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Aircraft Production

Speculation as to whether Inler will or will But attempt to invade Brit this autuma is still world- wide, but each day that fails to pro- dure what he unce culled his "Btz- krieg". indicates that the constan! bombing by the R.A.F, of Germany's productive and supply centres is de- Anitely hampering the execution of his plane

September 23, 1940.

At last even U.S. Middle West says

STOP

by C. V. R. Thompson

TN

hot

Special New York Reporter.

the bread-

mid-Western Kansas, basket of America, they used to regard a New Yorker as a foreigner, England as a coun- try that welshed its war debts, Adolf Hitler as a nebulous bogoy man.

They suspected Roosevelt of thinking up plans to save his New Deal. Kansas, plumb in the middle of the American Continent, untouched by internationalism, unthreatened from east or west, used to be rabidly isolationists,

At the beginning of the war Kansas news- papers refused to concede to America even enough interest In Great War Number Two to read about it, and resisted giving it more than one column of newa.

to his next move, La divided Mr Churchill expressed hirowelf as convinced that GermRY must malte an altempi to invade NOW Sume of the more optimistic feel that he has already made an attempt but failed, while others de- clare that the German Fuchrer is only waitbig the fulfilment of cer- tain plans which promise more hope

Invasion of a successful

than the high tides und the full moon of a few days gʊ, On the other hand

MORE sensational than the content of that advertisement was the fact that the chairman of the committee was none other than William Allen White, first citizen of isolationist Kansas. From his editor's chair in small Emporia in Kansas, White had pounded out "America for Americans" editorials for as long as most people could re- member. Now he, and presumably most of the State from which he sprang, was virtually inter- ventionists.

Hitler's attacks on the civilian popu- Talion of Britain are A somewhat costly method of approach. They cannot lead to victory for the Ger- man Air Force but are, on the con- trary. reducing Hitler's striking power very considerably. Germany's air feet a few weeks ago was con- sidered to be numerically stronger than that of Britain's but the dully high percentage of losses must have very considerably lessened whatever gup existed. Experience has

also shown that the quality of the British machine, especially ine fighters, is superior. The limitations imposed by the supply of aviation spirit, lubricating oil and trained pilots also work in Britain's favour, but the most important factor of all in aerial warfare is the rate of produc- tion of new aircraft.

HIM

MATT WILL NEED

THE ALLIES LOSE #WARSMES

✔ AIRPLANES

10 TANKS

GUNS

NOW

NEED IF THE

ALLES WIN

Coach

of William Allen White, endor. sed his committee's work.

MORE than two million names were collected for a petition urging the fullest possible nid to the Allies. All kinds of names-bankers : and actresses, writers and commercial travellers, housewives' and farmers.

In the hectic days before the foll of France those signatories showered American

der Congressmen with mands to stop Hitler now. They helped to bring America's publie temperature to such a height that one untoward incident would have brought the United States to war.

But that is not primorily tho alm of William Allen White's committee.. His plans are openly selikuda. If t is possible, he would like the Allies to pull America's chestnuts out of the fire, with America supplying all the tongs that are necessary. Only If the Allies were in danger of de- fest would' he approve of America going directly into the war.

After the defeat of France the Committee for Defending America by Aiding the Allies went into a momentary decline. Isolationista, seeing a new danger of America. being dragged into the war to res- cue England from what they thought Was Immediate defeat, began to hint at the possible appeasement “of Adolf Hitler.

There was talk, a lot of it fostered

Ochs by German agents and out-and-out

names-Colonel Julius Adler, of the New York Times, German sympathisers, like Senator "I'd better help them and actress Tallulah Bankhead, Robert Reynolds, that England was AB good ns beaten, and what was Colonel Henry Breckinridge, the use of sending her any more win"

adviser of isolationist Colonel help?

William Allen But

Walte con- Lindbergh, and author Loula

his

Jik campaign. Now Bromfeld, educator Dr. Nicho- tinued

committee considers it more Impor- Ins Murray Butler and socialite tant than ever to help Britain. So Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich.

from Char Christian Science Monitor, Boston.

does the rest of America.

