The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-06-28
ALLIES AND RUSSIA

ALLIES AND RUSSIA
Secret negotiations are now in
progress to break the alliance be-
tween Stain and Hitler, bringing
Russia into closer relations-p
haps even seni-alliance with
Great Britain. I
No. secret negotiator is Eduard
Benes, ex-president of Czecho-
Slovakia, always close friend Of
Russia. He is now in Moscow, hav-
ing been sent there by the British
government to see what he could
patch up on their behalf.
No. 2 negotiator is Sir Stafford
Grips, left winger.
What win come out Of Ambassa-
dor Cripps' visit remains to be seen,
but two significant items were pub
lished recently in the official Soviet
newspaper Izvestia.
One praised the conduct Of the
allied armies in France. The other
pointed out that the Nazis might not
win the war so easily, since the al
lies had big American resources be-
hind them.
$ Note-Cbviously Uncle Joe Stain
remembers the page in "Mein
Kampf" in which Hitler plans the
conquest Of the lush plains of south
ern Russia.
IT is important to note that Sir
Stafford Grips, although one Of the
wealthiest lawyers in England, is
definitely left-wing, much further
left than the British Labor party.
L Sir Stafford got into this new and,
for him, strange role as result of
q trip last winter to Chmgking,
China. There the Soviet govern
ment took him by plane to Moscow,
where he talked with Foreign Minis
ter Molotoff.
= One Of the questions was, "Under
what conditions would you agree to
'collaborate with the al1ies?"
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sssA AIRPLANE PRODUCTION
: Here are the confidential figures
on the number Of fighting planes the
allies have ordered from each u. S.
factory, but remain undelivered:
Lockheed, LOO; Martin, ESQ; Cur
stiss, 500; Douglas, ESQ; North Amer
ican, 400.
Is These, given in round figures,
make q total of $500 planes still
undelivered. The production Of
planes themselves is increasing con-
stantly, but the bottleneck still re-
mains airplane motors.
ft American aviation moguls say
shat the United States will never get
ia lot Of planes in a hurry until the
heads of the six chief aviation COM
panies are locked in room and
forced to agree that each viii manu-
afacture one type of plane only. This
would achieve the Standardization
that. Henry Ford has been talking
about. 81 Nv
Z As s Another speeder-up would be to
Sraanufacture q less well-built plane.
American planes are the best in the
world Last for years-but war
planes don't last long anyway.
: American manufaetufers estimate
that they could double their output
by Decreasing quality l0sper cent.
isA Note--The aviation industry is 30
bottlenecked that one well-placed
2,0O0-poumd bomb dropped on the
Pratt Whitney engine plant In Hart
ford, Conn could paralyze airplane
production for weeks.
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REC LOAN. TO BRAZIL
The sinister spectre Of Nazi-
Fascist activities in South America
finally has clinched the 1ong-delayed
pan for a u. S.-Brazilian steel plant
tapping the rich mineral resources
Of Minas.G eraess
Jesse Jones' RFC has agreed to
lend SIC, 000, 900 to the Brazilian gov
eminent, perhaps increase this fg-
ure to $17; O00, 900 il necessary. The
Brazilian government il to match
the u. S. contribution and hire the
United States Steel to construct and
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