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Show KAJ Yjjji drew; Pearson if (0w4-'- . m iiri Washington, D. C. ALLIED CO-OPERATION BETTER Officials who have attended all the big strategy powwows Washington, Casablanca, Washington again, and Quebec declare that there is progressively pro-gressively better Allied co-operation, and a gradual disappearance of the friction which beset earlier conferences. confer-ences. In the dark days just after Pearl Harbor, the British were plugging for an all-out war against Hitler, while the U. S. officers, outraged over Pearl Harbor, were out to scalp the Japs. The decision to swing our weight with the British was made only after aft-er President Roosevelt had exercised exer-cised his authority as commander-in-chief and overruled ambitious U. S. plans for the Pacific. After that decision, there came disagreement about where to strike in the European theater. U. S. army staff officers argued in favor of a cross-channel operation, but Churchill Chur-chill and the British staff shrank from spilling blood against the steel-and-concrete shoreline of France and the Low Countries. Instead, Churchill wanted the U. S. army sent to North Africa, to aid in the reconquest of the Mediterranean. Mediterrane-an. Again, Roosevelt supported Churchill against his own military chiefs, but not until after strong debate de-bate in the inner councils. Another issue was the question of aid to Russia and Britain, which U. S. army and navy officers wanted to cut down from the Roosevelt-Hopkins-Churchill estimates. The Russian Rus-sian cause was upheld against all comers by Harry Hopkins, and Maj. Gen. James H. Burns, executive of the munitions assignment board. Burns' favorite remark is, "Those Russians are killing more Germans than anybody else, and they ought to have the equipment to keep up the good work." The major decisions that have come from all the controversies have now borne favorable fruit. The Mediterranean is cleared, U. S. forces have been tested under fire, landing operations have had full dress rehearsals for the bigger job of crossing the channel, and the Russians are "keeping up the good work." So when the British and Americans Ameri-cans get together now, there is much more warmth than at one time. There still are some friendly differ- ences as there must be when strong men sit down together, and it is reported re-ported that U. S. military leaders still chafe at lack of action across the channel. But on the whole," success suc-cess is making the road easier. . . . MILK SHORTAGE . Most serious food problem 'facing the civilian population at the moment mo-ment is the threatened shortage of milk. White House farm advisers warn that we will have a very real and acute milk famine on our hands unless un-less the War Food administration and. the Office of Price Administration Administra-tion act quickly to adjust the. price of feed grain for dairy cattle. Due to higher feed costs, dairy farmers, especially in the East, are unable to sell their milk under OPA price ceilings and stay in business. Dairy farmers in Pennsylvania and other Eastern states, hard hit by the drouth, have been losing as much as $35 per cow because of lack of pasture. pas-ture. As winter draws on, the pasture pas-ture problem, plus higher feed costs, will vitally affect milk production all over the country. So far the War Food administration, administra-tion, under its new chief, Marvin Jones, has done nothing to meet this pressing problem. But unless he does the President will be urged to take matters in his own hands and arrange for feed price subsidies subsi-dies through legislative action. Failing Fail-ing that, he can, by an executive order, provide feed funds from the Commodity Credit corporation. CAPITAL CHAFF ft Adm. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, has two residences in Washington a spacious spa-cious home at Observatory Circle, and the yacht Dauntless anchored at the Navy yard. The admiral lives on the yacht, and his family lives at the Circle, ft After the Ramirez revolt, the Nazis closed down their short-wave efforts to Argentina. But now that Ramirez has proved to be so friendly, friend-ly, the broadcasts have been resumed re-sumed in full force, ft Madame Chiang Kai-shek was very sick on her homeward airplane trip, by way of Africa and India. The pilot said, ."The weather was rough as the devil and she was in a pretty bad way. She didn't say a word the entire trip." SOLDIERS SEE THE U. S. A. The war department has supplied figures showing the amazing distance dis-tance which the average soldier travels in the course of training. From the time of his induction to embarkation, each soldier is transferred trans-ferred six to eight times, for an average av-erage distance of 850 miles each time. This makes a total equal to two complete trips across the continent. conti-nent. In World War I, there was far less troop movement. The average number of transfers was only three. |
