On September 16
Aboard Presidential Special Train en route to Chattanooga, Sept In an historic executive order.
ident Roosevelt yesterday called 60,500 National Guardsmen into active military service for one year to provide additional manpower for the nation's new defence machine.
The President's order, unpre dented in American peacetime h tory, calls on National Guard units to report for twelve months of active service on September 16.
The President acted under the authority granted him by the National Guard Mobilization Bill which he ined last Tuesday. The bill authorized the President to call up the National Guard for a year's duty ere in the United States, its territories and possessions, including the Philippines.
Some quarters believed the Ad-No Indication of Plans ministration was merely refraining The President gave no indication from any discussion of the proposed yesterday, however, that immediate U.S.-Australian pact pending the com-plans call for sending National pletion of Anglo-American negotia-Guardsmen outside the territorial tions dealing exclusively with the limits of continental United States.
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