Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1940 — Page 4

ARMY DRAFTS "PLANS TO ADD | AERIAL MIGHT

Ondinanoe Expan Expansion Also * Planned; ‘Move to Give Navy 15,000- Planes. -

. By UNITED ‘PRESS ; Fhe Army drafted plans today for e new: aircraft and ‘ordnance expansion program © to match -the -Navy’s request -for a- 70 per-: cent -beest -in fighting strength. Details were guarded closely. - At the same time, the House Naval| Ant Committee amended thé new ;000,000,000 naval expansion bill"to fintredse the authorized haval: air «force from 10,000 to 15,000 ‘planes. i. The. amendment. ' also. ‘provided: iat “the President could lift éven the 15,000-plane ceiling in the event thal’ fiaval officials ‘believed such a _ step to be vital to this nation’s defenses. The, Congressional controversy over the Administration’s release of 20 fast torpedo boats to Great Britain still smouldered. Some legisJators suggested that the officials responsible for the sale “be relieved ‘of their duties.”

Russia to Get U. S. Dies Internationally, the United States

began releasing what defense offi-}.. cials consider non-essential machine].

tools, dies and machinery to Soviet Russia. An important shipment of such equipment had been held up in ‘Tacoma, Wash., last week, but twothirds of it was approved for export by naval officials. No reason was given either for the release of the machinery or for the initial delay in clearing it for transportation to Vladivostok. The Rusisan Ambassador, Constantine| Oumansky, recently protested to Secretary of State Cordell Hull against what he termed discriminatory ban on certain shipments to his country. : The United States also moved on three fronts to solidify the Western Hemisphere . politically, fnilitarly and economically.

Cabinet officials drafting a plan 3

for an economic Ghion of all American republics were prepared to subInit details of the program to Presi- : jdent Roosevelt. Draft Training Program i On another.front this country attempted to bring the Latin American nations into an emergency meeting to discuss ‘new problems ‘arising from the war. Yesterday, the United States

warned Germany and Italy to keep|

hands off British, Dutch and French possessions in this hemisphere. The «President’s plan for compulsory government service for young Americans was still in the early stages of development for submission to Congress, But plans were being drafted for an immediate voluntary program

for training 1,250,000 youths of high|.

school and college age in specialized defense industry work.

Monroe Doctrine Never Has Been Popular With Europe’s- Nations.

By. MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer It was Bismarck who called the Monroe ‘Doctrine “a species. of arrogance, peculiarly American. » The. Kaiser was well known to hold the same opinion. ~ And Adolf Hitler, despite of—or tmaybe ‘because of—his “America for Americans” declaration is believed {by Americans to go Bismarck and the Kaiser one better. “That is ‘the one’ big reason .the United States matches German

|military: triumph in Europe with || ;/ moves toward a.

“cartel” of the 93 nations of the Western Hemisphere, including Canada, to control their vast food supplies and raw materials . . . the reason strong | support comes to the proposal that the United States take over allied American possessions . . , the reason the Senate voted unanimously the legislation warning that the United States would not “acquiesce” in the transfer : of Western Hemisphere

nation to another. Delivered ‘Dec. 2,:1823

‘ The text .of the Monroe Doctrine was carried in President Monroe's annual message to Congress Dec. 2, 1823. - Its significant passages are these: . “ . . The occasion has been judged proper for' .assegting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United -States are involved, that the American con= tinents, by the free and independent condition which they have ‘assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any Euro-| péan powers... . . We should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as. dangerous to

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trine has never been popular with European countries.” They have challenged its validity as international law. Ready to Fight

In two famous cases, France and Britain violated it and in both cases the United States was ready to go to war. Both France and Britain have Tesneied the Doctrine ever since. - During - the Civil War, Emperor Napoleon “III of France sept an army to troubled Mexico and planted the Austrian Archduke Maximilian upon a shaky Mexican throne. But when the war was over, the Union talked turkey to Napoleon. He hastily withdrew his army and left Maximilian to his fate. In 1895 Venezuela and Britain were in a dispute about a boun-

dary between Venezuela and Brit-

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America for Americans, Hitler Declares, So U. S. Seeks New Hemisphere Solidarity BANS ON TRAVEL

German kaiser repeatedly rumored seeking naval and coaling bases in Cuba and islands in West (Indies threatening Panama Canal. Platt amendment in 1901 was U. S. an-

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Map shows violations of the Monroe Doctrine and disputes

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ish Guiana. Under President Cleveland, Secretary of State Olney sent his message to England demanding arbitration. There have been only three violations of the Monroe Doctrine to which the United States made no objection then or since:

1. The seizure of the Falkland

Islands by Britain in 1833. 2. The extension by Britain to larger territory of its colony of British Honduras in 1859. 3. The transfer of ‘the island of St. Bartholomew from Sweden to France in 1877, Germany was distinctly hostile to America during the war with Spain. The German Foreign Office figured a victory for America would strengthen the Doctrine. Further, America would fall heiy to Spanish possessions in the New World.

enforcement of the doctrine.

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State Department Considers Letting Americans Return On Belligerent Ships.

WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P). —Modification of neutrality act regulations to permit hundreds of Americans stranded in Great Britain and Ireland to return home aboard belligerent vessels was being considered today by the State Department. Under the neutrality law the President has proclaimed British water combat zones and barred Americans and American ships from traveling there. American travel prohibited on belligerent vessels through rigid passport requirements which would be relaxed under the plans being discussed. A Department spokesman said that officials are determined not.to risk

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10. S. Mobilizes Many Fronts

To Preserve Americas’ Status

WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P.). —Extraordinary diplomatic, political,

economic and military moves marked

| United States’ efforts today to guard |against any change in the status quo of the Western Hemisphere. The Administration, pledged to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, met the possibility of a separate FrenchGerman peace that might give a foreign country a foothold here with the following action: 1, Considered sending Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to Latin America as a sort of “goodwill ambassador.” He would or= ganize proposed cartels, promote U. S.-Latin erican agricultural trade relations, {and seek to induce re-

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3. Reasserted its determination to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in| notes to Germany and Italy warning that the United States’ would not recognize transfer of any new world territory from one non-American power to another. 4. Completed a preliminary draft of plans for a cartel of Western Hemisphere nations—a united economic front to face the totalitarian nations’ barter methods of trade. 5. Studied demands in Congress for immediate dispatch of warships and a “protective force” to French and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean. Many warships are in the area now on neutrality patrol; two cruisers are in South American | ports. on “good will” cruises.

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