Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-28

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"A sources, including President
RooSevelt's press conference
last week, il is now made clear
that he resorted to deception
and fraud in his campaign
speech of Oct. % in which he
boosted of the amplitude of the
ammunition and ecu pm e n t
which were being sent to Ameri-
can fighting men in battle.
In his press conference, the
President admitted that am
munition was being rationed and
that lives were being lost as a
result of this shortage.
On the same day, j. A. krug.
the New Dealer who replaced
Donald Nelson as chairman of
the War Production Board. the
3 responsible agenc admitted
that the ammunition program
was as per cent behind. The lag
in the gun program" was IL
per cent and the lag in the
combat and motor vehicle pro
gram" 81 per cent.
A MOTHER spot OF bad news
"A was contributed by Mrs.
Anna Rosenberg, an indispcn-
sible and ineradicable New Deal
ideologist, old friend OF Mrs.
Roosevelt and present regional
director OF the War Manpower
Commission.
About two months ago, Mrs.
Rosenberg went 10 Europe and
learned that ammunition was
being rationed outside Metz.
This shortage. she said, has
been blamed. in part. for the
delay in the capture of Aachen.
That discovery was made long
before Roosevelt's speech of
Oct. % so. obviously. ammuni-
ton was short and lives were
being lost for the lack OF il at
the very hour when ne was APP
pealing for votes with a false
statement.
TVHE actual state of affairs
L was not available TO Gov.
Dewey. Ii was a military
secret. closely held by the
President as commander in
chief and his subordinates, both
military and political. And the
true condition was concealed
for the Presidents political
advantage and Dewey's disad-
vantage at the polls.
Prior considerations having
been served, 1t. Gen. Somervell
thought that the appropriate
people TO tell about the short
ages were the 600 professional
unioneers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. assembled in
New Orleans.
Nevertheless, even in break
ing the shocking secret to them,
Somervell saw no wrong in
praiSing them for some unde-
fined part which they had
played in achieving a rate OF
production that now added up
10 failure.
CENS. SHALL AND
" EISENHOWER now also
broke their silence but carefully,
so as to brighten the people at
home and drive cutters back
10 the war factories while re-
framing from any criticism of
Roosevelt, Nelson, Krug or the
unioneers whose no-strike pledge
had been violated 10000 times.
These two generals are non-
political and above connivance.
But, after all. Roosevelt is their
Cine, as he pointed out so many
times during the campaign. and
they couldn't very well blurt
the truth until he gave the
word, after election.
KRUG'S mathematical analy-
IN sis of the reasons for fail
ure was reminiscent of those
other statistical CONNECTIONS
which theological figure-fakers
delighted to issue.
He didn't mention the word
failure" of course, for the re-
sponsibility would have been his.
Nelson's and Roosevelt's and
would have confirmed Dewey's
campaign charges of inefficiency.
due to wrangling and political
conspiracy, in the WPB.
Instead, Krug said a produc-
ton rate of five and one-half
billion dollars a month was now
required and blandly observed
that 40 per cent of this was
behind schedule"
THIS was one situation in
l. which il was impossible to
blame poor old Herbert Hoover,
Warren Harding's Ohio gang or
ex-Congressman Ham Fish. 1t
may have been Roosevelt's hope
that. in their alarm over the
news, itself, that lives were
being lost in consequence OF
failure. the public would not re-
call his boasting of such recent
date and his great self-satisfac-