America’s Postwar Merchant Navy
NEW YORK, May 25. Tho United States should operate ; merchant fleet of from 15,000,000 t„ 20,000,000 deadweight tons after thwar, tho Maritime Commission Chau man, Admiral Land, declared in a speech. He added that expansion ovc. the prewar fleet of 11,000,000 ton should be carried out at the expense o. Japan, not America’s Allies. “If one third of tho combined Axis prewar ton nage is assigned to the United States and two-thirds to the other United maritime Nations, tho increment over 1939 to the United States could bo employed where Japanese tonnage was formerly used."
Admiral Land proposed the maintenance after tho war of a reserve mer chant fleet of 1000 ships kept ir a condition to respond to a national emergency.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 123, 27 May 1944, Page 6
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