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The Committee hopes to send its report on the National Defence Bill to Congress on Wednesday and debate is expected to begin on Thursday. The bill includes the plane construction programme, provision for the training of hundreds of pilots, and appropriations for war materials and Panama Canal Zone defences.
Senator M. M. Logan, Democrat of Kentucky, today defended the Administration's policy of selling war planes io Britain ahd France. He said large purchases of American planes by the European democracies would aid in preparing United States factories for mass production which would be necessary under President Roosevelt's defence programme.
"We are not prepared for wer at present," Senator Logan said. "For example, Germany is producing 1,200 planes a month on an &hour shift, and could be producing 3,600 planes a month working on a 24-hour basis.—United Press.
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