U.S.A. ARMAMENTS

Grey River Argus, 9 January 1941, Page 6

U.S.A. ARMAMENTS

6300 MORE PLANES New Control Board [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] WASHINGTON. January 7 Mr Roosevelt has formally created a new super-agency for the control of rearmament, headed by Messrs Knudsen and Hillman, whereon fa s the responsibility for transforming economy on a war basis. Coione Knox and Mr Stimson are also members Mr Roosevelt emphasised tna<Messrs Knudsen and Hillman will act jointly. He refused, to say whether Mr Knudsen's power would be greater than Mr Hillman's. Admiral Towers, duel of Naval Aeronautics, told the House Naval Committee that the Navy expects to add 4000 planes to its strength tnis year, making the total 6,300 modern aircraft. New Controlling Agency

WIDE POWERS. (Received January 8, 8.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 7. , Regarding President Roosevelt’s Super-agency for rearmament, an executive order has been issued outlining its duties, including that ol formulating and executing all measures needful to regulate defence production, and to insure effective cooperation among Government Depaitments, to co-ordinate the placement of defence contracts, to take all lawful steps necessary to assure an adequate supply of raw materials, to determine when and how priorities shall be applicable, and to take over private plants that are not co-operat-ing in the defence programme. U.S.A. DIPLOMAT

Blames Bolsheviks FOR MORAL BREAKDOWNS (Received January 8, 8.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, J'anuary 8. The former U.S.A. Ambassador to France and Russia, Mr Bullitt, urged an intensification of aid lor Britain, Greece and China, in order to prevent a possible Nazi attack on the Panama Canal. Mr Bullitt, who is 'veiy close to Mr Roosevelt, made a parallel attack to that of Mr Roosevelt on the totalitarian States. In addition, however, Mr Bullitt declared that the breakdown of the “old community of moral doctrine began with the Bolshevik Revolution. He said: “The Bolsheviks instituted a government that is based on secret police and firing squads, under which only obedient slaves enjoy relative security.”

Debt FOR U.S.A. HELP (Received January 9, 12.10 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, J'anuary 8 Sir Walter Citrine (Secretary of the British Trade Union Congress) in a speech here, said that American shipments of rifles, after the defeat in France, had enabled Britain to begin rearming from the ground upward. “That is something that' England will never forget,” he said. He said that Britain had lost virtually her entire national armaments in the disaster in France.