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...Mackenzie King an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to coordinate production facilities (see p. 27). In a seven-hour session the two agreed to exchange defense materials. Canada's dollar exchange will be bolstered by the sale of machine tools, aluminum, ships (perhaps), an unspecified number of Bren machine guns to the U.S. for some $200,000,000 to $300,000,000. Canadian economy, threatened by its sale of wheat, war supplies, etc. to Great Britain for sterling-supplies Britain now gets from the U.S. on a lend-lease basis-will get dollars, and materials it cannot produce...
...feud began in 1938, when MacLeod's Magazine-sister publication of the Post -published an article called "Canada's Armament Mystery." Written by Lieut. Colonel George Drew, it exposed a deal wherein the Government financed a private company to manufacture Bren guns for Britain at over-lush profits. Two days later the Post led a press crusade for a Royal Commission investigation. The Government denounced the article as "scurrilous and irresponsible." But two and a half years later, with Canada at war, the Winnipeg Free Press broke the story that the old Bren gun contract had been canceled...
...than tanks, the British, although forced for the most part to hug the roads, kept so hot after the retreating Italians that the latter scarcely fought even rear-guard actions, until they were within 15 miles of the railhead. The British, in independent little bands of armored cars and Bren carriers commanded by nothing loftier than shavetail lieutenants, flanked two successive defense lines, captured 1,100 men and 200 mules, and got the railway terminus. They pressed on, trying to catch as many Italians as possible before they got into really rough terrain near Eritrea's capital, Asmara...
...armored.) A new mobile school of mechanization already moves from camp to camp- three trucks loaded with diagrams, models, textbooks, sound films. The Army says that although cabled technical advice from England is limited, many improvements have already been made on English mechanization. Among them: A Bren-type gun carrier whose crew is protected against dive bombers' bullets; infantry carriers that can move "right up to the battle"; a "garage trailer" carrying 90% of a modern service station's equipment...
...Roman victory, it was another shocking Roman rout, a fierce continuation of last fortnight's Battle of the Marmarica in which, after slicing through Capuzzo (in the line of forts guarding Libya's eastern border), savage little squadrons of fast British tanks and Bren gun-carriers whipped around the port of Bardia, outflanking it as they had outflanked Sidi Barrani and Salum...