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la Wdshiflgtoi)Selection of General Douglas MaeArthur, America’s hero of the Philippines, to direct the Allied war effort in the far east was hailed by Senator Dennis Chavez as ‘more than a chance” for New Mexico soldiers in the baleaguered Bataan.“New Mexico mothers, who have sons in the Philippines, will now Del that under MacArthui the U. S. will undertake the offensive, and give their boys more than a chance,” Senator Chavez said' “I know General Mac Arthur will not forget the New Mexico boys in Bataan.”Terming the g; n mm! the “only successful one” in tl o ti, Senator Chavez said he w ‘ mh nt the Japs who 1 i puhe i t -y Allied general a; oun- but the ie doubtable Sc; tebm ; w : ‘ .o w find themselvis ImiIum an.i ultimately beat.! n” by the samekind of armed walls the canny MacArthur built in Bat.am President Roosevelt this week complimented Senator Deni s Chavez, active supporter of closest possible collaboration b- tween the Americas, on the ‘‘excellent” address made by the Senator to Central and South America recently from NBC in Washington.At White House request, Senator Chavez mailed to the President a translation of the address he made in Spanish over short-wave radio for the Offite of the Co-or-jinator of Inter-American Adairs in connection with the government’s Pan-Americanism goodwill program. Along with the eopy he also sent a transcription of the reply to his address made from Berlin by the Nazi’s chief Latin Ameiican commentator Rome ten days later.The President, telling Senator Chavez about the Nazi system of attempting to “counterattack everything we do,” expressed a hope Senator Chavez would make use of '‘this (.the Nazi reply) epi sode” in the future.President Roosevelt’s compliments and remarks were contained in a “Dear Dennis” letter received by Senator Chavez.icft
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Carrizozo Lincoln County News
Carrizozo, New Mexico, US
Fri, Mar 27, 1942
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