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doing
at the present time either with
iMasares short of war or with
war measures. Our country has
• swrplns of agricultural products
fBd I am faror of supplying
Amo to the fullest extent as de-
»aad arises.
The following statement is sub
mitted in order to inform, those
who are writing me as to the state
af our National defense.
In The Air:
As to the airplane pilots, we
lare only 2,800 pilots in the army.
We are planning to lift this to 7,-
fOO, but the training of pilots will
require a great deal of time.
We have in the navy -2,602
•ilots. We are p'
'Js- number to 16,000,
may be gotten up to 800 » month ‘>0
quire a great deal
As To Airplanes:
Ee the army, we have only 2300
irplanes and less than 800 of
these are up-to-date. We plan to
Ift-; the number to 8,000, but it
rwinires a great deal of time to
build a modem, fighting airplane.
Lass than 600 of these 2300 air
planes are combat planes of fairly
modem design, but they are lack-
mg in armament equal to that of
the German planes. The army
by January, 1941.
We now have a capacity to pro^
duce 8,000 planes of all types per
year. It is proposed that we shall
increase this capacity to from 30,-
000 to 60,000 a year, but this will
require a great deal of time in the
assembling of material, expansion
of plants and the production of the
necessary machine tools, not to
mention actual construction. The
authorities do not hold out the
hope that we can get the produc
tion up .to 30,000 planes a year
within twelve months.
The Navy
As to the navy, we have, as the
Ing to lift' probably the
itr^hiwwill navy in the world, but
even so, our navy is sufficient to
defend our shores on only one
ocean front. It is now in the Pa
cific and we should be well aware
that they may be needed for de
fense in the Pacific at any time
as well as in the Atlantic. There
are those who think that if we
should be engaged in the Atlantic
or in Europe, we would be attack
ed in the Pacific. We are propos
ing to increase our navy and the
process is going on with the build
ing of battleships, but the build
ing of a battleship usually re
quires four years and sometimes
longer. We will not have a two-
ocean navy within several years.
The Army:
As for the army, we have in the
regnilur army 298,500 men and of
ficers. This is a small army. It
is good as far as it goes, but it is
wholly inadequate compared with
the size of modern armies now en
gaged in war. We could not spare
75,000 men for war in Europe.
In addition, we have a National
Guard of 261,000 men and officers.
The National Guard is, a strong or
ganization. We have in the Re
serves, men and officers, 192,000.
That is to say, in the Army, the
Natoinal Guard and the Reserves;
we ^ve a
_ than 760,000 men
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that in the German line of battle
In France there are two million
men.
As To Equipment
As for tanks and combat cars,
we have only 503.
As for anti-a|rcraft, we have
only 463, hardly more than suffi
cient to defend two cities. It costs
from $40,000 to $60,000 to build
one anti-aircraft gun.
In field artillery, we have only
235 gpins.
Of anti-tank guns, we have only
228.
Of semi-autoifaatic rifles, we
have only 40,000.
The foreoing will indicate that
we are totally unprepared to en
gage in a war at this time.
For those , who consider that we
might send our civilian sons to
Europe, let me say that .the rule
tbat it requires not less than six
months of intensive training to
make a good soldier of a civilian.
In the World War, we called for
recruits Ithropghout the country,
but they were not placed in the
battle line until sixteen months af
ter we had entered the war. That
is to say we entered the war the
first week in April, 1917, and our
soldiers, other than those in the
regular army, were not engaged in
combat until July, 1918. Sixteen
months were required to train and
equip them, and we never did
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North Wllkesboro, N. O. I If we propose now to send our
reserved for domestic defense, how
far’ .the United States may wisely
be committed in a situation so
gra'/e, I consider that gpreat de
ference must be given the expert
authorities, the staffs of .the army
and navy. They know a great deal
more than we do, and they are ex
perts.
Bordeaux Report ^
Retain Says French
Have Ceased Battle
Bordeaux, France.—(By CBS
short-wave facilities).—r Marshal
Philippe Petaln, new premier, an
nounced today that France had
given up the tight against Ger
many.
Petaln said he had communi
cated with the German high com
mand during the night, immedi
ately after taking office from
Paul Reynaud, who had been
pledged to a finish fight.
France, he said, had communi
cated with the German high com
mand in an attempt to effect an
honorable cessation of hostilities.
As soon as he had taken office.
Retain met with his colleagues
under President Albert Lebrun.
Immediately thereafter, Paul Bau-
doin, the new foreign minister,
gave a secret communication to
Jose Felix de Lequiericay Erqul-
za, Spanish ambassador, for his
old friend Generalissimo Francis
co Franco, the Spani.sh national
ist leader and friend of Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini. This
communication, it was indicated,
asked Franco to convey a message
to the German high command
asking for peace.
The French high command had
already Issued its morning com
munique when Petain, the 84-
year-old hero of Verdun, made a
radio speech ofhgC^y^MtSfi'^Snn
The French nation, an
nouncing that he had contacted
France’s ancient enemy, now in
Paris and at the final French de
fense line on the Loire. The Mag-
Inot Line had been smashed, sur
rounded.
It was with this in mind that
the aged soldier told his people
that he, in office to do his tragic
task, had given up the fight per
force.
