The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-02
Paid Fireman TOBe Named Sept. 12
Inside StOryOf THE KAISER BR USH-O OFF
tFlrst of TWO Artlcles) ny PETER EDISON NEA Service Washington
 Cufreanondenk
Correspondent

By PETER EDSDN
 NBA Service Washington
 Correspondent
 Washington, Sept. 2 -- Henry ]. Kaiser will be back in Washington Sept. z, and he will bring with him definite plans for what he proposes to do about building cargo planes.
 The mere fact that Kaiser is returning in such short time and with a definite con. struction program is in itself something of a miracle. The big ship-and dam man brought his 1 first proposals to Washington on July 50. He left Washington on August 10 with the now-famous two letters of so-called intent from the War Production Board. He went to New York and was back in San Francisco Aug. 10.
 BOuNCEs BACK
 WITH PLANS READY
 He met with Grover Loening of WIPE and aircraft builders Glsnn l.. Martin and Donald Douglas in Santa Monica, Calf, August 24.
 Two weeks later he comes back to Washington with his complete plars for building cargo planes, from raw materials to finished ships, almost in defiance Of every | dare and every obsacle that could be put in his way by Army and | ! Navy procurement services, by the [ War Production Board and by the < aviation industry itself. i
 For it now develops that a lot ! of the support which Kaiser was { l supposedly receiving from govern | ment procurement officers in their [ public statements has been so quali- fled and hedged as to make the con- ! ditions for the Kaiser program seem l almost impossible.
 The ways in wnicn new obstacles [ have been thrown in Kaiser's path l since he left Washington on Aug l | 10 have been so cunning that they | might almost be called cute. There ] is. for instance, the matter of the Two Little Words" inserted in a l telegram sent from the War Pro- l duction Board in Washington, over Donald Nelson's signature, to the | Santa Monica conference of Loen- i ing, Martin and Douglas with Kaiser on Aug. 24.
 It had been announced by Nell son in Washington, several days in advance, that this meeting was be- ing held for the purpose of deter mining the practicability of the Kaiser plan--to see if he could pro- duce cargo planes without interior. ing with the production of planes TOT the fighting front,
 TELEGRAM HOLDS
 4 SLEEPER"
 Kaiser already had his so-called l letters of intent from Nelson's of- | flee, but to this Santa Monica meet { | ing Nelson sent a telegram which { was in effect a restatement of the | WIPE position. On the face of 1t, i the text of the telegram as given | out in San Francisco looks like an | enthusiastic endorsement of Kaiser's proposals.
 Buried in the text of the tele- gram, however, is a sentence which | states that the Kaiser program { should be pushed forward provided ! it does not interfere with any pres ent "or prospective Army and Navy | aircraft procurement programs.
 The significance of those two little words "or prospective" has been entirely overlooked, but if you will take time out to consider the { full import of those two words you will see what kind of a limb they might leave MT. Kaiser out on the end of.
 The present Army and Navy ! aircraft program, as announced in the Presidents production goals, is 60 900 planes in i942 and l25000 i planes in l943 According to Army, [ Navy and WIPE, this present pro- ! gram calls for all available sup ! plies of raw materials and all manufacturing facilities existent or under construction.
 But supposing Pop Kaiser is able ! to show where he can develop new | sources of raw materials and new engine and parts plants, and get l them into production in his prom ! lsed 10 months, or by July l, i9A3. { Then suppose that along about ! June 1, 1928, the Army or Navy | should decide that they should have not i2a,000 planes in l943, but l50,- GOO, This would be In the nature of an "or prospective" requirement. ! And suppose that Army and Navy should decide that the additional [ 25 900 planes they needed would all | be pursuit planes instead of the | cargo planes that Kaiser was build ing,
 Kaiser In the meantime may be l assumed to have set up his new I sources of supply for steel, nickel | would be needed in any way for | aluminium. But fl those materials 1 the services prospective" require ments, lt would be possible to scrap appropriate those materials to meet the entire cargo plane program and prospective needs
 WHERE nID WORDS
 COME FnOMs
 Asking Kaiser to accept this Tor prospective" restriction is, as any business man would agree, asking good bit. But Kaiser Is coming on to Washington with a proposal nevertheless,
 How the two little words got Into the Nelson telegram it would of 1 course be impossible to prove, But they had not appeared in any Of the other proposals that had pre- vlously been put to Kaiser orally l or in writing, and II would be rather naive to imagine that they got in there by accident,
 The two previous letters which l