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Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1940, Page 5

IN AMERICA >

BRITISH MOVE

-FOR POOLING OF RESOURCES.

(United Press.Association—By El

Telegraph—Copyright).

: ;new York; juk; tp• ■ The “New,York Times,” in an aifl nouncement made by it exclusivell states Britain, has suggested to'.til United States the pooling of Brit/1 and American / resources, includir.l tho Western Hemisphere war .material resources,. which would be thus aikil cated to various except Goj-1 many, Italy, Japan and countries froiifl which the resources could;,.reach tlul totalitarian countries. 1 The Washington correspondent mi! the “New York , Times” ■ says than there is only a “hike warm” Aineri-I can response to the British proposal] for pooling resources. This is be-| cause.it is felt that the pooling would] mean the extension; of the British] blockade to the Western Hemisphere, with all of the/ebuntrips in this Hemisphere participating in the blockade* or else, it would mean the extension] of total war. to the Western Heim/ spherej with .the corisent > a^d? l assi.staact| of this Hemisphere :■ • b | It is understood that" the pooling proposal pvill also be made, individually to the‘Latin American countries and will include a proviso than? they continue suck/ani after the war peridd, r A *M$ '^ji-

lt is believed that the proposal is B to l»o discussed at a Pan-American H conference at Havana on July 20, iivl connection with President Roosevelt's fl| proposal for a trade cartel, eiubrac- H ing ‘the Americas and perhaps other ■ countries.’ " ”, NORWEGIAN PILOTS. OTTAWA, July 10. One. hundred - and- twenty-five Norwegian ’ ’pilotswill take a postgraduate course .at Toronto, in the lalest type of American planes. They may' fly-probably one 1 hundred ppwer'"fuif bombers 'a||bhV* : the-; A|tla^i^to( • Brit Ain'.’■ llie bombers are'now being-built-in rhe : United States on direct orders' from the ‘ Norwegian Governfneptf operating >.from . Lon’dop,, j: ;Tboi ,flyers! -are' expected ;to leave-‘;E}}gfand for Canada yen’- spon. ' ’ HUGE NAVY’ BILL. :: f#/; § ■ lu'Tbferohcb. to. Mr ,Boosevelt v s latest- request for CohgressVfor grants for H. [•defences approximately fourteen thou-;-' mid - contract- authorisations sought ; , this-session for the land, sea and air defeces approximately fourteen thousand million dollars, as previously, stated.. - - - - . The .Senate passed the 4,000 million, : •dollars Navy, Bill’, which now returns ■ to the House,' for’its concurrence with ■; minor ‘ aihendnierits: ; " 1 '/'■ ; Senator . Lodge- introduced in tho. ■ Seriate a Bill'providing for a highly- . trained army of.'.ToOJIQO; ’ from men aged "21 to 25 years old, / and' classifying all "conscripts as re-: seryists,'riftbira year’s service. /-A ' Federal Grand Jury at Las Angeles indicted Hoehne, on a charge of failirigMo register as an agent of a / foreign Government.; f. . ; : . ‘ The' Agriculture Department ha 3 estimated', the 1910 wheat production, At 728,044,C00 bnshejs. I .APPOINTMENT SUGGESTED. Jy* /' V Washington'; 1 July to. ; a Political circles generally here havo’ ; received with -friendly interest a suggestion friade by a New Zealand newspaper that ’N’ejy Zealand. siioyld -■semi 'represenipt-ives to thee United States. Influential circles commented that • democracies ~ bordering . thfe Ocean had'.greater/' mutual • interests‘■'L •to/Taca. 'jurider present world condL i jjtMls.-. ijliev e|mi/lia si sod jthat' •Zealand is the’orily siieli nation lack- | ing diplomatic relations with the-United‘States, and cited' tihe. new High Commissioner connection as between New Zealand and Canada fis being ,ii significant trend, . and also a warm-welcome given here to the Australian, Minister, .Mr R. Q. Casey.

NEGOTIATIONS AT NEW YORK. ; 7 ; . ’new ,YORK, July lb.' British,- - A^ctlc^n;,'(to^di-an-,-' Sou til'African.. ‘met to discuss -the allocation as be- ■ tu’een .the - countries concerned of further supplies; of aircraft becoming available ..in ‘ British ’ countries. Messrs, Casey. ) (Australian). Minister), - Clapp land - Shea (of ; ythe .'Aircraft, Constrec:tiOiUßranch’ off he 'Australiaii: Supply /Department )■ represented Australia. ■ The '.geherajl prpbl'em, was for )two 'hours, c 'aftor’ winch a'iSub-Coniimt-teo (on which Mr Clapp is representing , Australia,) began, working on details, I which, udir bf> cabled ’ to .the in forested Governments in -a-few days; FINANCIERS I’O MEET. ■ ■ .’’i' v •*•> ''■ ' •• (Received thteilay' at- 11.45 a.m.). - I ' RUG;IWV«FuIy 11. - Sir' Frederick'• Phillips, ■ Undersecretary to the. British Treasury is shortly visiting- -Washington, at the invitation 'of Mr Morgent-hau. to discuss technical and other questions affecting the two