An interesting strategical comment reaches me from an aeronautical correspondent.
Germany's seizure of the Ukraine is, of course, one of the main objectives outlined in Mein Kampf, and there is no reason to suppose that Herr Hitler has abandoned it. But there are grave doubts whether it is worth pursuing. What Hitler wants the Ukraine for is its grain, and it will be easy enough for the Russians to see that he never gets it. He may seize the territory, but nothing is more inflammable than ripe corn in a dry summer, and it would be a simple matter for the Russians to plaster the grain area night by night with incendiary bombs ; they could be dropped from any height, and no accuracy of aim would be needed. The same thing applies no doubt to Germany's grain-growing areas—and France's and Italy's—and it has an obvious bearing on doctrines of self-sufficiency.
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