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C V WASHINGTON Nov Auto Auto- caster With caster caster With election anxieties 0 off their minds Washington on officials In Inand inand inand and o- o out ot t of Congress are turning at 0 tD th e reZ S 1 business of cf defense preparations How Hoyt seriously the International situation sil is taken by those who r know most about it from this country's point of oC view can hardly be put rut into words One Oae has tl to talk to the men who are fire trying to build up our national armaments who will have haye the fighting fighting fight fight- ing to do dl If it conies comes to that who I are trying trying- to keep the troubled I waters of diplomacy properly oiled to get a no true truo Impression ef of f the II gravity of the crisis which confronts confronts confronts con con- fronts the United States as those i Iwho i who are closest to it regard it It ItI isn't so much what any cf of them thena I says as the way it Is Is said which impresses the estner I There Is more mere attention being centered ceu upon the Hie n i of something like tho nations nation's naI nations nation's na na- tion's manpower ver than upon uPU what I tho the informed best-informed men mell here consider consider consider con con- sider of pf far greater immediate Im ini- Importance importance the lie speeding up o or of munitions prod production For no na matter matter mat mat- t- t ter tel how fast we wo can train and and and- equip an army the prospect of having haying to toi send rend It Into action depends upon i how fast we can surn supply 1 Britain with airplanes powder and shot ships food and supplies That Tho t Is iR the tho official offIcio I view W not net t ns as openly expressed as aR 1 it might l h bo but much more openly than it was before before before be be- fore election To all intents and purposes w we are com committed to tri gt glo- glo ing fug the tho British e evry r possible ate nw short of sending an armed force of or our own men which men which they couldn't use and dont don't want To Help British To help the British by giving ins them all nil the planes and other fighting fightIng fighting fight fight- ing tools that we can spare is looked I I up upon Oil in Washington as a che cheaper cheper per I way of staying slaying off oft a n possible direct I conflict with Hitler Hiller than It would i I bo be for the United States to lo take tho the I 0 attitude that the conflict between I j England and Germany any Is none nono of nf I I I our concern Wo Yo cant can't to lot let England be defeated Is the tho way waymen waymen I I I Imen men in high position are now putI putting putting put put- put put-I ting the matter maUer There Is no nl fear of possible adverse election results to keep mens men's lips sealed now It Is difficult to tn offer a n. picture of or orthe the aC actual ual progress of or the rearmament rearmament ment program IHo While hile nearly 10 of Flare guns tanks and other munitions h have ve been con con- contracted for it will be be months and andIn and t tin I In some uses cases years before time the materials materials materials ma ma- thus ordered will to be bu delivered defered The ones wh which ch will come como quickest est are those th f for fer which I factories are aro already equipped and hap haye e been turning out t 1 th h I Ii H 1 Continued on o If gC This Week In Washington D. D c. c Continued from page one articles articles' for some time Ume That Is true in the case of or certain types of air air- airplanes planes the production of which can cnn be Increased rapidly because the basic development work has haa already been done Standardization Sought But It happens that most of our American military planes have haye been produced prod need so far on an experimental basis ala Only a n few types mostly of u. u training training- planes have been standard standard- And American manufacturers supplying planes to Britain have machines I been called upon to make different In many important respects from anything American military I men will accept Now Nov such obstacles are aro bong beng straightened out Over loud roars of protest from some sonic of our own military military mili mili- tary and naval experts agreements have been arrived at for the reduction reduction limited I tion of military planes to I number cf of standardized types which will ivIll be used by the British as well as by our own forces for s. e-s. Similar agreements agreements agreements agree agree- ments are aro said to have been made In I respect of other war supplies such as tanks anti-aircraft anti guns and the tho like so that replacements of parts for British equipment oan n be made by using parts of American meric n weapons While Whilo there is little in In the way of surface Indications t suggest th that t anybody in Washington Is concerned concerned con eon greatly over the tho Japanese I situation there are a n good many questions to be answered before anybody can say there Is no danger of hostilities between this country and nd Japan The best oest diplomatic brain In our foreign service is Joe Grew our I Ambassador to Japan He Is understood understood understood under under- stood to have hae personal a access cess to the Mikado himself whenever he desires It And the understanding In m Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington is that the Mikado is trying I to conciliate the war party which Is 13 In control of the Japanese govern govern- merit meat und and If it he falls fails to appease them he Is likely to tJ assume his per per- authority as fIS Sen of Heaven and throw the warmongers warmonger's out Minor Business Boom In the meantime while the National National Na Na- D Guardsmen and th the recent n volunteer recruits of the Arm Army fire aro being housed In to encampments encampments' reminiscent of ct World War Var days U 11 cantonments arc aro under construction r for the first batch of draftees and the problem r. of clothing and equip ping them thorn Is already starting a minor business boom The Army's C plan of or organization will mingle e f. f drafted men with National Guards Guards- I ti ri d n r tt A d t t th th Vl r II n t I I men n A-n volunteers VI U an lULU me u a old line Regulars so that every Army El tr slon Islon will contain an equal proportion Edon I E don tion of all alland and there will be no n such as ns there was in the World War when drafted divisions were d t 1 separate from volunteer divisions Anyway there Isn't r r. r corner of Ithe l I the tho nation where tho the people wont won't I t be fully aware that Uncle Sam is f fetting vetting getting ready for trouble i i t |