AMERICAN ARMY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 April 1922, Page 5

AMERICAN ARMY.

NEW SITUATION CREATED

BALANCE OF POWER AFFECTED

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, April 25. Mr Weeks, Secretary for War, testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, declared that the chaotic state of world affairs and the creation of new balances of power, such as by the new German-Russian treaty, would make a reduction in the United States army below 150,000 folly., .Th<e decrease proposed by the House Bill would invite aggression.