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...Oliver Lyttelton, one of Winston Churchill's Ministers (Production), had said that by the end of this week the Allies would have "some sign of future events ... a breathless moment ... the first evidence of victory." If his words meant anything-and so many words of promise had meant less than nothing-the day of action was at hand...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
Said Captain Lyttelton: "Out of every 100 occupied men and women in this country about 55 are working for the Government, either in the forces or in the factories, or in other branches of Government service. Almost all the rest are doing work, which even if it serves the civilian population, is necessary to the conduct of the war. . . . To reach our present level, you (in the U.S.) would need to have nearly 40,000,000 people working for the Government...
...Lyttelton's figures showed, was catching up. But it still had a long; way to go-and many a change would have to come in WPB before the goal was reached...
...much they decreased, Mr. Lyttelton did not say. Why they decreased, he did not say-and perhaps did not wholly know. But U.S. naval censors at last permitted the press to report one of the reasons for the drop, in one area where sinkings had been appallingly high. The reason: the Navy was convoying coastal shipping in the Western Atlantic, from Maine to Florida...