COVETOUS HANDS
AMERICAN MINISTER SOUNDS WARNING □ ENUNCIATION OF DOCTRINES OF FORCE. MEASURES OF PREPARATION ADVOCATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 7. The 'assistant Secretary for War, Mr N. Johnson, in a broadcast, warned both the United States and South America that they were endangered by the “covetous hands of nations which believe in the doctrines of force.”
He urged the immediate enactment of a selective service law to enable speedy mobilisation, thus serving notice on the whole world that the United States is prepared for any eventuality. He concluded: “We should constantly be alert for the appearance in either of the Americas of political penetration, which is the first step in a new technique of conquest that the aggressor nations are employing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 7
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