U.S. PLANS CIVIL DEFENCES FOR WAR EMERGENCY
I Rec. 2 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 10.
The director of civil defence, Mr Russell Hopley, disclosed that a civil defence war manual, covering mass evacuation and the relief of warstricken cities, will be made public in a few weeks.
He said the civil defence planning was placing a heavy reliance on motor transport in an emergency. “We must assume that if there is another war, the first strike will come without warning,” he said: Meanwhile the National Security Resources Board announced an overall mobilisation and war powers bill to govern the lives of all Americans in the event of war was now being drafted and would be ready by December 1. A board official said the bill would exercise tighter controls over the nation than had been imposed in the last war and added that the date, December 1, had no significance in relation to the international situation, but was merely a date set for the completion of staff work.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 5
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