AMERICAN DEFENCE.
PRESIDENT AND CONSCRIPTION. Received August 3, 9.30 a.in. WASHINGTON, Aug 2. President Roosevelt to-dav reaffirmed his endorsement of the principle or conscription. _ , . “1 am in favour of a Selective Training Bill and consider it essential for adequate national defence,” Mr Roosevelt said. He added that he not only hoped, lint believed, Congress “ would enact a Bill this session to provide sufficient man-power to operate the war machines being assembled. He said he would not cumber himself with details and would not endorse any specific Bill or provisions in a Bill. PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIES. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. A message from Albany states that, in an unprecedented peace-time move, Governor Lehman lias apnointed a State Defence Council of 12 members to co-ordinate preparedness activities in line with the national defence programme/He said: “We have no time to waste. I am convening the first meeting in a few days.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7
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