BROADER BASIS.
AMERICA'S DEFENCE.
President Roosevelt's New Programme. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. United Press Association. — Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 3. President Roosevelt has broadened his new defence programme to include the Navy in a plan, requiring 5,000,000,000 dollars for immediate appropriations and authorisations, which is expected to be submitted to Congress on Monday next.
The Navy has awarded contracts for three aircraft-carriers, each of 43,662,000 dollars, and two cruisers, each of 19,272,000 dollars, completing contracts for the 11 per cent naval expansion and making 92 ships totalling 499,435 tons for which contracts have been let in the last three weeks. This is in addition to 66 warships being constructed under earlier authorisations.
General Pershing, endorsing the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, sent a letter to the Senate Military Committee stating that compulsory training "might well be a determining factor in keeping the United States out of war."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 7
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