AMERICAN PLANES
PURCHASE BV THE ALLIES
CONTROVERSY EXTENDING.
DEFENCE PROGRAMME NEEDS
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright WASHINGTON, March 13.
The controversy over the Allied purchases of warplanes is growing. A subcommittee of the House of Representatives has ordered an inquiry into whether the purchases will proceed to a point hampering the United States' defence programme, and it has called the Secretary for War, Mr Harry Woodring, and General Marshall to testify.
A demand for a similar investigation was made in the Senate by Senator La Follette.
In the meantime, President Roosevelt and members of the special Interdepartmental Co-ordinating Committee reviewed the aircraft situation, particularly the extent to which the foreign orders are increasing the capacity of American plant and also the question of price increases which some predict.
Senator Barkley defended the purchases as contributing to production and employment. The Under-Secretary of War, Senator Johnson, denied that so far there has been any sidetracking of United States military orders.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1940, Page 5
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