Show ECONOMIC highlights industrial news review for the first tune in its history this country a fighting a war on all the continents and all the omans oceans american troops andor andlor equipment lore are now engaged in every battlefront front t from russia to air africa and the a numbers so engaged e d win will in agag crease vastly and swiftly in the future it has taken up a long tune time to move a from the defensive t to 1 th the latr 0 offensive afe in ive stage in our or war strategy atrat t egy but we are gradually getting there th this it is the first real global war history has even known by comparison P on the wars wan of the post past were localized operations the reaster master plan laid down by hitler at the beginning should now be clear to everyone ay firt first it was necessary for him to conquer all of europe europ a and to in make site it in as invulnerable erable to invasion as possible second it was necessary for him to abt obtain the vast oil and gram grain resources of russia and to eliminate the russian russia am army as a first rate fighting to torce me th third his any ally filp japan was to to take k command slid and I 1 dominate te in the pacific fourth his aren armies w working 0 aking in concert with th those se ot of japan were to take over ova the middle east bast and india di the united S states tates would then in effect be an land island 3 surrounded by unfriendly w waters wall and cut off from all 11 relations with th the balance of the world th then at his Is leisure hitler could set act about about the job of finally defeating ua th this must most be the picture t that was in aiters mind when when he sent his troops into poland m 1939 the first step has been taken all europe is in lus hia power to war and all allied led raids mid such ch go s that made against dieppe show that he ha has built formidable defends the balance of the steps have not heft been taken and the magnificent tight figh guren put up by the russians must be given much of the credit lor for that Rom mels afrika korps korpa in might h have av driven through to S suez had not it been necessary sary to divert more and more axis aid troops imp plan planes and supplies to the it russian assian front japan might h have a go gone farther forth yet I 1 in the pacific had not the superb russian russia resistance made it necessary 1 for 0 her to maintain hig big garrisons Us far facing the me bord borderi at of asiatic russia and R rus sms sias tand stand must have had a de depress am ing hig effect affect on an the german gannon M masses as at home long lg ago go hitler promised in ell them the a 11 quick ick a easy victory in russia that was the first promise 0 of f conquest to t hit big own wo people I 1 that ze h he e II 11 has not been able to live up to A d dictator who cannot keep his word wora the sure aura of invincibility n no longer wears ability j th this n do does not mean that the united it nations nation yet have the upper hand in the w war r they have not they have lost much and taken almost nothing whether ther or cir not R russia am can rge ite hard hitting effective continue ou as ll 11 an belligerent is a the gravest of da unanswered questions the great battle of the pacific is th as ob yet stag stages the obvious in the preliminary reluctance of the united ted notions nations leaders to deal frankly with the all important mune issue of the second indicates that ve e arr an c 1 nd I front ii still n a long way from being really ready to carry the war home to the of shipping to 12 acm a enemy cm y the problem not solved ed though there them has been an en encouraging cours ging decline in U boat depredations and no one ye yet I 1 knows know va whether the faith placed in air power by some allied commanders ni is justified in 8 short hort we have not stopped the Axis but we have slowed it IL j japan ap e is finding her long pacific supply lines costly we have take taken an enormous toll of JP jap ships and airplanes and se seamen arrien german 1 losses m in russia even if we greatly minimize minis the moscow accounts account s must be 1 enormous and a large larg e part of the casual casualties tui consist of first line ime veterans the axis to surn sum up has spent much of its streng strength th in the vow ar to date dam we have spent lit little tle of ours oun here at home the domestic 0 situation it is a desiring clearing the problems of supply and production me are being handled better some effort is being made to deal effectively with the land crucial manpower situation the draft drafting g of the 18 alta a and d 19 ye year olds in forces about will give anve the military I 1 first class soldiers theres plenty of confusion plenty of waste motion still but it is a gradually lessening recent reports arts from all the battle fronts indicate that new american equipment is vastly superior to this that it of the past the flying fortress ha has proven itself the best plane plan m the world of its kind it carries asmal a smaller limb bomb load that th the a british ling mg but it to is loss less v vulnerable in arable to attack american tanks of the general grant class are excellent and early bugs in design have been eline dim mated and great advancement has take taken place III our pursuit ships shim which originally were no match at all 11 for axis types I 1 our one latent power Is beginning to he a felt and felt on the six continents now it remains to be seen how biow swiftly we can increase that power and put it to work |