Sale Of U.S. Ships To Belgium Condemned
WASHINGTON, February 19. In the House of Representatives, Mr Hamilton Fish (Republican—Garrison, N.Y.) said the sale of American ships to a Belgian company was an outrageous subterfuge and a breach of United States neutrality which would invite submarine operations off the American coast. As the Belgian company's payment down would be only 137,000 dollars, the United States line would be maintaining a 97 per cent, mortgage.
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Northern Advocate, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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