Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review practically all of 0 the men who have testified in favor fave of the i lents lease lend bill have offered aan opinion that a crisis in the war wll occur within the next three months and that it wd wi ll 11 probably I tike the form fonn of an all out nazi nal blow against england beginning with air raids of uner unprecedented Ice dented in intensity arid and winding up with the long anticipated attempt at invasion Secret secretary arv of all hr K n v ar ample testified that according to hit hii information the german strategists were now watching the long range weather reports and waiting for a time when an extend extended ed per wd iod of good weather can be anticipated there are arc many good reasons for believing that germany will make her great effort before many more wax and wane primary reason is the obvious one that hitler ahas has a far better chance of winning if he makes ilis his gamble before this 1 country can send matei rals abroad in significant amounts second hitler many think must move before italy collapses entirely ay she has become a drain on the instead of an asset nor her re verses in africa have almost reached the comic opera stage third according to some experts I 1 english and american warplane production is now catching up with germany but it will be a long time before britain can obtain enough chips to equal the strength of the th sky fleet commanded by earshil I 1 goering so it is logical for germany to make her bid for victory awhile while she has a decisive edge in I 1 skies fourth there are arc reports chih annot be substantiated in the light t f rigorous german cerman censorship to vie the effect that morale inside ars reich is slipping hitler prom sed victory before 1910 ended and now INV seems farther from it than when the war be began gan there have been no signal bignal german suze successes esses el ct late evidences of a more mater material kil wit nit U ue e is also available for the most att art the ibo has lately been combing om bing industrial centers and his lone less indiscriminate bombing ut of ites it now seems to tie be trying to knock out important british factor es rather than to break the peoples coralean mo ralean endeavor which completely failed and air observers rs have seen frenzied activity a icing the german occupied coast of the ho cont continent anent and in the ports which hitler must use as the starting points for invasion it is obvious where the U S enters lers this picture if england is to be really helped there must be a tremendous speedup speed up in our shipments of war materials and despite claims of administration spokesmen I 1 to the contrary the feeling persists that it will not be long before we are arc convoying british shipping germanys germanas Germ anys greatest damage to eng land has been in sinking merchant ships and equally serious from the british point of view destroying or disabling numbers of the convoying destroyers hitler has said himself that any american ship merchant or naval which is put to the service of england in european waters will be sunk there can be no question 1 on but what use of our navy for convoy purposes would be an act of war complete and unmistakable ast aft germany has shown no desire to for mally break relations with us hitler has taken a great deal and done little in retaliation fear of the american merican navy is considered by many experts to be the answer to that furthermore hillers Hit lers record shows that he never increases opposition if he can avoid it in the meantime debate on the lease lend bill swings into high gear few members of the congress lare are opposed to au all out aid to england the opposition to the current bill is principally based on the be lie that it delegates dictatorial powers to the executive and that england can ca 11 be helped to the limit I 1 without doing that there is the real issue underlying the fight f gh some same progress is being made to ward rearmament but we are still i a mighty long way from our goa goal seek beek recently surveyed the picture according to it on january I 1 we had army planes PI anes couii io al is we had 2590 navy planes goal is we had 1000 tanks and combat cars goal is we had soldiers goal is 1 i A good many of the planes P I 1 ane as army men 1 have testified arc trainers or are obsolete and a large larg e proportion of the soldiers are new conscripts with a year to go before they will be versed in the military arts so far of bourse course the defense pro garm has been largely in the tooling i and plant expansion stage s t age and I 1 j it will remain in that stage for some j ame me to come in the opinion of pro men most of what we are j producing now is going abroad 1 were is no expectation of building 9 our r own military establishment to 1 formidable fumi dable dimensions in less th than an i n t year the navy program will re quire five years year |