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DEFENSE JAM JAI\I JAI I \ BUSTERDonald BUSTERDonald BUSTER BUSTERDonald Donald Nelson for many years yearsexecutive yearsexecutive yearsexecutive executive of the Sears Roebuck Roebuckmall Roebuckmail Roebuckmail mall mail order house now has become becomeone becomeone becomeone one of the chief log jam gam busters of ofnational ofnational ofnational national defense Officially . his h.ts hts Job lob JobS lobis iobis tor for the theUl1lted theUnited theUnited is ] S director of procurement Ul1lted United States treasury - In other otherwords otherwords otherwords words m In charge of government government ' purchases punchases pur pun purchases chases chasesRecently Recently the navy department departmentI departmentsent departmentsent departmentsent I Beth Bethlehem Bethlehem Bethlehem sent a very important unportant order to lehem Steel corporation with a pref prof prefcrenee proference pretcrence crenee erence number to expedite it for the theearliest theearliest ; , earlIest possible delivery The next neat neatday nextday day word came back from Bethle Bethlehem Bethlehem ! hem Sorry but you will have to towalt towait towait walt wait . . I For some unexplained unexplamed reason the thenavy thenavy I navy said nothing nothmg to the defensecommission defense defensecommSSlOn defensecommission commSSlOn commission ] about Bethlehem s de deI delay delay I lay even though the comm ssion sSlOn has hasI hasthe hasthe I the power to compel compliance In InI Instead Instead Instead I stead the navy tried to handle the thesItu"t thesituat thesituat sItu"t sItut situat " on itself Itsel ! But after two weeks weeksof \ weeksof eeks eeksof of unsuccessful effort the navy final finally finally finally ly went to Nelson who m In addItIOn additionto to his hs , procurement duties aids the thedefense thedefense thedefense defense comm ss onNelson onNelson on onNelson Nelson reached for a telephone telephonecalled telephonecalled telephonecalled called Walter WaIter Tower secretary of ofthe ofthe ofthe the American Iron and Steel mst cost msttute costtute msttute tute and sa d I hope we don t have haveto haveto haveto to get tough but when an order ordergoes ordergoes goes out marked exped te to It Itmeans itmeans itmeans means Just ] ust that I want immed ate ateact ateact ateact act on on that ordcrTwenty orderTwenty order ordcr orderTwenty Twenty minutes mmutes later Eugene EugeneGrace EugeneGrace EugeneGrace Grace potent boss of Bethlehem BethlehempersonaIly Bethlehempersonally Bethlehempersonally personaIly personally telephoned Nelson and andassured andassured andassured assured him hun hum ] it t was all a m stake , a . * . a . aI ar r T D RAND R AND ARGE"ITINAThere ARGENTINAThere ARGENTINA ARGE"ITINA ARGEITINA ARGENTINAThere " I There has been a lot of publ cIty cItyI cItyregardmg cityregarding cityregarding I regardmg regarding Roosevelt s conference conferenceWIth conferencewith conferencewith WIth Argentine Argentme diplomat Leopoldo LeopoldoMelo LeopoldoMelo LeopoldoMelo Melo over buying buymg Argentine Argentme beef beefActually beefActually beetActually Actually the conversation covered a alot alot alot lot of things thmgs bes des meatRoosevelt meatRoosevelt meat meatRoosevelt Roosevelt promised that this thS , coun coup country couptry country try would substantially substantiaIly increase mcrease Its ItsImports itsimports itsimports Imports of Argentine Argentme products first firstbecause firstbecause firstbecause because Argent na has suffered sufferedheavy sufferedheavy sufferedheavy heavy loss of her European export exportmar.et exportmarket exportmarket mar.et maret market ! . and faces an acute depres depresSlOn depression depression SlOn sion second because Argentina con contmues continues contmues tmues tinues to buy from the Un ted States Statesbut Statesbut Statesbut but this buying buymg must fall off if she shecannot shecannot shecannot cannot sell here to obtain obtam dollar doUar e'C eC eY e'Cchange eYchange exchange ' change for purchasesDscuss purchasesDiscuss purchases purchasesDiscuss Discuss Dscuss , ng these problems the thePresIdent thePresident thePresident PresIdent told Melo that the defense defenseprogram defenseprogram defenseprogram program would require heavy purerases pur pun purd"ases punc'ases d"ases dases c'ases cases " ) ' of wool for un uniforms orms h des desfor desfor desfor for shoes and canned beet beef tor for the thecomm thecomm 'omm omm comm ( ' ssary Though the govern governnent governrient governnent nent rient \ would ould not buy d rect from Ar Argentma Argentma Argentma gentma the buying buymg from domes domest t c e souices SOUlces souaces would create a new de demand demand demand mand for imports substantially ben benefit benefit beneflt efit ng Argentina AIgentma AIgentmaThere ArgentinaThere ArgentinaThere There was also d scussion Scusson ] of usmg using usinga usmga a part of the new Export Import Importbani Importbank Importbank