SALE OF U.S. AIR FORCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 12

SALE OF U.S. AIR FORCE

MORE FUNDS FOR THE NAVY

TRAINING OF PILOTS

(By -Telegraph--Press Association —Copyright.)

(Received May 23, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 21

The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, by 12 votes to 1, shelved Senator Pepper's resolution to sell the United States air force to the Allies. Senator K. Pittman declared that the concensus of opinion was that the proposal was a violation of international law and would constitute intervention by the United States. The House agreed to dispense with the usual procedure and to take up defence measures from the Naval and Military Affairs Committee on May 23. The Senate Naval Affairs Committee added 478,000,000 dollars to the navy's supply bill, providing for an increase of 25,000 in enlistments and also for the purchase of 1735" training planes. In this connection Admiral Towers predicted that the navy could train 350 pilots a month by January and 560 a month in a year's time, compared with 100 a month at present. The total funds available for the navy are now 1,464,000,000 dollars. The Senate over-rode Republican efforts to modify President Roosevelt's recommendations approving the allotment .of 132,000,000 dollars, half cash and half contract authority, for ; expenditure at President Roosevelt's discretion, rejecting Senator J. A. Danaher's amendment to restrict the export of warplanes to two-thirds of factory output. Mr. Martin Dies (Democrat) tabled a resolution in the House of Representatives for the exclusion of Nazi, Fascist, and Communist aliens as well as sympathisers, and also for the deportation of aliens who after entry are found to be Nazis, Fascists, Communists, and habitual criminals.