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...Nelson had called in another stout assistant, who tackled what was, in effect, the same job from a different angle. General Electric Co.'s President Charles Wilson is one of the country's outstanding production engineers. In WPB he concentrated on production schedules. In a few short weeks he had cut in on Eberstadt, cut in on the military. The armed forces protested, told WPB it should stick to the stuff that guns are made...
Last week's announcements told of stout Jap resistance, particularly around Shortland Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...
...Stout wanted to rouse hatred against those Germans "who accept, either actively or passively, the doctrine of the German master race . . . [or] who, reluctant to join the Nazis, nevertheless failed, through lack of courage or conviction, to prevent the Nazis from . . . plunging the world into this filthy swamp of destruction." In other words, hate most of Germany...
...Stout urged this bitterness primarily as a safeguard against chickenhearted United Nations action at the peace table. Said he: "If we do not . . . [hate] those who do or tolerate the evil, the temptation will be irresistible at one point or another, to compromise with it instead of destroying...
...Christian doctrine of love for one's enemies? Stout called it "worse than double-talk . . . plain nonsense...