![]() The British forces in Africa and the British fleets had no planes with which to strike back in kind. By now it has actually become Mare Nostrum. At one time British convoys could still take the direct sea route to Alexandria, but German dive bombers then appeared over the central Mediterranean. In the mustering of forces for this battle, the enemy has now the advantage of position. It is the front on which we cannot avoid a fight that may be decisive. It is the only front on which we are in any way prepared to fight. The forty-mile front of El Alamein is the only front on which Britain and America can come to grips effectively with a part of the German Army. By no possibility - whatever the stage of American preparations - can we elude or put off the danger here impending. There looms up close at hand the prospect of a decisive victory - one which would involve an irreparable disaster to the Allied conduct of the war.īy no possibility will the German Command relinquish the prospect of such a victory. Roughly speaking, Rommel is sixty miles or so away from winning the war. Armed with far better weapons, Rommel has prevailed over an enemy superior in numbers, and has driven forward hundreds of miles to a line some sixty miles from Alexandria. Ever since the beginning of 1941 the German Command has followed through its attack against this critical point in the Allied military position. THE gate of Egypt is in our hands, and here we intend to act.” In these words Rommel gave point-blank warning that the Second Front had already been established by Hitler.
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