Washington, Aug. 7.
Mr. Robert Patterson, newly appointed Assistant Secretary of War, in a radio broadcast, declared that an army of 1,200000, men was needed to defend the "integrity of the Western Hemisphere."
Totalitarian penetration by political or military means would be a direct threat to the welfare of all Americans and "means the end of the world as we have known it because we could not compete and trade in it and at the same time maintain our free institution," he added.—United Press,
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