National Affairs: The President's Week, Apr. 28, 1941

Last week the President:

> Asked Congress to add $728,767,000, including $289,065,000 for the Army Air Corps, to the $6.000,000,000 War Department budget (fiscal year 1942).

> Approved plans to graduate the 1942 Annapolis class on Dec. 19 this year (six months early).

> Proclaimed that a state of war exists between Hungary and Yugoslavia, noting that Hungary attacked Yugoslavia "without justification." Three days later Yugoslavs surrendered to the Nazis.

> Pledged to the American Society of Newspaper Editors that free speech and a free press would remain sacrosanct liberties in the U.S., that...

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