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U.S. MUST BE PREPARED
Rec 9 a.m. NEW YORK, January 20. Another war was inevitable, and therefore preparedness after the war was the only safeguard against aggression,; said the Vice-president of the War Production Board, Mr. Charles Wilson, when addressing the Army Ordnance Association. "Instead of Ipoking to .disarmament as a safeguard, let us try the opposite, namely, full preparedness/ he said. He urged the establishment of a permanent committee, composed of army and navy officers and industrialists to continue Government-sponsored postwar military research and development. "The nation would be appalled at the weapons of the next war, the destructive power of which would be many times magnified, and the time to prepare adequate defence would, ' next time, be tragically shorter. Perhaps there would be no time at all. • "Tp establish post-war military preparedness we must integrate political, military, and industrial activities because we are in world politics to stay whether we like it or not," Mr. "Wilson said. >
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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