TERRITORY IS DEFENCELESS, SAYS GOVERNOR
(11 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. The Governor of Alaska. Mr. Ernest Gruening, told Congress today that the territory was defenceless and could be captured “tomorrow by a minor-scale airborne invasion.”
The Governor gave his estimate of the Alaskan defences in appealing to Congress to act quickly on the 138.000.000-dollar defence authorisation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23023, 13 August 1949, Page 5
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