The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-18
R. TALKS WITH
CANADA PREMIER
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There was to be no additional
news on the meeting tonight, Mr..
Roosevelt let reporters know, but he
said he might have something to
say about it tomorrow.
The chief executive dropped an.
other significant phrase at the con.
|clusion of an inspection of 1000
troops engaged in mock war games
in the area around Ogdensburg. Va.
rious military observers from Latin
American nations were introduced
to him and he commented on the
absence of our Canadian friends.
They are part of the Americas
just the same as the U. S. A. he de.
clared.
A Full Discussion
Thus he gave weight to the belief
that he and Mackenzie King would
go into the ramifications of the
Monroe doctrine and the extent to
which Canada might consider her.
self covered by it.
His statement two years ago was
made, with Mackenzie King pres.
ent, at the dedication of an inter.
national bridge at Kingston, Ont.
MI. Roosevelt warded off attempts
of reporters to prod him. into a dis
cussion of the specific matters he
and the prime minister would take
up in their meeting in a private rail-
road car in this city on the banks
of the St. Lawrence river.
But he indicated he might have
some announcement to make tomor.
row.
Mackenzie King came down from
Ottawa to meet the President, who
had disclosed in Washington that
conversations had been in progress
with the Canadian. government on
hemisphere d%efenses, and with
Britain on the acquisition of naval
and air bases in British territory in
the western hemisphere.
The chief executive talked with
reporters in front of the Ogdens-
burg Free Academy after having
spent the afternoon looking over
eight divisions of the first army
troops.
He was informed that Wendell l..
Willkie, in his address accepting the
republican presidential nomination,
had challenged him to a series of
face-to-face debates on major cam.
paign issues.
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The President said he didn't know
that he had heard nothing about the
challenge since he had spent, five
hours visiting $4,000 men and 1000
officers. ~
He was told, also. that Germany
had refused safe conduct to- the
army transport, . American Legion,
which sailed from Petsamo, Finland,
to bring back American refugees.
That vas a problem that came up
yesterday, Mr.. Roosevelt asserted,
adding that obviously the ship has
to get home. But he had heard
nothing on the matter today, he
said, and understood the state de-
partment still was taking it up.
Jay Pierpont Moffatt, American
minister to Canada, and Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson, who d.
rected foreign affairs as President
Hoover's secretary of state, also
were on hand for tonight's historic
conference.
The President said the important
thing about the army maneuvers in
northern New York is that it repre-
scented the largest peace time gath
ering of American troops since men
were dispatched to Texas after the
Civil war. That was at the time Max
milan had been sent to Mexico by
France to set himself up az en-
peror.
At the Ogdensburg Academy,
Colonel F. B. Wildly, chief of staff
Of the first army, had used a large
map to explain to the commander
in.chief of the armed forces how
two opposing armies would be de-
ployed next week on 1000, 900 acres
of land.
A war" will be in progress, with
Canada neutral, between the United
States and a combination of eastern
and western powers which have lin
vaded" New England and are seek
ing to cut off the Detroit Cleveland
Pittsburgh industrial triangle.
Brig. Gen. James e. CLANCY told
how an aviation defense program
would operate with the assistance of
civilian volunteers stationed at 400
listening posts.
With His Aides
Mackenzie King crossed the st.
Lawrence from Prescott, accom-
panied by Edouard Handy, a secre-
tary; J.. S. Nicol, a confidential mes.
senger, and a chauffeur.
The prime minister was to spend
the night on Mr.. Roosevelt's spe-
cial train and attend church serv.
ices in the field tomorrow with the
President and officers and men of
the first army.
The President arrived at nearby
Norwood at IL p. m. E.S.T) and as
his train was moved to Ogdensburg,
looked over the operations of the
80, 900 troops commanded by Lieut..
Gen. Hugh A. Drum.
TIe was greeted at Norwood by the
massed airplanes of the military
forces, which have completed two Of
their three weeks of mock warfare.
Driving in turn to the encamp-
ments of each of the army's divi-
sions, Mr.. Roosevelt saw at first
hand some of the deficiencies of
equipment which the government is
striving to eliminate under its de.
Tense program.
He saw trucks being used for
tanks and logs for artillery.
Starting out to look I'VE the mass.