To Americans elsewhere this ********* brought home the change that had come over American senti- ments since the old days of last autumn, when they were talk-

"phoney war." about ing White became convinced that America's first line of defence was on the Rhine after his son,

wrote telegrams to JL In three hundred and nine- THE British seizure of the French energetic William C. White, re- and turned from Europe. White hundred prominent Americans teen cities, suburbs, towns and Fleet, the British defeat of German throughout America bombing squadrons, British aggres. Junior watched Finland fall, asking that aid be sent im- villages

were formed; siveness and British determination Loured Germany. Italy, France, mediately to the Allies. Colonci local chapters and England. He came home Frank Knox printed the appeal cheques, gifts and offers of help have suddenly taken bold of Ameri-

enn Imagination. Robert Sherwood A week age you would have heard convinced that Adolf Hitler was prominently in his Chicago news- poured in. bent not on the conquest of paper.

went around theatres, and in a hardly one American in a fundred The response was immediate few days collected enough to who would give you even money Europe but the conquest of the world.

and enthusiastic. A committee finance that sensational adver- that England could win the war. Now it is quite a different "story. President Roosevelt, Confidence la returning. onya the Early in June Willam Allen was formed. It was a strange tisement, White sat down to his worn desk assortment of famous American traditionally the political enemy Sage of Kansas.

No secret is more closely guarded than this, but it has been calculated from facis known that the current production of the German and Ita- Han nircraft factories cannot be in excess of 2,000 aeroplanes a month. Some expansion could undoubtedly be achieved but Germany and Italy will experience great' difficulty, ham- pered by British bombing, to in- crease their output above 3,000 a month at any time in the foreseeable future.

OUR TURN WILL COME

THOSE who know something of our leading military personnel find reassurance in the fact that two practical and comparatively young sol- diers now hold the vital Army commands.

Com- General Sir John Dill is Chief ing as a responsible Higher

This distinguished British of the Imperial General Staff, mund and General Sir Alan Brooke in officer dubbed the Maginat from the

of start the tomb-stone France," Commander-in-Chief of our and painted out that what WAR home forces,

nowadays essential for any realistic military purpose was not static but Curiously enough both these offi- mobile fortifcution. cers, un whom such a supreme re- now rests, arc Ulster- sponsibly

The mentality that literally put No men.

special significance at its military shirt on the Maginot Line

coincidence.

with except is comparable

that which taches to this perhaps that Northern Ireland has a agitated, after the acroplane became

practical achievement, for Cromwellian fighting tradition and a its rather grim cavironment tends to Chamaet tunnel. produce realists.

Major-General Fuller puts his sen-

And it is realists we certainly want sitive finger on another anachronism. in the present anergency, People We have motorised our artillery in- who not only look but think back- stead of mechanising it. In other wards, whether they are statesmen words, tank artillery is what modern or soldiers, are fatal encumbrances in conditions of warfare, as exploited by Gerruns. ΠΟΥ demand. We a highly mechanised epoch of rapidly the changing circumstance. A strange may assume that, after witnessing fact is the way in which the warn what happened In France, our milí- ing voices of up-to-date authorities tary experts are getting into line as have been persistently ignored in the quickly as may be with up-to-date immediate past.

facts.

"Tombstone of France"

The Army has always been, how- ever, in almost every country, the

If the French General Staff had most conservative, even reactionary, giver a moment's serious attention of all services. Napoleon, as GBB.

FUNNY SIDE UP

TATTOOS

POND ON PREMISES

PROT. GULCH

By Abner Dean

"I want you to add a convoy!"*

ABNER DEAN

even the Danes are king Mia state- to Major-Genetul J. F. C. Fuller's has pointed out quite truthfully, won island, I shall be distinctly dis- crlucisms on the Maginot Line, writ- his historic victories largely because, appointed if he does not come up to of Nordic subjection? ten when those expensive and purely whilst the military pedanta opposed scratch. It will be a picnic that will

anxiety ornamental furtifications were first to him held up hands of horror, he help tremendously to relieve Hitler's begun, they might still be function- did not scruple to put his infantry constant

move into carts in order to quickly and secure

about

"Leben

J

We have only to launch a reason-- ably hopeful and determined offen- sive against Germany, almost any then sraum."

where, and the strain on all those Actually one Ands very few intelli- German armies of occupation gent people, whether In-or out of become intolerable. uniform, who believe a German in Against the Grain vasion to be practicable. Even if

the invaluable

cance than the actual figures would strategic asset of surprise. suggest.

