ALL IN ATLANTIC.
UNITED STATES FLEET.
Part of Impending Manoeuvre
Problem.
PRESIDENT'S OBJECTIVE
United Press Association.—Copyright.
\\ ASHIX< iTOX. September 2.
The Navy Department to-dav announced the immediate formation of a temporary squadron of the United States Fleet for duty on the Atlantic Coast.
Officials stressed that the step was merely a part of ail impending manoeuvre problem, which would bring the entire I'leet into the Atlantic for the first time for several years.
President Roosevelt has asked a special committee headed by the Assi:-tant Secretary for War. Mr. L. Johnson. to devise an industrial nioliiliration plan for the use of power "that will make America so strong that no foreign nation will bother us."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 9
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