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Show Preparedness Is Best Insurence Against Possible Future War Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts, feels that the most vital single factor un-Idcrlying un-Idcrlying an effective foreign pol-j icy is the "state of our national defense." I Thereupon, the Senator points to three basic weaknesses: (1) the jAirforce is below what experts consider a minimum effective size; (2) there is no nation wide organization to deal with massive mas-sive bombardment of population centers or industrial and military mili-tary establishments, and (3) all 'three services are having manpower man-power difficulties because "voluntary "vol-untary recruiting is not producing produc-ing the men." The statement of Senator Lodge should attract the attention atten-tion of every American except those who have concluded that there will never be annth If we accept such a rftne.rwar. then the logical I rtSn W08. to abolish all appr0pPriSld defense, end all ttSffifcS oaredness and discharge all mPe bers of the armed forces ? If we do not accent u elusion that war U Lc Co then the sensible courSWbIe; prepared for the possU0 war. This should take feily 1 sidcration the expected0 S0nf future attacks as SSlJ $?? J of destruction that mkhl k H ited upon this countrf be vI3 Preparedness for war Is n w range undertaking. It inti?ne much more than thriobUte of manpower. Back of it m? be industrial and strateg nmg, the means of Trori,,E and the production o? WeX? ships and devices that vlSl much time m their makin. |