"The Times" comments: "It is evident that home defence is by nature a single problem, certainly in what concerns air and land forces. The most urgent necessity at present is probably for close collaboration between the two forces."
"The Times" warns the public against assertions that Germany is now playing all her trump cords. "These reports are often spread by the enemy to deceive us. However, in its largest sense the statement contains a large element of truth. Germany has put forth an effort that even her resources will probably not permit her to maintain long, or repeat on the same scale."
The "News-Chronicle" writes: "The French have been absolutely pitiless in removing military commanders unfitted in these critics] moments tó fulfil their responsibilities. This attitude is a sign of force rather than of feebleness and is a measure of the resolution of France to march towards victory."—Reuter, The Washington "Post" points out that the Japanese Ambassador is right'in saying that the Japanese have contributed to the economic development of the islands, but "in view of what has happened in Manchoukuo and in Norway, the Filipinos can be excused for wondering whether the price of the Japanese contribution may not, in the long run, prove extremely high."
The paper says that while the United States flag and fleet protect the islands, the "possibility of Trojan horse tactics by the Japanese in the Philippines may be discounted. But after 1946 the presence there of a large and growing number of Japanese would have obvious dangers."
Feeling here is that the United States, which in six years will wash its hands of the islands, can hardly Object if the legislators in Manila propose to reserve the Philippines for
from all countries—Reuter.
Filipinos by restricting immigration "The navy today is {ar stronger than at any peacetime period in the whole long history of our nation, the President declared.—"In hitting power and efficiency I would even make the assertion that it is stronger today than during the World War."
The army in 1933 comprised 122,000 enlisted men, while now that number was practically doubled. Between 1933 and 1940 the Government would have spent $1,292,000,000 more on the army than it spent in the previous seven years. By the end of 1940 every existing unit of the present regular army would be equipped with its complete requirements of modern weapons, Compared with 355 anti-aircraft guns in 1933, the United States now had over 1,700 modern anti-aircraft guns of all types on band or ordered, compared with only 24 modern li fantry mortars for the entire army (Continued on page 8, col. 4)
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