Parleys on Far Eastern Affairs to Be Held Washington, June 12.
The Far Eastern situation in the light of latest events was discussed today by Mr, Joseph Clark Grew, Ambassador to Japan now visiting and State Secretary Cordell lant State Secretary Sumd other State Department officials.
Mr. Grew will confer with President Roosevelt tomorrow after the Jatter returns from Hyde Park. where he entertained King George and Queen Elizabeth of Britain.
Mr. Hull stated this afternoon that his conversation with Mr, Grew was of a "general charact He said he would have further conferences with the envoy. After a few days of parleys here, Mr. Grew will go on leave for a short while in the northern regions of the United States, and will then return for it corps than to the number of aircraft," he said The distance of the United States from other major air powers makes it less susceptible to attack, he said. Existing research facilities in the United States are not adequate and some of them are not being used to the maximum advantage, he said.
Earlier Gen. Maun Craig, Army Chief of Staff, told the committee that the $62,000,000 asked for air corps base construction would be used to build a far-flung chain of bases from Alaska to Puerto Rice and the Canal Zone. He said two bases also would be established in north-eastern states and one in the south-east He said these bases were necessary to protect the Panama Canal Zone and vital industrial areas in the Atlantic north-eastern star The Panama Canal, he said, is the keystone of the defence of the Western Hemisphere, and therefore must be impregnable.
He added that the presence of a strong air force in Hawaii would add to the safety of the Canal from attack from the Pacific—United Press.
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