ARMS FOR PACIFIC

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 268, 7 August 1943, Page 5

ARMS FOR PACIFIC

N.Z. Pilots To Britain And U.S. Airmen To Pacific CRITICAL PRESS ARTICLE (Received August 6,11 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 0. “The actual percentage of United States war production allotted to Jie Pacific is only a small part of our total production,” says the Wasbington. correspondent of the New York “Sun, David Laurence. He continued: Ibe percentage is so small that if the American people knew the figures they would ask how long it will be before Washington and London realize that we have a major war in the Pacific. “The public has been given the impression that the war in the Pacific has been Stepped up and that more supplies have been sent there. But while this is true the public does not know how little went to the Pacific iu the first place. Ihe real percentage of our war eftort allocated to the Pacific is still only a small fraction of total. If it were 30 per cent., observers familiar with the Pacific would be overjoyed (in a broadcast on July -i, the Director of the United States Office of War Information, Mr. Elmer Davis, said that ‘more than half of Americans war strength is deployed in the Pacific). “The great need in the Pacific. is still for more air power. Even as little as one month’s production of heavy bombers would make a great difference “It seems strange that pilots from New Zealand and Australia, who should be used in defending the south Pacific,, are being sent to Britain while American pilots are'being sent to the south Pacific.