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March 12, 1940.
BRITAIN AT WAR-New Exclusive Series of Articles
NGLAND and Churchill. They are Germany's pet hates. The English- man most hated in Germany is Winston Churchill, 65 - year - old, cigar-smoking, baldish First Lord of the Admiralty whose "Nazi" on
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Churchill is back on the same job he had 25 years ago, and his navy is successfully hunting U-Boats, "not without relish," with able assis-
HITLER IS LICKED
ON EVERY OCEAN
tance from the Royal Air Force.
The British conservatively estimate at least 40 U-boats have been sunk, and possibly more. At the start of the war Germany supposedly had 65 submarines in commission
and 28 building.
Churchill estimated in Parliament recently the
"Allies were destroying two to four U-Boats a week.
He estimated Germany's capacity re-
placement at two a week, revealing confi-
dence the U-Boat would be placed un-
der control, particularly as the
output of British patrol craft
was accelerated.
England was bored by a lethargic war until electrified by the gallant attack of three cruisers against the heavier armed German pocket-battle- ship Graf Spee, which was chased into Uruguayan waters
and later scuttled by its in London to exclaim, "The Elbe
is a hell of a place to go.
crew.
Death of the Graf Spee con- If British claims are correct, trasted sharply in British an important percentage
Germany's heavier units has
of
British factorics are turning out hundreds of planes, and officials estimate the production capacity by next month will be eight times what it was
when
190,000 tons of Bri-
tish warships: the "Nelson'
and "Rodney," fol- lowed by "Malaya," "Va-
liant," "Queen Elizabeth" and "Barham." Take a practice spin.
By Reuel Moore
Each of the major industries in 1 The government already as in placed under control of a small Germany-has large powera tu
personnel is drawn board whose
eyes with end of the British been destroyel or damaged be the air expansion programme almost exclusively from the big punish any employer who entices
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In contrast, yond use.
the pindi, which went down in an British cite losses of their mer- unequal struggle with the chant ships amounting to Graf Spec's sister-ship than three per cent. of their Deutschland rather than sur total tonnage.
The RAF daily patrols the Other naval incidenta regard-Atlantic, North Sea and English ed by Britons as upholding their channel, watching enemy avia- navul traditions include the tion, hunting U-boats, assisting submarine Ursula's dive under distressed ship and seamen and six destroyers, after braving guarding merchant convoys, German naval and aerial patrols minesweepers and fishing boats. at the mouth of the Elbe river At night, British planes patrol to sink a German cruiser of the the German North Sea coast Koln class.
watching for German mine-
This exploit caused an admiral!laying planes.
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A gigantic empire, training scheme in which British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian fliers will complete their training in Canada has al- ready begun. The first British pllots are expected to reach Canada this month.
The first Australian fliers are already in England.
Dritons belleve Germany has not yet attempted an air "blitz- krieg" against England at least partly because British defences with fighting planes and anti- afrcraft batteries have showed a formidable ability to retaliate,
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amounts of raw materials on hand
units. These big units now have labour from another employer. In full access to the trade secrets of fact the emergency powers act in so small independents-name of cus-broad it might fairly be described tomers, former volume of business, as a complete fascist apparatus for and the latter dare not "squawk" duration of the war, if the govern since they are at the mercy of can-ment has courage to use it. trol boards which allocate supplies and dictate prices.
Thus in iron, steel, aluminium and non-ferrous metals, in wool, cotton, jute, hamp and linen, in leather, paper, timber, cereals, coconut oils and cocoa these independents and their satellite merchants already have some reason to wonder if the war has landed them in a "corpora- tive state."
The government, through the Chancellor of Exchequer, Sir John Simon, has already hinted that labour must make sacrifices.
Nobody, not even the fiscal purists, worries much about the National Debt. The prevailing theory that this does not seriously matter if national in- come is kept at a high level so as to reduce the burden of its an- nual interest payments..
Naturally, their ultimate fate Is unpredictable. But it is. note- worthy the government for the "first time in history has already es-
When war ends, the national in- tablished a special register of white come will presumably slump for the collared unemployed men largely time being-after the World War it drawn from small-sized firms and took the country five years to re- unable to function 100 per cent. in cover its 1913 national income. the war machine.
are beginning to get the impression been done to peg prices, but nothing regulate supplies from the trade and financial press
to peg wages. that the war's end will see the end
WAR already is making pro- found changes in business and industrial life in Britain.
Few Englishmen any longer re- peat I. G. Wells' gloomy prediction that another great war means the
Unlike France, Britain has not yet end of civilization. But lots of tackled whole-heartedly the pro-HE Government will end the them, especially small business men,blem of inflation. Something has war with enormous powers to and raw materials, to control prices and
wages and The Board of Trade has been rents and
the courage agriculture or any working day and night to find They already see signs Britain is new cost of living index based on 'dustry. becoming highly"bureaucratized," naveral hundred-thousand family with big industrial concerns dictat budgets. Some quarters believe ing policy and small concerns eign-when the new index appears the ders power, especially when the national government will announce partics opposing it lack punch and a wage policy.
of their easy-going money-making ways.
ing innumerable questionnaires on the dotted line.
The war effort on Britain's gigantic scale requires big units, and already the tendency is to make big companies bigger and small
and companies red-taped
dig ciplined as never before.
It is not generally realised that Britain, unlike the United States, thus far has been the stronghold of griall and medium-sized com- panies, of which there are some 1,800,000 to place the Imprint "Made in Britain" upon goods of the shipped to every corner world.
For one Lancashire Cotton Cor- poration-the world's largest cotton spinning company-there are 400 amall cotton spinners.
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Handling the small outputs of these countless independents are hundreds of thousands of mor chants-the cotton Industry alone has 1,700 Gras as producers and 2,000 firms na merchants.
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