UNITED STATES FORCES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 7

UNITED STATES FORCES.

BIG EXPANSION PLAN. GENERAL ISSUES WARNING. Received June 5, 10.10 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 4. President Roosevelt has asked Congress for 1,277,741,170 dollars for tne army and navy, ol wliich 507,253,000 doflars will be cash and 63,560,000 dollars contractual authority tor the navy, 452,751,000 dollars cash and 2y4,i77,000 dollars contractual authority for the army, and also 180,890,000 dollars cash and 109,260,000 dollars contractual authority for army aeroplanes. , . , Mr Roosevelt sought initial construction funds for three aircraft-carriers, 13 cruisers, 22 submarines, and 30 destroyers. The Senate has approved and sent to the House a Bill authorising the navy to acquire 10,000 aeroplanes and 16,000 pilots, and spend 144,132,000 dollars on new and improved navy bases. ■ The Naval Committee chairman (Senator D. I. Walsh) said the Administration was negotiating for the establishment of air bases in. South America. - The Chief of the Army Staff (General G. C. ■ Marshall),, urging the House Military Committee to approve the calling up of the National Guard, cited the rise of indirect, subversive methods in the Western Hemisphere, declaring that authority to call lip was “essential if we are going to avoid serious trouble.” Several of General Marshall’s remarks have been construed as references to threats of a Nazi-Communist uprising in Mexico after the election in July and the possible involvement of other South American States. The German Charge d’Affaires, (Herr Thomsen), in a memorandum to the State Department, alleged that Britain and France had sent agents to. the South American countries and the Panama Canal in order to give the impression that numerous German agents were operating. The American Embassy at Berlin is reported, to have handed to the Press an announcement alleging that Britain and France intend to sink the liners Washington, Manhattan and President Roosevelt.