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...scene was the annual conference of the Conservative Party, in London. Over the meeting loomed the prospect of a general election, Britain's first in ten years, due to follow V-E day. The fact that Winston Churchill had chosen to talk to the Tories as a Tory looked like electioneering, and his speech was definitely that...
...time at six months or longer. Once WPB had tacitly agreed to new cars - 2,000,000 a year - after V-E day. Now it was significantly silent on any carmaking...
Since the overoptimistic plans made after the U.S. Army's dash to Paris, Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes has determinedly kept the lid on talk of reconversion after V-E day. But last week, as U.S. soldiers whisked across the Rhine, the lid popped off. Out boiled a spate of reports that simmered down to one fact: if the war in Europe should end soon, reconversion would be confusion...
Last week the armed services were making an appraisal of their Pacific war needs and in the process trying to draw up a list of plants which can be freed for civilian manufacture after V-E day. Not until he has this information can Jimmy Byrnes draft an overall reconversion plan, a job that may well take another month...
Only then will U.S. industry get a substantial hint of how much its war production can be cut back on V-E...