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Right after break of war, six major Dominion heavy industries organized Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., received $40,000,000 in orders to make engineless planes-Britain to send over the engines. For several months, shops of this combine hurtled to turn out parts but their assembly plants have been unable to get going, stood idle last week for several good reasons. In the first place, specifications were changed so often that today much of the accumulated stores of parts cannot be fitted together into complete aircraft. In the second place, engines from Britain have not arrived. About six weeks...
Last week Dominion aircraft production engineers cursed in agreement with Canadian Aviation, which editorialed with discreet understatement: "The unwisdom of gearing most of the Canadian aircraft industry capacity to the British system is now apparent. The realities must be faced. The entire manufacturing plan will have to be overhauled and revised to mesh with American industry. We can thank God for the industrial power and the growing active support of the United States in the hour of direst need...
...Mackenzie King Cabinet. It was to "mobilize immediately" 100,000 men. The Cabinet soon discovered that there did not exist in Canada even uniforms or Army shoes for 100,000 new soldiers-much less guns-and anyhow the Mother Country did not think she needed soon all that Dominion man power. Accordingly, Mr. Mackenzie King, just three days after the Plan shifted into high gear, discarded it entirely and explained: "The situation doesn't call...
...Officials uncomfortably explained: "By next March we will have spent more than one billion dollars. That is the equivalent of America spending $11,000,000,000, for the United States is over eleven times larger than Canada and wealthier besides. At the corresponding point in the last war the Dominion had spent only $166,000,000." Canadians, anxious to get on with the war at any price, actually cheered last week's appropriation from their pockets...
...Dominion press contributed to waning Canadian complacency. It played small such awkward items as that one Leonard Franceschini, an Italian naturalized a Canadian but considered Fascist, has been one of the Dominion's most successful war-order getters. As the ubiquitous president of the Dufferin Paving & Crushed Stone, Ltd., Franceschini last January got a $3,500,000 Government order to build mosquito boats and in February a $2,000.000 order to turn out shell casings. Three days after Italy entered the war Franceschini was arrested, interned. Government custodians are now trying to run the plants this suspect fifth columnist...