GUMMY FUNKING MORE MISSION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 7

GUMMY FUNKING MORE MISSION

AMERICA INFORMED » Welles Answers Franco's \ Attack On U.S. r ' United Proas Association.—Copyright. I Rec. 2 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 21. Assistant Secretary of State . Mr. Sumner Welles, told Press sentatives that the United Stales that Germany is plan--1 ihn new . steps of aggression against countries 1 . 111115 independent European The correspondent of the Asso- ? r f ss o£ America savs Mr. , Welles did not explain which couni tries were about to be attacked. He obviously referred to Spain and Portugal and possibly Switzerland and Turkey, the correspondent concludes. Mr. Welles disclosed that the United States has promised full support to Bolivia in the event of the international incident arising from the attempted Nazi coup. Mr. Welles also referred to the sharp attack on the United States by General Franco last week, in which Franco asserted that American offers of economic help to Spain always involved attempts to force Spain to obey the will of other nations. Mr. Welles said it was entirely untrue that the supplies of food and medicines sent to Spain by the American Red Cross were contingent upon any policy except that the Spanish people should remain at peace. Answering Franco on the consequences of a Nazi victory, Mr. Wellesi pomted out that if control of an other seas passed to unfriendly Powers, the independence of the American Republics ; ♦ grave 'y endangered. The present security and prosperitv were founded on the fact that such sS 1 were controlled by friendly Powers. ■