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Show was a relatively leisurely kind of warfare, and it was developed and perfected in the days when tanks and planes and similar machines were minor weapons. Tire Germans and the Japs think in terms of dynamic warfare. They are daring. They take long chances. They use the weapon of surprise to the limit. Libya provides a tragic example of that. As Newsweek says. "British generals figured it would take Rommel a week to ten days to thrust past the Egyptian frontier after the British withdrawal. It took him a matter of hours.." Germany has also been superior in the science of logistics which simply means the handling of supplies. sup-plies. They have moved more equipment, and moved It faster bv far, than have the defenders. In short, the United Nations still hav a lot of red tape to cut and they have a lot to learn. i' ECONOMIC i h HIGHLIGHTS I i J : ! National and International j Problems Inseparable I i e . j Some of t'r.2 most thoughtful! Washington observers have been j : much troubled lately by the power and aggressiveness displayed by j certain pressure groups which are hard at work grinding their axes in the capital. Theoretically, the j nation is now unified, with all j citizens determined to do their ut-! ut-! most to help win the war. In ac-! ac-! tuality, a good many citizens seem j more concerned with how they can use the war to serve their i own ends, and how they can avoid as much personal sacrifice and inconvenience as possible. Labor in a number of basic industries in-dustries is demanding substantial wage increases, despite the obvious fact that higher pay for workers must result in higher costs and higher prices all along the line thus putting into effect an inflationary infla-tionary spiral that in the long run would hit labor as hard and perhaps per-haps harder than any other group. The heads of some of the big farm organizations, despite their patriotic speeches, are fighting tooth and nail for more and bigger big-ger subsidies and they are implacably im-placably resisting any and all attempts at-tempts to place workable ceilings on farm prices. If these groups win out and they have tremendous tremen-dous Influence in a Congress which Is largely made up of men from agricultural areas still another inflationary in-flationary spiral will be well under way. Incidents have been unearthed where certain business interests put their own wishes ahead of the needs of the nation. However, it is generally true that the record of Industry is this war has been excellent. Furthermore, Industry of all kinds is regulated and controlled control-led to the hilt by the government which is not true of either labor or agriculture. Taxpayer groups are also extremely ex-tremely active in Washington, and all of them, with a few honorable exceptions, seem to be trying to figure out ways and means to make the other fellow pay for the war. They are all for sacrifice so long as someone else does the bulk of the sacrificing. The blackest picture of all, in the view of many writers, is found on Capitol Hill itself. Next November, Novem-ber, all of the members of the House and a third of the members of the Senate will be up for reelection. re-election. There are, of course, congressmen con-gressmen who are not swayed by political considerations who are doing their best, and who refu to play old-fashioned politics-as-usual in attempts to make certain of holding their jobs. Unfortunately Unfortunate-ly for the nation, there are a good many congressmen, in both parties, who seem to be thinking almost exclusively in terms of votes. They don't want to step on the toes of their constituents. They don't want to awaken them to the unpleasant realities that total war involves. They don't want to vote for bills which will make their constituents have to go without things. They are, in short, seeking to please all groups and all Interests In-terests and that means that they are doing their best to either dodge difficult issues, or to straddle the fence. Some of the election campaigns now taking place are, in the view of men who grasp the world situation, sit-uation, almost literally sickening. Political job-seekers are flagarant-ly flagarant-ly pandering to special interests to labor, agriculture, pension seekers, seek-ers, etc. They treat the war as a sort of side show in the face of the obvious fact that we and our Allies have as yet not taken back a single inch of conquered territory, terri-tory, and the Axis' is making tremendous tre-mendous progress on the most vital battlefronts. Every authority is convinced that if we lose this war, we will be subject to virtual slavery. Well get precisely the same treatment the people of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other beaten ' nations have been given. That is the issue which some of the most active seekers after high office are busy dodging now. It can be argued that such things as this will Inevitably happen hap-pen in a democratic country in a country where anyone has a right to speak his mind, no matter how empty and misguided that mind is, and where anyone can advance himself as a candidate for almost any office he chooses. It can also be argued that these "democratic weaknesses" could conceivably lead to our defeat in war. About the only cure for this kind of politics is public opinion. Next november, the people will elect a Congress which, in all . probability, will run the country until the war is over. This will be one of the most fateful fate-ful elections in all our history. Some United Nations disasters can be laid straight at the door of the high commands. Too many of the Generals seem to think in terms of "classic warfare." That |