Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-30
Libya Loss
Not Fault Of
U. S. Laxi+yv
Britain Had Everything
Except Able General
BY PAUL MALLON


with military tactics tparticu-
larry on the Pacific COAST
against the Roosevelt-Ch Churchill
conduct of the war.
The failure of their joint
statement TO promise anything
very definite, coming after the
Dutch Harbor raid and the &C.
cupation of two remote rocks in
the Aleutian Islands. plus the
really dismal British failure in
Libya, seems to be starting an
other wave of impotence, not
shared by persons in possession
of the facts.
Enough truly bad news is
probably coming along to let the
faint-hearted indulge themselves
fully. without conjuring imagi'
nary dangers.
Fab of Sevastopol has been
counted here as likely for the
past two weeks. When that
Russian naval base goes, about
20 good Nazi divisions will be
released for the delayed spring
drive in the Donets Basin.
The coming important part of
the fight. Nazi occupation of
Sevastopol. would not only clear
the Crimea. but give the Ger
mans an excellent Black Sea
port into WHICH to pour supplies
by boat from Rumania via the
DaRube) and from Constanza.
4 NY Dragging statement from
"A Messrs. Roosevelt and
Churchill, therefore, would have
been untimely and might have
a short lived effect.
Impatient persons should face
facts. Every one wants second
front in Europe but the decision
TO launch that front should be
made on a military, not pollti-
cal basis. The military leaders
must decide when they have
enough men and material TO win.
The Dutch Harbor raid was
a minor sideshow and the occu-
patton of tip Aleutian Islands
tnearer Japan than Midway
Island) is a matter of no impor-
lance.
You cannot blame Mr.. Roose-
welt for Libya. The British were
so confident there, they had
taken little interest in getting
our lend-lease material there
for three months past. They had
all they wanted or needed
except a clever fighting general
like MArthur.
Churchill and the British will
have 10 answer for that one
alone.
TNHE war labor board is split
L ting up inside in all direc-
tons over the vital Little Steel
wage increase cases.
The labor members naturally
will vote for the 81 a day in
crease and union maintenance
shop. The industry members are
backed in their opposition by the
Roosevelt policy Of maintaining
equilibrium in the war economy.
The representatives of the re-
public, who hold the balance of
power, are sitting on griddle
and know it, being hopelessly
divided.
This split naturally must be
kept from the public gaze and
a compromise which can he
n ounced as unanimously
adopted" is what board powers
are working on Whether il
will be along the line of the
panel report is yet undecided
question.
The board has been kicking
off since February a decision on
this test case which will furnish
the pattern for General Motors,
Chrysler and Ford. and may up
set the Henderson planned war
price economy.
T'HE government is coming
l. clean on sugar, at least mod
erately clean. While exact fig
ures OF sugar stocks like those
of gasoline are suppressed by
censorship mot the voluntary
kind, the Henderson office has
announced stocks are only 20
per cent below last year.
Government officials privately
claim these stories you read
about warehouses bullying ev-
erywhere with sugar are circu-
lated by political forces who
want 10 kill the Sugar Act.
Apparently South Coast stor-
age houses are overlooking, be
cause they are not accustomed
10 handling as large A portion Of
the supply as has poured in upon
them lately. Also a Texas fac
tory said II was going 10 shut
down because it had no storage
space left
The country as a whole has no
surplus Of sugar. although the
question Of how much rationlng
is justified is still open.
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June 30, 1917