CANADA’S ARMS PRODUCTION

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26746, 2 June 1952, Page 7

CANADA’S ARMS PRODUCTION

BIG PROGftAMMtJ WELL UNDER WAY (Rec. 9 p.m.) OTTAWA, May 81. Canada’s 3,500,000 000-dollar arms programme had passed th<? tooling-up stage, and masses of aircraft, gtms a 8“ ships would soon come frMp JP 6 a “' sembly tines, the Minister of Production (Mr C. D. Howe) told the House of Commons to-day. Mr Howe added that Sabre jet plane production was double the figure ongInally planned and frould be doubled again before the end of the year. The United States was buying Canadian Sabres, and they were atete being made available to the United Kingdom. , . , Mr HoWe said that Canada’s general arms production programme had been delayed by lack of machine tools ana difficulties in getting drawings and specifications from the United States. Many of these problems had now been overcome. , . . A new security pact had been signed with the Uhited States to eliminate delay in the movement of secret materials across the border, and to allow Canadian manufacturers into secret American plants. United States manufacturers would receive similar privileges ih Canada. . Canada whs producing 14 dwtroyer escort vessels and 14 of the mos, modern minesweepers in .the World;