FIGHTING ARMY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 3

FIGHTING ARMY

AND WAR PRODUCTION MANPOWER IN UNITED STATES. POINT WHERE DECISION MUST SOON BE MADE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 9. “America’s manpower situation has reached a point where a decision must soon be made about the size of the fighting Army,”,said Mr Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, at a Press conference. He declined to discuss th© probable maximum strength,' but said an army of 10,000,000 was not out of the picture. He added: “We can equip 10,000,000 men and keep them supplied with food, munitions and replacements.” The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says the size of the American Army is undetermined, but if it is to be ten or thirteen million,.both of which have been mentioned, then a very great diminution of the outward flow of lend-lease is inevitable, as there is a limit to the American capacity to produce. ’“Now that the British have reached what may be saturation point in manpower, and the United States must provide the remainder required for final victories on land,” the correspondent adds, “there arises a home problem of equipment, the solution of which is equally vital to the Allies and ourselves.”