THE AMERICAN NAVY
A TEMPORARY SQUADRON DUTY ON ATLANTIC COAST WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. (Received Sept. 2, at 10.35 p.m.) The Navy Department announced the immediate formation of a temporary squadron of the United States fleet for duty on the Atlantic coast. Officials stressed the fact that this step is merely part of the impending manoeuvre problem, which will bring the entire fleet into the Atlantic for the first time in several years. President Roosevelt asked a special committee, headed by the assistant Secretary for War, Mr Johnson, to devise an industrial mobilisation plan for the Use of power " that will make America so. strong that no foreign nation will bother us."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23595, 3 September 1938, Page 13
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