Daily Post - 11.07.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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Sunday, July 11, 1943
Beautiful Carole Landis, back
from entertaining the boys in
North Africa, shows her impres
sion of the situation: Thumbs
up for the Yanks, thumbs
down for—you know who.
British Opinion
“Tunisia is the end of the
first chapter in our book of
victory. There is now more rea
son than ever to express grati-
tude to the RAF. When I
think of its perilous situation
in May and June, 1940, and of
its might now, it is a marvell-
ous transformation.” — Arth-
ur Greenwood, MP.
*
“The real ivealth of a nation
can be assessed by the numbdr
of its happy families. I do not
believe that people want to lead
communal lives after the war.”
—Lady Sinclair.
*
Paul Hagen, autHor, on the
possibility of a German crack-
up: “More and more the re-
ports come to us from trust-
worthy sources tHat the Ger-
man people are saying, ‘Better
an end with terror than terror
without end.’ ”
From North Africa:
Rapond Glapper
On The War
Allied Head Quarters in North Africa. — Not so long ago I
used to wonder where all the planes, ships, tanks and men we
talked about in such gigantic numbers actually were. Now I am
on the other end of the line or rather the end of several lines and
the results of America’s production program are bountifully
evident.
Flying across North Africa,
Pve landed or passed over nu-
merous airfields, all servicing
in enormous numbers. From
the air some of these fields
looked as if there were flocks
of enormous birds roosting on
them. Here we are 4,000 miles
from American shipping ports,
yet material and men are flow
ing regularly and smoothly in-
to concentration ports in North
Africa as well as those in Bri-
tain. In Britain I saw acres of
supplies in huge depots servic-
ed by specially constructed de-
pot railroads. In North Africa
— from the west coast across
over a thousand miles of coast
line—are more such depots. The
harbors are busy with shipping
which is now freely using the
Mediterranean.
What I have seen both in
England and here proves to be
beyond question that the sub-
marine if not licked is at least
in no serious degree hindering
shipping supplies at concentra-
tion points around the perime-
ter of Axis Europe.
Figures on sinkings of mater
ial bound for North Africa are
unbelievably low. Allied ships
loaded with supplies are now
seen far inside the Mediterran-
ean in large numbers. For the
time being, submarines have
ceased to be a serious problem.
Using the Mediterranean is
like adding a third or more to
our tonnage because it elimin-
ates the world’s longest supply
line which ran around Africa.
These facts indicate the
spðctacular change in the Allied
Nazis Mad Again
London. The Nazis are
angry again. This time they
are mad at Hollanders who
are taking orders for deli-
very .of American goods
such as vacuum cleaners
and refrigerators after the
“Allies win the war”. The
Germans threaten to deport,
those caught.
war position since I went across
Africa one year ago. That trip
had to be made through cen-
tral Africa because the Axis
had the north. We were trying
to send urgent supplies by air
because the shipping route was
so slow. The central African
route was then an important
artery, but now in a year’s time-
it has become secondary. The-
Allied line has moved a thous-
and miles north to the coast
and the Mediterranean.
One year ago production fig-
gures were in the thousands,-
yet MacArthur in the Pacifitr
and Stilwell in India talked in
hundreds. Perhaps it has taken
a long time for the flow of ma-
terial to “fill up the pipe” but
now equipment coming out at
the end bears some proportion
to the amount rolled off the
production line.
Somewhere In Iceland
Is this picture familiar to you? It shculd be . . because it is a U. S. Army Signal Corps'
photograph taken in an army camp here in Iceland,-The picture appeared in many news-
papers throughout the United Statcs and wound up back here. It was taken last winter.