Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-02
Leaders Fail
To MuzzIe
Defense Critic
House Prober Uncovers
Confusion and Delays
By PAUL MALLON

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w bleak report from the
House military affairs committee
criticizing the defense program
for confusion, failures and
"unwarranted delays" came out
only over the flattened frames of
administration leaders.
Speaker Rayburn and House
Director Mccormack worked on
the full committee hard and long
10 KEEP il from adopting the crit
ical viewpoint Of its Subcommt-
tee. Al one time they mustered
10 votes against the report In
executive session, but there were
II in favor of cauStIc publicity.
Behind the report was one
man, Rep. Charles ]. FaddlS,
lieutenant colonel overseas IN
the last war and a soldier who
knows the business He was
chairman of the investigating
subcommittee.
F,addis Is loo per cent for the
Roosevelt foreign policy, but the
best friend and SeVereSt critic OF
the war department. Tall, slen-
der. with mi tary bearing.
around 50 years old, he was the
dynamo who started the promo
tion Of raw material stock piles,
the first move toward prepared
ness.
WHEN he started his inveStl-
w cation he announced there
would be no sensationallSm but
also no whitewaShing. He kept
his promise.
Mr.. Roosevelt will call up
900, 900 more drafteeS and i'm
piled this would require release
of the training $4,000 at the
end of their year but don I plan
your life in expectation that 1t
will work out that way.
The unnoted facts are these:
The drafteeS will not have
enough training 10 be match
for a good military school. Their
service expiration dates Will
start in December.
There is plenty OF time re-
naming in which every one can
change his mind. War depart
ment frankly comedies no one
will be released If war comes be-
fore December.
The army is planning its houS-
ing arrangements, however, only
10 accommodate 100000 at A
time. so there will be a critical
housing shortage if many cur
rent traineeS stay on.
What would be ideal in army
opinion would be release Of old
ster draftees, over rs years Of
age, and induction or retention
Of the able-bodied youngsters.
That is the way il is likely 10
turn.
IF STAINS ARMY is routed.
there is reason here 10 be-
lieve his plans call for a retreat
of his government 10 the Far
East. He will probably take
control OF the strong autonomous
Red army Of Siberia. Thus even
If he alone escapes. he would be
in a position 10 maintain the in
ternational Communist organiza-
ton and a Communist state.
With this strong force he could
also work for the future, with
his friends in China.
Consequently no one expects
him TO try TO get out through
Persia and seek refuge in Eng
land or Mexico.
ulTLER'S plans for Russia,
IL IN expectation OF victory,
are believed 10 include the inau-
guration of two formidable new
states, one grouping the Baltic
nations and the other for the
Ukraine, under his own DONNA
ion, OF course. His program for
the remainder Of European
Russia is not understood here
except through some vague in
formation from Berlin. suggest
ing he wants "a lot of little
states.
Hitler troubles in Russia will
not be over even If he cxtermin-
ateS the Red army. His expert
ence with the peasants in Poland
was only a mild forerunner Of
what he can expect They will
not relish turning over their
products 10 The NaziS. and are
adept AZ passive rcSiStanceS.
The Russian railroads are bad
and he highways worse. The
Russian track Is six inches wider
than German tracks. and there
fore cannot be- readily converted
TO German use. lie MAY be kept
busy m Russia for a long time.
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