ACTION UNDER PLAN
WHEN IT WOULD BE
TAKEN
GOVERNMENTS UNDER
DURESS
(Received July 31, 11.45 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, July 30.
The Assistant' Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, said that it was hoped that a satisfactory understanding would be worked out to prevent trouble in respect to Martinique.
Answering an inquiry as to what the United States would consider to be a change of sovereignty of European possessions which would justify action being taken under the Havana Agreement, he said that a change would be considered to have occurred when a free and independent Government lost its independence and came under duress.
Mr.: Welles said that I?utch possessions would not be affected because the Netherlands Government was operating freely in London. He refused to give an opinion on the French Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 8
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