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...broader discussion of the reasons for national rearmament came a new high-policy phrase: "Continental solidarity." The President confirmed the intimation previously voiced by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (TIME, Nov. 14): that one object of U. S. rearmament is to implement the good-neighborly understanding achieved in 1936 at the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires and about to be refreshed at Lima, Peru...
...Liberal v. Conservative realignment he had undertaken. 2) He could acquiesce in the new independence of Congress and let it work out its own solutions to controversial problems like Labor law and Social Security revision, railroad rehabilitation, while he led on toward larger, less controversial goals such as national Rearmament and security for the Western Hemisphere. 3) He could seek by placation and compromise to restore harmony within his own party...
...country," said small, intense, terrier-like M. Reynaud. He explained that even if all Frenchmen now unemployed suddenly went back to work, this would raise industrial production in France only some 7%. According to M. Reynaud, it "must" be shot up 30 to 40% for "adequate" economic and military Rearmament...
With his election duties thus disposed of President Roosevelt turned to consider matters that he knew would matter more as soon as this week's election was over. No. 1 was national rearmament. While his aides discussed a separate "Emergency budget" for defense; an air fleet of 10,000 airplanes (instead of the 7,000 mentioned fortnight ago), provision in the War Department Appropriation bill (now being drafted) to equip for instant combat an "initial protective force" of 400,000 soldiers (Regular Army plus National Guard), the President himself took action. He ordered a new navy dirigible built...
Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, scheduled to be Dictator Batista's host at a state dinner, was the Administration's mouthpiece at last week's end for the larger implications of the President's Rearmament plans. Broadcasting to all Latin-America he made clear that the U. S., rearmed, will ensure the entire Western Hemisphere from foreign aggression...