Evening star., 1941-09-19
Churchill Expected
To Estimate American
Help He Anticipates
Parliament Is Likely
To Get ApproisoI Of
British Output, Too
Bv HELEN KIRKPATRICK,

Chicago Daily News.
LONDON. Sept l9-Prime Min
ister Churchill is expected to estl-
mate the full extent of aid he an
ticipates from the United States
and to render an appraisal of Brit
ish production. before Parliament
when it reconveneS shortly, it was
learned today as President Roose-
velt's request for an additional
lease-lend app opriation and Brit
aims tanks for Russia drive, to
begin next week. refocused atten-
ton on supplies and output in both
countries.
Production for the war effort is
naturally a paramount topic AT
its recent Edinburgh sessions the
Trades Union Congress raised many
questions of British efficiency and
production. After the Churchill
Roosevelt Atlantic conference, Brit
ish newspapers filled their pages
with text on the inaoequacy of
American production.
Curlously enough, the time lag
which has existed ever since the
war started caused the British 10
sit up and look at American pro-
duction and the flow of supplies
from the United States many weeks
after the American people had be-
come agitated over the same ques-
tions. One result OF what British
correspondents in the United States
called the "self-critiCiSm campaign"
was the dispatch of John D. Big
gers TO London with corps of tech
nical experts TO study how co-ordina-
ton of British and American indus
trial effort could be made more
effective.
British Short of 100 Pet.
When Mr. Biggers has been here
for four or five weeks he may have
formed an opinion on whether the
two industrial systems are as
closely meshed as it is possible for
the one which uses general utility
methods and the other which is al
most entirely mass productive.
Meanwhile. there is growing
consciousness here that while the
flow from American factories is not
yet adequate to the task at hand,
there is great deal to be done be-
fore British industry is fully engaged
in 100 per cent effort British
trade union officials have pointed
out many instances where factories
are not producing the maximum of
which they are capable AS yet there
does not appear to be sufficient
dustrlal circles that British industry
must put its own house in order
before it criticizes American in
adequacies.
According to most Britishers and
Americans arriving from Washing
ton, there is as much muddle and
confusion in Washington as there
is in London in the field of produc-
ton. Americans are inclined to feel.
however. that the American defense
organization, though making many
is driving ahead. whereas
the British temperament is more to
go slowly and avoid mistakes.
Bombing Not Enough.
Today's London Evening Standard
editorial, examining how the war
can be won, reaches the conclusion
that it will not be sufficient to bomb
Germany. Sometime the continent
must be invaded and the date for
that must depend on the progress
of production. No mention is made
of British production. but American
is discussed. It writes:
The turnover of American
industry from peace to war still is
to be achieved. Today it is esti-
mated that the entire cost of the
defense industries does
not greatly exceed Is per cent of
total production. Our
share of this percentage cannot give
Britain the required superiority in
weapons at an early date
The Evening Standard states that
Russian resistance is vital in order
to give Britain sufficient time to
build up its force for invasion.
The road to Berlin and victory
leads through Moscow. There is no
other route" it says.
This is typical OF the new trend
here today: Help from the west
may be too little and TOO late and
Britain must therefore look east
ward. 1t is a trend which has not
so far manifested itself very widely
except in some influential circles.
The most striking factor today is
the increasingly obvious need for
of the Lease-Lend Act
as between Britain and the United |
States and for much franker and /,
freer interchange of information |
and views on British and American |