Washington, May 24.
'The United States' national defence programme entered a new and gri mer phase yesterday when Mr. Fiorollo La Guardia, Director of the new Office of Civilian Defence, outlined a nation-wide programme with immediate emphasis on preparations against disruptive effects of at, bombardments, including fire: entanglements, civilian demo: tion and disturbance of water Plies.
The defence programme hitherto has loomed in the public mind as an immense industrial effort to realize the function of the United States as the "arsenal of democracy," but the programme contemplated by Mr. La Guardia means that the public at large soon will be engaged in efforts at home defence with a consequent deeper realization of the perils and problems of modern warfare.
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