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This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...generations the defense of the U. S. has faced west. Into the naval bases at Cavite, P. I. and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have gone 75-80 millions of dollars for defense against an invader from the Orient. But today, although the U. S. Army and Navy are beginning to develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until...
...proposals: American Dream: "The American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify the nature and goals of democracy. It can portray the American dream of a nation with liberty, justice and opportunity for all . . . develop in all citizens deep and abiding loyalties to the central values of democracy. . . ." Authority: "Must the American people, for the period of the emergency, place the authority to decide issues of national policy in the hands of a few persons...
...from Stinson's present 725 to 7,000 or more. Stinson had a parts plant at Wayne, Mich.; Vultee could use that. Finally, by immediately expanding Stinson's 180,000 square feet to 900,000 or more, Vultee would be one of the first major companies to develop a new "inland" defense plant, long wanted by the Army. That could be a political advantage...
...also have the eastern striking force of the Army Air Corps, flying fortresses capable of operating more than 1,000 miles to sea from a new field near San Juan. At St. Thomas, V. I., the Marines have an air base and $1,510,000 has been authorized to develop St. Thomas' fine harbor into a naval station...