No Force Threat Re Clipper Mail
(Received 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 23. The State Department says there was “no mention of force used or threatened, either in the Pan-Ameri-can Airways report or that of the United States consul, regarding the examination of mails carried by an Atlantic clipper at Bermuda on January 18. “Both the captain of the plane and the Pan-American representative in communication, with the Consul, have had every opportunity to mention any use of force or threat.” Senator Key Pittman proposed that the United States should co-operate to minimise the effects of British censorship and suggested that mail destined for Italy or Germany or the Reich’s neighbours should be placed in separate sacks, if the British would not agree to molest the other mail. Senator Pepper said that the British were justified in examining German mail. He declared he had been reliably informed that the British had discovered between 14,000,000 and 17,000,000 dollars in American letters and packages addressed to Germany.
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Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 7
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