MUNITIONS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4559, 13 April 1942, Page 3

MUNITIONS

TREMENDOUS EFFORT “On any balance of demand and supply in respect of America’s fighting power, the position has altered in Hitler’s favour and the democracies’ disfavour. It is true that American industry is now to be put on a sevenday week, and that all demands for materials that compete with the production programmes are to be thrust aside—but the British people, if no others, Know how many weary months elapse between the ploughing of the furrow and the reaping of the corn. The hard and unpleasant fact is that the production of munitions requires a great deal else beside human effort and material supplies—it requires planning, building, the provision of machines, incredibly complicated coordination of the flow of production—above all, it requires time. Against the slowness with which the supply of arms can be affected by anything that is done now, the increase in the need for them is immediate and enormous. Warships will have to be rushed to the Pacific to replace the tragic losses of the opening days.”—-“The Economist,” , London.