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Show The NAVY has a real Business Proposition for Young Men Who Want to "Go Places' Since it is the most mobile of our Armed Forces, and its right to sail the seven seas is unquestioned, the United States Navy is constantly on guard throughout the world. The United States, in its nevlyaccepted role of world leader, () , J X I rrrk, Ihit-i Lt-Koy A. Jones, recruiter In charge at Cedar City, Utah. has assumed many obligations to the peoples cf the world, and es-1 pecially the weaker nations. The U. S. Navy is a constant and ever present deterrent to oppression and aggression. Of greater Importance than ever in our national life, Is the Navy's traditional responsibility responsibili-ty of being cur country's first line of defense. This. first line can no longer be a handful of ships close to our own shore. It must be far-flung far-flung and dotted with modern ships manned by trained men. A capable peacetime Navy will assure our commerce freedom of movement; It will guarantee safe passage of our -hips and the stability of the areas with which trade Is concerned. Thus, an efficient Navy Is an essential "og In maintaining our economy. Top naval officers told the na 'on that the United States must maintain a powerful navy to defend merlcan foreign policy and American Am-erican freedoms "whenever and wherever they are challenged." Direct and Indirect deferences to Russia and the encroachments of communism marked the series of talks and addresses In cities from coast to coast. Speaking at New Orleans, Secy, of Navy John L. Sullivan declared that since V-J Day this country's military, naval and air strength has been pared down to "a shadow" of its wartime might and that demobilization de-mobilization has "put the major part of our fleet In "mothballs." Enlarges Task . The result, he said, has been that U. S. representatives in the United National council have found their tasks "increasingly difficult." Without mentioning Russia by name, Sullivan said: "There are forces loose In the world today which are Inimical to our government and to our way cf lite forces whose Ideologies are at cross purposes with the democratic processes of peacetime people. "The time must come when we must count it a privilege to be among those who would be as bold In the pursuit of peace as we were daring In our recent months of battle for survival." At Birmingham, Ala., Fleet Admiral Ad-miral William F. Halsey sounded a warning against American unpre-paredness unpre-paredness as the "No. 1 threat to our security and to the peace of the world." Declaring that he had seen this country enter two wars unprepared, Halsey asked: "Are we fools enough to go to sleep for the third time?" "I'm Just old-fashioned enough to believe that we must keep an Iron fist within a velvet glove." Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, commander command-er in chief of the Atlantic fleet, declared de-clared at Annapolis that economic help alone may save Europe from communism, but "we must never forget that aggressors understand armed strentoh better than any other oth-er argument." "The liberties of free men everywhere every-where are threatened by an Insidious Insid-ious and stiffling ideology of despair de-spair called communism," Blandy said. At Cleveland, Secy of Army Ken neth C. Royall also touched on the possibility of atomic warfare, declaring: de-claring: "The atomic bomb and other new means of destruction may possibly be outlawed by agreement, or, If not. may become dormant through fear of reprisal as was Inrgely th-cose th-cose with poison gas In this war." "We must be prepared either way," he said. At San Diego, Fleet Admiral Chester A. Nlmlts told a Navy league meeting he envisioned the United Nations as a "going, workable work-able organization with effective military support," but declared that In the meantime the United States should keep all Its armed services strong. |