The Archive · 1940

the Far East

The Seventeenth Squadron from serly Tia in expected to sail for from San Francisco on Novem ber 20. The Twentieth Squadron from Hamilton Field will sail from San Francisco about the end of this month.

(Meanwhile. military circles here indicated last night that the question in American PBW defence of the Philippines has become one not of defending the Filipino people, but of defending vital American interests n fifty planes the Far East, Filipino authorities, it was indicated, have been consulted very little "on major matters of policy concerning the defence of the Philippinas—"United Press, Wb il dH

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