U.S.A. DEFENCE
ALLEGED PLANS IN EVENT OF WAR ABANDONMENT OF COASTAL CITIES STATEMENT BY MEMBER OF CONGRESS By Telegraph. —Press Association, Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 8. Representative Maverick asserted that the War Department had drawn up plans for the abandonment of all large coastal cities in the event of a major war involving the United States.
He announced that a House group was being organised to support the Senate amendment to the Appropriation Bill increasing 1939 expenditures on sea coast and anti-aircraft defences by 40,000,000 dollars. “London has 900 anti-aircraft guns, New York only 14,” he said. “The United States needs 20,000 such guns, plus modernisation of her coastal defences.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 7
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