Evening star., 1940-06-23
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4. Admiral Harold r. Stark, chief o,
naval operations, advocated to Congress
$4.000000,000 expansion of
Huge the United States Navy to
Fleet give this country the greatest
fleet the world has ever seen,
adding about 200 fighting ships of 1885,
900 tons to present tonnage of 1,724,480.
Day before, Chairman Vinson of House
Naval Committee announced decision
to introduce administrations approved
bill to provide "a new ships for Navy
through 81 2O0,00O,OOO outlay.
S. The President dipped into Wall
Street for an economic royalist" to fill
one of vacant administrative assistant
posts. New aide is James Forrestal,
president of Dillon, Read e. Co., New
York investment bankers Administra-
tive assistants are the gentlemen with
passion for anonymity" receiving s1O.-
600 year for easing the burdens Of
the Presidents duties. The law allows
six administrative assistants. Mr.. For.
restal is the fourth to be appointed.
Henry Ford complicated program Of
United States aid for Allies by balk.
ing at building Rolls Royce airplane
engines Tor Government if they were to
be sold to Britain. William Knudsen of
Defense Advisory Commission said Mr..
Ford understood he was to build 3ooo
engines for United States, 5000 for
Britain. Germans seized in France 400
American-built planes and 1000 Ameri.
OF
tured two nearly completed French
3o'oo0-ton battleships in Brest Harbor
The administrations eyes roved all
over the world. Next to home defense
the great problem is hemisphere defense
wednesday the German and the Italian
governments received warning notes
from Washington announcing this Gov
eminent would not acquiesce in the
transfer OF ANY geographic region of
the Western Hemisphere from one non-
american power to another non-Amer-
lean power" 1t was the Monroe Doc
trlne IN action, invoked because France
SUNG for peace, owns American colonies.
Day before, the House passed resolution
stating the Monroe Doctrine, 3S2 to 3
10 cement economic ties, which en-
nance political ties, of the other Amer
lcas to the United States, the President
and his advisers produced
Amerlcon plan for an all-American
Cortel trading cartel - proposing
to set up s200, 900 900
corporation to sell to Europe Latin
American export commodities Mr.
Roosevelt branded criticism of this plan
as crooked. Brig. Gen. George V. Strong.
assistant chief of staff, U. S. A., said
Panama Canal is vulnerable from the air.
Mexico reports that country sought
military advice and loan Of slOo 900 900
for military improvement from the
United States. Uruguay overturned
Nazi plot to seize the nation as a Ger
man agricultural colony" Canada, the
one western Hemisphere country at war,
moved toward conscription of the Do
mlnlons economic and industrial re-
sources. The 81 American republics, at
United States suggestion, made ready
Tor momentous Havana, Cuba, confer.
ence, probably early in July, on prob
lens raised here by Europe's war.
The trading cartel and the Monroe
Doctrine warning constitute an economic
and political offensive by which the
United States hopes to thwart trans
Atlantic totalitarian offensive. THE
program OF cooperative economic action
by the American republics and possibly
other countries the President said in a
statement, "is being undertaken in re-
sponse to new-but. We hope, temporary
developments in international action"
Ihe measure, he said, is "a part of a
program of economic defense designed
to supplement our military defense pro-
gram intended as a further safe
guard for the peace of this hemisphere.
without foreign markets for their agri-
cultural products, Latin American coun-
tries dWindle economically.
Economic Past experience has shown
Defense that Latin Americans
trading with totalitarians
on major scale are subjected to po-
litical bombardments as corollary of
the economic arrangement. The cartel
scheme aims at eliminating the prospect
of totalitarian economic successes in
Latin America and at the same time
insuring sales for the nations goods.
The cartels possibilities will be an
Havana topic, along with problem of
French, British and Dutch Western
Hemisphere colonies. Delegates to con-
ference will be republics foreign min
listers. They first met last October in
Panama and framed the new doctrine
OF the American safety belt'-3OO-
zone off American Atlantic shores in
which they told belligerents not to fight,