HOUSE APPROVES PLAN
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY
AMENDMENTS LOST
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.*
WASHINGTON, February 15.
The House of Representatives today passed President Roosevelt's 376,000,000-dollar defence programme by 367 votes to 15, rejecting all attempts at amendment, carrying a 5,000,000-dollar provision for the defence of Guam Island, and authorising the expansion of the Army Air Corps to 5500 aeroplanes.
Representative Stephen Pace stated in the debate: "Germany is ready to strike. I think she may demand the Ukraine tomorrow, and then Tunisia will be fought for. We are safe so long as England and France stand, and we are in immediate danger when they fall. Is it not, therefore, better for us to sell to England and France the aeroplanes they need for defence than to go to war ourselves with the victors if England and France are defeated?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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