New York, May 20. The formation of an Administration of national union with prominent Republicans holding the key posts of Secrptaries of War and Navy is being examined at present by President Roosevelt, according to the "New York Times." The paper said that the President was seriously preoccupied by events in Europe and the reaction of public opinion to his requests for the strengthening of national defence which entail huge expenditures.
The formation under his chairmanship of the "Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies" was announced here today by Mr. William Allen White, owner of the "Emporia Gazette." Mr. White added that hundreds of prominent personalities in the United States had joined his committee. Among them were Colonel Henry Stimson, Secretary of State during the 1914-18 conflict; Mr. Herbert Lehman, Governor of New York State; Mr. Frank Knox, Republican candidate for the Vice-Presidency in the 1936 elections and owner of the "Chicago Daily News," ana Dr, Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University. A statement was made by the Committee today urging the United States "to throw its moral and economic weight on the side of the Allies."
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