U.S. DEFENCES
PROGRAMME WIDENED
BIG NAVAL EXPANSION
CONTRACTS PLACED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.l
(Received July 4, 1.15 p.m.)
WASHINGTON, July 3
President Roosevelt has broadened his new defence programme to include the navy in a plan requiring 5,000,000,000 dollars in immediate appropriations and authorisations. The plan is expected to be submitted to Congress on Monday next.
The Navy Department has awarded contracts for three aircraft carriers, each to cost 43,662,000 dollars, and two cruisers, each to cost 19,172,000 dollars, completing the contracts for the 11 per cent, naval expansion and making 92 ships, totalling 499,435 tons, contracted for in the last three weeks. In addition, 66 warships are being constructed under earlier authorisations. General Pershing, endorsing the Burke and Wadsworth Bill providing for compulsory training, has sent a letter to the Senate Military Committee stating that compulsory training "might well be the determining factor in keeping the United States out of the war."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 12
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