AEROPLANES FROM U.S.

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22922, 19 January 1940, Page 9

AEROPLANES FROM U.S.

Allied Orders For 8000

EXPANSION OF INDUSTRY

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT,) (Received January 19, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 17. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press of America says: “It is authoritatively learned that British and French proposals to triple their present orders of Americanmade war aeroplanes are the subject of a conference among Mr Roosevelt, Mr Henry Morgenthau (Secretary of the Treasury), and United States Army and Navy officials.

“The Allies have notified the United States that they are contemplating ordering for speedy delivery at least 8000 aeroplanes and even more aircraft motors.

“According to reliable sources this will mean further expansion of the aircraft industry which is already working overtime on domestic and foreign military contracts. Officials indicated strongly, however, that such expansion, if orderly, would be 'welcomed as aiding national defence; but it would involve many problem*- of taxation and financing.

“The engines will be the big-gest-problem, since material expansion of existing plants promises to require foreign financing, which would raise taxation complexities with the Treasury.”

AIRCRAFT FOR EMPIRE PLAN *

MACHINES ORDERED FOR CANADA

(Received January 18, 10 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 18.

The British Air Ministry has ordered 850 aircraft and 736 additional engines in connexion with the air training plan, according to the War Supply Board’s weekly report, the equipment being supplied without cost to Canada since it- represents part of the British Government’s share in the plan.

BISHOPS DISCUSS ECONOMIC WAR

DEPRIVING GERMANS OF FOOD

PRIMATE HOLDS NAZIS RESPONSIBLE

(BRITISH OmoIAH WIRHI.K3B.) LONDON, January 17. The Bishop of Birmingham (the Rt. Rev. E. W. Barnes), in the Upper House of Convocation, of Canterbury, urged that a petition be sent to the Government to allow the free importation of foodstuffs to Germany in accordance with the Divine precept that “if thine enemy hunger, feed him.”

The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang) replied: “Germany tried to starve us. We are entitled to reply in the same way.” The Bishop of Birmingham later withdrew his motion, saying that he Had. no wish to emphasise a difference which, he was certain, was on practical considerations father than moral fundamentals.

The Bishop of Chichester (the Rt. Rev. G. K. A. Bell) said that hundreds of thousands of Pastor Niemoller’s followers and Roman Catholics were rallying to jHerr Hitler’s flag in the belief that the Allies were determined to destroy and dismember Germany. Britain’s soldiers should be told what kind of Europe they were fighting to establish. The House passed a resolution trusting that statesmen of neutral and belligerent countries would eagerly watch for an opportunity to negotiate a just and durable peace.

A British Official Wireless message says that an interesting debate took place in the Upper House of Convocation on ethical aspects of economic warfare. The Bishop of Birmingham sought means of distinguishing between militarily useful supplies and those which, if a country were deprived of. them, might result in starvation for civilians.

The Archbishop of Canterbury informed the bishops that he had consulted with the Government on the question and had learned that no discrimination was possible in practice between foodstuffs which could be converted to war uses and foodstuffs for civilian consumption. The ultimate responsibility for feeding the German civil population rested with the Nazi Government which, in willing the war, ihust be taken to have willed the results of the war.

The Archbishop associated himself with the Bishop of Birmingham in deploring, among the many unspeakable horrors which war let loose, the suffering and want inflicted on women and children. Everything that could be said against such horrors of war was an argument against the use of war as an instrument of policy. The Nazi rulers of Germany had chosen to use that instrument and, evil as was the war in which that choice had plunged Europe, they could not feel, Dr. Lang declared, but that. great evil would have come upon the world if these rulers had not been resisted.