10-State Unit for Civil Defense
Appointment of an interstate committee to draft a ten-state civil defense compact in the Northeast was announced as September closed by Assemblyman Harold C. Ostertag, chairman of the Eastern Conference on Civil Defense. Godron Tiffany, Attorney General of New Hampshire, was named chairman of the committee.
The pact would permit the ten states to provide mutual aid across state lines in case of a war emergency. Since it would require Congressional consent, the conference, which met at the Waldorf in New York City on September 21 and 22, urged Congress to approve the LodgeMcCormack resolution which would give consent in advance to such pacts.
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