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House Committee in both open and
closed sessions to discuss the need for
extended service. Out of the closed
session came a report that he had
testified that three South American
nations were faced with possible Nazi
uprisings.
Committee members through
whom the information was made
public said the focal point of possible
trouble was Brazil and that other
centers of possible Nazi strength
were described as Bolivia and Co.
lombia. 1t was recalled that in re-
cent days Bolivian officials had
charged there was nazi conspiracy
to seize power, had ordered expul-
sion of the German Minister and
had made several arrests.
Further, Gen. Marshall was re-
ported to have told the committee
that he feared Russia might soon
fall before the German Army and
Adolf Hitler thus might obtain Rus
sian air bases along the Bering
Strait. Committee Chairman May
said some of the Russian territory
was "only so miles from Alaska"
Committee members linked the
Russian and South American testi-
mony with Gen. Marshall's state
ment at the earlier public session
that it was impossible to provide
proper Army garriSons for distant
American outpOsts under the pres
ent one-year service limitation.
The one-year rule, Gen. Marshall
said. had "stymied" him on REIN
forcing the garrison on the island
of Trinidad. Also, he said, he had ,
been unable to send an engineer
unit to Iceland because he would
have had to disorganize 10 or II
regiments in order to obtain
group of soldiers not under the one
year restriction.
There was no indication as to
what use the Army might make of
selectees and other soldiers if the
hemisphere ban were removed. Gen.
Marshall's principal utterance in
this regard has been that there
was no thought of sending out an
American expeditionary force.
AS the report spread in Senate
circles that the hemisphere issue
was once more to be brought to the
fore, indications multiplied that a
hard fight was in prospect If ad-
ministration leaders decided to press
it to decision.
Senator DoWney. Democrat, of
California, member of the Military
Affairs Committee, said any new
recommendation for Army author
ity to send troops outside the West
ern Hemisphere would encounter
great opposition in Congress.
Senator Austin, Republican, of
Vermont, committee member who
has supported many administration
foreign policy moves, said guardedly
that "the recommendations of the
chief of staff are bound to have
great weight-so far as the compost
ton of the Army is concerned"
Study of Proposals.
He added that the committee was
going to have to sit down and go
over all proposals on the subject be-
fore deciding what it could approve
and report to the Senate for action
Compromise rec m m endationS
which the Army was reported to
view unfavorably included:
Proposals by Senator Thomas.
Democrat, of Utah that an emer-
gency be declared, but be limited in
its effect to holding men in the
Army and that citizen soldiers be
permitted to volunteer for service
outside the hemisphere.
The suggestion by Senator Taft
that maximum period of is
months service be fixed for the
men.
Other proposals by various spon-
sors to the general effect that pres
ent selectees be demobilized at the
end of their years service. but that
those inducted in future be re-
quired to serve longer than year.
Grenville Clark, chairman of the
National Emergency Committee of
the Military Training Camps Asso-
citation, testified before the House
committee that Hitler was out to
conquer the world and that Gen.
Marshalrs public statements about
German Vaccinations in South
America support that conclusion"
Opposes Emergency Declaration.
| The Senate committee heard,
among others, Frederick J. Libby
of the National Council for the
Prevention of War, who said that
If Congress declared an emergency
in order to keep the soldiers in
service the last barrier to participa-
ton in war all over the world"
would be removed
The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, De-
troit radio speaker, proposed that
a minimum wage of sl00 monthly
be fixed for all selectees, Reservists
and National Guardsmen who VOL
unfairly remain in the service after
their year is up.
Paul o. Peters of st. Louis OBJ
jected to the administration plan
because. he said, it was apparent
the Army did not have enough
weapons to equip the men under
training, and Benjamin C. Marsh of
the Peoples Lobby proposed that
prevailing wages be paid the con-
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