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FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN WEST. BILL IN AMERICAN CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, May If). Mr F. H. Case introduced in tlio House of Representatives a Bill authorising the United States to acquire French possessions in the western hemisphere. The Bill proposed that the State Department should be directed to negotiate with France for the acquisition of Martinique, in the Windward Islands, Guadeloupe, in the Leeward Islands, Miquelon, near Newfoundland, C'lippcrton Island, in the Pacific, and French Guiana, and such ships and aeroplanes as the French Government may care to sell.
Mr Roosevelt is expected to make a special announcement to Congress this week.
Tho United States Secretary of Agriculture (Mr Claude Wickard) said that recent events had confirmed his opinion that the Nazis were planning a combination of other nations to make an attack on the United States. In any such move I know what America’s answer would be to thi.\ combination, he added. It would be something the Nazis understand—armed might. Congressional action has boon completed on a Bill to extend the system of licence control of exports to the Philippines and the Canal Zone, designed to prevent any leakage of supplies to the Axis.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 186, 21 May 1941, Page 5
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