CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENCY
First Convention In U.S.A.
(Received June 24, 6.30 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA, June 23.
The Republican Resolutions Committee tentatively agreed to a foreign policy and national defence plank calling for peace, preparedness and non-interven-tion. It' will be part of the programme to be submitted to the Republican Convention which will open on June 24. j The national chairman, Mr John Hamilton, stated: “The Republicans must defeat any third term bid by Mr Roosevelt and thus save the country from a long step towards dictatorship.” Well-informed newspapers give prominence to an apparently inspired story from Hyde Park, where the President (Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt) is spending the week-end to the effect that he is contemplating the possibility that the United States might be forced to transfer the entire navy to the Atlantic to face a superior totalitarian armada, leaving Japan to dominate the Pacific. Diplomatic and political observers believe that this story is intended for domestic consumption in view of the fact that Congress has adjourned until July 1 with the 4,000,000,000 dollar Navy Bill not passed by the Senate.
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Southland Times, Issue 24161, 25 June 1940, Page 5
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