PAN-AMERICAN DEFENCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 5

PAN-AMERICAN DEFENCE

REPUI.SE ANY ATTACKS

(11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 17. Lend or .lease assistance is being given to South America to build air lAtsos, strengthen the armed forces, and construct coastal fortifications capable of repulsing any attacks, says the Journal of Commerce. Brazil will bo the first to receive aid and will be expected to co-operate in economic warfare against the Axis by controlling exports, continuing to permit the United States to purchase her entire strategic materials. Almost a score of airfields are being built along the coast of Brazil by PanAmerican Airways so they may easily l>e converted to military use. As much as 100,000,000 dollars may go to j Brazil.

the agreement this week providing for the United States to purchase vital materials from Mexico is likely to bo followed soon by other agreements, settling the controversial oil dispute, land claims and several border and water disputes. The general settlement will embrace an extension of military supplies to Mexico.

General Marshall told the Senate Military Committee that the United States aimed to surround the hemisphere with a ring of protection against a ruthless foreign Power. Interviewed by the Associated Press, Senator Pepper said the United States should send war materials to General AVeygand on the understanding that he used them to prevent the German occupation of Dakar (West Africa).