Possibly one of the most significant outspoken preferences of many Senators for building up America's air forces was that to-day of Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat of North Carolina. He said that sufficient outposts in Hawaii, the Aleutians, the Virgin Islands and the Panama Canal Zone would permit air fleets to cover all border and coastal approaches to the United States. He also suggested that Britain cede Bermuda, Nassau and Nove Scotia to the United States in part Payment for war debts.
3 Meanwhile administration' leaders in the Senate prepared a campaign to bury in committee a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a national referendum before the Government might declare war except in case of attack in the western hemisphere. Observers believed the proposed amendment would never gain approval, probably meeting the fate of the similar Ludlow resolution.—United Press.
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