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Comments by "The Times"
London, Jan. 13.
The emphasis on the necessity of protecting the Panama Canal is the outstanding feature of President Roosevelt's defence programme, says "The Times" today. By giving this full statement of the urgent and immediate needs of national defence, the paper adds, the President has fulfilled promise he made last week.
"It is improbable," the journal adds, "that anyone in the United States thinks there is any real danger of a sudden attack from any quarter of 'United States' territory. There is always, however, the possibility of developments in South America and, perhaps still more, in the Pacific, that might imperil interests which the United States regards as vital and which she will be compelled to defend at all costs. Only if she is ready and able to defend herself, can she be "sure her views and her interests will be given due weight in the councils of nations."—Reuter.
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