EARLIER VICTORY DINTED BY BILL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 118, 21 May 1942, Page 7

EARLIER VICTORY DINTED BY BILL

MASSIVE US. EFFORT

Allied Plane Output Far

Above Axis

United Press Association. —Copyright. Rec. 1 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 20

Mr. Corciell Hull, Secretary of State, told the Press to-day that -he saw some grounds for hope that victory would come sooner than previously had been expected.

Asked whether the developments of recent weeks on the home and foreign fronts cncouraged his belief of an earlier victory, Mr. Hull pointed cut that the powers and facilities of the United States were developing on a more and more massive scale, not only for offensivedefensive operations, but for an outright offensive war. It was only natural that calculations as to the duration cf the war would be made in the light of those facts.

Mr. Hull said the immobilising of French warships at Martinique was still going on, but the removal of the fuel had been completed.

Mr. J. Carlton "Ward, president of the Fairchild Engine Airplane Corporation. told the National Metal Trades Association in New York today that the following aircraft production figures were based on sufficient authority to give them validity:—Germany 2900, Italy 700. Japan 500. total Axis 4100 a month; United States 3300. Britain 2400. Russia 2900. total United Nations S6OO a month.

Mr. Ward said American plane production would pass 0000 a month in time to make gcod President Roosevelt's goal of 60,000 for the year.