The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-10

Briefly 1t shows that between July 1 of this year and Decem- Der 3l, 1942, the production of the United States will only equal the combined production of Can- ada and the United Kingdom.
 This Is despite the fact that the United Kingdom all last year was subjected to 6 constant rain of bombs, and despite the fact that we have two and one-half times the population of Canada and the United Kingdom, plus six times their resources,
 The report was prepared at the institigation of Secretary of War Stinson who wanted to SC just where the armed forces of the United States stood. The man who drafted the report is Bob Nathan, who does & lot of con- fidential work for Stin1son. On this job he worked under Stacey May, crack economist of the OpM, who took a special trip to London where he studied British produc- ton figures and also German pro-. duction results as far as the British were able to supply them. STIMSON SHOCKED
 Friends of Secretary of War Stimson say he was shocked at the findings of the report, which show lasnentable lack of long-range planning by the army. Other high-ups in the administration take a somwhat more optimistic view, though all feel that the country has not yet taken its coat off.
 The study covered the eighteen months from this summer up to the beginning of i943 and here are some of the highligits of i'm portant findings:
 By the end of 1922, the United
 States, although playing the role
 of "The Arsenal of Democracy,
 will be supplying only 50 per
 cent of Democracy's war ma
 terial. ..
 By the end of 1922 also, U.
 s. production of heavy bombing
 planes will be only 35 per cent
 of British heavy bomber produc-
 ton.
 During the same period, our
 total bomber production-heavy.
 light and medium bon1bers-will
 be only 70 per cent of the
 British. This despite the fact
 that bonbers are considered the
 chief means of taking the ag-
 gressive and winning the war.
 By the end of 1942, also, the
 United States will only equal the British output of fighter planes. Most discouraging part of the re- port, however, is the production of artillery. The manufacture of big guns is tagging far behind the British. Another diScour- aging factor is that the U. s. army is still continuing the purchase of medium bombers, though the Bri- tish have just about discarded this type of plane. They are concen- trating only on heavy bombers for 1ong-range offensives, to Berlin and Italy plus light bombers for diye-bornbing. The medium bolr1b- is being weeded out.
 On the encouraging side of the picture is U. s. production of tanks, which is forging well ahead of the British. Furthermore, study of Nazi production leads to the conclusion that, adding the airplape production of Canada, the United States and Great Bri- tain together, this grand total is now equal to, if not somewhat ahead of the Germans.
 REASONS FOR U. S. DELAY
 Also on the more optimistic side, OPM experts point out that American industry has three valid excuses for its slow start. On is that we have shipped large quan- titles of parts to the British, which they have assembled. This has speeded their production, but slowed down ours. Second, all dur ing last year the United States was sending machine tools to Eng once a week and made up almost asaffpAfe of A enKaYlilakion 0f the