Although disagreeing with newspaper statements that Hitler's speech marked the turning from the offense to the defense, Professor Hans Kohn said last night that he believed the lack of any startling threats of accomplishments did mark a comedown for the Fuehrer.

"All Hitler had to announce was that Stalingrad would be taken soon, and that is long overdue. After that, he will stop temporarily to consolidate his gains, confident that the democracies will not use this time to their own advantage," the Smith professor continued.

Favors New Front

Deprecating any public demonstration in favor of a second front although personally in favor of one, Kohn stated that it was most likely to come, not in France, but in some theatre of the war not publicized at present, such as French North Africa or Finland and Norway.

He said that America is now lagging in deliveries, although production is good, and recommended that the United States get busy opening up the Arctic route to Russia by way of Alaska, retaking the Aleutians in the process.

Worried About America

The fact that Hitler did not once refer to America he considered especially significant, for this showed that the Chancellor was afraid to worry his people about the prospect of America taking a more active part as a decisive factor in this war as in the last.

While ignoring the United States except for one vague reference to President Roosevelt, Hitler did refer to Churchill as a "military idiot," thus revealing what, Kohn termed his biggest weakness, an underestimation of his adversaries "common to all megalomaniacs.