GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill & the U. S.

While Franklin Roosevelt again revised the U. S. defense setup by giving it a two-man head (see p. 21), Winston Churchill last week again revised Britain's setup. He made Labor Minister Ernest Bevin Chief of Production Executive, Supply Minister Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Chief of Import Executive, Minister Without Portfolio Arthur Greenwood, whose so-called Production Council has proved inadequate, he made Chief of [postwar] Reconstruction Executive. In Britain, as in the U. S., these changes were not wholly satisfying. Said the Laborite Daily Herald: "There is still no supreme high command...

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