The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-02

Ter has just made to sell
This would include tanks,
ern devices with which CT
where Pam American nations have
been relatively at peace for half
century.
Furthermore, Germany guaran-
tees to deliver the goods almost
immediately-via Italian ships.
This indicates how sure Hitler is
of conquering England. He can
sell his arms almost before the
British attack starts.
1t now looks very much as if
Brazil would accept the offer.
State Department officials, to-
gether with General George Mar
shall, dynamic U. S. Chief of
Staff, are pulling every possible
wire to prevent the purchase, but
they are having a hard time.
They are offering to sell American
military equipment instead. How
ever, the Brazilians point out that
because of cheap Nazi wages it
would take 100000 TO buy the
same material here where costs
are much higher. Furthermore,
Hitler is willing to accept coffee
and other Brazilian surplus pro-
ducts in a barter deal. No real
cash is involved.
Finally, the Brazilians say they
bought some artillery from the
United States recently, but it was
World War stuff, and they had to
spend $1,000 for repairs on each
gun. The German munitions, on
the other hand, are virtually new.
General Marshall made a spe-
cial flight to Brazil last year to
get acquainted with the Brazil
ian Army, and later piloted
General Goes MOnteiro, Brazil
ian Chief of Staff, all over the
United States. However, all this
goodwilling doesn't seem to
count today. At least 40 per cent
of the Brazilian Army is report
ed to be pro-Nazi.
Meanwhile the State
Department moves with tragic
slowness to counterfeit Nazi ac-
tivity in South America. Three
years ago it set up Cultural Re-
lations Bureau to cultivate Latin
America, but its activity to date is
minus zero.
DIR. TOWNSEND'S DISGUST
1t got lost in the news shuttle,
but Doc Townsend, the pied piper
of old age pensions, walked out
on the Republican convention be-
fore it was two days old.
"This is nothing but a wild
jubilee" Townsend told friends
as he packed up to leave Phila-
delphia, "just lot of noisy pol
iticians talking about a war
5000 miles away with no SER
ious thought of shaping an eco
nomic program for the country
for the next four years.
ut certainly is an extraordi-
nary spectacle for a national
convention. / hope the Demo-
Gratis have more to offer u.s."
The only candidate that inter-
ested the 73-year-old pension
leader was Wendell Willkie, but
he couldn't get near him.
Every time I tried to see
Willkie he was surrounded by
mob of shouting supporters"
grOaned Townsend. II finally
gave up and decided to wash my
hands of the whole business"
FORD AIRPLANE MOTORS
The dispute with Henry Ford
over producing 5000 Rolls Royce
airplane engines for Great Brit
ain had more behind it than met
the eye.
Among other things it illustrat-
ed one of the major national de-
tense problems of the country
plant capacity. In order to arm irl
a hurry, huge factory space Il
necessary, and Ford has 1t, in fact
has boosted that he could produce
1000 airplane engines daily.
To take advantage Of this, Ma
itonal Defense mogul Knudsen
head of General Motors and a ri.
val of Ford, gave him an ordel
5000 Rolls-Royce motors. Actual.
ly, Knudsen could have HANDLED
the order in his own General Mo
tors plants, bue he leaned owe
backward against favoritisn. Hi
Allison airplane motor competel
with the Rollys-Royce.
Therefore, EdseI Ford came to
Washington and accepted the
order. subject to the approval Of
his father. Later he teIeph0ned
his father in Detroit and re-
ported to Knudsen that the g.
900 engines would be manufac-
tured-3,O0O for the United
States, 5000 for England at .
cost Of $l4,50O per engine.
Knudsen Immediately reportet
this to the War Department wher'
1t was considered one Of the mos
] important steps so far taker