ARMS FOR VESSELS
NAVY DEPARTMENT'S PLANS
WASHINGTON, June 18,
President Roosevelt announced that the United States Navy now, as in every year since 1918, possessed plans to provide arms for use by American merchant vessels for their own defence.
He added that so far as he was concerned the plans were still in the Navy Department's safes, thereby implying that he was not at present putting them into effect.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 7
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69ARMS FOR VESSELS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 7
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