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Show War Production Is Vital If the defense of Minsk, like the defense of Cherbourg, is the best the enemy can do then the Hitlerites are closer to complete defeat than most of us suspect. With such news from the fighting fight-ing fronts it is easy for the people peo-ple of the Allied nations to become be-come over-optimistic. Our own General Staff has cautioned A-mericans A-mericans not to accept the idea that the war is won and they are right, because any let-up will prolong the struggle. Already, military leaders are ' calling for sustained production of munitions, weapons and implements im-plements of warfare. They know that this is not the hour to cut off the pressure that keeps up the flow of supplies to the fighting fight-ing areas. Now is the day when every American on the home front should exert himself, or herself, her-self, to the utmost in order to reap the greatest gain from favorably fav-orably developing opportunities. |