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...kept in training for one year, will then enter an enlisted reserve where they will be subject to recall for emergency service for ten years or until they are 45. They will not be subject to periodic recalls for further training. But if Congress finds the nation in peril before their initial year's service ends, they can be held under arms indefinitely...
...Paish, whose doddering singlehanded attempt to jostle the U. S. into World War II made the British Embassy "advise" him to go home at once (TiME, Sept. 9), Journalist Brailsford has no illusions that snaring the U. S. is easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting...
There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...
Public opinion today substantially approves the second, third and fourth points of my 1938 defense program, and Congress this year is voting far more than $3,000,000,000 in necessary appropriations. Unfortunately large appropriations do not immediately buy security. This country will be in deadly peril until our defenses, some two years hence, will include an adequate air force and a highly trained field force armed with modern weapons. Incidentally, the provisions of the original Burke-Wadsworth Bill are approximately those suggested in my fifth point, and it is to be hoped that Congress will enact this measure...