Retention of Reserve Components and Selectees in Military Service Beyond Twelve Months, Hearings ..., on S.J.Res. 92 and S.J.REs. 93 ..., July 17-24, 19411941 - 254 pages |
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Page 35
... Britain is lessened for some time to come . For another thing , we have had a year and a month since the fall of France to rearm and we are far better armed than we were last summer . We do not believe the bulk of Americans are ...
... Britain is lessened for some time to come . For another thing , we have had a year and a month since the fall of France to rearm and we are far better armed than we were last summer . We do not believe the bulk of Americans are ...
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... Britain had gone down in a month , anyone could have landed and walked from one end of this country to the other , and everybody knows it , and we certainly got going . I deem it of fully equal importance to equip our Army now as if we ...
... Britain had gone down in a month , anyone could have landed and walked from one end of this country to the other , and everybody knows it , and we certainly got going . I deem it of fully equal importance to equip our Army now as if we ...
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... Britain , both by sea warfare and by the bombing of her ports , factories , and cities . While these attacks have failed to crush the spirit of the British people ,. they have inflicted a greater loss of life on sea and land than is ...
... Britain , both by sea warfare and by the bombing of her ports , factories , and cities . While these attacks have failed to crush the spirit of the British people ,. they have inflicted a greater loss of life on sea and land than is ...
Page 93
... Britain to go down . Senator LEE . May I ask you a question there : If Hitler did secure West Africa , what would be between him and South America as practical military defense ? Mr. CLARK . Well , the flying distance to the bulge of ...
... Britain to go down . Senator LEE . May I ask you a question there : If Hitler did secure West Africa , what would be between him and South America as practical military defense ? Mr. CLARK . Well , the flying distance to the bulge of ...
Page 94
... Britain fell virtually everything in the world except ours . is that the leaders controlling those forces have hostile purposes . It In other words , it is the combination of hostile purposes and of vast power that comprises the threat ...
... Britain fell virtually everything in the world except ours . is that the leaders controlling those forces have hostile purposes . It In other words , it is the combination of hostile purposes and of vast power that comprises the threat ...
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12 months amendment American believe bill boys Britain British Burke-Wadsworth bill CHAIRMAN Chief of Staff CLARK command committee Congress conscription Dakar danger declared democracy DEVERS division Empire enlisted fact feel fight force Fort Dix gentlemen German Government Grenville Clarke HASKELL hear hemisphere defense Hitler inducted interest is imperiled July July 21 MARSHALL Military Affairs military service morale national defense national emergency National Guard national interest Navy opinion organization percent period present President proposed question RECKORD record Regular Army Reserve components Reserve officers resolution Russia selectees Selective Service Act Senator AUSTIN Senator CHANDLER Senator DOWNEY Senator GURNEY Senator HILL Senator LEE Senator SCHWARTZ Senator THOMAS situation soldiers statement Thank thing THOMAS of Utah tion Training and Service troops United volunteer War Department War Resisters League Washington Western Hemisphere
Popular passages
Page 162 - I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again : Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
Page 26 - To the extent provided for from time to time by appropriations for this specific purpose, the President may order reserve officers to active duty at any time and for any period ; but except, in time of a national emergency expressly declared by Congress, no reserve officer shall be employed on active duty for more than fifteen days in any calendar year without his own consent.
Page 39 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Page 84 - ... except that whenever the Congress has declared that the national interest is imperiled, such twelve-month period may be extended by the President to such time as may be necessary in the interests of national defense.
Page 132 - ... be assigned to noncombatant service as defined by the President, or shall, if he is found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in such noncombatant service, in lieu of such induction, be...
Page 114 - They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.
Page 222 - British settlers of the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire...
Page 25 - When Congress shall have authorized the use of the armed land forces of the United States, for any purpose requiring the use of troops in excess of those of the Regular Army...
Page 208 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.