bani bank . fund of $ $500 500 $ 000 000 about to tobe tobe tobe be voted by congress tor for trade WIth WIthArgent withArgent withArgent Argent naNoteLatest naNoteLatest na naNote Note Note-Latest Note Latest - Latest export figures sho vthat v vthat vthat that Argentina has now become the theleading theleading theleading leading fore gn purchaser of Amer Amerlcan Amerscan American lcan scan passenger carsa cars a . e * . e . eBRITAIN BRITAIN S FOGSThe FOGSThe FOGS FOGSThe The most important development developmentdurmg developmentduring developmentduring durmg during the last few days of bombmg bombing bombmgLondon bombingLondon bombingLondon London is the realization real1zahon by Bntish British Bntishand Britishand Britishand and American Amencan observers that bad badweather badweather badweather weather ] is s not going gomg to help the de defense detense detense fense tense of London but instead will willhmder willhinder willhmder hmder hinder ItSecond itSecond it itSecond Second important development IS ISthe isthe isthe the real zat on that Britain Bntam s only onlyreal onlyreal onlyreal real defense is retaliatory retal1atory raids raidsagamst raidsagainst raidsagainst agamst against Berlin Berlm This Th.ts Thts . means of ofcour oftour ofcour cour tour e a more long distance bombersalmost bombersalmost bombers bombersalmost , -almost almost - almost all of which are now ob obtamed obtamed , tamed from the Un ted StatesIt StatesIt States StatesIt It has been generally expected expectedthat expectedthat expectedthat that with the arrival of foggy weath weather weathen weather er en London would be safer because becauseNazI becauseNazi becauseNazi NazI raids would have to abate abateHowever abateHowever abateHowever However there was considerable considerablecloudy considerablecloudy considerablecloudy cloudy weather over England last lastwee lastweek lastweek wee week ! . and durmgt during it at ] Nazi bombers bombershad bombershad bombershad had a field day What they did was wasto wasto wasto to use the clouds as a shield sh.teld shteld . and anddrop anddrop anddrop drop their theL ! bombs without .lthOUt lthOUt . almmg aiming almmgall aimingall aimingall all over LondonOn LondonOn London LondonOn On clear da day das ; ) s they had tried to toaim toaim toaim aim at military mlltary ] targets But at atn atn atn n ght and during durmg cloudy weather the theNazis theNazis NazIs gave up any pretense of tak taklog taking ing log a mWhat mWhat m mWhat What happened was that when whenBrit whenBrat whenBrit Brit Brat sh planes went aloft they could couldnot couldnot couldnot not find the raiders The Nazis Nazs ] were wereh wereh wereh h ddcn dden m In cloud banks droppmg dropping droppmgtheIr droppingtheir droppingtheir theIr bombs indiscriminately mdlscrlmmately Un Under Under Under der these thcse circumstances cLcumstll1ces ! : there was wasonly wasonly wasonly only one way for the British Bntlsh to 10 to 10cate tocate locate cate the enemy bombers bombers-by bombers by - by meansof means meansof meansof of sound detect on " ' ind "lnd lnd 'ind radio d rec rectons rect rect tons t ons from the groundHoever groundHowever ground groundHowever However Ho\\ever Ho ever \ these radio d rect reel ons onsmust onsmust onsmust must be three d mcnsional menslOnal mensional to be ef of effective offectave ettective fective fectave and there is such a wIde wIdemargm widemargin widemargin margm margin for error that looking lookmg for a abomber abomber abomber bomber in the clouds ] is as s like lI1.e lI1e lake . look ng ngfor ngfor ngtor for a needle in aha a hay ha ; ) stac stack ! 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That IS ISwhy iswhy iswhy why Brit sh planes simply did dad not notgo notgo notgo go into mto the air when the weather was wastoo wastoo wastoo too cloudy cloudyIt It ] is S important to note that the thesame thesame thesame same handicap appi appl es to Berlin BerIm . . In Inother Inother Inother other words the British raiders w 11 11be 11be 11be be equally aided by foggy weathcr weather weathcrover weatherover weatherover over the German cap tal So the thewar thewar thewar war of nerves and mdlscrlmmate indiscriminate mdlscrlmmatebombIng indiscriminatebombing indiscriminatebombing bombIng ] is S likely to get worseNot worseNoteOne worse worseNote Not NotOne Note-One Note One Note < . -One One ' - - One thing which caused the thedownfall thedownfall thedownfall downfall of France and the lowland lowlandcountrIes lowlandcountries lowlandcountries countrIes was the collapse of o1 morale moraleplus moraleplus moraleplus plus fifth column activities How However However However ever U S observers obscrvers in m London are areunammous areunanimous areunanimous unammous unanimous that British morale ] is S at atthe atthe atthe the highest peak and that the Brit BritIsh Britash British Ish ash foughttor foughtfW foughtfor will fight as no army has fought fW for ' eenerations generations enera tions in an Europe |