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Plans Are Overhauled'Military men are overhauling their plans and studies of possible action in the Far East as an indication to policy-making officials of what would happen in case diplo-catic approaches proved useless.Some officials are said to have urged that no drastic diplomatic action be taken without soms backlog of assurance that the military be theoretically capable of resisting overt” action.In this connection the Philippine national defense program onceagain is being studied by militaryexperts here. The plan, which will to be completely realized until 1946, indicates an available Philippine trained reserve of 500,000 men, and an intricate system of defense highways to enable speedy mobilization at any required point in the archipelago.This defense program, whose details were developed by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, former chief of staff of the army, would enable the Philippines to act as a “time buffer in anv military emergency.”
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Hammond Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Fri, Dec 16, 1938
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