The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-24


 l. Bad weather in the English Channel may prevent any inva- sion of England by troops this year. Another important factor is the havoc wrecked upon Nazi barges in French and Belgian harbors by royal air force bomb- CTS.
 2. Bad weather will not interrupt the bombing of England to any appreciable extent, and this has almost paralyzed London, making parts of the city near shamb-es. Little by little the R.A.F. has had to back up. At first British airmen were keeping German planes to their side of the Chan mel. Next they met the Nazis on the southern shore of England. They they retreated inland so that now they do not engage Nazi bombers until they are about half way between London and the sea.
 Here the royal air force is hold ing, but in order to do it, they have had to bring most Of their planes down from the north, leaving that part of England rel atively unguarded.
 So far, the royal air force has not been licked. They are still doing a good job against over whelming numbers. However, 1t remains very strong probability, almost certainty. that if Hitler wanted to risk sacrificing his en- tire air force he could knock out the R.AF. It would be terribly costly, but he could probably do it.
 FACTORIES VS. FACTORIES
 Meanwhile British bombers have been inf1icting terrific punishment on Nazi docks, ships and munl- tions plants. One American mo- tor manufacturer whose plant in Germany had been taken over by the Nazis, recently reported to Washington officials that he was no longer interested in trying to get the plant back. It had been too heavily damaged by British bombs.
 However, it is important to re- member that Hitler's arms fac- tories not only are widely scat tered throughout Germany, but also in Czechoslovakia and Aus tria. These areas are located from the range of British bombers unless they are able to borrow some of our Flying Fortresses.
 Boiling it down, the British probably have suffered much more than the Nazis, because British plants are not decentral- ized; also because the contin- uous air raids over London i'm terrupt factory production. If 10000 workers respond to an air raid signal and go into dug-outs for an hour, then there is a loss of 10000 man-hours of work.
 This is one of the biggest factors hampering British airplane pro- duction.
 DIPLOMAT MORGENTHAU
 Shortly before Count de St. Quetin retired as French Ambas- sador to the United States, he asked for an appointment with Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau for the purpose of dis c,lssing French funds frozen in the United States. These were taken over by the United States when Germany invaded France, and the Ambassador wanted to have some of them released in order to pay the expenses of French consuls in this country.
 MOrgenthau knew in advance what the Ambassador wanted, SO when he arrived. M0rgen- thau immediately began to talk about the weather, the heat of the Washington summer, where the Ambassador had spent hts vacatlen.
 Then he switched to the prob- lem Of caring for the roses, grass around the Treasury Depart ment, also talked about his fruit farm up the Hudson. then about c lot of other things.
 By this time. the Ambassadors time had elapsed, and he had not put in a word. He departed with- out even mentioning his request for funds.
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