Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1937, Page 7

NATON FREPARED GEN MARGHSA1 Army and Navy at “Highest Point of Efficiency,” He Declares. BY the Assoctated Press. The Army's World War chief of staff, hopeful this country never again will be involved in such a conflict, be- lieves it is better prepared now than ever before for a clash of arms. Gen. Peyton C. March, 72, retired, expressed this opinion this week. Few men have been afforded background for passing judgment equal to his service in the Spanish and World ‘Wars. “‘Our Army and Navy are at the highest point of efficiency they have been in my i time,” ‘he said. |} Plans for mobi- lization of re- sources in the files of the War and Navy De- partments consti- tute another rea- son for his view- point, but aside from these Gen. March said he considered of great importance the present Congress. “There are ex-service men, some former officers, in the House and Sen- ate,” he said. “They don’t want war, but they realize what war is and the necessity for speedy action. We would not be in the position we were when we declared war on Germany. Can you realize it took Congress 45 days to enact the draft law?” Equal of Any Nation’s. March said the technical equipment of the Army is, as far as is known, the equal of any nation’s. “Of course,” he added, “you can never tell what the other fellow has up his sleeve. Every war has brought out new weapons.” He believes in a highly mechanized Regular Army, which might be moved rapidly to any part of the United States but said the country in time of war must fall back on the draft. “A small, highly trained Army would not be enough when others have large, highly trained forces. “The Army should build up to and beyond the limits of the national de- fense act to about 300,000 men and officers.” March lives in an unpretentious home on a quiet street off fashionable Connecticut avenue When the Washington base ball team plays here he usually attends, always occupying the same seat be- hind the home plate. Occasionally he | rides horseback. Published One Book. His weight and waist are the same a5 when he was fullback on the La- Gen. March. | Cloud’s 2,500-ton granite post office atd Blue Qe grom X sy n° Brov® it "o ‘:\\E‘i‘.“ 5 :o 2 Gor® om Bl 5 Cuot gge e By «CoSt% oS “ irap 10 P n O akle ¥ e (4% ° quve OYe M (N eS ‘]o & fayette Coliege foot ball team in the early 80s. He has written and published one book, “The Nation at War,” and has put down on paper other recollec- tions of the experiences. “They are locked in my safe,” he sald. “I may publish them—I may leave them for Mrs. March to dis- pose of after my death.” One, he said, deals with his meet- ing with Gen. Paul von Hindenburg of Germany in 1921. The details are in his safe, but he said Von Hinden- bu.g told him in discussing the World War: “Our one miscalculation was on the speed with which America moved soldiers to Europe. We did not think you could do it.” That was March’'s job—the United States’ answer to Germany's last great “push.” The American chief of Staff turned transports into ferries, as- signed three soldiers to each berth, let them sleep ir shifts. Wave on wave of Americans poured into France to relieve exhausted allies, and the German drive was turned back. 12 WOMEN WILL MOVE 2,500-TON POST OFFICE BY the Associated Press. ST. CLOUD, Minn, March 24—A dozen young women will help tug St. down the home stretch to new moor- ings tomorrow. Supplanting the two horses which have pulled tiie building three blocks, Supervisor E. W. La Plante said the women had consenied to tug the bulky structure past one cross street. The idea, he said, is “to prove the task is not a matter of strength, but rather the mastery of power.” The old building will be used as a city hall, while its former site will e | used for a new post office. l THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, CATHOLIC PEACE PARLEY TO OPEN Representatives From Colleges and Other Organizations Will Hold 3-Days Session. Representatives ot many colleges and other organizations throughout the country will perticipate in the eleventh annual conference of the Catholic Association for International Peace, to be held at the Mayflower Hotel Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- day. Speakers will include Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, whose subject will be “Faith or Fear —the Basis of Peace”; Prof. Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr College, president of the Association for In- ternational Peace, and Michael Fran= cis Doyle, chairman of the confer= ence. A high light of the meeting will be an “international” dinner Monday night. Local institutions to be represented include Georgetown, American, Cath- olic and George Washington Uni- versities, Trinity College, National and morning. 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