AMERICAN DEFENCE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S POLICY NATIONAL AMD HOME GUARDS. FIRST DRAFT OF CONSCRIPTED MEN. ißy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. noon.) WASHINGTON. August 6. President Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, revealed plans to organise Home Defence units in the forty-eight States, with world war veterans as a nucleus. It is -understood that following on Congressional approval, he intends to mobilise the National Guard as a first draft of conscripted men and to use the Home Guard to undertake the National Guard’s duties of local protection. He said it was unnecessary to comment on the Lindbergh speech. At a luncheon to a number of South American delegates to the Havana Conference, President Roosevelt said: "American inter-continental unity is now more nearly a fact than ever. ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 6
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