Impressed By Dictators

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 44, 22 February 1936, Page 5

Impressed By Dictators

Britain to Get Into Stride CO-ORDINATING INDUSTRY TO ’MEET WAR EMERGENCIES United Press Association —By Electric ' Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 11.45 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 21. The Daily Telegraph says the Government is preparing farreaching plans-to organise industry to supply the requirements of the Defence Services, aiming at . an avoidance of unnecessary disturbance of normal manufacturing and also at minimising profiteering and safeguarding manufacturers against the effects of laying down and maintaining plant for emergencies when there were insufficient orders to meet overhead costs. It is also recognised that industry must be enabled to respond rapidly to a sudden demand in the early days of a war and thereafter maintain essential supplies, especially as future wars will develop more rapidly than in 1914. It is understood that a member ’of Cabinet, assisted by technical experts, has been appointed to co-ordinate industries. They will probably be assisted by Lord Weir, who is already advising regarding air force expansion. The Government is impressed bv the manner in which. dictatorships in peacetim*) organise industries, and regiment Labour in *a manner only achievable by democracies in wartime, but it lias not based its plans on dictatorships, although it is preparing to finance various essential industries, giving special attention to the manufacture of aircraft in which war wastage will probably be a determining factor in victory and defeat. It is considered that the opening struggle will occupy a fortnight, employing all forces on both sides. Thereafter there will be a lull which, assuming neither side is defeated, will enable the industry to get into stride.