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annock News
FobHshed Thursday Morning at
Washington, Rappahannock
County, Virginia
Dial Washington 2851
LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
Publisher
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{Senator Byrd Paints
Dark Picture of Conditions
In a talk before a group in Culpeper Monday night, Senator Harry F. Byrd painted a dark picture of our country’s present condition and advocated—or reiterated —a strong nation at home as the beet policy toward world peace.
Virginia’s Senior Senator deplored the astronomical figure of the national debt and begged, again, for economy. He expressed a hope to see three measures of defense; a radar screen around the United States, universal military training, and a strong army, at home.
Socialised medicine, agricultu1*1 psradies and the Brannon plan,' as Usual, meet1 his ‘Strongj disfavor. With his usual plea for private enterprise, the. Senator listed Antprica’s powar’ to produce as one of her strongest weapons in defense, for he said the world—and communism— had seen twice what the nation’s ability to produce could mean in time of war. :_.
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