U.S. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25607, 23 September 1948, Page 5

U.S. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR

Overall Plan Said To Be Ready

ARMED SERVICES AND INDUSTRY

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ( Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 21. . The United States’ military planning programme has now progressed so far that the country is in its strongest position since the start of the so-called cold war,” says the Washington correspondent of the “New York Quoting military observers. , . For the first- time in its peace-time history the United States has developed an over-all plan for the conauct of total war should irresponsible Powers force such a war on it. The Army, Navy, and Air Force now know what their roles are. The .joint Chiefs of Staff have also given .?. ndus^ planning arm—the Munitions Board—a picture of the supplies and weapons needed. . “The plan necessarily is secret in its important details, but the Munitions Board can now make definite plans for the allocation of steel, machine-tools, or whole industrial units against the ° a y .woe? war might mean the total mobilisation of manpower and resources.”