Evening star., 1940-04-07
Allies Writing Big War Orders
AS Clean of Peace Hope Fades
Place Dependence for Material Upon u. S. and
Watch for Day When Financial
Assistance May Be Available
By Constantine Bro,vn,

1ue european war VIII go on 1Or an
indefinite time. The allies cannot afford
at present to consider any peace pro-
posals and the administration in Wash
ington, after hearing what Sumner
Welles had to say about the European
situation, has agreed that peace on the
German terms cannot be concluded.
Without Mr.. Welles having in any
manner or form committed the Govern
ment of this country, Britain and France
are proceeding on the assumption that
the United States will be the workshop
whence they will be able to secure all the
war material necessary to equal that OF
Germany.
Orders for the most modern airplanes,
tanks and other war paraphernalia will
be pouring into this country henceforth.
The London and Paris governments be-
lieve that within the next IL months the
quantities thus delivered, together with
an accelerated production on their part,
will give them the sufficient quantities to
start an offensive on the western front
In the course of April or May, 1941. The
allied general staff believes that deci-
sion can be reached only on the western
front by breaking through into Germany.
The psychological effect of such action
would make possible, in their opinion,
revolution in the Reich with its desired
consequences-the downfall of Hitler and
his associates.
Would Wean Away Soviet.
In the meantime the allied diplomats
will apply themselves to putting spokes
In the wheels of the German diplomatic
machinery in the East and in Russia.
Queer as it may seem to the ordinary
observer, there are many highly placed
offcials in Britain and in France who are
Of the opinion that even today Russia
could be weaned away from the Reich.
The somewhat rough handling of the
q. S. S. R. by the allies is treatment
prescribed by Downing Street and espe-
cially by Quai 'Orsay diplomats in ac-
cordance with Shakespeare's Tanning of
the Shrew." Allied intelligence officers
who have been so lamentably weak in
Moscow thus far appear to have i'm
proved. They report that Stain, after
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quest of parts of Poland and Finland and
the subjugation of the Baltic states),
does not wish to become involved in any
further hazardous military operations
which might bring to the surface some
general as his rival for the ruling of
Russia.
So far as the Balkans and the Dam
ubian Valley are concerned. the allies
hope to keep them neutraized even at
the price of Germany obtaining for the
time being an increased amount of raw
materials. The idea of endeavoring to
form an active battle front in that sec.
tion of the world has been given up by
the allied high command as impractical
and useless. Weygands army will be
reinforced. If time permits, the Turkish
arsenals will be improved with the two
fold purpose of supplying the combined
Turkish allied armies with a sufficient
supply of arms and ammunition, and
also making fully available any possible
supplies from the Mediterranean. Wey-
gand's and Turkeys armies might be
used in the event the Germans try to
take over the Danubian Valley by force.
The principal hope of the allies to
win the war-or avoid fatal stalemate
lies almost exclusively in United States
cooperation. Responsible allied officials
have made 1t as plain as possible that
they do not at present need single
American soldier or a single American
war vessel across the Atlantic.
Need Factory Output.
But they do need everything our fac
tories can produce-and at once. The
permission given the American airplane
factories to sell to the allies 500 up-to-
date military planes has established an
encouraging precedent for the allied
governments They expect that other
modern planes and other types of arm
ament will be released by the United
States Government as rapidly as they
can be utilized.
The French factories are working at
top speed, which is not particularly fast.
Their production for the present does
not exceed three planes day. The Brit
isn are producing more-about LOO
month-and their capacity for additional
production is greater. The only trouble
in Britain Is that the factories cannot
devote themselves to the manufacture of