The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-26

securing OI ar ana naval
 The British are urgently in need of long-range, great weight-carry- ing planes of the Flying Fortress and PBY type. Lack of ships of this kind is vital weakness in British air power. They have no planes capable of operating east of Berlin, which makes it inn possible to strike at some of the Nazis' key war production centers located in what were formerly Austria and Czechoslovakia.
 A fleet of 25 Flying Fortresses," which have a cruising radius of over 5000 miles, would bring the war home to the Germans where it would hurt most. Also, the Bri- tish could strike smashing blows at Italian industries and Italy is the Achilles heel of the Axis.
 The naval PBYs are needed in the crucial Mediterranean struggle. With range of 4,000 miles, these mighty flying boats could destroy Italian submarines, transports and supply ships. Italy has to trans port everything she needs in her African offensive across the Medi- terranean, and the PHYS could cripple this jugular vein.
 These planes also are needed to meet the impending assault on Gibraltar, key to British con- trol of the Mediterranean. They also .woud put Britain in much stronger position to meet the threat of Spanish intervention. U. S. SUPPLY
 The Army has a total of 59 Plying FOrtresses" plus a num- Der of others in production, which are coming from the factory at the rate of about seven a month.
 In addition to buying 25 of those now in service, the British also would like to make an ar- rangement to obtain every other
 new ship. Army officials say
 this would not delay U. s. re- arming, but would enable the
 manufacturer to expand his facilities and achieve a greater output.
 The Navy is amply supplied with PBYS. It already has 196 in Ser- vice and 200 more being produced at the rate of one every 36 hours. The new ships are considerably faster and more powerful than the 196 in service. Navy heads declare that fifty of these planes could be spared without any im- pairment to Navy air power.
 The method of sale under con- sideration is similar to the sale of obsolete dive bombers and sur- plus World War rifles, machine guns and munitions last spring. The planes would be turned in to the manufacturers, who would sell them to the British and credit the Army and Navy with > the funds on purchase of new and better ships.
 The British plan to fly the
 giant planes direct across the
 Atlantic, and crews of English
 and American airmcn are being
 assembled in Canada for this
 purpose. The great flying field
 at BotswoOd, Newfoundland,
 probably will be the jumping
 off point.
 NOTE = Britain also is seek< ing 25O,00O World War model Lee Enfield rifles. The Army has about 1,250,000 in reserve stocks. DAISY TO CAMPAIGN
 Mrs. J. Borden ('Daisy") Har- riman, U. s. Minister to Norway, will take the campaign stump for President Roosevelt.
 Since her return from the Nazi- overrun country, Mrs. Hartman has been under State Department orders not to talk. But the gag will shortly be lifted and she will return to her first love politics.
 Mrs. Hartman will do her orat- ing mostly in Wisconsin, Minne- sota and North Dakota, where there are large Scandinavian populations. She is an old hand ct campaigning. Tn 1928 she ac. companied Al Smith in all his speaking trips and was active in the ios2 and i0s6 campaigns. NEI0MBOR GENERALS
 The U. Q. Government. which long has dealt in half-way meas ureS ln Co Latin American rola. tions, at last is making . bold stroke for good will. Announce. naent Wiil soon be made Of the Acceptanee by all twenty Latin