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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 29, 1938.
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ROOSEVELT OUTLINES PLAN FOR U.S. ARMAMENT INCREASE Country Compelled To Think Of Her Own Safety
EXPANSION OF ARMY
AND NAVY: TWO NEW BATTLESHIPS
Washington, To-day.
NEW ZEALAND FINANCES
We lington. (N. Z.), To-day. New Zealand finances are sound, stated the Finance Minis- ter yesterday in a statement the country's financial position for the nine months ending De- cember...
Revenue increased to £20,750,- 000, compared with £18,500,000 in
President Roosevelt's national defence ·message, delivered to Congress, opens with à recapitula- tion of the Government's efforts to find a way to limit armaments and "establish at least the the corresponding period the pre- probability of world peace." The message adds that hitherto these efforts have failed.
vious year, while expenditure was under £22,000,000, a reduction of £4,000,000—Reuter. -
ocean and one coast, and that the
"We cannot be certain that the link of the Panama
The United States could not and would not abandon
the active search for an international agree-other ocean coast would with cer- ment to limit armaments and end aggression,tainty be safe, but it was clear that until such an agreement connecting was reached (and “I have not given up hope of Canal will be safe. that") the United States is compelled to think of her own safety.
of
the
affects simultaneous defence
"Adequate defence therefore
of
every part of the United States.
"It is our clear duty to further "It is with the deepest regret (3) That the expenditure every effort to peace but at the that I report that armaments in- $6,080,000 be authorised for same time to protect our nation. crease to-day at an unprecedent-manufacture of gauges, dies and "Such protection is, and will be
ed and alarming rate.
other aids to manufacture of army based not on aggression but on "It is an ominous fact that at material, of which $5,000,000 be ex-defence."-Reuter- least one-fourth of the world's pended during the fiscal year 1939.
population is involved in à merci- (4) That $2,000,000 be appropri- U.S. NAVY EXPERT
less and devastating conflict, inated towards making up deficiencies spite of the fact that most people in ammunition for the army.
in most countries, including those where the conflict rages, wish to live in peace.
TWO WARS
Armies are fighting in the Far East and Europe, thousands of civilians are being driven from their homes and bombed from the air, and tension throughout the world is high.
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NAVY PROGRAMME
(5) That the existing authoris- ed building programme for increases in replacements for the navy be increased by 20 per cent.
CONSULTING IN LONDON
London, To-day.
It is stated in official circles that the visit to London "of an officer of
NEW UNITED
STATES PACT WITH CANADA
Washington, To-day.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, last "night an- nounced the United States Government's formal intention to negotiate a new trade treaty with Canada. -
Closing date for submission of views by interested parties will be March 12, and public hearings will open on April 4.
No further reductions will be granted by the United States on. goods the tariff on which has al- ready been cut by 50 per cent, in the existing trade treaty.-Reuter,
PLOT TO ASSASSINATE GEN. METAXAS
Athens, To-day. Fifteen party leaders, includ- ing three officers, who were ar- rested and deported to an island after the discovery of "sübersive activities and a plot to assassin- ate Metaxas, the Premier,” will be detained for one year.
The action follows publication of
(6) That Congress authorise the United States Navy Department, la proclamation in Vienna which was the laying down of two addi- which was referred to a press considered to be of a nature likely tional battleships and two addi-messages from Washington yester-to disturb public order. tional cruisers during the calen- day, morning, was for the purpose dar year 1938. This will require of consultation with the Admiralty a very small amount of Govern- | regarding capital ship construction. ment funds during the fiscal --British Wireless.
year 1939.
"As commander-in-chief of the United States army and navy, it is my constitutional duty to report to Congress that our national defence (7) That Congress authorise up is in the light increasing armaments to $15,000,000 for construction of of other nations, inadequate for pur-a number of new type small vessels. poses of national security and there-Such construction will be regarded fore requires to be increased.
as experimental in the light of new developments among the navies, and will include preparation of plans for other types of ships in the event of it being necessary to construct such ships in future.
NO PROFITEERING
PROPORTIONAL COST "Despite the well-known fact that the American standard of living makes our ships, guns, aeroplanes cost more to construct than in any other country, and that the mainten I believe that the time has ance thereof and of the army and for Congress to enact legislation navy_is_more-expensive than in any aimed at prevention of pronteering other nations, it is also true that in wartime and equalisation of the the proportion of cost of our military burdens of possible wars. and naval forces to the total income "Such legislation of our citizens, or to the total cost of our Government, is far lower than in any of the other great nations.
"Specifically and solely because of the piling up of land and sea armaments in other countries in such
a manner. as involves a threat
peace and
security world
I make the following res commendations to Congress.
has been the subject for many years of full study in this and previous Con......
gresses.
"We must all realise that to- day's unfortunate world condi- tions too often have resulted in discarding of these principles and treaties underlying inter- national law and order, and the entrance of many new factors into the actual conduct of war. "Adequate protection means that for-protection not only of our That additions to anti-air coasts but also of our communities craft material for the United States far removed from our coast, we army be authorised, totalling $8,800,- must keep any potential enemy 000 of which $6,800,000 be appro- many hundreds of miles away from priated for the fiscal year 1989. our continental limits.
(1)
A.A.. GUNS
(2) That $450,000 be authorised to be appropriated for better estab- lishment of an enlisted reserve for the army.
PANAMA- LINK
"We cannot assume that our de- fence would be limited to
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All is quiet in Athens.-Reuter, In the above message Reuter ré- fers to a Vienna proclamation, of which nothing has been cabled.
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