President Roosevelt the other day stated that the American war machine was producing some articles at peak, while others would not reach the peak until possibly six months or a year, In saying this, he gave warning to Hitler That he must win quickly or not win at all. The Nozi chances of a swift victory are dally becoming more remote. Their miscalculation over the ability of the Russians to resist their new Blitzkrieg tactics may place their victory Ouiside: the bounds ¢* possibility. At all events, The campaign on the eastern front will give the western democracies more time to perfect their preparations, and must cause serious weakness inthe Nazi ranks, wherein losses be $0 easily replaced as Goebbels and his satellites would like the rest of the world {o believe, In the meantime the production of the United States is steadily increasing, in spite of a minor set-back in the aeroplane in. dustry, due to shortage of some essential materials, which will be repaired within the next three months, An ever-increasing number of guns, tanks, armoured vehicles, and muni. tions ar? coming off the lines in the American factories, and all tha? the United States can [spare from her own increasing defence needs, fre being shipped to Britain, or the parts of the British Empire where they can be put to the greatest immediate use. The fact that the Germans have now to fight a naval war against Soviet Russia, as well as on the land, will doublies take some of the force out of their efforts ju the Battle of the Atlantic, since Germany has only a limited number of U-boats, and these U-beals cannot be fighting the Rus sians and at the same time be somewhere in the Atlantic secking to stop the flow of supplies to Britain. Everything seems to point to-Wards the fact that the United Stater assistance Wil be more and more powerful every day. tuntit at Tength Britain will be able ty undertake on a larger scale that she is at present doing. the long-promised offensive. In the United States there has been a comprehensive round-up of Nazi agents. Hitler, by invading Soviet Russia, may well have eased all Communist agitation in America to cease, since the Russians will be as glad to receive American assistance as anyone else, Tf there were any Communist agitators behind the recent. strikes in vital American Industries, they will by now have realised their shortsightedness, and be among the most diligent in urging the Ameri. Can worker "to produce to the utmost of his lability, Hiller' does well to fear the United States, as Col. Frank Knox has pointed out, whether that country eaters te conflict as an active combatant or not. Even with Europe his feet, Hitler cannot hope to match the combined output of the British Empire and the United States, for many years to come.
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