Trading Of AngloAmerican Naval Craft Unlikely
WASHINGTON, March 10.
The British Ambassador to the United States (Viscount Halifax), said today that he considered it unlikely, now or in the future, that the United States and Britain would trade any naval craft.
Official quarters in Washington earlier were responsible for a report that the Government was considering lending 40 United States’ destroyers and. 10 light cruisers to- Britain in return for the loan of three British battleships. Depend on Britain.
The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox), urged in a speech last night that the United States should have a two ocean navy, the world’s most powerful air force and an army equal to any. The United States, he added, was safe today because of Britain’s sea and air power. The United States’ army today reached a strength exceeding 1,000,000 men for the first time since the Great War.
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Northern Advocate, 12 March 1941, Page 5
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