The Archive · 1938

Join Arms Race To Uphold Peace

War Minister Says Strength Not for Invasions "If the United States has no inten tion of quarantining or policing the world, it is beyond comprehension why she feels the urgent necessity for naval expansion." This summarizes the opinion prevailing in official circles here.

Georgraphically speaking, they point out, the United States enjoy a unique position in that she is surrounded by two great oceans the Pacific and the Atlantic and therefore, is unchallenged able from a strategic point of view. There is no country in the world which menaces the United States.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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