MATERIALS FOR WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 9

MATERIALS FOR WAR

TAKEN BY AMERICANS

CONSIGNMENTS FOR AXIS

WASHINGTON, October 9,

The Vice-President, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, announced that large supplies of essential war materials consigned to the Axis had been discovered at various storage points in the United States. They would be requisitioned for United States use. In New York alone 1000 car loads of vital materials were discovered.

The supply priorities board has virtually suspended all non-defence building and forbidden the construction of new private or public works requiring defence materials.

This ban applies throughout the emergency and includes all Federal and State projects, schools, post offices, harbour improvements, office buildings, homes, factories, and highways. President Roosevelt announced that the Netherlands Government has agreed to make full cash reimbursement for lease-lend materials. The basic principles of a repayment system for aid had been communicated to London and were being studied by the British Government, he said:

The Standard Oil Company announced that it had informed the Secretary of State (Mr. Cordell Hull) that the oil companies cannot assent to the Mexican Government's proposal for settlement of the oil' controversy because to surrender the properties would involve the sacrifice of the principles of international law on which the safety of foreign investments against confiscation depends.