Smash-and-Grab

our coast,

will:

Once there are signs of Germany haps beuten, it will strange indeed being well held, and eventually per- if there is not some exemplary Ger-

the centres of hatred for Nazlan.

the At the beginning of Britain ordered 11000 aeroplane

We still have military experts who Germany had absolute command of from the United States. Some 3,000 have been delivered. A large pra-write portentously apropos Hitler's the sea and the air, which is very portion of these were trainers, but retarded invasion of this faland, of far from being the case, it would be

"bridgeheads.' They envisage the a terrifically hazardous enterprise. military aircraft is now being de Germans, by some novel device or What one does encounter is a con- man throat-cutting in many scathing In aviation circles, British produc- tion is now placed at roughly 1,800

Hvered in appreciable quantities and

dublety regarding at any rate in more than sufficient trick, securing a foothold at one or siderable. a month. Production is however,

and numbers to cover any gap between more positions on

Some if not all of the peoples now expanding fast and Lord Beaver-

thereafter proceeding to reinforce chances of our carrying the light to British and the Axia production

under the Germann jackboot will be brook, Minister for Aircraft Produc-

Britain's Arst order for 11,000 those devoted storm-troop divisions Germany. That attitude strikes me

manner.

as being quite unintelligent.

emulating the grim record of the tion, has been able to clear away

aeroplanes was however a mild, one in the traditional classic

Every one of Germany's Blitzkrieg Sicilian Vespers before long. Not bottlenecks which were impeding

to stand compared to those sent later which, Just as we did with our BEF. in

Whereas successes so far, and not least the long, as Germany seems the productive effort. But this ty

as Mr. Morgenthau, the U.S. Secre-1014 B.C. Pardon-A.D. not the whole of the facts. Supplies lary to the Treasury,, announced, nothing can be more certain than over-running of France, owed more triumphant perhaps, but the momIS EXIT. from the United States and Canada total 72,000 peroplanes to be dell-that, if and when the Germans at- to Fifth-Columniam Dian to actual the brutal Frankenstein monster be month. This figure tempt an invasion of this impregna-military puissance.

gins to show signs of clay feet and are increasing. The latest telegram

vered at 3,000

to totter bit on his pedestal. Such from Washington states that Britain

cannot of course, be reached im-ble island, it will be on the smash-

Has it occurred io anyone how a domination, as Hitler has man in now receiving aeroplanes at this

mediately, but eves at this stage and-grab lines which so utterly de-

peculiarly open to Fifth-Column de oeuvred, chiefly by Wollowing the old rate of 500 month.'

supplies are coming, in well. The mornilsed-France. The development of production in

Industrial Implications of this vast Hiller's Higher Command, if it moralisation Hitler's present position Roman maxim of Divide to rule," those countries in of double Impor programme are tremendous, but, the seriously contemplates invading us, obviously Is? An inviting opportun is dead against the grain of history tance, for they are invulnerable to United States is standing squarely will budget for a lightning drive ity is there, if we have the nous to and human nature, ENTRENA Hitler's Intest oration to the attack from the air. In the light of behind the plan, regarding it as an right through to our vital centres, grasp it effectually, Germany, at the present day experiences It is perfect essential part of America's national there will be no worrying over moment is holding down more than Reichstag, with its significant omis ly possible to imagine a state of af-defence. This support, not to men-"bridgeheads," otherwise than as an hall Europe by military occupation sion of jany reference to President backed by Gestapo methods. Roosevelt's rousing catments on fairs in which British bombing could on the assistance given by the Em- Immediate Jumping-off place.

with

Does anyone cherish any delusion despotism, seems to me to betray! reduce German and Italian output by pire .generally,.. "combined

regarding the feelings of the some faint paranoise glimmerings of overawed allen peoples concerned? this immutable truth. - Hitleriam Having seen something of prepara- Do you imagine the Poles, the Dutch, may yet perlth of a surfeit of Inter tions for welcoming "Terry" to this the Belgians, the Norwegians,sor national brigandages web prodajniku da

half in the same way German bomb Hitler's indilal failure to defeat the The Gestapo's Grip ing could reduce British output R.AFA must be a source of great Supplies from North Americh are comfort to Londoners in their fiery therefore, of even greater signifi- ordeal.

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