New Aircraft Carrier Anti-Fascist Demonstration Launched; More Combat Planes to Be Ordered Washington, Apr. 4.
President Roosevelt's $2,000,000,000 national defence programme aimed against Totalitarian penetration in the Western Hemisphere moved forward swiftly today as the Army prepared to bring its Air Corps up to 5500 planes coincident with the launching. of the fiftieth warship in the Navy's rearmament programme.
"The War Department announced it was aiming to obtain delivery of planes under the new defence appropriation bill within two years, bringing the Air Force to its greatest strength in history. Orders already placed are for the fastest available new types of fighting planes capable of flying 400 miles per hour.
The Assistant Secretary of We Mr. Louis Johnson, said addition contracts for 550 combat planes would be let as soon as President Roosevelt has signed the Army Appropriations Bill.
Amid tooting tugs and cheers from thousands of spectators, the new aircraft carrier, USS. Wasp, was launched at Quincy, Mass. where Mrs. Charles Edison, wife of the Assistant Secretary of Navy, smashed a bottle of champagne against the prow of the 14,700-ton warship. ico City, Apr. 4.
General Lazaro Cardenas, the President, today ordered the expulsion from Mexico of three Falange (Fascist) leaders.
The President, it is learned, has informed Spanish Fastists who are active in Mexico that they cannot organize in Mexico a movement which ey are said to be attempting, with the object of allying Latin America "in a political and military sense" with General Franco. A congressional bloc, it is further learned, earlier requested the expulsion of the leaders of the movement, as "pernicious foreigners."
'A thousand or so workers today took part in an anti-Fascist demonstration here, smashing the windows of the Spanish Casino. Two hundred plice were called out, and they dis-pered the demonstrators. Five persons wre injured.
The Federation of Mexican Workers today issued a statement declaring that the Fascists were "planning an attack on Mexico from Guatemala."
—Reuter.
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