Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-04

Washington, Jan. a.-Possibility of combined attack by tow foreign powers to break down the new Pan- tenance by the United States and &C., ceptance by South and Central Amer ican republics of the Monroe Doctrine is one of the fundamental basis for the national defense plans formulated by the army and navy strategists. They believe 1t essential in the form ulation of a national military policy, it was learned tonight. to provide against the eventuality of an assault upon the doctrine by either an Asia tic or a European power or even by | an alliance of two such powers, which might hurl forces simultaneously at the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. A navy equal in strength to those of any two world powers, except Great Britain and an army prepared American idea anywhere in Pan | America is the ultimate aim of the plans of the military experts.
 Shock of Present War Will Last Ten Years.
 Ten years is the time the navy general board believes the United ] States has in which to prepare for l readjustment of world forces which
 will follow the European war. In | l United States navy should equal l afioat-which means reaching the wo-power standard of the British ! navy-the board estimated that much i time would elapse before the shock of the present war passed sufficiently i to permit anysaef- the beI1igerents to i look to South or Central America for 1 colonial development or trade aggres- | sion.
 Plans of the army war college I T ;v, -ix- | The army officers take the position that the United States must have suf- l f1cient troops and troop ships to land forces in any threatened Pan-Ameri- can country to meet an invader. Mere Than Passive Resistance. l All these preparations, it is now
 known. have been presented by 1 strategists to the administration as ! essential to support the Monroe Doc | trine so that the United States may be able to act alone, if necessary, to
 preserve it's ideal of no entangling al- l liances. Such ideals. the military students have stated, impose new duties on the United states-duties
 that require something more than a | policy of mere passive resistance.
 Pan-Ameriean Unity.
 | While the administration branch of | the government has submitted to | congress a definite plan which con- templates an increased expenditure of more than a billion dollars on the mil
 itary and naval establishments in the | next six years, all other agencies of | the government are acting to unify and harmonize the Pan-Amerfcan na- tions. To students of diplomacy, the
 Pan-American declarations of Presi-
 dent Wilson in his opening address to congress: the declarations for Pan- American unity made to the Pan- American Scientific Congress here by ] Secretary Lansing and the general ef- fort for unity of all the Americas on a basis of friendship and equality,
 take op added significance when con- | sidered in connection with the ad-
 ministration's preparedness plan.
 Significant Factors.
 The recent announcement that the ambassadors from Argentina, Brazil
 and Chilli had been selected by the | United States to represent it on the
 commission provided by the peace in- vestigation treaties with France, Great Britain and Italy. is regarded as one of the significant factors in this connection.
 Significance also is seen in the dis closure that an effort to postpone the Pan- American Congress on the ground that sufficient time had not been given
 to prepare an adequate scientific pro-
 gramme was met by the statement | that the United States was insistently desirous of taking prompt steps to further the spirit of Pan-American accord. confidence, sympathy and mu- | tuality. South American capitals uniformly report that the congress is regarded there as more political than scientific and that congress is regard l ed there as more political than scien- tffic and that appropriation of the sen- timent of American unity is freely expressed.
 Confidential Information Not Revealed What confidential information the Army war college and the Navy gen. era lboard may have gathered con- corning the intentions of any certain powere or powers is not being re- l veaied: but there are certain matters of general knowledge which are known to have entered into the study
 of possibilities upon which the theory
 of two power attack upon the Mon roe Doctrine was based.
 l A Two-Power Navy.
 l With the military programme agreed | upon and defined, the boards Of straS- egists were asked what, in their opinion, would constitute adequate na- tionaI defense. Their answer was to ize a federal army Of sufficient size Sd | that e portion of it could be used in any southern country against a for efgn invader without impairing the
 safety of .tht United Etatee inself.
 Recommended For Nsvy. Il 1. Authorization in is1e-f7 of ssoo.-
 900, 900 in new ships as against a to Il tai investment in fighting equipment
 now afioat during the last thirty years of $45e, ,esa,6h1.
 a f.onstruefiess of ferr batffa er,,is.