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Prompt to act was Kentucky's Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. Preoccupied with Rearmament, he last week had another amendment to the present CCC act expiring June 1940, providing that in CCC "not less than two nor more than five hours a week be devoted to military training...
Last week, nearly 23 years after Jutland, there was little wrong with Britain's bloody ships because Lord Chatfield as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff had the job of bringing them to scratch. But there was plenty wrong with the rest of her three-year rearmament efforts. Four months have passed since the Czecho-Slovak war scare but few measures apparent to the public have been taken to improve Britain's shockingly weak defenses...
...thought seriously of a rearmament program last year when Congress ordered the Navy Department to report on the need for new naval bases. Early this month when Congress got that report, everyone had heard plenty about rearmament. And last week one item on that program raised a major question of policy...
...Vinson Bill also would take $39,000,000 from the Navy's share of Franklin Roosevelt's $552,000,000 Rearmament program (TIME, Jan. 23) to start construction on improvement of eleven other bases given priority by the Hepburn Board. In addition to extending a defensive half-circle from Alaska to Guam to Samoa around the Navy's present westernmost major stronghold at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, these would include a new base in the Caribbean at Puerto Rico, expansion of aviation facilities at Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla. Companion Army measures would allot $62,000,000 to strengthen...
Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...