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Mediterranean strategists have some good arguments in reply. One of their best points: whatever airmen in Britain may think, the planes "diverted" to North Africa and southern Europe played an enormous part in an enormous blow at German confidence, helped to open the first breach in mainland Europe. An important effect of that breach, and of deepening it, will eventually be to confront the Luftwaffe with a two-or-three-front air war over Germany itself. A small beginning could be seen this week in the report that bombers and fighters based in the Mediterranean area had attacked objectives in Austria.