Washington, July 5.
Major-General John F. Williams, Chief of the Notional Guard Bureau, declared yesterday that 287,000 officers and men of the National Guard had "expressed their loyal willingness to continue on active duty as long as the nation needs them during the present emergency, when he, visited recently three of the four "United States Armies now in training.
Major-General Williams said that he was convinced that protests aggin: t keeping Guardsmen on active y longer then the one year which Congress has authorized came from "disgruntled. individuals who, do not represent the true sentiment of the and fle of the National Guard."
Coincidentally, non-interventionist leaders in the capital reasserted, their claim. that if, the, United States, Army, continued, to hold: the men on active duty for longer than a year.that. it would bẹ "a breach of faith." Administration leaders have, asked that Guardsmen be retained for a longer period of time because of the gravity of, the national emergency.—United Press.
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