WAR CABINET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1941, Page 6

WAR CABINET

SUMMONED IN WASHINGTON SPEEDING UP OUTPUT OF BOMBERS. CHIEFS OF STAFF ATTEND. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May G. President Roosevelt has summoned a special meeting of the “War Cabinet,” consisting of Messrs Hull, Knox, Stimson and Morgenthau. to act on his request for greatly increased bomber production to give the democracies command of the air. The meeting was also attended by the Chief of Staff, General Marshall, Admiral Stark and General Arnold, who has just returned from London with a report on Britain’s aerial needs, and Mr Harry Plopkins. An hour after the War Cabinet had been convened Admiral Towers, Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, was called in. PRESIDENT’S AIM RAPID REINFORCEMENT OF R.A.F. FOR ALL-OUT BOMBING OF GERMANY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Dav, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. May G. Washington informed circles said the rapid reinforcement of the R.A.F. for an all-out bombing of Germany is the objective of President Roosevelt's emergency order to speed up the production of long-range bombers, the eventual goal of which is reported to be 500 monthly. URGENT NEED NAVAL LANDING FORCE. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May G. The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) told the House Naval Committee that it was critically important now for the Navy to haye a landing force readj' to operate. TREND OF EVENTS PHILIPPINE OPINION. (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) MANILA, May G. Declaring that the trend of events “seems to point strongly to United States entry into the war, President Quezon asked the Assembly to appropriate ton million pesos to provide civilian defences, and also to extend the Government's emergency powers.