Time to Start He thinks Britain’s armed forces are sufficiently ready to start jabbing the enemy now December 1 1941 DOUGLAS REED Time to Start DOUGLAS REED December 1 1941 Time to Start He thinks Britain’s armed forces are sufficiently ready to start jabbing the enemy now December 1 1941 DOUGLAS REED Time to Start He thinks Britain’s armed forces are sufficiently ready to start jabbing the enemy now LOND0N, November 7 (By Cable).—Just a year has passed since I began to write these monthly articles for Maclean’s. In the first I said I expected in the twelfth to be able to say that the possibility of defeat had vanished and that victory was within sight. That, in the circumstances of a year ago, seemed to most people an almost fantastically optimistic statement, and the Editor of Maclean’s, in his notes, said somewhat dubiously that he only hoped I would be right this time.