TITLE

OUR NEW LONG SHADOW

AUTHOR(S)

Baldwin, Hanson W.

PUB. DATE

April 1939

SOURCE

Foreign Affairs;Apr39, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p465

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses the military activities of the United States through its peacetime armaments program, which aims at strengthening the nation's military force. For the sake of simplicity, no attempt will be made here to deal with each piece of legislation separately. Rather, a broad picture will be painted of the principal aims which the President's recommendations and the implementing legislation as a whole seek to accomplish. This will be followed by an analysis of our new strategic position in the light of the projected changes. In the early months of 1938, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested and the Congress endorsed the further strengthening of the American Navy by a general increase in tonnage to the extent of 20 per cent. The naval expansion bill passed by the last Congress directed that a naval board be appointed to inquire into the need for additional air, submarine, destroyer and mine bases. If the pending naval and military plans are for the most part adopted, and if they are implemented by fiscal appropriations both now and in the future, they will consolidate the American hold on the northeastern Pacific and the Caribbean.

ACCESSION #

14776271

Tags: MILITARY planning;  LEGISLATION;  LEGISLATIVE bills;  PRESIDENTS -- United States;  ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945;  UNITED States. Congress

 

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