'Citf> N. Ji, JoM 14.—
K Cromwi^ £»nh«r U.
^ Csaada, said today
Vaa unprepared fot wiur
of jackaaaes that
stalk ^e halls, of Congress.”
TlieBe ^ojun Jackasaes In our
^nate and House of Representa-
rives," said Crotncwell at a press
conference, “lulled our people to
sleep for years, with their coosia-
tent atatements that'' the- United
States had no'lnterest in what was
going on in E^pe . . .
”"TTieBe Trojan jackaasM,'-who
have refused Arherican help of any
kind to the .AUics are respoiuible
for our preso^j|»repared condi-^.”
tioA both -a^BHfy. and montal-
ly: t Presid4ar^|naievelf and 8«^
retary of State Hull gave them
th inside infonnation aa to what
was going on in Europe a year ago,
but yet theyW^W^ued to mislead
the people.'* ' •
Cromwell, whb'iii now the Dem
ocratic candidate for U. S. senator
from New Jers^,’ declined to name
the so-called “Trojan jackasses,”)
but said most of them were high-
standing members of the Senate
Tallinn Report Reds
March Into Latvia
And Estonia
Stockholm. — Tallinn, Tartu
and other large towns in BSstonia
were occupied today by Soviet
troops who marched in shortly
after the government accepted
Moscow’s ultimatum. Latvia was
also entered by the Soviet sol
diers. (The Berlin radio said
Riga, Latvia’s capital, was occu
pied.)
Tallinn, Estonia.—Soviet Rus
sian troops crossed into Estonia
and Latvia at 6 a. m. today (Sun
day midnight, e.s.t.) to establish
new garrisons In accordance with
Moscow’s week-end demands ac
cepted by the little Baltic na
tions.
Towns and areas may be occu
pied by the Red army which were
not Involved In the mutual assist
ance agreements effected last
year.
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coalition” at the QHUah’Uad Unit
ed. Statee gorermlientBr- with the
British defending - the ’'Western
hemisphere In the Atlantic and
the United states fleet in the Pa^'
clflc.
‘*U the British fleet eaeaptt lo
this continent intact,’' said Crom
well, "Hie Nazis could not invade
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Regula/ teihi«nnual meeting
of the WRkea County Angers as
sociation will be. held' at the
courthonao th Wllkesboro o n
Thnrsday, July 4, beginning ~at
ten a. m„ according to an a'n-
nouocament issued by J. A. OU-
liam, chairman, and Wm. A.
Strond, secretary.
The announcement said: “All
singers are urgently requested to
attend and take part in this sing
ing, and those who like to hear
good singing are also Invited. Id
case we have more than can coi'-
fortably be seated in the coor -
house, we have arrangements tor
installation of a new amplifier
in~ order to ax»:omodate all Who
will attend.”
Letters of invitation to the
singing have been mailed to many
singing class leaders but officials
point out that some may have
been overlooked and that all slng-
Vgaty:
V«to- ftso ligiur
For mab man, SMi
He’s b«M fired to’ tin«»v.n
In de las’ two wortn,**- '
•IS-
"Ah wants marlnh Jnmr
For mah. man,
He ain’t had no bath
In de present year.’’
“Ah wants theft insuranea
For mah man, John'Dayi'
fie ain’t stole no chickens'
Since de firs’ of May.’’
Harriet—So Ruth concIude«r|p
accept that rich young scapegntea
in spite of bis bad record?
Mabel—“Yes, she forgave
past because of bis presents.”
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Carlton’s Hdwe.
London. — Great Britain, Its
empire and Us national life at
stake, faced Germany and Italy
alone today with the threat of an
6-13-2t-pd sons, we should understand that imminent German invasion and
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we cannot prepare them for a field
of battle -within six months, and
cannot equip them in less than a
year.
The foregoing facts speak for
themselves.
I am without reservation for the
whole program of National de
fense including that portion of it
intended to get rid of the disloyal
element in this country, and, of
course, including the expansion of
industry and plants with a view to
producing the gums, the planes, the
ships, the tanks and equipment
that may be necessary. I do not
think ft prudent for this country
to get into the war as a belliger.
ent. We are utterly unprepared
and one may look abroad and see
for himself what it means to go
into a modern warfare unprepar
ed.
One should consider that the Al
lies are just as short in man pow
er as they are in mechanical pow
er . The newspapers report that
on the Continent of Europe, they
are out numbered more than two
to one. I am opposed to sending
our boys to fight in Europe.
I re^>ect the views of those who
are ur^kig us .to get into this war,
but I am asking them to inform
themselves on the eubject at our
the possibility that the French
fleet, second most powerful In
Europe, might be turned against
it.
It was disclosed now that a
French surrender had been ex
pected, that French military lead
ers had decided long ago that the
German blitzkrieg could not be
stopped until the United States
and Britain gave aid on a scale
which proved impossible.
It was disclosed that there had
been an aireement between Brit
ain and France that. It French
resistance on the continent be
came impossible, the French
would carry on with its air force
and its navy and the reaources of
the French Empire as a govern
ment in exile.
Today, when Marshal Philippe
Petain announced that Prance
had asked for German peace
terms, it was not even known
what would happen to the fleet,
and whether France’s naval bases
In the Mediterranean basin would
be turned over to Germany.
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