AIM TO SURROUND WEST HEMISPHERE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 168, 18 July 1941, Page 7

AIM TO SURROUND WEST HEMISPHERE

AMERICAN FORCES

Guard Against Ruthless Foreign Power

Roc. 1 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 17.

tnl < ri el |hl al c Marshal!, Chief of Staff, thai tVr £ ; I r la . te Military Committee that the United States aimed to surround the western hemisphere with a nng of protection against any ruthless foreign Power.

Vh . ile the , Var Department did not know the next move of the axis, after the Russian campaign, it could envisage future steps of e Z e Q magnitude, said General Marsha 1 in evidence. The Department could see Spain, Portugal and North Atrica conquered very quickly. Each move would leave the Axis readier i? r -. a , n other move. Unless the United States made businesslike preparations she might find herself in 3, tragic situation. The efficiency of tne War Department's military forces would be greatly improved if congress removed the prohibition on the extended service for trainees.

He said it was absurd to say that fM~ce' aS planning an expeditionary

The Office of Production Management has announced that rifles and sub-machine-guns were being produced at the rate of 1500 daily, compared with 931 in January, 1941. U.S. Navy Patrols Not Practice Work llear-Admiral Towers told the House of Representatives Naval Committee that United States Navy planes are patrolling the Atlantic, J acilic Philippine and Panama areas', lie added that the patrols were not just practice work.

In an interview with a representative ot the Associated Press of America, Senator Pepper said that the I nited States should send war materials to General Wevgand on the understanding that he used them to prevent the German occupation of Dakar.

Delence ollicials said to-dav that the Government is now trainiu" nurses tor duty in the armed services, cantonment and industrial areas A recruiting plan is being considered in order to enlist young women who would assume nonmedical duties now being performed by registered nurses, relieving then; for more vital work.

FRANCO'S WARNING American Interference In European War ALLIES POLICY IAKCK.YL Rcc. 2.:;o p.m. MADRID, .Julv 17 A warning to the United States not tn interfere in the European Mitigglr against Bolshevism, was given by General Franco, in a speech at the 1-alangist Council anniversarv of the Civil War. He added that v>ar between Europe and America would be catastrophic lor America.

The German attack against Russia would have no decisive influence upon the fact that the Allies were unable to win. The Allies' professed police of liberating invaded nations was farcical. Spain is remaining independent and relying on her army and the Falangist partv.