"Don't Get Restive"

Lots of Britons and most Americans thought the chances of invasion of Britain ended last month, and that Hitler's concentration of barges was just a decoy; but not the R. A. F., which ought to know. Last week, to please and appease Londoners who had lost much, British planes bombed Berlin for four and five hours a night. But the main heat of R. A. F. attack still licked at German-held ports, all the way from Stettin on the Baltic to Lorient, the port below the cape of Brittany where France built much of her Navy.

German concentrations as far south as Lorient led to a revival of the suspicion that Ireland might receive the first blow. Nothing had been heard from the huge concentration of troops and planes in Norway, except for an unconfirmed rumor that Aberdeen had been cut flat by bombs. Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down 133 planes that day and bad weather made seaway grim for the barges.

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' new weekly, Das Reich, said very officially: "Actually the question of invasion or no invasion, invasion today or invasion tomorrow, plays no part in victory or defeat. This question has already been answered by the German victory on the Continent. . . .

"We are sure that this day [of invasion] will come. On this day the British will realize that the story of an overdue invasion was just as valueless as the story of the bus that Herr Hitler missed, and that their broad viewpoints were nothing but illusions that brought them oceans of blood and tears, just as Prime Minister Churchill predicted when he took over the Government."

The German radio was more blunt: "We can only repeat this, Britons: don't get restive--we are coming."

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