Nomination of William Franklin Knox, Hearings ..., on Nomination of Willia, F. Knox to be Secretary of the Navy, July 2, 3, 19401940 - 97 pages |
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... planes if we lack the skilled pilots to fly them . You can build planes faster than you can train competent fliers and you must have twice as many pilots as ships . Finally , in this matter of defense , there is the land forces . If we ...
... planes if we lack the skilled pilots to fly them . You can build planes faster than you can train competent fliers and you must have twice as many pilots as ships . Finally , in this matter of defense , there is the land forces . If we ...
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... planes are good planes , we will assume that they are the best the Navy has , and recent developments have shown that they are not modern - that is , that we would rather have the modern planes rather than those 25 planes ; now let us ...
... planes are good planes , we will assume that they are the best the Navy has , and recent developments have shown that they are not modern - that is , that we would rather have the modern planes rather than those 25 planes ; now let us ...
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... planes that the Germans use to such a great extent are not fast or modern planes . A great many of them are old planes . They have very small armor , they are rather slow , they are used exclusively for this one purpose . The dive ...
... planes that the Germans use to such a great extent are not fast or modern planes . A great many of them are old planes . They have very small armor , they are rather slow , they are used exclusively for this one purpose . The dive ...
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... planes we are sending to England now . I would not go beyond the point , in stripping ourselves of equipment , where we could not replace that equipment sufficiently soon to make our defense safe . Senator JOHNSON . Then it would depend ...
... planes we are sending to England now . I would not go beyond the point , in stripping ourselves of equipment , where we could not replace that equipment sufficiently soon to make our defense safe . Senator JOHNSON . Then it would depend ...
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... planes are of German design . Senator BONE . I am pointing out that in 1934 and 1935 Hitler was supplied with hundreds of the finest airplane engines manufactured in this country . Colonel KNOX . I know they bought our engines ; yes ...
... planes are of German design . Senator BONE . I am pointing out that in 1934 and 1935 Hitler was supplied with hundreds of the finest airplane engines manufactured in this country . Colonel KNOX . I know they bought our engines ; yes ...
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Page 55 - In our American unity, we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation and, at the same time, we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.
Page 6 - The CHAIRMAN. Does any member of the committee desire to ask any questions ? Senator ROBINSON of Arkansas.
Page 38 - Kreuger's swindle and the bankrupt condition of Kreuger was known here in Janua.ry when he visited his friend, Mr. Hoover, at the White House. It was known here in March before he went to Paris and committed suicide there. Mr. Chairman, I think the people of the United States are entitled to know how many billions of dollars were placed at the disposal of Kreuger and his gigantic combine by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks and to know how much of our Government currency was...
Page 29 - Here is a life and death struggle for every principle we cherish in America, for freedom of speech, of religion, of the ballot, and of every freedom that upholds the dignity of the human spirit. Here all the rights that the common man has fought for during a thousand years are menaced.
Page 29 - This is no time for leaders to consider party or factional advantage. All men and all creeds and cl&ns may well call upon our President to confer with leaders of all parties looking to a foreign policy providing for an increase in armaments to defend ourselves and for every economic effort to help the Allies. "In foreign affairs we must present an unbroken nonpartisan front to the world. It is for us to show the people of England, of France, of Belgium, and Scandinavia that the richest country on...
Page 20 - overlooked" this testimony. Sen. Homer T. Bone (Washington). " I am pointing out that in 1934 and 1935 Hitler was supplied with hundreds of the finest airplane engines manufactured in this country." Col. Knox. "I know they bought our engines; yes." Bone. "They bought hundreds of them.
Page 91 - Of let him take who has the power, And let him keep who can, the Boers now proceeded to possess themselves of as much territory as they wanted.
Page 31 - The committee will stand adjourned until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 :50 pm...
Page 77 - ... power to decide on the question of policy ? Colonel KNOX. That is your function. Congress decides the policy and the executive department executes it. Senator SMITH. You mean that used to be the case. Colonel KNOX. That is the theory of our Government. Senator SMITH. The theory; yes. The CHAIRMAN. Colonel Knox, several members of the committee have asked me to ask you this question : Does the committee understand that you favor moral and economic aid to the Allies through the sale by the United...
Page 28 - The primary duty of those charged with the conduct of our relations with the rest of the world is the protection, at whatever cost, of the vital interests of the United States. If these vital interests can best be served by aloofness from any participation In the crucial struggle now in progress in Europe, then we should remain aloof and Inactive.