Show I Views of the Nations Nation's Press I Our readers were informed yesterday by a Washington correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent of the Post-Dispatch Post that the of American and British ships by nazi submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines have become the gre greatest greateSt great great- t- t eSt eH menace of the war All who are in a position to know t the e facts facts facts' military a and n d naval men production chiefs chiefs- agree so 50 the dispatch read that it is the most serious single phase of the war more serious even than the continuing Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian losses if only because it is directly rel related ted to the effo effort t to relieve Russia either by a second second second sec sec- ond front or with greatly in increased increased increased in- in creased supplies Although it it is admitted that the ship toll has now exceeded the full extent of the losses is a carefully guarded secret For a year there has been no public announcement from London London London Lon Lon- don of sea losses on the British side of the Atlantic For all the people of the united nations know the may be twice or even worse What is to be said in favor of ofa ofa ofa a censorship policy which hides these vital facts from the Amer Amer- ican lean and British peoples If it isa is isa isa a peoples people's war which the peoples must fight then they are entitled S to know the bad news along with the good Moreover the people need the truth about in order to measure up to the needs of the war Since the German naval command knows the essential essential essential es es- es- es facts about allied shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping losses release of the facts to the united peoples can hardly be said to run the risk of aiding the enemy Failure to tell the facts about these losses has prevented a full realization of the need for new transport devices in order to open a second front A new front to relieve Russia is a crying need of our war and yet the problem of transportation of men and supplies obviously comes first If the cargo plane is the solution the facts about the shipping losses will speed its production and use The American people are not children They can and should have all the facts about the war which will not give the enemy vital information he does not have St. St St St. Louis ros Post lost |