Roosevelt Studying Distant Defences
NEW YORK, February 19. Correspondents on board the United States destroyer Lang in radio messages today said President Roosevelt had permitted them to say he was in the Pacific conducting a study of the defences of the Panama Canal and Central America with special relation to distant defences. The President said it would not be in the public interests to reveal the localities he was visiting. . He hoped Congress would vote 15,000,000 dollars with which to commence the construction of a third set of locks in the Canal.
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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