Show economic economic high highlights lichts national and international problems ju inseparable from foni local welfare vellore lore fare slay mai 1040 10 wao ud au an Import important at mouth in uie the history of the e modern corid early L irly in hi that month the blitzkrieg was waa turned in full fury on oai the low countries au army aimy ai my and air force which had been the PL topic of conversation eia atlon lu european chance chancellor tio les lea fur for years but which had never been tested came into action at baht the much vaunted defenses fences de of belgium and rolland crumpled ud like so much i paper before before th gleate groa teat t war var machine the world had bad ever imonia the war was on in eranest ea ineat and litt lers third idich was away aft ay to a lead ma 10 1010 1040 was a t tremendous ly important Import auit day in the history of this country lies ident speaking to uie the congress Cou gies gress called for an arms ai ins production program wi waldi latch would make american defenses defens ea invulnerable and aad our security abao lute ue he then askel asked ahalt slightly more than ithan be appropriated as a stonier starter yo so the rearmament drive la Is a licille more than one year old it hiis as a ule which jilch began la in an aa atmosphere mo of intense tremendous confidence it was waa a drive drie wiliah shortly after bogged down to ilo tho ft where here many al bawit succumbed to iho pelesa despair lit 11 was vaa a urne drive which then picked up as industry managed to seal gear itself to war after aeter decades of peace what are its fruits today judged by world orid war ar 1 stand ards in da we tte are doing well we have spent or committed ourselves lo go spend our entire expense in the previous war nar was we are prod producing uc jug for more moie illanes tanka and beld pieces than we produced then our training program for men has gone ahead much taster faster but built and this is an important but indeed the world has learned that world war afis JI Is a very different matter mau ithan war 1 I littler hitler has changed ali the rules and uie the standards by what the best beat experts think wo we should be doing we ire are loving far too slowly too cui autly tily too 1010 prime need Is for aircraft ali craft which Is given priority by b government over over all other arms anna yet the tact fact la is that every official estimate of abat we would produce has had to be revised and revised d downward own ward only recently was it recognized diat we had bad planned tor for nearly enough big bombers and an attempt Is being made now mo ito remedy cihat blia lack at the same bame time it la also true oat plane production lias has doubled november we are woe woefully fulay short on ordnance and it Is taking much time to effect progress the army has been criticized la in this respect for lacking punch tor for being bound with red tape etc in ili reply the army answers thit that during the ays and it was glyen giten an average of only 12 1 a year to spend for ordnance whatever the cause wherever the fault may ue lie we wont have enough auns guns and am muni munison tiou to really equip our last expanding army faroat for at least a ye arand perhaps longer in personnel the ardys record looks go bood where there were 27 complete divisions in may 1041 there were five 1 la may lk 1940 some progress has been made anade toward developing and armored divisions none loue of which existed a year ago but again equip equipment meat short shortages agea are making lit it necessary to revise the ahe previous estima estimates Ww downward the laavy Is probably in better iuria ever iu in Its history ong one reason beius that loaf ll 11 was given much money daring peacetime when wheat ithe army was glien barely enough for subsistence blit bat it will be 1946 oi of 1910 before we aias ea a powerful two ocean meet with alieu en and of fleeda trained braad to handle it no ono one has yeb been beba able to find a way to matr materially lally short shorten eui th the time it takes tali ea to eulid aratt tj up we are going ahead ahead but w we e are iivo not going ahead lis as fast as the experts think Is a both bath y and aad possible there is critic criticism sm of uit the for willi belag indecisive and tot for refusing to fire assistants aad there is critic criticism iam of industry lor for not adapting itself readily to A a war basis there is id criticism of the public at large for not realizing how deadly serious our position la is in a world dominated ly wa asia and producing for the axis almost all ali who nho have been watching the course of ithe defense drive seem con continued Tinted wat that there be f fie vere tere sha jeup ups and that this country must swiftly turn ua its am plans idao the i actual MR ma thinea of warfare it if atlo it la ta lobese bead cure care laiske in of history there is no excuse for deor failure allure and Il hitler billitter has shown short u us what happens to nations which do 6 too little and do it too tote date |