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OUR ARMS FOR
U.S. FORCES
American Expert
Praises Works
Australian industry would be
used to the utmost to meet the re-
quirements of United States forces
in the Commonwealth, declared the
Director of Lease-Lend in Austra
lia <Mr. W. 5. Wassermant on his
arrival in Adelaide yesterday.
Mr. Wasserman, who spent the
day inspecting South Australian
munition plants with his senior
counsel (Ur Charles Denby) and
the Director-General of Ordnance
Production in Australia (Mr. L. J.
Hartnett), frho accompanied him
to Adelaide, paid high tribute to the
Commonwealth's industrial effort.
After Inspecting the railway
workshops and the works of Gene
ral Motors-Holdens, Mr. Wass*
man said that he had been greatly
impressed by the volume and
variety of production. -I have also i
been impressed by the ingenuity
you people have shown in making
machine-tools without waiting for
machine-tools from Uie United
States at a time when they were
very scarce," he added. "Good
Yankee ingenuity we would call it.
The result is that you are becoming
a great industrial nation
'?The very fact that the war iso
lated you'from your normal mar
kets has created an industrial
power here which will not only be
useiul after the war. but is one that
we will use to supply the Ameri-
E forces here. Everything that
can rat from Australia we are
ig To use because ofee of 4he ufbst
critical factors in ttie war is our
shipping, or lack of shipping, And
the length of our lines of communi
cation. If we can save by stimu
lating Australian industry and
making use of it we are jolly well
going to do it."
Productive Capacity
Mr. Wassennan said the Ameri
can oublic as a whole had no rea
lisation of Australia's productive
facilities and productive capacity.
He would like to take a moving pic
ture of Australian production borne
to show the American people just
| what this nation had accomplished.
Production was just half the
' battle, said Mr. Wasserman. The
other half was to get the production
ito the battlefield. The sooner
i this was done the sooner would the
Allies win Mr. Wasserman's
comment on President Roosevelt's
1 announcement that the production
, goals set were in sight was that
there was do limit to war or the
nesds ot war The Allies were now
out-producing the enemy, but they
\ could not afford to be complacent.
' There had been a substantial in
crease last month in Lend-Lease
' aid comin? to Australia, he said.
' nnri the amount of this aid had no
financial limitation. Lend-Lease
' must not be thought of as a finan-
I cial agency, nor must the Austra
i lian and American armies be
s thought of individually. They
; I should be thought of as an
.; Allied army fighting a com
!;tnon enemy.
-: Mr. Wassennan and his party will
.i be in Adelaide today, and will pro
? bably leave tomorrow.
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