AMERICAN PLANS
ABANDONMENT OF LARGE COASTAL CITIES
WASHINGTON, April 8.
Mr. *Maury Maverick, a member of Congress, asserted that the War Department had drawn up plans for the abandonment of all large coastal cities in the event of a major war involving the United States. ■
He announced that a House of Representatives group was being organised to support the Senate amendment to the Appropriation Bill increasing the expenditure on sea coast and antiaircraft defences in 1939 by 40,000,000 dollars.
"London has 900 anti-aircraft guns, New York only 14," he said. "The United States needs 20,000 such guns, plus modernisation of her coastal defences."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 9
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