MIND MADE UP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1941, Page 10

MIND MADE UP

STRONG ATTITUDE TO JAPAN

MASS WAR OUTPUT

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)

(Rec. 2 p.m.)

LONDON, Nov. 19

"I have been most impressed by the American attitude to Japan, and I can say confidently that the United States will not permit a change in the Pacific without intervention," said Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian Director-General of' Information, at a Ministry of Information conference at which the whole of the British Press was represented.

"America has made up her mind about the Pacific, and there isn't any doubt that the bulk of the American people are behind the President's foreign policy. I saw and heard enough in America to be able to say confidently that production will go ahead at a tremendous pace. It will not be many months before aeroplane- production is simply prodigious. The tooling programme for bombers is costing as much as the Panama Canal, and the tank programme is costing twice as much as was spent on the Panama Canal.

"On the whole production side the people of Britain can rely on a stupendous output by this highlycompetent generation ( of Americans, who have mastered ihe technique of mass production, which they apply to all their problems."