"Mf. Roosevelt told his regular press conference that at the present rate of voluntary enlistment it would take a year to obtain the 400,000 men needed to bring the regular army and the National Guard to full strength, He seid it would: take an additional year to obtain by enlistment the second 400,000 men necessary to build up an adequate defence organization.
If the establishment of an enlarged and organized army were postponed until spring, it would throw the entire' defence programme behind schedule, the President wemed.
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