MR. ROY HOWARD
Why President’s Request Was Declined MELBOURNE. August 22. The' American journalist, .Mr. Roy Howard referred today to a NewYork cable stating that. President Roosevelt had revealed that Mr. Ilqward was the individual he mentioned in a statement on July It), as declining a request to help the defence pro gramme. Mr. Howard said that he had declined Mr. Roosevelt's proposal that he should investigate Fifth Column activity in . South America because he could speak neither Spanish no.Portuguese and, except for one brie 1 ' visit, had not been in South America for twenty years.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 10
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96MR. ROY HOWARD Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 10
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