging a tunnel under the Channel.

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