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framework of a national defense
program adequate, in his opinion,
to enforce our will for peace with
strength"
He urged the adoption of these
immediate measures:
l. Intensive scientific research
supported by "unstinted" funds, tc
keep abreast of all chronological ad-
vances. Development, also, of quicker
methods of mass production of wal
materiels and stocks in reserve al
ways, for the first months of fight
ing.
Wants Universal Training.
2. Maintenance of small Regular
Army, National Guard and Sys-
tenn of universal military training
to serve as the arch-support of a
citizen reserve capable of mobilizing
100000 men within a year" He
proposed "one year of unbroken
training for all men who might some
day have to fight for the Nation, y
rather than brief periods spread over
several years.
Gen. Marshall emphasized that
the timing" of the decision on uni
versal military training was urgent
The State Department, he reminded
believes decision now to adopt the
system. would greatly strengthen
the hand of the United States in
securing acceptance of a genuine
organization to handle international
differences.
Warning that the atomic bomb
will mot be ours exclusively in
definitely" he said our own close
approach to defeat in 1912 "shoulo
have a SOLDERING effect on Ameri-
cans for generations to come"
Arnold's Warning Quoted.
To prevent any misconceptions OF
the terrible potentialities of the
future" he said he had asked Gen
H. H. Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Forces, to estimate the capabil-
tiles of modern weapons"
He attributed to Gen. Arnold q
warning that hitherto unrevealeo
laboratory tests indicate that con-
tinued developments of weapons
and techniques now known would
make New York, Pittsburgh, De-
troit, Chicago or San Francisco
subject to annihilation from other
continents in matter of hours"
Here is the basis for the Chief
of Staff's prepare or perish" warn
ing, as found in Gen. Arnold's re,
port on secret weapons:
1--WE can direct rockets to targets
by electronic devices and new in.
struments which guide them &C.
curately to sources of heat, light
and magnetism.
New Sensitive Rockets.
Drawn by their own fuses such
new rockets will streak unerringly
to the heart of big factories, at
tracted by the heat of the furnaces
They are SO sensitive that in the
space of large room they ain
themselves toward a man who en-
tiers, in reaction to the heat of his
body.
I'VE will produce within the mex
few years jet-propelled bombers
capable Of flying 500 to 900 miles ar
hour to targets $500 miles away al
attitudes of over 10000 feet. De.
yelopment Of even greater bomber,
capable of operating at strato-
spheric attitudes and speeds faster
than sound and carrying bomb load
OF more than 10000 pounds alread,
is a certainty. These aircraft vii
have sufficient range to attack any
spot on earth and return to friend.
ly base" 'f.v~
AT this very moment we are
making single bomb weighing AS
900 pounds to keep pace, with tn,
bomber, already under construction
which will carry such a load" Gen
Arnold said. "Air ordnance engineers
have blue-printed a bomb weighing
100000 pounds"
The AAF chief also reported thai
Improvements of jet-flghters may
we'll produce within the next five
years an aircraft capable of the
speed of sound and of reaching tar.
gets 1000 miles away at attitudes ol
above $4,000 feet"
Gen. Marshall warned with the
realization of these facts will come q
highly dangerous and attractive
doctrine"
ut will be said that to protect it.
self, this Nation need only rely or
its machine power, that it will no,
need manpower," he warned. This
doctrine will be closely akin to the
doctrine of negative defense which
destroyed France"
Gen. Marshall, answering criti-
cism that universal military train
ing tends toward militarism and the
European system of "conscript'
armies, argued stoutly in its defense
ut is not universal military serv-
ice-the actual induction of men
into the combatant forces" he de-
clared. Such forces would be COM
posed during peacetime of volun-
teers. The trainees would be in a
separate organization maintained
for training purposes only"
Gen. Marshall extended the COW
erage of his report, embodying the
major military operations from July
l. 1943, to last June 80, to include
the dramatic final victory" of the
Pacific war, when Japan I'D for
peace on August 10.
Gen. Marshall doubted the ability
of the United States to stand the
strain of the mobilization demanded
had the Axis succeeded in isolating
us.
Even with two-thirds of the Ger
man Army engaged by Russia, he
said, it took every man this Nation
saw fit to mobilize to do our Job
in Germany and stay with Japan.
What would have resulted If the
Red Army had been defeated and