AMERICAN MERCHANT FLEET
SUGGESTIONS FOR POST-WAR INCREASE New York. May 25. The United States should operate a merchant fleet of 15.000.000 to 20.000.000 deadweight tons after the war. the Maritime Commission Chairman, Rear Admiral Land, declared in a speech. He added that expansion over the pre-war fleet of 11.000.000 tons should be carried out at the expense of Japan, and not of America’s Allies. “If one-third of the combined Axis pre-war tonnage is assigned to the United States and two-thirds to the other united maritime nations, the increment over 1939 to the United States could be employed where Japanese tonnage was formerly used. “Admiral Land proposed the maintenance after the war of a reserve merchant fleet of 1000 ships kept in condition to respond to a national emergency.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 May 1944, Page 5
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