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Said U.S. Lieut. Colonel G. H. McCaffrey: "The people in southern Italy . . . are definitely opposed to the Badoglio Government. . . . There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
...Slowdown for Knockout. A substantial section of the Luftwaffe has been pinned in Western Europe. The catalogue of German factories, shipyards, railway centers and power plants smashed by the R.A.F. is impressive. Damage to morale in such often-visited cities as Hamburg, Bremen and Cologne must have been severe. Still Germany fights...
...sseldorf, after a one month's work stoppage, is again a manufacturing center. The R.A.F's return last week to Cologne, as thoroughly blitzed as any German city, implied acknowledgement either that reconstruction had been effective or that worthwhile targets remained intact. Net conclusion: a general slowdown of Germany's total war effort was as much as could be credited to heavy bombing, and it was probably worth the effort expended. To expect more, from the number of planes allocated to European bombing, was to expect too much...
...were receiving explicit instructions on how to conduct a campaign of passive resistance. After four months of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent nonresistance, it seemed to the listeners that the bumbling BBC was carrying coals to Newcastle again. But the BBC was trying to instruct Italians, not Indians, in slowdown technique. The British were carrying coals from India to Italy...
...Stuff. In effect a city wide slowdown system, this form of economic suicide went on without causing trouble until Pearl Harbor. Then things changed. Akron rubber manufacturers, deluged with $1 billion in orders, were suddenly faced with their biggest job ever (TIME, Feb. 2). So they started hiring thousands of men. In no time at all Akron's unemployment fell to 6,000 men, of whom fewer than 1,000 had any rubber manufacturing experience at all. To ease the pinch, manufacturers put women to work on barrage balloons, life rafts, similar items; Goodyear and Firestone established training schools...