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Show mmakm. Washington, D. C. BULLITT MAY STUMP FOB BRITAIN AID i Ambassador BUI Bullitt, most i versatile and volatile of all Roose-I Roose-I velt's diplomats, probably will go on the stump throughout the country campaigning for "national unity and urging American support for Great Britain. His tour will be divorced from the New Deal, and he will not return to his embassy in France. Many of the men around Roosevelt Roose-velt now are far ahead of him in (proposing aid to Britain, and some of them may co-operate with Bullitt in this movement. Some are definitely def-initely critical of the President, though close friend Bullitt is not. They feel that Roosevelt has been holding back, and that the country is ready to go much further than he. DEFENSE BLOW-UP If certain legislative and administrative adminis-trative snarls in the defense program pro-gram aren't cleared up quickly, there is going to be a blowup in the defense commission that will knock a dent in the Roosevelt administration. administra-tion. Some fast footwork and placating White House palaver has kept the explosive situation under cover so far, but it is very serious. Inside fact is that William Knud- I sen, who gave up a $300,000-a-year General Motors job to become defense de-fense production chief, is getting restive over the delays he is en-I en-I countering. He has made no I threats, but he has also made it clear that unless he gets action he does not intend to continue in a position posi-tion where he could be blamed for lack of production. A "plain operations man," as he describes himself, Knudsen worked out a schedule of production for tanks, guns, planes, armor plate, and the other vital essentials for defense. de-fense. But these plans, partly because be-cause of tax delays, partly because of business sit-downs, have encountered encoun-tered repeated obstructions. For example: Knudsen was first told that the amortization problem, which has held up the construction of several new defense plants, would be handled in congress in a seDarate bill. But at the last minute, treasury treas-ury tax experts objected to this and insisted that the matter be included in the excess (war profits) tax bill. Next Knudsen was assured by congressional leaders that the tax bill would be passed by August 17. But first the Republicans recessed to attend the Willkie acceptance ceremonies cer-emonies at Elwood. Then it managed man-aged to get other delays. RFC LOAN DELAYS While this dilly-dallying was going go-ing on at Capitol Hill, Knudsen was having other difficulties with Federal Fed-eral Loan Administrator Jesse Jones. The RFC was given wide powers by congress several months ago to make loans to industry for dpfpno purposes. But when Knudsen submitted sub-mitted a list of plant expansions that needed financing, Jones balked. He objected on the ground that one-third of the output of the plants would go to fill British war orders Knudsen pointed out that this was bu ?,rg F- a PrePdness. I but on the contrary was providing the country with vital productive capacity at the expense of the Brit! Still Jones, despite the President's policy of extending everv assign!, to the British, didnliL t e to f"1! U- S- nrnent money toaid factory expansion for the .1 BLITZKRIEG ished with the British u Vs fin-here. fin-here. Stimson and "mS indicated this view to rnrf have they are even m I nn.u"688' but private conversions" '' thcir I admit that it wouTd b aut,10rities them to prevTnt an 'mpossib'e for mada from " "If air One weU-placed bnnTr the Iocl. locks out 0? corn mi Pllt t,,e three months. miSS10n for hout ! under the TVA oflln g' diroct'y Wikie is stil , 8 ."nck that ence." 81,11 u,1r TVA iM Significant of ti, Plit between John 5, ?lmt of "e ?:C- I- O. foundc" si jCW,s") laor defense oo"f ''"y Ilil'"1"". appearance ol uT"' ia 11,0 from the letterhead"' n Partisan !e.u,e f L!,b"r's Non-Wendell Non-Wendell Willi,'; (now Mrs. W i n r''(lil1' Wilk 'nRnTI'y met n7, :"h01" "uvt- I WPTd.d,nB ' n friend'" at . 1116 corn stalk hi 'ng in 0 c , T,Vl''(-d 'loin-is!,. R,rass Plot w""Ce 'lepnrlme, t Planlpd by Lee w0JdC,lll',,L U w- |