"REASONABLE POSSIBILITY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 7

"REASONABLE POSSIBILITY."

WAR FOR AMERICA. Armament Output To Be Vastly Increased. United Press Association.—Cop.vrlrtt(Rec 10 a.m.) HOUSTON*, Dec. 22. The United States Loan Administrator, Mr. Jes>o Jones, in a speech, predicted that United .States defence establishments would soon be working on a 24-hour basis, with ''little quibbling regarding cost."

"We hope the war will never reach us. But whether we like to contemplate it or not it would be foolhar.lv not to realise that war is a reasonable possibility," he said.

"Wβ have discovered that demanda are Wpiniiing to strain our induMrinl machine. Industry is responding, but the output must he multiplied many times before we can feel entirely baft-. It may Ihs necessary for us la do" in one day what we ordinarily do in three or four. Position Not Realised. This situation may not l»e upon u* to-day, but lt"s easily imminent, and so far there has been a lack of realisation l>y the majority regarding what the future way brinjr. The psychology of war is just bc-gilining to reach us." The former President, Mr. Hcrltert Hoover, in a .-|»eech, said the survival of -American democracy and world civilisation hinged on liow America tolvcd the problems imposed under the preparedprogramme, says a from New York. He said they could be solved if "we definitely organise an increase of our industrial efficiency and productivity."