AMERICAN DEFENCE
PREPARATIONS ADVANCING iCOMPULSORY SERVICE BILL "We are going ahead with the defence preparations, in every way. 1 hope we can get into full production before things come to a showdown with the totalitarian forces," writes a Cincinnati (U.S.A.) business man in a letter which has been received in Wellington. "The Selective Compulsory Service Bill will be presented to the Senate next v/cek. I am heartily in favour of it, as are many others, but I am sorry to say that a few bigoted idealists, visionaries, and professional pacifists are determined to give it a light. "As I sec it, this is no time to fool around, but America, with all] its advantages, is cursed, with a scattering of crackpots who want to stick their noses in where wiser people would stay out. The ghastly experiment of prohibition is a typical example." The writer mentions that a huge aero engine factory is to be established. The estimated yearly production is about 36,000 engines.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 220, 2 October 1940, Page 7
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164AMERICAN DEFENCE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 220, 2 October 1940, Page 7
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