Show NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD Machine Tools Effect Jap War Effort Willkie Helped in Hoaxing Hitler Bell Syndicate The Achilles' heel of Japan Is machine Tills is the judgment of men who have been studying the Japanese trial and reporting to for many If they are and the government is inclined to believe that they then this weakness may well prove Right up until the outbreak of the war Japan bought all her machine tools A considerable fraction of them came from the United A larger fraction came from There Is no thought that Nippon does not at present have an adequate even for replacement when those now in service wear But even this Is for it is very difficult to project accurately the wear on machine A few surprises might leave the Japanese without tools for some vital operation in the construction of or would just be bad luck for the and good luck for It might easily not happen unless the war ran on to utterly unexpected Remember that Japan prepared for a long A war that contemplated the dictation of peace terms In Washington MUST have been envisioned as a very long So it is reasonable to suppose that the Japs took plenty of precautions to have an adequate supply for whatever length of time they figured the war would plus a little more just in Weakness of Jap Zero Planes Perhaps the best illustration of how the thing might work would be the Zero of which we have heard so Bear in mind that the Japanese prepared for this war not only by extensive but by actual combat in China for more than four In the only opposition by air power was so despite its bravery and it was not calculated to show up the weaknesses of any Japanese In the Southwest the weakness of the Zero has been abundantly When a certain definite weakness developed in the Flying Fortress of defensive it was promptly But changing a model involves not only a lot of and some holdup of but new machine Not just NEW but DIFFERENT Mentioned Second Front On European Continent Wendell Willkie played a tremendous part in the Roosevelt-Churchill hoaxing of the Axis about the North African but every indication is that Willkie merely obeyed with no more information about the major strategy than a detachment of infantry ordered to hold a bridge at all hazards in order to carry out a scheme which only the general and a few aides compre- This Is the considered opinion of some Washington They have even reconstructed the conversation between and Willkie before the 1940 candidate started on his round the world They figure that the toying with his cigarette was unusually even stating frankly that he wanted Willkie to feel free to say anything he thought Lest through a desire not to upset any apple should fail to stress the point and Churchill wanted observers believe the President actually mentioned the second front to For instance like When you arrive in Moscow you will find the Russians are crazy for the United States and Britain to start a second front in Europe at If you after surveying the situation for that there SHOULD be a second front in do not hesitate to say Now bear in mind with this sort of and after his own observations in Willkie was bound to use the words after the words in any statement he lie would just say without adding because he would from his visit to that there WAS a second front in North Africa But he would also know that for a very long has been insisting that this North African front was not In spite of its and in spite of the very obvious importance of the defense of and with it of the Suez Canal and the supply line to Russia via the Red Stalin ed He wanted something that would result in detaching part of the German armies attacking his So Stalin always talked about a second front with emphasis on the words Europe |