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...transport facilities have been faulty, with slow unloading and turnaround of supply ships, with clogging of goods on motionless ships and trains, or on docks, where they make easy Nazi bomb targets. Lack of coordination between Government agencies has made the supply of food and housing to Blitzed Britishers, and the reconstruction of bombed areas, much slower than need be. Last week it seemed that Winston Churchill badly needed a super-deputy who would concentrate on Britain's economy and repairs while the Prime Minister concentrated on Britain's battles. That appeared to be the chief reason...
Beating the U-Blitz. Around a huge chart-spread table in the Merchant Ship Plotting Room of the grey old Admiralty off London's Trafalgar Square, a number of officers and clerks bustle every morning, plucking out and sticking in little colored pins. Each pin represents a ship; its color designates whether it is in convoy or independent, whether inbound or outbound...
...money began rolling in, Organizer Dorothy launched a series of "galloping tea parties,'' at which Dorothies drank, paid, went forth chain-letter fashion to brew more tea for more Dorothies. To date, the Provinces have been Blitz-teaed some 20,000 times, always with a Dorothy as hostess, though often with other-named guests...
Monday they rose and went to work again, wondering whether the campaign would be Blitz or a steady advance. But the Nazi censorship had decided that the people should have no news. The radio trumpets blasted patriotic airs, but the newscasts, like the newspaper columns, were trivial. For three days the German people were ignorant. Then they learned that it had been Blitz. The troops were in Salonika. In the newsreels the people saw not only practice maneuvers in Bulgaria, but Stukas screaming down on the Greeks, dusty Nazi soldiers napping in the grass beside Yugoslav roads...
Author Negley Farson (The Way of a Transgressor) has broken into the movies at 50 with Blitz Hotel. Director Maurice Elvey got the idea while staying at the Savoy, in 20 minutes talked Farson into writing the scenario. The scene will be the inside of a big London hotel between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.; personal appearances by such familiar Londoners as Lord Castlerosse, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Carroll Gibbons and Manning Sherwin will add a touch of realism. Says Farson: "The story is fiction, but the bombardment outside is undeniable fact...