HALT WANTED

Grey River Argus, 23 January 1943, Page 5

HALT WANTED

IN U.S.A. ARMY INCREASE

Senate Farm Bloc Leader Sees Danger ■Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn. 7 (Rec. 8.30) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Senator Bankhead, a leader of the Farm Bloc in the United States Senate, to-day said: ’‘lt would be dangerous for the United States to withdraw from war production many more men for the armed forces. It has seemed that the most solution is for the United States to continue to serve ourselves and our allies as the arsenal of production, the United States supplying food and weapons and calling on the allies to furnish the additional manpower that is necessary.” Senator Bankhead declared that the time had come for Congress to fix a maximum size for the United States Army. If its present rate of increase were to be continued, then the United States would have an army of twelve millions this year. He said: “Our soldiers, if they are sent across the Atlantic Ocean, must travel three thousand miles. and must encounter submarine hazards. If sent across the Pacific Ocean, they must travel six or seven thousand miles, and must risk destruction from the Japanese Fleet, from submarines and from planes. Of all the countries. China and Russia arp in the best position to furnish menChina, alone, could raise twenty-five million men.” TWO MILLION MEN IN UNIFORM. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Including the Navy, about two million men—one in thirteen Americans —will wear uniform in 1943, said the Under Secretary of War (Mr. Patterson) addressing West Point graduates. He added that the proportion was much higher in England and Russia. America could not leave the hard work of lighting to the Bri- i tish, Russians and Chinese.