NAZI GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1940, Page 5

NAZI GERMANY

SEEN AS POTENTIAL ENEMY AMERICAN WAR MINISTER’S VIEW. ADVOCACY OF UNIVERSAL DRAFT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. July 31. The Secretary of War, Mr Stimson, supporting the Burke and Wadsworth Universal Draft Bill before the House Military Committee, said: “We are face to face with a potential enemy—Germany. A prudent trustee must consider that in another 30 days Britain may be conquered and her fleet under enemy control. “The danger is far greater than in June, 1917. Then an unbroken Allied line gave the United States time to prepare.” The Senate Military Committee has been advised that the War Department of the Budget Bureau has approved the Conscription Bill. Members consider that the bureau’s approval implies Presidential sanction. The House Appropriations Committee approved a Bill implementing President Roosevelt’s requests for defence authorisations on July 10 totalling 4,863,151,957 dollars for cash and contract authorisations, making 10.040,225,5433 dollars available for defence expenditure in the current fiscal year. The House passed the Bill and sent it to the Senate.

CONSCRIPTION LAW SUGGESTED LIMITATION. CONSIDERED BY SENATE COMMITTEE. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) WASHWINGTON. August 1. The Senate Banking Committee reported favourably on the 500,000,000 dollars Export and Import Bank Bill, adding a provision prohibiting the use of the funds in violation oi the Johnson Act. The Senate Military Committee postponed action on the Conscription Bill, as strong support had developed for limitation of its immediate application to one million men.

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