Guam Suggested as "Listening Post"; America Must Outbuild Jap: an, Declares Navy Chief Washington, Mar. 7. IHE Senate overwhelmingly approved of President Roosevelt's $358,000,000 Emergency De: fence Bill today by a vote of 77 to eight. The bill was immedi ately sent back to the House of Representatives for consideration of new Senate amendment which will limit to $300,000,000 the authorizations for increasing the Army Air Corps to 6,000 plane: the original bill as approved by s, an increase of 500 planes over the House, and an amendment to limit to ten per cent. all profit on the manufacture of war planes for the Government.
Prior to the final Senate yo te on the President's defence bill, which is part of the nation's $2,000,000,000 rearmament programme, Senator Alben Barkley, Majorit jy Leader and Democrat of Kentucky, vigorously defended President Roosevelt's new foreign policy of supporting the Democracies against the Totalitarian Powers. He said the President's foreign policy was designed to preserve peace in the Western Hemisphere and contribute toward the peace of the rest of the world.
"We don't want to send a sini American soldier to mingle in Europ-can affairs, and I dare say we will not" Senator Barkley told the Senate. "However, when our own interests are in danger, the American people are not too cowardly defend those interests."
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