U.S.A. CONSCRIPTION SUGGESTED BY ARMY SECRETARY

Grey River Argus, 14 November 1949, Page 5

U.S.A. CONSCRIPTION SUGGESTED BY ARMY SECRETARY

(Rec. 9.30). WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The ultimate cost of America’s participation in the. Second World War .was expected to reach fourteen hundred and four thousand million dollars, said Mr Gordon Gray, the Secretary for the'Army, in an Armistice Day address at Greenville, ip North Carolina. He said that any future war might well cost 3,250 thousand million dollars. Neither America, nor any other country could really afford another war.'but there must be no reduction in America’s preparedness to meet aggression, if war came. Mr Gray declared that universal military training should be inaugurated, and that the peace-time draft law should be retained.