MR JAMES V. FORRESTAL, United States Secretary of the Navy, has recommended postwar military training of one year’s duration for American youth. “The aeroplane and the robot plane,” said Mr Forrestal, “have already dried up the English Channel, and may also dry up other oceans. We cannot afford to assume that any permanent state of peace will arrive overnight. If we should ever again be plunged into war, I am sure we would prefer that our sons should have had a year’s training for defending their country.” (Rugby).
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Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 5
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88MR JAMES V. FORRESTAL, United States Secretary of the Navy, has recommended postwar military training of one year’s duration for American youth. “The aeroplane and the robot plane,” said Mr Forrestal, “have already dried up the English Channel, and may also dry up other oceans. We cannot afford to assume that any permanent state of peace will arrive overnight. If we should ever again be plunged into war, I am sure we would prefer that our sons should have had a year’s training for defending their country.” (Rugby). Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 5
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