An air battle over England started Wednesday night, when only white streaks from the exhausts of the battling planes were visible. The raiders were gradually forced down until the machines fought only a labour and the plan was working. Ho said 1,000 miners thrown out of work by the collapse of France had been transferred to defence wor while as a result of measures to ferease the protective power of the Navy" by speeding up gun-mountings and other things, Herr Hitler would, fet a far warmer welcome than he otherwise would have received. Mr! Bevin added while the Government were doing all they could to train. men for industry, they were not getting all the help they might from industry itself. "While we may make mistakes in. judgment, we are plan ing towards securing final vielory."
Replying to debate, Lord MacMillan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Min-{stry of Supply, said the Government's task was eyen more complicated than Aurning over to war economy because war economy itself had to be adjusted to" rapidly changing strategic and tactical considerations. "He could not announce broad ambitions of a large-Scale economic plan, The vast scale fof events must be borne in mind, and. the first definite plan was to give every sinew of British strength. to) preparation for the next few weeks and months. 'Then it might be possible for Ministers to give, ina more completely worked-out form, a general System which they" were' gradually bringing into beg over a wide sphere of British national economy.—
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