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Show Union Of Continents Against 'Isms Asked Nation Prepares to Live in Newly-Troubled World; Plan Enlarges Monroe Doctrine WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (U.R) rresidenl Roosevelt lias circled the western hemisphere with a boldly drawn deadline against fascism and today invites 20 sister republics and the Dominion of Canada to help the United States defend it against aggression. "Continental defense'' has superseded su-perseded "national defense" in American policy. He coupled his defense announcement an-nouncement with terse and blistering blist-ering comment on German persecution perse-cution of Jews. It followed short- ly tnc unuea otaies piwie.-M. against "unwarranted'' Japanese violations of American property and persona rights in China, and warnings to Italy to respect rights of American Jewish nationals. This establishment of United States defense on a "continental basis" spotlights the forthcoming Pan-American conference in Lima, capital of Peru, as a meeting to bulwark the new world against floodtides running riot in Europe and Asia. Secretary of State Hull will sail Nov. 25 as head of the American deegalion to Lima. The conference will begin Dec. 9. There is no excitement but a steady pressure for speed here as the United States prepares to live in a newlv troubled world. War department officials talk of basic equipment for a field army of 1,000,000 men and they want it quick within eight months, some of them insist. Back of it all are hope and belief that a continental partnership would be too imposing for any aggressor to dare adventure in the new world. Battleships are rising in their craulea in the shipyards and more are to "be built. "Educational orders'' or-ders'' shortly will be accustoming accustom-ing more peace-time manufacturers manufac-turers to the requirements of army material. New anti-aircraft defense is in the making; a new automatic rifle for infantrymen has been devised. Monroe Doctrine Powerful minority voices may be raised in congress to extend "continental defense" even further. furth-er. One influential senate foreign for-eign relations committee member told the United Press that Mr. Roosevelt should emphatically reaffirm re-affirm the unilateral Monroe doctrine doc-trine in all its particulars but without presuming any United States right or obligation to interfere inter-fere in internal affairs of any sister republic. v The committee member said further, that the Monroe Doctrine might even be expanded to forbid not only foreign acquisition of j territory but the ideological pene-trat.on pene-trat.on the 21 American republics, repub-lics, a sort of sanitary cordon or deadline across which Fascist j ideas would not be permitted 10 cross. |