Uncle Sam Warns Others To Go Easy

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 5

Uncle Sam Warns Others To Go Easy

United Press Association. —cru KlcctrU Telearaph.—Copyright.] (Received 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 9.

The Washington correspondent of the United Press says he learns that President Roosevelt has decided to recommend to Congress a huge naval aircraft building programme and the construction of mere submarines and destroyers, instead of battleships, on the ground that lack of building facilities would delay for at least two years the start of actual construction of the latter.

The supplementary programme is expected to cost nearly 2,000,000 dollars.

It is believed that the programme will include the construction of nearly J.OOO more aeroplanes by 1940, whereby the combined Navy and Army Airforce will total approximately 4500 modern machines.

U S Trailing the World. The recent report of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. C. A. Swanson, revealed that the United States is trailing all the naval Powers in the submarine and destroyer category. The chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Repre? sentatives, Mr. Taylor, said the national defence programme would be enacted very speedily. “The greatest urgency,” he said, “is an adequate Air Force. There is no question in my mind that, in the event of war, it will come from bombs, gas and general aerial attacks.. In order to combat it, we must have an aerial defence system second to none.”

Must Be On Guard.

Mr. Taylor condemned three unnamed “buccaneering nations,” and said the United States Government must be on its guard, otherwise a surprise move might catch it “flatfooted.”

He added: “The programme really is preparation for peace. It is a warning to other Powers that they had better go easy with “Uncle Saip.”

“Treaties mean nothing today. It would be idiotic for the United States not to prepare, instead of just praying that the rest of the world will be good.”