Kearsney College Chronicle Vol. 1 . No. 2 July, 1940. EDITORIAL. This half year, particularly since Easter, has been darkened by the clouds of war. In its earlier stages, when very little appeared to be happening, we used to say, rather whimsically, that it was a very"strange"war. We imagined that a stalemate existed, and must for ever exist, between the Maginot and Siegfried Lines. We imagined that the first army to break the other's Line would win the war, and we sang flippant songs about the day when theallied laundry would bedeck the Siegfried Headquarters. We have been sorely disillusioned. While we have been doing little, except bolster ourselves up with some wishful thinking. Hitler has been busy, and we have learnt in the last few weeks what a Blitzkrieg really is. Belgium, Holland, and France have been overrun at a speed that takes the breath away. On 14th June we laughed at Hitler's promise that he would make France capitulate by the 15th, yet two days later the unexpected had happened, and France was suing for an armistice. Our Allies have been crushed ruthlessly, and now only Great Britain, with the help of her dominions and the great English-speaking race across the Atlantic, stands between world freedom and world enslavement. By the time that this magazine appears in print, who knows what will have happened? Everything at present points to a devastating attack by air and sea upon the British Isles in the early part of July. Once again Hitler has made a promise—that there will be peace by 15th August: a peace that is only possible 1
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