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■v PROMISED ON AMERICAN DEFENCE PLANS SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT. FROM LEGISLATIVE LEADERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 20. Legislative leaders have assured President Roosevelt of quick action on all phases of the defence programme. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Army Bill, involving an expenditure of 1.821,000.000 dollars. This includes President Roosevelt's request of May 16 for the Army and Navy.
Treasury officials outlined the essentials of the air programme to a conference of aeroplane, machine, tool and engine manufacturers, after which the industry pledged co-operation. Mr Marshall told the House Committee that President Roosevelt’s programme still left the nation on a peace time basis and urged an authorisation to acquire 10.000 planes, adding that in the first day of the Western Front hostilities one country lost six times the number of planes the present Appropriation Bill allowed for Air Corps replacements. The Senate Committee declared that the programme would give the United States 8.066 combat and training planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 6
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