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C now HOW BRITISH BRITIS MEET RAIDS got a t hand first account of how British morale is maintained during the blitz when Surgeon General General General Gen Gen- eral Thomas Parran head of the Civil Defense mission reported at atthe atthe atthe the White House Dr Parran's mission spent a month in England studying the people peo peo- pIe living lh under constant aerial bombardment and reported that one secret of Britain's splendid morale is immediate government relief for bombed victims As soon as all clear sounds over overa a beleaguered city rescue workers are on the scene with hot food medical medical medical med med- ical care care arrangements for shelter and ready cash Repairs on damaged dwellings are begun immediately Furniture is salvaged and stored Families whose homes were destroyed are billeted billeted billeted bil bil- bil- bil at government expense Compensation Compensation Compensation Com Com- is paid for injuries Pensions Pensions Pensions Pen Pen- are given dependents of killed civilians and rescue workers The mere fact that ready cash is paid promptly has tremendous psychological psychological psychological effect Upon application and without red tape bomb victims can get a cash grant to buy clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing new nev furniture and workmen's tools Small shopkeepers can obtain up to 50 pounds to buy new stocks Disguised Plants Dr Parran's mission was particularly particularly impressed by the ingenuity of British civil defenses One scheme for protecting vital industries is an elaborate system of dummy factories to mislead Nazi bombers These plants are duplicated ed even to position color and mark mark- ings Old cars are towed to the yards of the fake plants to simulate workers workers' workers workers' workers workers' work work- ers' ers autos Some industrial centers even use great smudge pots emitting huge billows of black smoke completely blanketing an area Industry has been completely dispersed dispersed dispersed dis dis- dis- dis persed into hundreds of small plants in Britain each making separate parts for the war machine Duplicate Duplicate Duplicate cate plants are ready to take over overproduction overproduction overproduction production of vital products The American observers declared that the famed balloon barrage has been highly developed and forces raiders to fly at great heights Long steel cables dangling from froth the balloons balloons balloons bal bal- loons are death traps for planes British confidence in their defense is reflected in the big drop in the number who go to bomb shelters Fifty per cent of Londoners stayed inthe inthe in hi hithe the shelters during the blitz attacks last fall but only 5 per cent went to public shelters shelters' in January and about 20 per cent to private and communal communal communal com com- shelters GREEKS ARE AIDED Anything can happen in the tempestuous tempestuous tem tern Balkans but it seems certain certain certain tain that Roosevelt diplomacy and the lend lease bill were responsible for delaying the Nazi attack on onI I Greece for at least 10 days The big thing which the lend lease bill did for the British was to permit permit permit per per- mit tanks tank anti guns and antiaircraft antiaircraft antiaircraft anti anti- aircraft guns to be landed at Saloni Salon ika i- i ka immediately The British had only limited supplies of these and had to keep some in reserve for use useI around Suez and other vital Mediterranean Mediterranean Medi Med I areas However with passage of the I lend-lease lend bill bill they knew they could get reserves later from the United States therefore threw all their present reserves onto the Greek front This type of munitions is what the army and the Turks have especially needed They have plenty of rifles machine guns and a reasonable reasonable rea rea- amount of artillery but few tank anti or anti aircraft guns to stop the advance of modern mechanized mechanized mech mech- forces Note The Note The Balkans has been getting getting getting get get- ting its American news chiefly from the official German news agency agen agen- oy cy y which had played up all the Wheeler-Nye Wheeler speeches gave the impression im m. impression im- im that the United States was wasi i Against Roosevelt and that the bill bili could not pass Final passage however how how- ever ver could not be suppressed in th the news dispatches and had a to Thus tous us effect upon Balkan public on which recalled how American into the last war had Burned the tables NO LABOR PEACE It was expected that John LLewis L L. Lewis Lewis' retirement from the CIO would bring peace to the war-torn war ranks of labor But this has not been the case A A. A F. F of L L. L and CIO leaders are working effectively together in the defense administration but otherwise otherwise other other- wise they arc are still poles apart CAPITAL CHAFF At the left on his desk Vice President President President dent Henry Wallace has a telephone which communicates directly with the White House No less than three secretaries secretaries-a a alight light blonde a medium blonde and anda a brunette take brunette take stenographic notes of every word said at Steve Earlys Early's daily press conference Many a government clerk knows the Supreme court chiefly as an eating eating eat eat- ing place Its cafeteria below the court room room serves persons a month |